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"When you eat together, you stick together." Studiocanal UK has revealed an official UK trailer for the latest Ken Loach feature film titled The Old Oak, which still doesn't have US date set yet. The film premiered in May at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival in the main competition, but it didn't win any awards in the end. It's yet another social realist drama from Ken Loach, this time focusing on refugees and racist locals. The film is about the future of the last remaining pub, The Old Oak in a village of the Northeast England, where people are leaving the land as the mines are closed. Houses are cheap and available thus making it an ideal location for the Syrian refugees, who arrive in town to find upset locals unhappy by their arrival. Dave Turner stars as Tj, the owner of The Old Oak pub who befriends a young Syrian woman,...

Sorry We Missed You Kino Lorber Reviewed for Shockya.com & BigAppleReviews.net linked from Rotten Tomatoes by: Harvey Karten Director: Ken Loach Writer: Paul Laverty Cast: Kris Hitchen, Debbie Honeywood, Rhys Stone, Katie Proctor, Ross Brewster Screened at: Critics’ link, NYC, 11/23/20 Opens: March 6, 2020. Streaming June 12, 2020 The rich get money while the […]

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UK Indie Pic Sets Cast

Exclusive: Crissy Rock, Paul Barber and Kayleigh-Paige Rees will lead the cast of UK indie movie Kate & Jake. The pic is being helmed by Jack McLoughlin, his feature debut, and is based on the filmmaker’s own experiences of love and loss. It is privately funded and will shoot in the UK from January. Rees, known for her role in ITV drama Sanditon, is producing the project through her banner Raspberry Films alongside Thomas Griffiths, with Debbie Honeywood as executive producer. Rock is most recognized for her role as Maggie Conlan in the 1994 film Ladybird and is also a stand-up comedian and author. Barber is known for playing Denzil in Only Fools And Horses as well as his role as Horse in The Full Monty.

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More than Ken Loach’s Palme d’Or for I, Daniel Blake, the film’s Prize of the Ecumenical Jury–Special Mention indicates the nature of Loach and Paul Laverty’s oeuvre in the last twenty-five years. The prize honors works that “reveal the mysterious depths of human beings through what concerns them, their hurts and failings as well as their hopes.” In their newest film, Sorry We Missed You, instead of focusing on one character, as in I, Daniel Blake, “Loach widens his lens to a family of four, a heightening of emotional stakes in a move that richly pays off through Paul Laverty’s script,” Ed Frankl said in our rave Cannes review.

The story follows Ricky (Kris Hitchen) and his wife Abbie (Debbie Honeywood), along with their kids Seb (Rhys Stone) and Liza Jae (Katie Proctor). Abbie is strapped for family time as she relies on public...

For 50-plus years, British filmmaker Ken Loach has been a crusading white knight for the working class. His heroes are laborers, carpenters, union organizers, social workers, immigrant house cleaners, pub-dwelling punters, football-fanatic postmen. Kids, whether it’s the falconry-obsessed lad of Kes (1969) or the drug-dealing teen of Sweet Sixteen (2002), are usually fighting the effects or suffering the after-effects of economic inequity. Even his historical dramas set during the Irish War for Independence (The Wind That Shakes the Barley, Jimmy’s Hall) and the Spanish Civil War (Land and Freedom) tend to...

As a raucous howl of protest at a welfare state disemboweled by decades of unhinged privatization, Ken Loach’s 2016 I, Daniel Blake ended with no exclamation marks, but a wall daubed in white paint. “I, Daniel Blake, demand my appeal date before I starve,” read the graffiti penned by Dave Johns’s eponymous Daniel, a 59-year-old carpenter and widower wrestling with a catch-22 state-enforced conundrum: avoid work or risk another heart attack, look for jobs or lose welfare benefits. It was an intricate, Kafkaesque nightmare of desk people, computers, and unanswered calls, a bureaucratic apparatus that gradually morphed into a dehumanizing Leviathan. But it also echoed as a hymn to the resilience of the downtrodden, and a call for empathy over and against a system designed to strip individuals of their basic rights. Daniel Blake’s paint-splayed offense was the ultimate, hopeless paean of an ever-growing section of society faced...

The White Princess’ Billy Barratt will star alongside Game of Thrones’ Michelle Fairley, Strike’s Tom Burke and Traitors’ Stephen Campbell Moore in a BBC feature-length drama about the age of criminal responsibility.

The 12-year old Barratt, who featured in the Starz White Princess drama alongside Killing Eve’s Jodie Comer, will play Ray, a 12-year-old boy on trial for murder, in Responsible Child.

The 90-minute drama will air on BBC Two later this year and is produced by Broadchurch producer Kudos and 72 Films.

