Retrospective 2014 – A Year in Film

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November

November Reign

Image sources: Warner Bros., Black Bear Pics., Imagine & Unison Films

The penultimate month of the year saw another eclectic mix of releases led by the hugely anticipated Christopher Nolan (Batman Begins, Inception) space sci-fi epic Interstellar and the Alan Turing World War II biopic The Imitation Game starring Benedict Cumberbatch.

There were also a bunch of diverse films from the funky James Brown biopic Get On Up to the award winning Russian drama Leviathan and the hilarious New-Zealand “mockumentary” What We Do in the Shadows.

Those We Lost

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Legendary stage and screen director Mike Nichols (The Graduate, Working Girl, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?) died in mid-November at the age of 83 from a heart-attack.

We also lost actor and Asian-film legend Ken Takakura (The Yakuza, Black Rain) at 83 of a malignant lymphoma and British Author P.D. James (Children of Men, A Certain Justice) at the age of 94.

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