In a career that spans over half a century, the indefatigable Ken Loach has cemented his reputation as the foremost filmmaker of the British working class. At 87, he’s out of neither steam nor ideas even as he signals that his latest, The Old Oak, might be his final film.
The Old Oak makes for quite the cherry on top of a splendid body of work, most of which will be featured in a career-spanning retrospective in spring 2024 at New York City’s Film Forum. This sympathetic and socially attuned portrayal of the proletariat set in a dying village in northeast England is part three in an informal trilogy with 2016’s I, Daniel Blake and 2020’s Sorry We Missed You. While those films focused on post-austerity holes in the social safety net and the precariousness of the gig economy, respectively, the contemporary issue under Loach’s microscope in The Old Oak...
The Old Oak makes for quite the cherry on top of a splendid body of work, most of which will be featured in a career-spanning retrospective in spring 2024 at New York City’s Film Forum. This sympathetic and socially attuned portrayal of the proletariat set in a dying village in northeast England is part three in an informal trilogy with 2016’s I, Daniel Blake and 2020’s Sorry We Missed You. While those films focused on post-austerity holes in the social safety net and the precariousness of the gig economy, respectively, the contemporary issue under Loach’s microscope in The Old Oak...
- 4/10/2024
- by Marshall Shaffer
- Slant Magazine
Vera Drew’s The People’s Joker – which was pulled from TIFF in 2022 over “rights issues” — starts a theatrical debut today at the IFC Center, moving to LA’s Landmark’s Nuart next weekend and expanding thereafter with about 85 booking so far — a nice outcome for the mixed-media coming-of-age dark superhero parody that “had gone into into hibernation mode” until Outfest LA Film Festival, said Frank Jaffe, whose distribution company Altered Innocence acquired it then. It’s U.S premiere garnered a Special Mention in the North American Narrative Feature Competition.
Co-written by Drew and Bri LeRose, the film is a reimagining the origin story of iconic Batman villain The Joker, starring Drew as painfully unfunny aspiring clown and closeted trans girl grappling with her gender identity while unsuccessfully attempting to join the ranks of Gotham City’s sole comedy program, in a world where comedy has been outlawed. She...
Co-written by Drew and Bri LeRose, the film is a reimagining the origin story of iconic Batman villain The Joker, starring Drew as painfully unfunny aspiring clown and closeted trans girl grappling with her gender identity while unsuccessfully attempting to join the ranks of Gotham City’s sole comedy program, in a world where comedy has been outlawed. She...
- 4/5/2024
- by Jill Goldsmith
- Deadline Film + TV
Image: Zeitgeist Films/Kino Lorber
With 15 films and two Palme d’Or wins, Ken Loach is the surprise answer to the trivia question about the record-holder for the director having the most individual efforts screened in the main competition at Cannes.
The workhorse British filmmaker has made a career largely...
With 15 films and two Palme d’Or wins, Ken Loach is the surprise answer to the trivia question about the record-holder for the director having the most individual efforts screened in the main competition at Cannes.
The workhorse British filmmaker has made a career largely...
- 4/4/2024
- by Brent Simon
- avclub.com
Easter is behind us, we’re into a new month, and we’re fully into spring … and yet, the box office might be hitting another lull. Read on for Gold Derby’s box office preview.
There aren’t many scenarios where “Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire” doesn’t win its second weekend at #1. Even with a steep drop from its Easter opening, it should still be able to bring in another $30 million this coming weekend, which will be hard to beat.
It might be a coin flip on which of the other two new wide releases might do better, but I have to give a slight edge to “The First Omen,” 20th Century’s prequel to a horror franchise that began all the way back in 1976 with the horror film, “The Omen,” directed by Richard Donner pre-“Superman.” That led to two sequels in 1978 and 1981, even though the original...
There aren’t many scenarios where “Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire” doesn’t win its second weekend at #1. Even with a steep drop from its Easter opening, it should still be able to bring in another $30 million this coming weekend, which will be hard to beat.