Owen McDonnell (Killing Eve), Shaun Dingwall (Topboy), Debbie Honeywood (Sorry We Missed You), Angela Wynter (Les Miserables) and James Tarpey (Our Robot Overlords) round out the cast.

Based on real events, the drama is told in two time frames and follows the events that led up to the murder and trial. Ray (Barratt) and his 23-year-old brother Nathan (Tarpey) are arrested after stabbing their mother’s partner.

"I never thought it would be this difficult." Zeitgeist Films has revealed another new official Us trailer for Ken Loach's latest film Sorry We Missed You, which will be in Us theaters starting in March of next year. This initially premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in competition earlier this summer, and it played at the Toronto, Zurich, Hamburg, and Busan Film Festivals. The indie drama is a follow-up to Loach's acclaimed Palme d'Or winning film I, Daniel Blake, with the same screenwriter. This time they tell a story of a British family struggling to get by - the father takes a job as a "zero-hour", "self-employed" delivery driver and feels the stress increase as he tries to make ends meet. The film stars Kris Hitchen, Debbie Honeywood, Rhys Stone, Katie Proctor, and Ross Brewster. This is a solid new trailer, capturing the essence of the film and how...

Chicago – The Chicago International Film Festival is competitive, and the 55th edition presented its awards on October 25th, 2019, at Chez venue in Chicago. The winner of the Gold Hugo as Best International Film was “Portrait of a Lady on Fire” (France), directed by Céline Sclamma.

The 55th Chicago International Film Festival Awards Night was October 25th, 2019

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The awards were presented by the various jury members in each film category, and were hosed by Artistic Director Mimi Plauché, Managing Director Vivian Teng, as well as programmers Anthony Kaufman and Sam Flancher. The Festival’s highest honor is the Gold Hugo, named for the mythical God of Discovery.

International Feature Film Competition

‘Portrait of a Lady on Fire,’ (France) Directed by Céline Sclamma

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The Gold Hugo for Best Film: “Portrait of a Lady on Fire,” (France) Directed by Céline...

Since the sixties, the no-nonsense director Ken Loach has been the face of British social-realist cinema. He captures the grit of working-class life and opposes fake, romantic sentimentality. Sorry We Missed You — Loach’s latest and maybe last film about the troubling realities of the gig economy — encapsulates the blunt, slice-of-life structure that makes the director so appealing. He ignores artifice where many would pile it on; he rarely raises the music during emotional scenes; he doesn’t force close-ups of teary-eyed actors. The feelings felt in Sorry We Missed You rise in reaction to the bare bones of a horrific situation.

Like Loach’s previous Cannes-winning drama I, Daniel Blake, which captured the realities of the British benefits system, Sorry We Missed You gradually sinks into a cesspool of real-life despair. Ricky (Kris Hitchen) opens the film, interviewing for a driving job at a van depot in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, rattling...

The first-time actor on getting her role in Ken Loach’s film and learning about the hardships suffered by care workers

• MPs and business leaders weigh up Sorry We Missed You

Debbie Honeywood grew up in Wallsend, north Tyneside, and worked in a school before being cast in Sorry We Missed You – her first film role – as contract nurse and in-home carer Abbie.

How did you get the part?

When I turned 40, I had a bucket list of things I wanted to do – go to Glastonbury, see the Rolling Stones and get on the telly. I had been working in a high school for 10 years as a learning support assistant and wanted to do something new. One night, I got an email about this movie from the extras agency and I applied. Then they asked me to send a video to Ken Loach; the next thing I knew, they were...

The director’s new film, Sorry We Missed You, couldn’t be more timely. We ask MPs and business leaders including Frank Field and Anna Soubry what they make of its uncompromising vision

• Q&a with Sorry We Missed You actor Debbie Honeywood

It’s three years since Ken Loach released I, Daniel Blake, which won the Palme d’Or at Cannes for its searing depiction of austerity-era Britain, with food banks a dismal fact of life and a benefits system that crushes rather than supports its supposed beneficiaries.

Now Loach has turned his attention to another dehumanising trap of our neoliberal age: the world of zero-hours contracts. Sorry We Missed You, again set in Newcastle, tells the story of Ricky and Abbie, a fortysomething couple with two kids whose problems are less to do with finding work than stopping it from eating up their lives. Abbie, played by first-time actor Debbie Honeywood,...

The post-war romance picked up two awards.

Marcus H. Rosenmuller’s The Keeper, about acclaimed German prisoner of war-turned-footballer Bert Trautmann and his romance with an English woman, won the Golden Hitchcock for best film at the Dinard Film Festival on Saturday, September 28.

The film also picked up the audience award at the festival, which showcases UK films to French audiences.

The Keeper is produced by Chris Curling for Zephyr Films, Steve Milne for British Film Company (both UK operations), and Robert Marciniak for Germany’s Lieblingsfilm.

It tells the story of Bert Trautmann, a German prisoner of war in...

