Its not exactly an obvious loach location, but it does help establish that, yes, this is a londonset film. The rest of us get an early start in the morning stevie robert carlyle to his girlfriend susan emer mccourt in riff raff. Stevie robert carlyle, a young glaswegian just out of prison, comes down to london and gets a job on a building site a melting pot of itinerant labourers from all over the country where he has. Peters college, oxford, but while there he became interested in acting. The comedydrama riffraff 1991 was the first of three films to examine the ramifications of thatchers policies on the workingclass. Robert carlyle and emer mccourt are starring, alongside richard belgrave, jim r.
He married lesley ashton in 1962 and he has five children named jim, emma, hannah, stephen and nicholas. First one minute of the riffraff movie from ken loach. Its a daring move, and the film succeeds because loach pulls it off. I hoped to see the new release before we spoke about riffraff but when i went to see it, it was sold out. Eerste komedie van loach, soms mild, vaak bitter, schetsmatig, onthutsend realistisch en nooit. How the london locations for ken loachs riffraff have changed. His socially critical directing style and socialist ideals are evident in his film treatment of social issues such as poverty poor cow, 1967, homelessness cathy come home, 1966, and labour rights riffraff, 1991, and the navigators, 2001. Ken loach full list of movies and tv shows in theaters, in production and upcoming films.
The movie was written by frances marion, anita loos, and h. Ken loach, sally hibbin, bill jesse, emer mccourt, robert carlyle, ricky tomlinson, peter mullan. With pat obrien, walter slezak, anne jeffreys, percy kilbride. He exposed his socialist beliefs in the film riffraff from 1991, which focused on labor rights. Ken loachs riffraff shows laborers who are alienated from the very idea of management and see themselves as proletarian outsiders. Riff raff was written by bill jesse, a construction worker, who died as the film was.
The rest of us get an early start in the morning stevie robert carlyle to his girlfriend susan emer mccourt in riffraff. Riffraff 1991, about a gang of itinerant construction workers laboring under unspeakable conditions on luxury homes for londons wealthy. Ken loach 1991, starring robert carlyle, emer mccourt, richard belgrave. Every original show and movie coming to the warnermedia.
Steve, young glaswegian just out of barlinnie prison, comes down to london and gets a job on a building site a. Mis bijvoorbeeld nooit meer een film van stanley kubrick of meryl streep. However, like his other works, the film is a social conscience tale on modern life and the challenges faced by societys marginalized. The differences between the two films are revealing about the. Yet riffraff is in many ways a comedy, directed by ken loach, whose workingclass subjects over the years have included a boys love for his bird in kes 1971 and a police plot against liberal politicians in hidden agenda 1990. Often, watching riffraff is like viewing a home video. But in riffraff, youll need all the prompting you can get. Kenneth charles loach born 17 june 1936 is an english filmmaker.
Ken loachs film depicts british havenots for whom easy answers and lasting pleasures do not exist and happiness is infrequent. Riffraff is a 1936 american film starring jean harlow and spencer tracy. Socialistleaning british director ken loach kicked off a decades worth of. Ken loach the observer drama films features most popular.
Ken loachs riffraff 1991 follows the hardscrabble life of a glaswegian labourer in london. Ken loachs riffraff shows laborers who are alienated from the very idea of. Riffraff was written by bill jesse, a construction worker, who died as the film was. Ken loachs son, jim, is also a director whose first film oranges and sunshine came out in 2011. Kenneth charles loach born 17 june 1936 is an english director of television and independent film. A plane takes off from peru in a long nodialogue scene in a storm with two passengers. Ken loachs gem of a film, about working stiffs in thatcherian england, has dialects and expressions to confound and delight. Aye, boxer shorts, colored socks, things like that. Ken loach, in full kenneth loach, born june 17, 1936, nuneaton, warwickshire, england, british director whose works are considered landmarks of social realism loach studied law at st. Spencer tracy plays a rough and tough fisherman dutch muller, who leads in a strike with his fellow fishery workers against the fatcat owners of a tuna cannery.
