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Nicholas Farrell has 15 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1980s through the 2010s.
The Last Vermeer
2019
Drama · History
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, returns home to find his father murdered and his mother now marrying the murderer... his uncle. Meanwhile, war is brewing.
Dir. Kenneth Branagh · With Kenneth Branagh, Derek Jacobi, Kate Winslet
The dramatised story of the Irish civil rights protest march on January 30 1972 which ended in a massacre by British troops.
Dir. Paul Greengrass · With James Nesbitt, Allan Gildea, Gerard Crossan
The true story of William Wilberforce and his courageous quest to end the British slave trade. Along the way, Wilberforce meets intense opposition, but his minister urges him to see the cause through.
Dir. Michael Apted · With Ioan Gruffudd, Romola Garai, Benedict Cumberbatch
In the class-obsessed and religiously divided UK of the early 1920s, two determined young runners train for the 1924 Paris Olympics. Eric Liddell, a devout Christian born to Scottish missionaries in China, sees running as part of his worship of God's glory and refuses to train or compete on the Sabbath. Harold Abrahams overcomes anti-Semitism and class bias, but neglects his beloved sweetheart in his single-minded quest.
Dir. Hugh Hudson · With Ben Cross, Ian Charleson, Cheryl Campbell
A shipping disaster in the 19th Century has stranded a man and woman in the wilds of Africa. The lady is pregnant, and gives birth to a son in their tree house. Soon after, a family of apes stumble across the house and in the ensuing panic, both parents are killed. A female ape takes the tiny boy as a replacement for her own dead infant, and raises him as her son. Twenty years later, Captain Phillippe D'Arnot discovers the man who thinks he is an ape. Evidence in the tree house leads him to believe that he is the direct descendant of the Earl of Greystoke, and thus takes it upon himself to return the man to civilization.
Dir. Hugh Hudson · With Christopher Lambert, Andie MacDowell, Ralph Richardson
Five-part adaptation of Anne Frank's famous wartime diaries in which a young teenager and her family go into hiding from the Nazis in wartime Amsterdam.
Dir. Deborah Moggach · With Ellie Kendrick, Kate Ashfield, Iain Glen
A shy teenage boy trying to escape the influence of his domineering mother, has his world changed when he begins to work for a retired actress.
Dir. Jeremy Brock · With Laura Linney, Rupert Grint, Julie Walters
The evil Iago pretends to be friend of Othello in order to manipulate him to serve his own end in the film version of this Shakespeare classic.
Dir. Oliver Parker · With Laurence Fishburne, Irène Jacob, Kenneth Branagh
Alain Lefevre is a boxer paid by a Marseille mobster to take a dive. When he wins the fight he attempts to flee to America with the mobster's girlfriend Katrina. This plan fails and he seeks escape by joining the foreign legion. As part of the legion he tangles with abusive lieutenant Steinkampf and bonds with legionnaires Luther, Mackintosh and Rosetti.
Dir. Peter MacDonald · With Jean-Claude Van Damme, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Steven Berkoff
A look at the life of Margaret Thatcher, the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, with a focus on the price she paid for power.
Dir. Phyllida Lloyd · With Meryl Streep, Jim Broadbent, Olivia Colman
The story of former Hollywood star Grace Kelly's crisis of marriage and identity, during a political dispute between Monaco's Prince Rainier III and France's Charles De Gaulle, and a looming French invasion of Monaco in the early 1960s.
Dir. Olivier Dahan · With Nicole Kidman, Milo Ventimiglia, Paz Vega
Warsaw, Poland, during the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962. Josh Mansky, a troubled math genius and former US chess champion, is recruited to hold a dangerous public match against the Soviet champion, while playing the deadly game of espionage hidden in the darkest shadows of a hostile territory.
Dir. Łukasz Kośmicki · With Bill Pullman, Lotte Verbeek, James Bloor
This is a drama set in Nazi-occupied France at the height of World War II. Charlotte Gray tells the compelling story of a young Scottish woman working with the French Resistance in the hope of rescuing her lover, a missing RAF pilot. Based on the best-selling novel by Sebastian Faulks.
Dir. Gillian Armstrong · With Cate Blanchett, Billy Crudup, Michael Gambon
Polish pilots overcome prejudice to fight against the Luftwaffe with the Royal Air Force during the Second World War, in the hope of protecting both Great Britain and their own Poland from the German advance.
Dir. David Blair · With Iwan Rheon, Milo Gibson, Stefanie Martini
The Newlyn School of artists flourished at the beginning of the 20th Century and the film focuses on the wild and bohemian Lamorna Group, which included Alfred Munnings and Laura and Harold Knight. The incendiary anti-Modernist Munnings, now regarded as one of Britain's most sought-after artists, is at the centre of the complex love triangle, involving aspiring artist Florence Carter-Wood and Gilbert Evans, the land agent in charge of the Lamorna Valley estate. True - and deeply moving - the story is played out against the timeless beauty of the Cornish coast, in the approaching shadow of The Great War.
Dir. Christopher Menaul · With Dominic Cooper, Emily Browning, Dan Stevens
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