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How Ken Loach’s Sixteen Films Is Charting a New Course Without Its Iconic ‘I, Daniel Blake’ Director


With 'Harvest' and 'On Falling,' the company set up by Loach and Rebecca O'Brien begins a new phase with the 'I Daniel Blake' director havin

If there was one puzzle from the 2023 Venice Film Festival, it concerned Caleb Landry Jones and the actor’s curious decision to conduct all his press arrangements for the Luc Besson thriller “Dogman” with a Scottish accent. Alongside honing Landry Jones’ vocal abilities, “Harvest,” being directed by Athina Rachel Tsangari (the Greek director’s first English-language film) and based on the book by Jim Crace, also marks the beginning of a new chapter for one of the U.K.’s best-known indie production companies. O’Brien says there are plans to “work out what to do” with Loach’s archive (much of which sits in boxes in the corner of a wooden-beamed meeting room above the main office) and hopefully untangle the complex web of rights to bring more than 50 years of filmmaking to a new audience.

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