Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980

2009 1h 33m EN

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7.1

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★6.9TMDB · 201🍅93%Rotten Tomatoes★7.1IMDB · 9,779

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Synopsis

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After 6 years of brutal murders, the West Yorkshire Police fear that they may have already interviewed The Ripper and let him back into the world to continue his reign of terror upon the citizens of Yorkshire. Assistant Chief Constable of the Manchester Police, Peter Hunter, is called in to oversee the West Yorkshire Police's Ripper investigation and see what they could have missed.

“Some stories are better left unspoiled.”

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Cast

Paddy Considine
Peter Hunter
Warren Clarke
Bill Molloy
Maxine Peake
Helen Marshall
James Fox
Philip Evans
David Calder
Sir John Marsden
Nicholas Woodeson
Michael Warren
Tony Pitts
John Nolan
Jim Carter
Harold Angus

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: James Marsh
Writers: Tony Grisoni
Languages: English
Countries: United Kingdom

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ERA

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Released 17 years ago.

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CINEMA

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Part of the "Red Riding Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.

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DIRECTOR

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Directed by James Marsh, shot by Igor Martinović. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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DIRECTOR

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Original score by Dickon Hinchliffe. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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DIRECTOR

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Editor Jinx Godfrey shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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CAST

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Paddy Considine and Warren Clarke and Maxine Peake carry the top of the cast.

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WILD

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IMDB entry: tt1260581 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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The take

James Marsh directs. Igor Martinović behind the camera. Dickon Hinchliffe scores. Jinx Godfrey cuts. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Produced in United Kingdom. Dialogue in English.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

1Released 17 years ago.
2Part of the "Red Riding Collection" — so the characters or world continue elsewhere.
3Directed by James Marsh, shot by Igor Martinović. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
4Original score by Dickon Hinchliffe. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
5Editor Jinx Godfrey shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
6Paddy Considine and Warren Clarke and Maxine Peake carry the top of the cast.
7IMDB entry: tt1260581 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
8Classified under 10 themes, including "hotel", "based on novel or book", "press conference", "yorkshire".

The technical file

Cinematography: Igor Martinović
Original score: Dickon Hinchliffe
Editing: Jinx Godfrey
Production design: Tom Burton
Costume design: Charlotte Walter
Makeup / hair: Jo Sweeting
Runtime: 93 min · 1h 33m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Original language: EN
IMDB: Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980 (2009)
Rotten Tomatoes: 93% 🍅 Fresh
IMDB rating: 7.1/10 · 9,779 votes
MPAA: Not Rated
US box office: $148,826

Awards

2 nominations

Part of

Red Riding Collection

The Red Riding Trilogy (AKA The Yorkshire Killer Trilogy) is a three-part film adaptation of English author David Peace's Red Riding Quartet. Set against a backdrop of serial murders during 1974–1983, including the Yorkshire Ripper killings, the books and films follow several recurring fictional characters through a bleak and violent world of multi-layered police corruption and organized crime. The quartet comprises the novels Nineteen Seventy-Four, Nineteen Seventy-Seven, Nineteen Eighty and Nineteen Eighty-Three. The first, third, and fourth of these books became three films — Red Riding 1974, Red Riding 1980, and Red Riding 1983. They aired in the UK on Channel 4 beginning on 5 March 2009 and were produced by Revolution Films. The three films were released theatrically in the US in February 2010.