Sixteen Films proudly presents for the first time ever The Ken Loach DVD Collection, reflecting the director’s own choice of work together in two beautifully packaged digi-pack box sets to own from 3 September priced £59.99 RRP each.Ken Loach is one of Britain’s most respected film directors with a career spanning over 40 years. From his pioneering days with the BBC, directing the ground-breaking Cathy Come Home in 1966, to the Palme d’Or winning The Wind That Shakes the Barley, Ken Loach has stayed true to his film making style and socially conscious subject matter. During this time he has carved a distinctive contribution to British film history.Throughout his career, Loach has worked with many acclaimed actors including Adrien Brody, Robert Carlyle, Brian Cox, Brad Dourif, Frances McDormand, Peter Mullan, Cillian Murphy and Ricky Tomlinson, to name but a few, who give outstanding performances in the body of work presented in this new collection.Fans will be thrilled to learn that recently unavailable titles My Name is Joe and Cathy Come Home are included in this new collection along with the rarely seen and never before available on home video or DVD The Gamekeeper. Each box set includes a 16 page companion booklet with rare images, production information, quotes and introductions by Loach plus a bonus documentary DVD profiling Loach. Special features include director commentaries, documentaries and deleted scenes.Now is the perfect time to celebrate Loach’s work and achievements through this collection, released prior to the Channel 4 broadcast in late September of his new feature It’s A Free World… and a season of his films at the National Film Theatre. It’s A Free World…, the latest collaboration from the Palme d’Or winning director Ken Loach, writer Paul Laverty and producer Rebecca O’Brien, is a drama rooted in the world of illegal employment in contemporary Britain.
A special preview of the film will be shown on Thursday 13 September at the BFI Southbank, followed by a Q&A with Ken Loach and Paul Laverty. This screening and Q&A will be shown simultaneously around the country at specially selected cinemas. Following transmission in late September on Channel 4, the film will be released on DVD by Pathe/Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment on 1 October. ken Loach