It might be a coin flip on which of the other two new wide releases might do better, but I have to give a slight edge to “The First Omen,” 20th Century’s prequel to a horror franchise that began all the way back in 1976 with the horror film, “The Omen,” directed by Richard Donner pre-“Superman.” That led to two sequels in 1978 and 1981, even though the original...
- 4/3/2024
- by Edward Douglas
- Gold Derby
An expectation of finality has followed Ken Loach’s The Old Oak since its premiere at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival. “When you’re doing it, you’re doing it, you just have to get a move on and get on with it,” he told The Guardian. “But I can’t see me getting round the course again. Your capacity fades a bit when you’re knocking on.” And while no artist should be begrudged a bit of rest––especially after an artist as prolific and rigorous as Loach––assigning this the preset narrative of “final film” misses, perhaps, its chiefest gift to the viewer: the obscenity of hope at the prospect of living in the modern world.
Set in County Durham, The Old Oak follows Tj (Dave Turner), the owner of the languishing pub that gives the film its name, and Yara (Ebla Mari), a photographer who comes to the...
Set in County Durham, The Old Oak follows Tj (Dave Turner), the owner of the languishing pub that gives the film its name, and Yara (Ebla Mari), a photographer who comes to the...
- 4/3/2024
- by Frank Falisi
- The Film Stage
If you’re lucky enough to live in New York, Film Forum is mounting a 20-film Ken Loach retrospective on April 19 after his latest — and quite possibly last — film, Cannes 2023 entry “The Old Oak” starts rolling out on April 5. The British director carries the distinction of being one of nine filmmakers (among them Francis Ford Coppola and Ruben Östlund) to win the Palme d’Or twice: for the Irish history “The Wind That Shakes the Barley” (2006), starring Cillian Murphy, and healthcare drama “I, Daniel Blake” (2016).
Both times, the Competition juries were powerless to resist the films’ emotional pull.
And resistance is futile. That’s because Loach knows how to move us. His movies hit a nerve because they dig into believable characters inspired by real people and informed by current events.
Loach and his long-time screenwriter Paul Laverty do not rip stories out of the headlines so much as they...
Both times, the Competition juries were powerless to resist the films’ emotional pull.
And resistance is futile. That’s because Loach knows how to move us. His movies hit a nerve because they dig into believable characters inspired by real people and informed by current events.
Loach and his long-time screenwriter Paul Laverty do not rip stories out of the headlines so much as they...
- 4/1/2024
- by Anne Thompson
- Indiewire
Ken Loach has said that The Old Oak will be his final film, and, in its humble way, it represents a good stopping point for the iconoclastic British filmmaker. The film isn’t some self-consciously summarizing coda but the latest in a long line of intimately scaled looks at the myriad ills facing Britain’s working class. Set, like many of Loach’s films, in the country’s post-industrial northern region, The Old Oak is alive to the decline that’s reduced a once booming mining town to a place with a decimated economy. But it also adds a crucial update to Loach’s long-running survey of domestic strife by incorporating the growing migration from the Middle East and the racial and nationalist tensions that have arisen from it.
The film opens with locals openly airing their scorn at a bus of Syrian refugees as one of the transplants, Yara...
The film opens with locals openly airing their scorn at a bus of Syrian refugees as one of the transplants, Yara...
- 3/30/2024
- by Jake Cole
- Slant Magazine
Studiocanal UK, Sixteen Films and Why Not Productions are pleased to announce that Ken Loach & Paul Laverty’s The Old Oak will be available on digital download, Blu-ray and DVD from 15th December. To celebrate we are giving away DVDs to two lucky winners!
The film sees BAFTA-winning director Loach return to the North East following his previous two films I, Daniel Blake, winner of the Palme d’Or and BAFTA Outstanding British Film awards, and Sorry We Missed You which both also shot in the region. Shooting took place across County Durham last year in locations including Murton, Easington Colliery and Horden.
