Dance First (2024)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: James Marsh
Starring: Aidan Gillen | Bronagh Gallagher | Gabriel Byrne | Maxine Peake | Robert Aramayo
King of Thieves (2019)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: James Marsh
Starring: Jim Broadbent | Michael Caine | Michael Gambon | Ray Winstone
The Theory of Everything (2014)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: James Marsh
Starring: Charlie Cox | David Thewlis | Eddie Redmayne | Felicity Jones | Maxine Peake
Jason says: “Stephen Hawking’s life story is extraordinary, but not necessarily cinematic – its milestones are often losing the ability to do things, and his accomplishments can be difficult for laymen to understand. So what do you do? In this
Read the review...Shadow Dancer (2013)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: James Marsh
Starring: Andrea Riseborough | Brid Brennan | Clive Owen | David Wilmot | Domhall Gleeson | Gillian Anderson
Jason says: “There’s a twenty-year jump early in SHADOW DANCER, from 1973 to 1993, and another twenty years between then and the present day, and there’s something appealing about that sort of symmetry, especially with the reminders in the background
Read the review...Red Riding: In the Year of Our Lord 1980 (2010)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: James Marsh
Starring: David Calder | John Fox | Maxine Peake | Nicholas Woodeson | Paddy Considine | Ron Cook | Warren Clarke
Jason says: “David Peace’s Red Riding novels are described as a quartet, and if you look at the titles to the filmed RED RIDING HOOD TRILOGY, there’s clearly a hole where 1977 should be. For whatever reason, screenwriter Tony Grisoni
Read the review...Man On Wire (2008)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 5 cats
Director: James Marsh
Chris says: “In 1974, Philippe Petit, an impish, excitable young Frenchman did an impossible thing—he managed to string a tightrope across the roofs of the World Trade Center twin towers and walk on it (although ‘dancing’ seems a more fitting
Read the review...The King (2006)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: James Marsh
Starring: Gael García Bernal | Laura Harring | Pell James | William Hurt
Chris says: “In one of his first (good) English-speaking roles, Gael Garcia Bernal is a young man who has just finished a stint in the US Navy. Named Elvis (hence the film’s ironic title), he rolls into Corpus Christi, Texas,
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