When rocker Edwyn Collins suffered a huge stroke in 2005, he was left able to say only three things: “yes”, “no”, “Grace Maxwell” (the name of his wife) and “the possibilities are endless”. Filmmakers Edward Lovelace and James Hall have plumped for the latter as title for their docudrama-memoir about the one-time Orange Juice frontman – and not just because No was taken – which we’re happy to share a new clip from below.The Possibilities Are Endless combines the documentary form with dramatised remembrances. This one conjures up the sparks that flew when Collins (played by his son, William) met the love of his life Grace (Submarine’s Yasmin Paige) for the first time in a chippie. It’s set to his 1994 hit ‘A Girl Like You’ and you can watch it in full by clicking below. brightcove.createExperiences();If you’re not an Orange Juice or Nu-Sonics fan and don...
- 10/23/2014
- EmpireOnline
Want to know what British films are coming out this month? Then look no further than our fabulous movie calendar...
Welcome to our new, regularly updated calendar of all the British movies due for release in UK cinemas over the coming months. So if you're keen to keep up-to-date on the latest in home grown cinema - from documentaries to dramas, and comedy horror to science fiction - this is the ideal post for you.
So here's what's coming up in the future.
12 September 2014
Pride
Director: Matthew Warchus
Cast: Bill Nighy, Dominic West, Andrew Scott
Details: A drama about a group of gay and lesbian activists donating to people in need during the 1984 miners' strike.
Jack To A King - The Swansea Story
Director: Marc Evans
Cast: Tbc
Details: A documentary about Swansea football fans.
19 September 2014
Night Will Fall
Director: Andre Singer
Cast: Alfred Hitchcock, Sidney Bernstein
Details: A documentary...
Welcome to our new, regularly updated calendar of all the British movies due for release in UK cinemas over the coming months. So if you're keen to keep up-to-date on the latest in home grown cinema - from documentaries to dramas, and comedy horror to science fiction - this is the ideal post for you.
So here's what's coming up in the future.
12 September 2014
Pride
Director: Matthew Warchus
Cast: Bill Nighy, Dominic West, Andrew Scott
Details: A drama about a group of gay and lesbian activists donating to people in need during the 1984 miners' strike.
Jack To A King - The Swansea Story
Director: Marc Evans
Cast: Tbc
Details: A documentary about Swansea football fans.
19 September 2014
Night Will Fall
Director: Andre Singer
Cast: Alfred Hitchcock, Sidney Bernstein
Details: A documentary...
- 9/12/2014
- by sarahd
- Den of Geek
The full lineup for this year's BFI London Film Festival was announced this morning (September 3), and as ever comprised an impressive cross-section of the biggest hits from Sundance, Cannes and Venice, spread across the festival's main competition entries and themed strands.
Digital Spy runs down 14 of the movies you need to catch if you're in the Big Smoke for this year's festival.
1. The Imitation Game
Following strong reviews at its Telluride world premiere last weekend, this intelligently crafted biopic of pioneering codebreaker Alan Turing is one of the year's first surefire Oscar frontrunners, with Benedict Cumberbatch's lead performance singled out for particular praise.
Cumberbatch stars as the brilliant but socially awkward Turing, whose groundbreaking work in computer science and cryptanalysis proved crucial during World War II, before his homosexuality led to his prosecution and apparent suicide in the 1950s. Keira Knightley, Mark Strong and Matthew Goode co-star, with Morten Tyldum (Headhunters) directing.
Digital Spy runs down 14 of the movies you need to catch if you're in the Big Smoke for this year's festival.
1. The Imitation Game
Following strong reviews at its Telluride world premiere last weekend, this intelligently crafted biopic of pioneering codebreaker Alan Turing is one of the year's first surefire Oscar frontrunners, with Benedict Cumberbatch's lead performance singled out for particular praise.
Cumberbatch stars as the brilliant but socially awkward Turing, whose groundbreaking work in computer science and cryptanalysis proved crucial during World War II, before his homosexuality led to his prosecution and apparent suicide in the 1950s. Keira Knightley, Mark Strong and Matthew Goode co-star, with Morten Tyldum (Headhunters) directing.
- 9/3/2014
- Digital Spy
Documentaries to benefit include The Possibilities Are Endless, about musician Edwyn Collins’ battle to regain his memory.
The Bertha Britdoc Connect Fund grant, which help support the impact around documentary films, has selected its latest tranche of titles.
The eight films to benefit from grants ranging from £5,000 to £50,0000 were selected from more than 130 applications.
Titles include The Possibilities Are Endless, from directors Edward Lovelace and James Hall, about Edwyn Collins, a songwriter who suffered a stroke so severe that it effectively deleted the contents of his mind. The lyricist was only able to say two phrases: “The Possibilities are Endless” and “Grace Maxwell” (the name of his wife).
Ghosts in Our Machine
Dir. Liz Marshall
The film illuminates the lives of individual animals living within and rescued from the machine of our modern world. Through the heart and lens of photojournalist Jo-Anne McArthur, audiences become intimately familiar with a cast of non-human animals. Each story and...
The Bertha Britdoc Connect Fund grant, which help support the impact around documentary films, has selected its latest tranche of titles.
The eight films to benefit from grants ranging from £5,000 to £50,0000 were selected from more than 130 applications.
Titles include The Possibilities Are Endless, from directors Edward Lovelace and James Hall, about Edwyn Collins, a songwriter who suffered a stroke so severe that it effectively deleted the contents of his mind. The lyricist was only able to say two phrases: “The Possibilities are Endless” and “Grace Maxwell” (the name of his wife).
