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

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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
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Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist, and critic at IONCINEMA.com, established in 2000. A regular at Sundance, Cannes, and Venice, Eric holds a BFA in film studies from the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013, he served on the narrative competition jury at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson’s "This Teacher" (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). He is a Golden Globes Voter, member of the ICS (International Cinephile Society) and AQCC (Association québécoise des critiques de cinéma).

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