This old Fenian song, which has one of the most moving melodies of any Irish song, came back to me (it is one of the songs I learned as a teenager) when I saw that a movie by the same name had won ...

Two Irish brothers are torn apart by the anti-Brit rebellion of the '20s in "The Wind That Shakes the Barley," a film by helmer Ken Loach in which the human drama increasingly gets lost in the ...

The Wind That Shakes The Barley One of the year's best movies, full of passionate intensity. By N.P. Thompson. May 22, 2007 at 5:00 pm PDT.

"The Wind that Shakes the Barley," which is written by Loach's longtime collaborator, Paul Laverty, won the Palme D'Or at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival, ...

The Wind That Shakes The Barley. And yet, Loach and Laverty are still capable of creating moments startling in their naturalism—almost like a window into the past.

Loach will speak at the Scottish film festival with his long-time collaborators, writer Paul Laverty and producer Rebecca ...

Directed by Ken Loach (Sweet Sixteen, Land and Freedom), The Wind That Shakes the Barley is a tragic and moving film that easily justifies its Palme d'Or win at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival.

Ken Loach's tragic, beautiful film takes its poetic name from a 19th-century Irish song by Robert Dwyer Joyce. Its lyrics include these ...

Paul Laverty's biography is not that of your typical screenwriter-born to an Irish mother and Scottish father in Calcutta, he obtained a philosophy degree in Rome and a law degree in Scotland. He put ...

Ken Loach’s camera pans and tilts its way through The Wind that Shakes the Barley, as though its wandering gaze is in search of a fixed center, adrift in a world of shifting allegiances and ...