Loach on Loach

<p>Ken Loach is one of Britain¿s most formidable film-makers, whose honours include the Cannes Festival¿s highest prize - the <i>Palme d¿or</i>.<br><br>The greatest exponent of the social realist tradition in cinema and television history, Ken Loach remains a vital international voice of conscience -- his dramas, comedies, and documentaries dedicated to the cause of ordinary working people, oppressed and deprived by uncaring employers, governments, and social systems.<br><br>This second edition of <i>Loach on Loach</i> completes the director¿s personal account (expressed, as always, with surpassing modesty) of his prolific but frequently embattled sixty-year career, which spans such landmarks as his revolutionary TV dramas <i>Up the Junction</i> and <i>Cathy Come Home</i>, his domestic masterpieces <i>Kes </i>and <i>Raining Stones</i>, his war epics <i>Land and Freedom</i> and T<i>he Wind That Shakes the Barley</i>, and his searing, trenchant later dramas set in Scotland and England¿s