Ken Loach and Mike Leigh to go head-to-head at Cannes film festival
Reports of Ken Loach's retirement as a director of fiction appear to have been greatly exaggerated. The veteran British film-maker and champion of the left has told the Hollywood Reporter he is not, after all, eschewing drama film-making in favour of documentaries ahead of an appearance at the Cannes film festival.
Loach's producer Rebecca O'Brien said in August that Jimmy's Hall was likely to be the last feature film from the veteran director. "This is probably the last narrative feature for Ken," said O'Brien, who has collaborated with the 77-year-old Loach since 1990. "There are a few documentary ideas kicking around, and that will probably be the way to go, but this is a serious period-drama with a lot of moving parts so it's a big thing to put together. I think we should go out while we're on top."
Continue reading...Source: http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/may/02/ken-loach-jimmys-hall-changes-mind-about-retirement
No comments:
Post a Comment