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One of Britian's most radical and uncompromising film and television directors, KEN LOACH

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Ken Loach's film 'Cathy Come Home', about a homeless mother, aired on the BBC in 1966, created a scandal, and forced a public debate about homelessness in London.
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A retrospective of Ken Loach's work will be presented by The Film Society of Lincoln Center from February 2 to February 13, 1993.
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2: One of Britian's most radical and uncompromising film and television directors, KEN LOACH. He was a member of the British "Free Cinema Movement" of the '50s (committed to dealing with issues of the working class and lower-class of British society), and he was a pioneer of the docu-drama of the '60s. His socially-conscious film "Cathy Come Home," (1966) about a homeless mother, aired over the BBC, created a scandal, and forced a public debate about the homeless in London. He's produced many features for BBC television. His latest film "Riff-Raff," about construction workers is his first comedy, but it doesn't depart from what LOACH tries to do with his films. The London "Times" calls it, "an abrasive front-line report from the bottom of society's ladder." A retrospective of LOACH's work will be presented by The Film Society of Lincoln Center, February 2 - 13, 1993.

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