The Old Oak is a special place. Not only is it the last pub standing, but it’s also the only remaining public space where people can meet in a once thriving mining community that has now fallen on hard times after 30 years of decline. Tj Ballantyne...
The film sees BAFTA-winning director Loach return to the North East following his previous two films I, Daniel Blake, winner of the Palme d’Or and BAFTA Outstanding British Film awards, and Sorry We Missed You which both also shot in the region. Shooting took place across County Durham last year in locations including Murton, Easington Colliery and Horden.
The Old Oak is a special place. Not only is it the last pub standing, but it’s also the only remaining public space where people can meet in a once thriving mining community that has now fallen on hard times after 30 years of decline. Tj Ballantyne...
- 12/7/2023
- by Competitions
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Ken Loach’s ‘The Old Oak’ takes Spanish festival’s audience prize.
The 68th edition of the Valladolid International Film Week, also known as Seminci, wrapped on Saturday (October 28), giving its top award, the Golden Spike, to Laura Ferrés’ debut feature The Permanent Picture.
It is the first time the best feature award at the long-running film festival has been won by a Spanish woman director.
Ferrés previously directed short film The Disinherited which won the Cannes Discovery Award for best short in 2017.
See below for full list of winners
The Permanent Picture is the story of an introverted middle-aged...
The 68th edition of the Valladolid International Film Week, also known as Seminci, wrapped on Saturday (October 28), giving its top award, the Golden Spike, to Laura Ferrés’ debut feature The Permanent Picture.
It is the first time the best feature award at the long-running film festival has been won by a Spanish woman director.
Ferrés previously directed short film The Disinherited which won the Cannes Discovery Award for best short in 2017.
See below for full list of winners
The Permanent Picture is the story of an introverted middle-aged...
- 10/30/2023
- by Elisabet Cabeza
- ScreenDaily
Two movies which come in on immigration from vastly different angles – Laura Ferrés’ “The Permanent Picture” and Ken Loach’s “The Old Oak” – won big Saturday night at Spain’s Valladolid Festival, walking off with its main competition Golden Spike and the Spanish event’s best actor (Dave Turner) and Audience Award plaudits respectively.
The prize ceremony also saw Charlotte Rampling, star of closing film “Juniper” from Matthew J. Saville, accept an enthusiastically applauded Honorific Spike for her career achievement.
Though decided upon by independent juries, Valladolid’s prizes say much about the new-fit festival after a first-year reboot by new director José Luis Cienfuegos, previously a Gijón and Seville fest head.
Under directors Fernando Lara (1984-2004), Juan Carlos Frugone (2005-08) and Javier Angulo (2009-2022), Valladolid has consolidated as one of Spain’s biggest festivals, after San Sebastián. and a bastion of auteurist, arthouse independent cinema. Few figures in Europe...
The prize ceremony also saw Charlotte Rampling, star of closing film “Juniper” from Matthew J. Saville, accept an enthusiastically applauded Honorific Spike for her career achievement.
Though decided upon by independent juries, Valladolid’s prizes say much about the new-fit festival after a first-year reboot by new director José Luis Cienfuegos, previously a Gijón and Seville fest head.
Under directors Fernando Lara (1984-2004), Juan Carlos Frugone (2005-08) and Javier Angulo (2009-2022), Valladolid has consolidated as one of Spain’s biggest festivals, after San Sebastián. and a bastion of auteurist, arthouse independent cinema. Few figures in Europe...
- 10/29/2023
- by John Hopewell and Pablo Sandoval
- Variety Film + TV
Movistar Plus+ Shooting Comedy ‘Muertos S.L.’
