Ken Loach

Leading artists criticise Barbican’s collaboration with Israeli embassy for concert

Jerusalem Orchestra East & West’s performance ‘cynical attempt to re-brand apartheid as diversity’, claims letter by over 50 artists

Harriet Sherwood Arts and culture correspondent

01, Feb, 2023 @5:55 PM

Brian Tufano obituary

Cinematographer who brought his imaginative sensibilities to films such as Trainspotting, Billy Elliot and Quadrophenia

Ryan Gilbey

26, Jan, 2023 @6:02 PM

‘Our best tip-off was Greggs in Bolton’: the secrets behind finding the hottest new screen stars

From boxing gyms to train stations, Streetcasters are plucking people from obscurity and giving them leading roles. Here, the best tell all – including why they’re always mistaken for the police

Rachael Sigee

06, Jan, 2023 @1:00 PM

The best films of 2023 to look forward to

New movies from Martin Scorsese, Wes Anderson, Sam Mendes, Greta Gerwig and Florian Zeller, among others, mean there’s a feast of cinema to look forward to in the coming months

Peter Bradshaw

30, Dec, 2022 @6:00 AM

‘Absolutely shameless’: Ken Loach says BBC helped ‘destroy’ Jeremy Corbyn

Director says media has ‘rewritten history’ to expunge ex-Labour leader and attacks Starmer regime for ‘manipulating the rules’

Andrew Pulver

16, Dec, 2022 @11:49 AM

I, Daniel Blake to be adapted for stage and updated for cost-of-living crisis

The story of a widowed joiner and a young single mother has been written by Dave Johns, who played the title role in Ken Loach’s 2016 film

Chris Wiegand Stage editor

17, Nov, 2022 @9:00 AM

Streaming: Mubi’s First Films season and other essential director debuts

Red Road, Citizen Kane, Reservoir Dogs… some debut features feel like anything but

Guy Lodge

01, Jan, 2022 @8:00 AM

Tony Selby obituary

Versatile actor best known for television roles in hard-hitting realist dramas and the 70s sitcom Get Some In!

Anthony Hayward

07, Sep, 2021 @3:04 PM

Labour’s expulsion of Ken Loach was the wrong call | Letters

Letters: Rosie Brocklehurst and Anil Bhatt decry the party’s decision to throw out the film director and principled socialist

Letters

18, Aug, 2021 @4:52 PM

If only Boris would follow Melvyn Caplan’s example | Brief letters

Brief letters: Marble Arch Mound | Appleby horse fair | Windy relationships | Swearing | Ken Loach

Letters

15, Aug, 2021 @4:13 PM

Director Ken Loach says he has been expelled from Labour

Leftwing film-maker claims move by party is because he would ‘not disown those already expelled’

Mattha Busby

14, Aug, 2021 @11:46 AM

'I barely breathed': Tilda Swinton, Emma Thompson, Steve McQueen and more on their most memorable moments at the movies

From transformative nights in the grubbiest of fleapits to spellbinding screenings under the stars, film-makers and critics recall the communal thrill of going to the cinema

15, May, 2020 @5:00 AM