Biography ken loach jimmys hall roma
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TSPDT
"Once the stormy petrel of the British cinema, Loach is now its national institution. Still wearing his leftist social and political consciences firmly on his sleeve, Loach has now settled into a groove of filmmaking that has both given us a reassuring number of films and earned a wider acceptance from the discerning filmgoing public." - David Quinlan (Quinlan's Film Directors, 1999)
Director / Screenwriter / Producer
(1936- ) Born June 17, Nuneaton, Warwickshire, England
Top 250 Directors
Key Production Countries: UK, France, Spain, Italy, Germany, Belgium
Key Genres: Drama, Social Problem Film, Family Drama, Urban Drama, Comedy Drama, Documentary, Political Drama, Coming-of-Age, Psychological Drama, Romantic Drama, Culture & Society
Key Collaborators: Jonathan Morris (Editor), Rebecca O'Brien (Producer), George Fenton (Composer), Martin Johnson (Production Designer), Paul Laverty (Screenwriter), Barry Ackroyd (Cinematographer), Fergus Clegg (Production
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Jimmy's Hall
Paul Laverty
Paul Laverty was born in Calcutta, India, to an Irish mother and Scottish father. He obtained a Philosophy grad at the Gregorian University in Rome. Thereafter he obtained a law degree at Strathclyde lag School, in Glasgow. During the mid-eighties worked for a Nicaraguan domestic human rights organisation.
He has written the screenplays for several full length feature films directed by Ken Loach: including Sweet Sixteen (2002) – winner of Best Original Screenplay at Cannes, The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006) – winner of the Palme d’Or at Cannes and It’s A Free World (2007) – winner of Best Original Screenplay at Venice Film Festival. He is married to Spanish filmmaker Icíar Bollaín, with whom he has made a number of feature films.
Books: Looking For Eric, Route Irish, The Angels' Share, Jimmy's Hall, I, Daniel Blake, Sorry We Missed You, The Old Oak, Even The Rain
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Ken Loach returns to Ireland with Jimmy’s Hall
- Film will deal with the only Irish person deported from the country
Ken Loach will begin shooting Jimmy’s Hall in Ireland towards the end of summer. The rulle is about James Gralton, the only person to be ever deported from Ireland. Gralton was an Irish communist leader who took US citizenship after emigrating there in 1909. However, he returned to Ireland and started a dance hall in Effrinagh, County Leitrim and used the venue to propagate his political views. This was opposed bygd the Catholic clergy and eventually led to a shooting. This led to Gralton being arrested and deported to the US in 1933 by the government led by Éamon de Valera.
The Gralton story will see Loach pick up the Irish independence saga ten years after the events depicted in Palm D’Or winning The Wind That Shakes The Barley [+see also:
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