Cameras are rolling on Muertos S.L., an eight-part Spanish sitcom for Movistar Plus+ set in a family-owned funeral home. Laura and Alberto Caballero are directing the series, which is a Movistar Plus+ production in collaboration with Contubernio Sl. Carlos Areces leads the cast, which also includes Ascen López, Salva Reina, Aitziber Garmendia and Adriana Torrebejano among others. Plot reads: “When Gonzalo Torregrosa, owner and founder of Torregrosa Funeral Home, passes away, Dámaso Carrillo, his right-hand man in the company, doesn’t hesitate that the best for the business is taking the reins himself. However, against all odds, Nieves, the septuagenarian widow, decides to take the lead in the family business, with the assistance of her inept yet enthusiastic son-in-law, Chemi, a Marketing expert, and in defiance of her daughters’ plans to close the Funeral Home and start a gym.
Cameras are rolling on Muertos S.L., an eight-part Spanish sitcom for Movistar Plus+ set in a family-owned funeral home. Laura and Alberto Caballero are directing the series, which is a Movistar Plus+ production in collaboration with Contubernio Sl. Carlos Areces leads the cast, which also includes Ascen López, Salva Reina, Aitziber Garmendia and Adriana Torrebejano among others. Plot reads: “When Gonzalo Torregrosa, owner and founder of Torregrosa Funeral Home, passes away, Dámaso Carrillo, his right-hand man in the company, doesn’t hesitate that the best for the business is taking the reins himself. However, against all odds, Nieves, the septuagenarian widow, decides to take the lead in the family business, with the assistance of her inept yet enthusiastic son-in-law, Chemi, a Marketing expert, and in defiance of her daughters’ plans to close the Funeral Home and start a gym.
- 10/24/2023
- by Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
Bifa sets partnership with talent support organisation We Are Bridge.
The final longlist for the 2023 British Independent Film Awards (Bifa) has been unveiled, with actors from Rye Lane and Scrapper among those longlisted for the breakthrough performance award.
Fifteen actors are on the list, including David Jonsson and Vivian Oparah, co-leads in Raine Allen-Miller’s romantic comedy Rye Lane; and Lola Campbell and Alin Uzun from Charlotte Regan’s Sundance drama Scrapper.
Scroll down for the full Breakthrough Performance longlist
Also listed are Mia McKenna Bruce for her lead role in Molly Manning Walker’s clubbing holiday drama How To Have Sex; and Keenan Munn-Francis,...
The final longlist for the 2023 British Independent Film Awards (Bifa) has been unveiled, with actors from Rye Lane and Scrapper among those longlisted for the breakthrough performance award.
Fifteen actors are on the list, including David Jonsson and Vivian Oparah, co-leads in Raine Allen-Miller’s romantic comedy Rye Lane; and Lola Campbell and Alin Uzun from Charlotte Regan’s Sundance drama Scrapper.
Scroll down for the full Breakthrough Performance longlist
Also listed are Mia McKenna Bruce for her lead role in Molly Manning Walker’s clubbing holiday drama How To Have Sex; and Keenan Munn-Francis,...
- 10/24/2023
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Oaks appear 14 times in the King James Version. A place of nourishment, a place of offering, for angels and idols alike, a place of shelter, for Absalom the sometimes favoured son a place of betrayal. I go to the Bible for The Old Oak because it transpires as a series of didactic vignettes, something timeless in its testimonies. That name for pubs not uncommon, often believed to be adapted from The Royal Oak. That tree too gave succour, that Charles from Cromwell after the battle of Worcester. A different English Civil War than the one in Ken Loach's most recent film.
'Civil war' carefully. The story, such as it is, the story of a pub, a place, specifically two within it. Tj, portrayed by Dave Turner, Yara, by Ebla Mari. Loach often uses nontraditional actors, untrained, the proximate, and in that sense moments in the Old Oak are perhaps more.
'Civil war' carefully. The story, such as it is, the story of a pub, a place, specifically two within it. Tj, portrayed by Dave Turner, Yara, by Ebla Mari. Loach often uses nontraditional actors, untrained, the proximate, and in that sense moments in the Old Oak are perhaps more.