Zeitgeist Films and Kino Lorber on Tuesday said they have co-acquired U.S. rights to Ken Loach’s Sorry We Missed You, which had its world premiere at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. The news comes as the pic readies for a screening at the Toronto Film Festival next month. The plan is for Zeitgeist to release the film beginning March 6, 2020 in New York with a national rollout following; Kino Lorber will handle the digital release. Penned by Paul Laverty, Sorry We Missed You examines the implications of the service economy are seen through the eyes of a British delivery worker (Kris Hitchen), his caregiver wife (Debbie Honeywood) and their two children. Sixteen Films’ Rebecca O’Brien is producer. The deal was negotiated by Kino Lorber’s Wendy Lidell, Wild Bunch International’s Eva Diederix and CAA Media Finance on behalf of the filmmakers.

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After rave reception at Cannes, Loach’s follow-up to I, Daniel Blake is set for UK release on 1 November

The first trailer for Ken Loach’s latest film, Sorry We Missed You, has been released. The film is a tonal and topical follow-up to his previous feature, I, Daniel Blake, and tackles the impact of working in the gig economy on families. It premiered at the Cannes film festival in May.

Sorry We Missed You stars Kris Hitchen as a builder whose employment prospects plummeted after the 2008 financial crisis and who is persuaded to work on a freelance – yet perilously indebted – basis for a major delivery company. His wife (Debbie Honeywood) is a contract nurse and in-home carer to elderly and disabled people. Both are under enormous pressure during the day at work, and again at night, dealing with their troubled son and his sister.

"This decides who lives, and who dies." Entertainment One UK has debuted the first official UK trailer for Ken Loach's latest film Sorry We Missed You, not to be confused with Sorry To Bother You. This initially premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in competition just a few months ago, and it's also playing at the Sydney Film Festival next. The indie drama is a follow-up to Loach's acclaimed Palme d'Or winning film I, Daniel Blake, with the same screenwriter. This time the focus is on a modern British family struggling to get by - the father takes a job as a delivery driver and feels the stress increase as he tries to make ends meet. The film stars Kris Hitchen, Debbie Honeywood, Rhys Stone, Katie Proctor, and Ross Brewster. It's a strong film, about how terrible capitalism is and how much stress comes from trying to keep our lives stable.

Entertainment One has debuted the first trailer for Ken Loach’s hard-hitting drama ‘Sorry I Missed You’. We reviewed the film out in Cannes this year – read our review here.

From director Ken Loach, writer Paul Laverty and the award-winning team behind I, Daniel Blake, comes Sorry We Missed You – a powerful exploration of the contemporary world of work, the gig economy and the challenges faced by one family trying to hold it all together.

The film stars Kris Hitchen, Debbie Honeywood, Rhys Stone and Katie Proctor.

Also in trailers – Karl Urban and chums decide it’s payback time for the world’s superheroes in trailer for Amazon’s ‘The Boys’

The film is released in UK cinemas November 1st.

Sorry We Missed You Synopsis

Ricky and his family have been fighting an uphill struggle against debt since the 2008 financial crash. An opportunity to wrestle back some independence appears with...

Ken Loach’s follow-up to his Palme d’Or-winning I, Daniel Blake is a masterful indictment of the strain of out-of-control capitalism that has dug its heels into post-crash industrialized nations. Sorry We Missed You is, simply, one of his best films that links the personal and the political.

This is Loach’s 14th film in competition at Cannes, where his brand of social realism has found sustained success–he had previously won the Palme for his 2006 Irish civil war drama The Wind that Shakes the Barley. But even at 82 he’s producing some of the richest and most vital work of his career. I, Daniel Blake has an emotional richness, but this is an altogether more focused, more riveting work that lacks its predecessor’s occasional tendency to lurch into holier-than-thou didacticism.

Rather than focusing on the plight of a single individual, as was the case in his recent...

The Notebook is covering Cannes with an on-going correspondence between critic Leonardo Goi and editor Daniel Kasman.A White, White DayDear Danny,Among the many veteran’s tips you gave me on our first Cannes rendezvous was a polite reminder to fish for gems outside the red-carpeted slots of the official competition, and yesterday I heeded the call, queuing for my first screening at the Critics’ Week, Hlynur Pálmason’s A White, White Day. It was not the first time I stumbled into the Icelandic 34-year-old. Back in Locarno, in 2017, I’d been able to catch his debut feature, the visceral study of masculinity and festival darling Winter Brothers. And if the latter had heralded the Reykjavik-native as new name to reckon with, his new film only adds more evidence to the director's talent.Having lost his wife in a car accident, police chief Ingimundur processes grief by channeling all...

