Loach on Loach: Updated edition

by Graham Fuller

'A master of world cinema.' Cililan Murphy


Since the original publication of Loach on Loach in 1998, Ken Loach has completed fourteen full-length feature films. This substantial body of work includes The Wind That Shakes the Barley and the North East trilogy that concludes six decades behind the camera and continued the director's blistering attack on ruling-class oppression and the exploitation of ordinary working people.


Thanks to Loach's close collaboration with the screenwriter Paul Laverty and support from the producer Rebecca O'Brien, this post-1998 period has proved the most compassionate, consistent and stylistically assured of Loach's career.


In a series of lively conversations, Loach assesses the making of these humanistic films and the thinking behind them in considerable detail, further adding to his reasoned and incisive commentary on the state of British politics from the Thatcher era through to the rise of Keir Starmer.

646 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 12, 2025

Reviews

[David Sterritt]

No filmmaker has surpassed the great Ken Loach in combining emphatic sociopolitical commentary with strong visuals, authentic performances, and consistently humane values. The newly revised and expanded “Loach on Loach,” a hefty volume comprising in-depth interviews conducted over the years by Graham Fuller, traces his history in detail, from his early TV dramas through his long list of (mostly) distinguished theatrical features, delving into his ideological convictions, his creative partnerships, and the evolution of his career. Highly recommended for anyone interested in political cinema, British cinema, or cinema itself.