Jeremy Corbyn is on Letterboxd – and he’s giving Ken Loach some glowing reviews
Jeremy Corbyn has joined the film social media site Letterboxd and given his verdict on some of Ken Loach’s most famous films.
The former Labour leader, who is now an independent MP, has already reviewed six films in the space of a day and awarded each one of them five stars.
Among those are three of Ken Loach’s films including I, Daniel Blake, The Wind That Shakes The Barley and The Old Oak.
“Government ministers should watch this film to understand the human cost of welfare cuts. Well done Ken for this moving masterpiece,” he wrote on I, Daniel Blake.
NME also previously awarded the film four-stars and described it as “righteous commentary on the state of the UK, which hits home with the force of a sledgehammer.”
As for The Wind That Shakes The Barley, Corbyn praised Cillian Murphy and said: “It’s about the horrors and contradictions of the Irish Civil War in 1922. I remember showing this in a community centre in our constituency, and Ken came to talk to us about how he made the film. Thank you Ken! Superb performance by Cillian Murphy.”
His verdict on Loach’s last film The Old Oak was that: “Made me think about the refugees I have met throughout my life and the terrible ordeal they go through. We went to see it together in the cinema, and gave us a sense of empowerment and hope in a kinder world. Ken provokes people to think positively. That can be an unstoppable force.”
Corbyn also gave positive reviews to The Great Gatsby, 2001: A Space Odyssey and the 2014 film Pride starring Bill Nighy and Dominic West.
Meanwhile, Loach recently addressed rumours that The Old Oak will be his last film.
“One day at a time,” he responded. “If you get up in the morning, and you’re not in the obituary column; one day at a time.”
In 2022, Loach also claimed that the BBC had a “shameless role” in the “destruction of Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership” of the Labour Party.
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Damian Jones
NME