- 9/25/2023
- by Andrew Robertson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
We present our red carpet interviews from the UK Premiere of The Old Oak, directed by Ken Loach, written by Paul Laverty and starrring Dave Turner, Ebla Mari, Claire Rodgerson, Chris Mcglade, and Trevor Fox. Oh, Jeremy Corbyn turned up too, so we quizzed the former Labour leader on his film tastes. Kept it light, you know. We saw the film recently and Loved it. Read our glowing review right here.
The film hits UK cinemas on September 29th. Ethan Hart and Colin Hart were on the red carpet, here are their interviews.
The Old Oak Premiere Interviews
Plot:
The Old Oak is a special place. Not only is it the last pub standing, but it’s also the only remaining public space where people can meet in a once-thriving mining community that has now fallen on hard times after 30 years of decline. Tj Ballantyne (Dave Turner) the landlord hangs...
The film hits UK cinemas on September 29th. Ethan Hart and Colin Hart were on the red carpet, here are their interviews.
The Old Oak Premiere Interviews
Plot:
The Old Oak is a special place. Not only is it the last pub standing, but it’s also the only remaining public space where people can meet in a once-thriving mining community that has now fallen on hard times after 30 years of decline. Tj Ballantyne (Dave Turner) the landlord hangs...
- 9/25/2023
- by Jon Lyus
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
For his allegedly final feature, esteemed kitchen sink surfer/social realist Ken Loach takes us to the North of England, 2016 to tell the tale of Yara (Elba Mari), a twenty-something Syrian refugee with a passion for photography who travels to the UK with her family to escape her war torn country. Upon arrival, Yara and family are rehoused in an old mining village but met with hostility from racist locals. Yara then meets and befriends pub landlord/handyman Tommy J. Ballantyne (Dave Turner), who welcomes her to the village and sets out to mend local community fissures, despite retaliation from his prejudiced pub regulars.
Regular Ken Loach writer/collaborator Paul Laverty’s screenplay charts Yara and Tommy’s attempt to disentangle the socio-economic/political division in the community born from bigotry and financial hardships, to strive for solidarity. The village adversities at the root of the locals’ despair are partly...
Regular Ken Loach writer/collaborator Paul Laverty’s screenplay charts Yara and Tommy’s attempt to disentangle the socio-economic/political division in the community born from bigotry and financial hardships, to strive for solidarity. The village adversities at the root of the locals’ despair are partly...
- 9/25/2023
- by Daniel Goodwin
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
In The Old Oak, an English man and a Syrian woman become unlikely friends on one side of a simmering culture war. It’s the latest from Ken Loach and, if reports are true, it will be the 86-year-old director’s last. The Old Oak is, of course, a timely story about modern Britain, immigration, and xenophobia. It’s also a parting statement from Loach––one last rallying cry for solidarity––and a fitting coda to his six-decade long career.
It’s hard to imagine that Loach first made his name in 1964: viewers who watched Cathy Come Home on the BBC that week could have seen “Good Vibrations” go to number 1 on Top of The Pops. Seen by a quarter of the population, it in fact did change British attitudes towards homelessness. Occasionally to the point of self-parody, Loach has never stopped making that kind of film: stories purpose-built...
It’s hard to imagine that Loach first made his name in 1964: viewers who watched Cathy Come Home on the BBC that week could have seen “Good Vibrations” go to number 1 on Top of The Pops. Seen by a quarter of the population, it in fact did change British attitudes towards homelessness. Occasionally to the point of self-parody, Loach has never stopped making that kind of film: stories purpose-built...
- 6/3/2023
- by Rory O'Connor
- The Film Stage
Ken Loach still has more to say against The Man in society with his cinema, that was clear coming away from the Cannes press conference for his latest movie The Old Oak.
We asked Loach if the reports are true; whether The Old Oak is truly his finale. Answered the director, “One day at a time. If you get up in the morning, and you’re not in the obituary column; one day at a time.”