Ghosts in Our Machine
Dir. Liz Marshall
The film illuminates the lives of individual animals living within and rescued from the machine of our modern world. Through the heart and lens of photojournalist Jo-Anne McArthur, audiences become intimately familiar with a cast of non-human animals. Each story and...
- 6/4/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Documentaries to benefit include The Possibilities Are Endless, about musician Edwyn Collins’ battle to regain his memory.
The Bertha Britdoc Connect Fund grant, which help support the impact around documentary films, has selected its latest tranche of titles.
The eight films to benefit from grants ranging from £5,000 to £50,0000 were selected from more than 130 applications.
Titles include The Possibilities Are Endless, from directors Edward Lovelace and James Hall, about Edwyn Collins, a songwriter who suffered a stroke so severe that it effectively deleted the contents of his mind. The lyricist was only able to say two phrases: “The Possibilities are Endless” and “Grace Maxwell” (the name of his wife).
Ghosts in Our Machine
Dir. Liz Marshall
The film illuminates the lives of individual animals living within and rescued from the machine of our modern world. Through the heart and lens of photojournalist Jo-Anne McArthur, audiences become intimately familiar with a cast of non-human animals. Each story and...
The Bertha Britdoc Connect Fund grant, which help support the impact around documentary films, has selected its latest tranche of titles.
The eight films to benefit from grants ranging from £5,000 to £50,0000 were selected from more than 130 applications.
Titles include The Possibilities Are Endless, from directors Edward Lovelace and James Hall, about Edwyn Collins, a songwriter who suffered a stroke so severe that it effectively deleted the contents of his mind. The lyricist was only able to say two phrases: “The Possibilities are Endless” and “Grace Maxwell” (the name of his wife).
Ghosts in Our Machine
Dir. Liz Marshall
The film illuminates the lives of individual animals living within and rescued from the machine of our modern world. Through the heart and lens of photojournalist Jo-Anne McArthur, audiences become intimately familiar with a cast of non-human animals. Each story and...
- 6/4/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Fruitvale Station director Ryan Coogler, comedian David Cross and Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker among those set to attend the festival.Scroll down for full line-up
Sundance has revealed its programme of films and panel discussions for the third Sundance London film and music festival (April 25-27), held at the O2.
The festival will include 21 feature films and 18 short films across five sections. A total of 23 films will make their world, international, European or UK premieres and seven are by first-time feature filmmakers.
The films collectively received 12 awards when they premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January and filmmakers expected to attend are Fruitvale Station director Ryan Coogler and Arrested Development star David Cross, who brings his directorial debut Hits.
Persepolis director Marjane Satrapi will bring the international premiere of her latest feature, The Voices, which stars Ryan Reynolds as a disturbed factory worker who hears advice from his pet dog and cat.
Us actress...
Sundance has revealed its programme of films and panel discussions for the third Sundance London film and music festival (April 25-27), held at the O2.
The festival will include 21 feature films and 18 short films across five sections. A total of 23 films will make their world, international, European or UK premieres and seven are by first-time feature filmmakers.
The films collectively received 12 awards when they premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January and filmmakers expected to attend are Fruitvale Station director Ryan Coogler and Arrested Development star David Cross, who brings his directorial debut Hits.
Persepolis director Marjane Satrapi will bring the international premiere of her latest feature, The Voices, which stars Ryan Reynolds as a disturbed factory worker who hears advice from his pet dog and cat.
Us actress...
- 3/24/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Documentaries on Edwyn Collins and a Mexican drug lord were the stand-outs in a typically loud, boozy sweaty film festival that is the antitheses to Cannes in every way
For film fans, SXSW gets louder as it winds down. The big films stop screening as the music crowd arrive, bringing with them sweat and booze and seven hundred types of noise. The bars of 6th Street throw their windows open, showing off the bands inside. Leftover cinefiles, queuing up outside the Alamo Drafthouse, get battered by an unholy hybrid of metal-country-electro-pop as they wait for the peace and quiet of the screening room.
At its best SXSW, which aims to celebrate new music, film and interactive technology, allows the mediums to play into each other. The best film at this year's festival is about a musician, former Orange Juice frontman Edwyn Collins. After suffering a stroke in 2005, Collins had to learn how to walk,...
For film fans, SXSW gets louder as it winds down. The big films stop screening as the music crowd arrive, bringing with them sweat and booze and seven hundred types of noise. The bars of 6th Street throw their windows open, showing off the bands inside. Leftover cinefiles, queuing up outside the Alamo Drafthouse, get battered by an unholy hybrid of metal-country-electro-pop as they wait for the peace and quiet of the screening room.
At its best SXSW, which aims to celebrate new music, film and interactive technology, allows the mediums to play into each other. The best film at this year's festival is about a musician, former Orange Juice frontman Edwyn Collins. After suffering a stroke in 2005, Collins had to learn how to walk,...
- 3/14/2014
- by Henry Barnes
- The Guardian - Film News
You likely know Edwyn Collins as the British pop star who was part of the '80s outfit Orange Juice and rode up the charts with a solo career that included the 1994 hit single "A Girl Like You." What you may not know is how the singer came to the brink of death, nearly lost the memory of everything he accomplished, and overcame tremendous odds to find his way back to life and music. But Ed Lovelace and James Hall will share that story in the upcoming "The Possibilities Are Endless," which will premiere at the SXSW Film Festival. After suffering a massive stroke, Collins woke up able to say only two phrases: "the possibilities are endless” and “Grace Maxwell,” the name of his wife, but could no longer remember anything else about his life or career. Narrated by Collins himself, the documentary recounts his amazing road to recovery, his...
- 3/8/2014
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
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