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Top 200 Most Anticipated Films for 2014: #111. Ken Loach’s Jimmy’s Hall

Published on February 18, 2014

Jimmy’s Hall

Director: Ken Loach
Writer: Paul Laverty
Producer: Rebecca O’Brien
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Barry Ward, Simone Kirby, Andrew Scott, Jim Norton, Brían F. O’Byrne

The good news is that Ken Loach will continue with his docu films, but despite keeping up an almost year per year pace, it looks like the filmmaker who works in the most virtuous narrative feature cinema (dating back to Kes) will bow out from his career with Jimmy’s Hall which sticks to the format we like best: period-drama.

Gist: Political activist Jimmy Gralton is deported from Ireland during the country’s ‘Red Scare’ of the 1930s

Release Date: Scheduled for a May release in the U.K., betch your bottom dollar that Cannes snags this for their line-up.

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Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).