The 87-year old Loach told THR back in April, “realistically, it would be hard to do a feature film again” given that “your facilities do decline. Your short-term memory goes and my eyesight is pretty rubbish now, so it’s quite tricky.”
However, Loach emphasized today how important it is for cinema, especially with the younger filmmakers, to stay vibrant as the artform puts people of power in check.
“It’s not up to...
We asked Loach if the reports are true; whether The Old Oak is truly his finale. Answered the director, “One day at a time. If you get up in the morning, and you’re not in the obituary column; one day at a time.”
The 87-year old Loach told THR back in April, “realistically, it would be hard to do a feature film again” given that “your facilities do decline. Your short-term memory goes and my eyesight is pretty rubbish now, so it’s quite tricky.”
However, Loach emphasized today how important it is for cinema, especially with the younger filmmakers, to stay vibrant as the artform puts people of power in check.
“It’s not up to...
- 5/27/2023
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
Editor’s Note: This review originally published during the 2023 Cannes Film Festival. “The Old Oak” will be released in U.S. theaters on April 5, 2024.
Three-dimensional characterization is a casualty of Ken Loach’s ongoing social justice project. Yet the 86-year-old idealogue’s tireless stocktaking of the human toll exacted by a Conservative British government – in power since 2010 – has been of political consequence. His 2016 Palme d’Or winner “I, Daniel Blake”, about the crushing UK benefits system, had its title projected onto the Houses of Parliament and became a rallying shorthand amongst campaigners for reform.
According to Loach, “The Old Oak” will be his last film. And given that his brand of morality plays have filled a void in terms of a genuinely revolutionary cinema, it feels precious to take umbrage at something as cosmetic as a lack of artistry. Indeed, my disenchanted reaction to “The Old Oak” and its sincere...
Three-dimensional characterization is a casualty of Ken Loach’s ongoing social justice project. Yet the 86-year-old idealogue’s tireless stocktaking of the human toll exacted by a Conservative British government – in power since 2010 – has been of political consequence. His 2016 Palme d’Or winner “I, Daniel Blake”, about the crushing UK benefits system, had its title projected onto the Houses of Parliament and became a rallying shorthand amongst campaigners for reform.
According to Loach, “The Old Oak” will be his last film. And given that his brand of morality plays have filled a void in terms of a genuinely revolutionary cinema, it feels precious to take umbrage at something as cosmetic as a lack of artistry. Indeed, my disenchanted reaction to “The Old Oak” and its sincere...
- 5/26/2023
- by Sophie Monks Kaufman
- Indiewire
Tommy Joe Ballantyne (Dave Turner), the central character in Ken Loach’s “The Old Oak,” is a middle-aged landlord and proprietor of a pub that sits near the bottom of a sloped street of working-class row houses. We’re in an unnamed village in the northeast of England, and the pub, called the Old Oak, has seen better days. So has Tommy, who’s known as Tj. Dave Turner, the very good actor who plays him, resembles a bone-weary cross between John C. Reilly and Michael Moore. There’s a sweet-souled directness to his sad prole stare, and he treats his customers, some of whom he has known since they were in grade school together, with quiet affection and respect. But the pub is falling apart, and the property values in the neighborhood have plunged. Tj is barely scraping by serving pints of ale.
In Boston, I knew a bartender...
In Boston, I knew a bartender...
- 5/26/2023
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
British director Ken Loach has always had his finger on the pulse of his country’s simmering socioeconomic situation, especially when it concerns the plight of the working class. It’s no surprise, then, that for his latest feature — the 27th for the 86-year-old filmmaker, who made his first movie, Poor Cow, all the way back in 1967 — he’s decided to tackle two issues not only at the forefront of U.K. politics, but most of Europe and the U.S. as well.
Compassionate if a bit schematic at times, The Old Oak is a ripped-from-the-headlines story about Syrian refugees arriving in a failing blue-collar town in northern England, and the anger it provokes among certain residents looking for a scapegoat to pin their problems on. You could make virtually the same movie about Central Americans arriving in Texas, or Sub-Saharan Africans arriving in France, so much are immigration and...