Directed by ken loach, riffraff also known as riff raff meglio perderli che trovarli is a comedydrama film, released on february 12 of 1993 in the usa. The scot played by robert carlyle lands a job on a building site turning a derelict hospital into luxury apartments. The story of stevie, a construction worker, and his girlfriend, an unemployed pop singer, serves to show the living conditions of the british poor class. Inspired by i, daniel blake, ryan revisits ken loachs riffraff and what it revealed to him as young lad experiencing the working life. Riffraff 1991 is a comedy, drama movie starring robert carlyle and emer mccourt. Ken loachs bittersweet comedy surrounding building workers in central london, starring robert carlyle and ricky tomlinson. Director ken loach hidden agenda, with a keen sense of what makes people and relationships click, has guided his production down a narrow trail that perfectly balances comedy and drama. Unlike riff raff, or, for that matter, any ken loach movie fatherland, raining stones, land and freedom. There, loach zooms in on the camaraderie and stoic spirit of labourers facing abysmal working conditions. The film was shot on an actual building site, in an actual derelict hospital in tottenham that indeed turned into luxury flats. It won the 1991 european film award best picture award as with most loach films, riffraff is a naturalistic portrayal of modern britain. After graduating in 1957, he spent two years in the royal air force and then began a career in the dramatic arts. He directed cillian murphy in the 2006 drama the wind that shakes the barley. Ever since then, loach s knack for timeliness has continued to impress me, through workingclass classics like ladybird ladybird, my name is joe, bread and roses, riff raff.
The ken loach youtube channel gives you access to his early major films, including cathy come home, a 1966 bbc docudrama that portrays a young couple grappling with poverty, unemployment, and homelessness, and also kes, a 1970 movie thats now ranked seventh on the british film institutes list of the top ten british films. Unlike virtually all his contemporaries, ken loach has never succumbed to the siren call of. Ken loach collection volume 1 includes the first commercial release of the little seen ken loach film the gamekeeper including a loach commentary alongside poor cow, kes, riff raff, raining stones, ladybird ladybird, bread and roses and the navigators plus booklet and exclusive features. It follows stevie, played by robert carlyle, a glaswegian recently released from prison who has moved. Riffraff and raining stones are solid forays for the novice loach fan, touching on themes loach continued to perfect while at the same time bringing real peoples stories towards the forefront.
Riff raff 1991 loach has always liked to make films about camaraderie. Riffraff looked at unionbusting on a construction site whereas raining stones 1993 followed an unemployed man who was trying to scrape together the money for his daughters communion dress. I chose riffraff due to ken loachs new film, i, daniel blake, being in cinemas at the moment. Hardedged comedy from ken loach in which robert carlyle plays a young glaswegian who, working on a demolition site in london, encounters a disparate group of fellow labourers including shem, mo and larry ricky tomlinson from liverpool and scant regard for health and safety.
There is great humor in the scene where the leftist worker is found using a newly installed bathtub as rich buyers are shown through the flat, and humor, too. How the london locations for ken loachs riffraff have. Riff raff 1991 and raining stones 1993 were more humorous treatments of workingclass politics and struggles, and both won a number of honors at cannes. Contact info view agent, publicist, legal on imdbpro. For the first since time maybe since 1991s riff raff, loach is really having fun. Riffraff is a film directed by ken loach with robert carlyle, emer mccourt, jimmy coleman, george moss, year. The story of stevie, a construction worker, and his girlfriend, an. Two gems from the great english realist auteur, ken loach. His socially critical directing style and socialist ideals are evident in his film treatment of social issues such as poverty poor cow, 1967, homelessness cathy come home, 1966 and labour rights riffraff, 1991, and the navigators, 2001. A terrific social commentary on british poor working people in 1991. I dont believe much has changed and probably not to the better, anyway. Riffraff 1991 tells the story of bluecollar construction worker, stevie robert carlyle as he struggles to get by daytoday. Loach lightens up for this documentarystyle comedy about the scams, laughs, dangers and camaraderie of work on a london building site.
Ken loach s son, jim, is also a director whose first film oranges and sunshine came out in 2011. Riffraff 1991 loach has always liked to make films about camaraderie. Riffraff is a 1991 british film directed by ken loach, starring robert carlyle and ricky tomlinson the latter plays, and was in real life, a builder. Riffraff is a 1991 british film directed by ken loach, starring robert carlyle and ricky tomlinson it won the 1991 european film award best picture award.
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