Ken Loach has returned to Cannes after winning the Palme d’Or for I, Daniel Blake back in 2016. Loach has been consistently churning out social realist films dealing with the plight of men and women who are either neglected or exploited by the state. At the age of 82, it would appear that he shows no sign of stopping and his new film Sorry We Missed You sees him on excellent form.

The film is set in Newcastle and tells the story of Ricky Turner (Kris Hitchen) and his wife Abbie (Debbie Honeywood). Long gone are the hedonistic and carefree times when they met at a rave in Manchester (Ricky’s home town). Now, they are struggling to pay the rent and bring up their two children. When Ricky decides to become a parcel delivery guy and his boss tells him all the things he should avoid – losing his scanner, getting behind with deliveries,...

Ken Loach was in typically fiery form when he appeared at UK Film Centre event in Cannes.

Ken Loach was in typically fiery form when he appeared this week at the Talent Talk for his latest Cannes contender, Sorry We Missed You, alongside his regular collaborators screenwriter Paul Laverty and producer Rebecca O’Brien in the UK Film Centre.

Watch the full talent talk below.

The film, appearing in Competition, explores the challenges of balancing the gig economy with family life and stars Kris Hitchen, Debbie Honeywood, Rhys Stone and Katie Proctor.

Asked about the “gig economy,” Loach expressed his...

His fourteenth trip in the comp and with two Palme d’Or wins under his belt, Ken Loach’s Sorry We Missed You might be calling it quits after this family affair. Once again working with cinematographer Robbie Ryan, this is about picking up the pieces after the 2008 financial crash and literally picking up pieces by delivery truck with a cast comprised of Kris Hitchen, Debbie Honeywood, Rhys Stone and Katie Proctor. Wild Bunch are handling world sales.

Something tells me that Ken Loach might be packing a suitcase with his third Palme with another timely, sentimental film as certain critics are pushing this to the top of their lists.…...

“This isn’t going to end well,” Adam Driver says more than once in “The Dead Don’t Die,” the Jim Jarmusch zombie movie that opened the Cannes Film Festival on Tuesday. And when Ken Loach’s “Sorry We Missed You” premiered on Thursday in Cannes, opening with a scene in which an out-of-work laborer is hired for a job that seems to have lots of strings attached, it’s hard not to think that Driver’s gloomy forecast will hold true in this setting as well.

But it’s not zombies who make the prospects so bleak for the characters in “Sorry We Missed You.” Rather, it’s the plight of the British working class, which in many Loach movies is under constant assault from larger forces — sometimes the forces of government, sometimes the forces of commerce, sometimes a brutal mixture that serves to batter and dehumanize the average worker.

Kitchen-sink dramatist Ken Loach is our most dependable chronicler of working-class British frustrations. From 1966’s jittery “Cathy Come Home” to 2016’s Palme d’Or winner “I, Daniel Blake,” Loach creates sympathetic portraits of impoverished families as they eke out an existence in a society at odds with their needs. Loach is also not the most subtle filmmaker, but he grounds his intentions in emotional immediacy that lets the editorializing sink in.

“Sorry We Missed You” is the latest installment in this sprawling pantheon of cinematic activism, and delivers another tough, poignant look at desperate characters trapped by the only system that allows them to survive.

At its center is Ricky Turner (Kris Hitchen), an energetic family man with a questionable gig. As a delivery driver, he’s drawn into an arrangement with a company that encourages him to buy his own van, absorbing many expenses himself. Of course, Ricky’s...

Ken Loach, Jessica Hausner, Asif Kapadia all to give talent talks.

Talent talks from directors Ken Loach, Jessica Hausner and Asif Kapadia all feature on the UK Film Centre’s programme of industry events at this year’s Cannes Film Festival (May 14-25).

Each will discuss their respective films, which are having world premieres at the festival.

Loach will be joined by screenwriter Paul Laverty and producer Rebecca O’Brien on Friday, May 17 to discuss Competition title Sorry We Missed You, hosted by Screen’s Wendy Mitchell.

Hausner will talk alongside co-writer Geraldine Bajard and producers Geradine O’Flynn and...

Sorry We Missed You

One of Britain’s most notable filmmakers of all time, the two-time Palme d’Or winning Ken Loach will be set with his new social issue drama Sorry We Missed You in 2019. Produced by his regular collaborator Rebecca O’Brien and is the director’s fourth consecutive film handled by eOne. His latest stars Kris Hitchen (who previously had a supporting role in Loach’s 2001 title The Navigators) along with Debbie Honeywood, Katie Proctor, Alfie Dobson and Rhys Stone. As mentioned, Loach is one of a select few auteurs to win thePalme d’Or twice, having competed a total of thirteen times winning the Ecumenical Jury Prize in 1981, 1990, 1995, 2009, and 2016, a Fipresci Prize for 1991’s Riff Raff and 1979’s Black Jack, and the Jury Prize in 1993 and 2012.…...