Compassionate if a bit schematic at times, The Old Oak is a ripped-from-the-headlines story about Syrian refugees arriving in a failing blue-collar town in northern England, and the anger it provokes among certain residents looking for a scapegoat to pin their problems on. You could make virtually the same movie about Central Americans arriving in Texas, or Sub-Saharan Africans arriving in France, so much are immigration and...
- 5/26/2023
- by Jordan Mintzer
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
What could well be Ken Loach’s final film has as much fire and fury as his debut Poor Cow did in 1967, if we discount his pioneering TV work in the run-up. The visual style hasn’t changed a great deal in the years since, but that’s because the British movie veteran, soon to turn 87, isn’t much fussed about surfaces, it’s the inner lives of his characters that he wants to capture. In that respect, The Old Oak would make a fitting swansong, capping the recent North-East trilogy with a vital film that is clearly the work of the team behind previous Cannes Competition hits I, Daniel Blake and Sorry We Missed You.
The setting is Easington, County Durham, and the year is 2016. Curiously, the Brexit Referendum is never mentioned, but the sentiments that fueled the pro-Leave movement certainly are. It opens with a coach party of...
The setting is Easington, County Durham, and the year is 2016. Curiously, the Brexit Referendum is never mentioned, but the sentiments that fueled the pro-Leave movement certainly are. It opens with a coach party of...
- 5/26/2023
- by Damon Wise
- Deadline Film + TV
Cannes: ‘Anatomy of a Fall’ Border Collie Messi Wins Palm Dog in Most Competitive Canine Contest Yet
On Saturday, the Cannes Film Festival jury will unveil the winners of this year’s festival, including the 2023 Palme d’Or, but for Cannes festival regulars, and animal lovers everywhere, the true highlight of any Croisette visit is the Palm Dog, the unofficial awards show celebrating canine performances across the festival’s official selection and various sidebars.
This year’s top prize went to Messi, the border collie who plays Snoop in Justine Triet’s Anatomy of a Fall, with the jury praising a doggie performance “that covers the gambit… one of the best we’ve ever seen.” Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter (whose coverage had mentioned Messi as a Palm Dog frontrunner), Triet said the character of Snoop “was not just another character or some animal running around [but] as much a part of the film’s ensemble as any of the other actors.”
What used to be an inside joke has become,...
This year’s top prize went to Messi, the border collie who plays Snoop in Justine Triet’s Anatomy of a Fall, with the jury praising a doggie performance “that covers the gambit… one of the best we’ve ever seen.” Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter (whose coverage had mentioned Messi as a Palm Dog frontrunner), Triet said the character of Snoop “was not just another character or some animal running around [but] as much a part of the film’s ensemble as any of the other actors.”
What used to be an inside joke has become,...
- 5/26/2023
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Thanks to The Banshees of Inisherin, Eo and, to a lesser extent, The Triangle of Sadness, it’s fair to say that when it comes cinematic animals, the past 12 months has really been all about the ass (to the extent that a lookalike of Banshees‘ breakout donkey Jenny even made it on stage at the Oscars).
This year’s Cannes looks set to return the limelight to more established four-legged stars, with dogs having bounded back to the big screen with tail-wagging gusto. And this will likely make life difficult for those sniffing out contenders for the Palm Dog, Cannes’ unofficial awards show celebrating canine performances across the festival’s official selection and various sidebars.
“This Cannes is absolutely chock-a-block with bowzers,” said Toby Rose, Palm Dog founder. “We feel like we like we have an embarrassment of choice — l’embarras du choix — as the French would say.”
And Rose isn’t wrong.
This year’s Cannes looks set to return the limelight to more established four-legged stars, with dogs having bounded back to the big screen with tail-wagging gusto. And this will likely make life difficult for those sniffing out contenders for the Palm Dog, Cannes’ unofficial awards show celebrating canine performances across the festival’s official selection and various sidebars.
