While soft the wind blew down the glade And shook the golden barley Twas hard the mournful words to frame To break the ties that bound us Ah, but harder still to bear the shame Of foreign chains ...

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

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 ...

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.

In one of many wrenching scenes in Ken Loach's powerful film about the Irish rebellion and civil war, "The Wind that Shakes the Barley," a man must execute an informer.

It may be overreaching to claim that The Wind That Shakes the Barley resonates with the same heady intensity you get from reading Yeats, but I'll claim it; for a movie to be anywhere near that ...

The Wind That Shakes the Barley tells the story of two Irish brothers who have different ways of dealing with the brutality of the British Black and Tan soldiers. What more is to be learned from the ...

Film The Wind That Shakes the Barley by Jonathan Rosenbaum April 6, 2007 Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email ...

The grand-prize winner at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival last spring, “The Wind That Shakes the Barley” is about howling in the wind, about fighting for something that seems to be ...

On September 4, 2007, Genius Products will release The Wind That Shakes the Barley on DVD. The film provides a look at two brothers who are torn apart in Ireland in 1920's anti-British rebellion ...