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Apr 5, 2024 · Eighty-seven-year-old filmmaker Ken Loach’s “The Old Oak” is about how changing demographics in a struggling English town called Durham manifest in a crumbling old pub, the last public space that everyone claims as their own.
Apr 4, 2024 · “The Old Oak” is named for the pub where much of its action happens — an old drinking hole in a village outside of Durham, England, that’s seen better days.
May 26, 2023 · “The Old Oak” catches you up — for a while. The performances of Turner and Mari have pain and soul. But this is the last movie that should be turning into a Kumbaya progressive fairy tale.
The Old Oak is the last pub standing in a once thriving mining village in northern England, a gathering space for a community that has fallen on hard times.
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The Old Oak: Directed by Ken Loach. With Dave Turner, Ebla Mari, Claire Rodgerson, Trevor Fox. The future for the last remaining pub, The Old Oak, in a village of Northeast England, where people are leaving the land as the mines are closed.
Apr 5, 2024 · The Old Oak (which was written by Loach’s longtime collaborator Paul Laverty) completes a loose trilogy of works that began with I, Daniel Blake, a slow-burn drama about the Kafkaesque...
The 28th feature directed by master of social realism Ken Loach, THE OLD OAK follows a once-vibrant mining town’s response to the arrival of a group of Syrian refugees.