“This Cannes is absolutely chock-a-block with bowzers,” said Toby Rose, Palm Dog founder. “We feel like we like we have an embarrassment of choice — l’embarras du choix — as the French would say.”
And Rose isn’t wrong.
- 5/24/2023
- by Alex Ritman
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
The film is now shooting in the north east of England.
Studiocanal UK has acquired UK and Ireland rights to Ken Loach’s next film The Old Oak from Wild Bunch International.
The film is now shooting in the north-east of England.
The feature is written by Paul Laverty and stars Dave Turner and newcomer Ebla Mari, and marks Loach’s return to the north east, where he shot I, Daniel Blake and Sorry We Missed You.
The film portrays the struggle of a landlord to hold onto a pub called The Old Oak as the only remaining public space...
Studiocanal UK has acquired UK and Ireland rights to Ken Loach’s next film The Old Oak from Wild Bunch International.
The film is now shooting in the north-east of England.
The feature is written by Paul Laverty and stars Dave Turner and newcomer Ebla Mari, and marks Loach’s return to the north east, where he shot I, Daniel Blake and Sorry We Missed You.
The film portrays the struggle of a landlord to hold onto a pub called The Old Oak as the only remaining public space...
- 5/16/2022
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
Production is taking place in the north east of England.
Principal photography on Ken Loach’s The Old Oak has commenced today, with the shoot taking place in the North East of England.
The feature is written by Paul Laverty and stars Dave Turner and newcomer Ebla Mari, and marks Loach’s return to the North East, where he shot I, Daniel Blake and Sorry We Missed You. Shooting will take place in locations including Murton, Easington Colliery and Horden in County Durham.
Studiocanal UK will release in the UK and Ireland in 2023, with Sixteen Films and Why Not Productions producing,...
Principal photography on Ken Loach’s The Old Oak has commenced today, with the shoot taking place in the North East of England.
The feature is written by Paul Laverty and stars Dave Turner and newcomer Ebla Mari, and marks Loach’s return to the North East, where he shot I, Daniel Blake and Sorry We Missed You. Shooting will take place in locations including Murton, Easington Colliery and Horden in County Durham.
Studiocanal UK will release in the UK and Ireland in 2023, with Sixteen Films and Why Not Productions producing,...
- 5/16/2022
- by Mona Tabbara
- ScreenDaily
Cameras are rolling on Ken Loach’s latest film, The Old Oak.
Principal photography on the Studiocanal UK, Sixteen Films and Why Not Productions drama, which stars Dave Turner (Sorry We Missed You) and newcomer Ebla Mari and is written by Paul Laverty, began today in the North East of England.
Loach’s previous two films — I, Daniel Blake and Sorry We Missed You — were also shot in the same part of the UK.
The Old Oaks is based around a pub that is not only the last local standing, but also the only remaining public space where people can meet in a once thriving mining community that has now fallen on hard times after 30 years of decline.
Landlord Tj Ballantyne (Turner) hangs on by his fingertips, and his predicament is made harder when the pub becomes contested territory after the unexpected arrival of Syrian refugees. He makes an unlikely...
Principal photography on the Studiocanal UK, Sixteen Films and Why Not Productions drama, which stars Dave Turner (Sorry We Missed You) and newcomer Ebla Mari and is written by Paul Laverty, began today in the North East of England.
Loach’s previous two films — I, Daniel Blake and Sorry We Missed You — were also shot in the same part of the UK.
The Old Oaks is based around a pub that is not only the last local standing, but also the only remaining public space where people can meet in a once thriving mining community that has now fallen on hard times after 30 years of decline.
Landlord Tj Ballantyne (Turner) hangs on by his fingertips, and his predicament is made harder when the pub becomes contested territory after the unexpected arrival of Syrian refugees. He makes an unlikely...
- 5/16/2022
- by Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
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