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Glasgow Film Festival, which runs from 24th February to 7th March 2021, has revealed the full programme for its 2021 festival, with screenings hosted on Glasgow Film’s new online viewing platform Glasgow Film At Home.
The programme contains 6 World premieres, 2 European premieres and 49 UK premieres.
Originally planned as a hybrid in-cinema and online festival, GFF21 will now take place online only, due to the lockdown restrictions affecting most of Scotland and the rest of the UK.
The festival will open on Wednesday 24 February with Lee Isaac Chung’s autobiographical drama following a Korean-American family ‘Minari’, starring ‘The Walking Dead’s Steven Yeun, and close on Sunday 7 March with Suzanne Lindon’s debut feature ‘Spring Blossom’, a coming-of-age tale set against a dreamy Parisian backdrop.
A movie written by Irvine Welsh and another starring Jodie Foster are among the features to debut at the 2021 Glasgow Film Festival (GFF).
Lockdown measures forced plans for a hybrid approach of screening films to be shelved, with the annual festival now online only from February 24 to March 7.
It will open with Lee Isaac Chung’s autobiographical drama Minari – following a Korean-American family and starring The Walking Dead actor Steven Yeun – and close with Suzanne Lindon’s debut feature Spring Blossom.
Scottish filmmaker Anthony Baxter’s Eye Of The Storm, which follows painter James Morrison through the last two years of his life, is one of the world premieres at this year’s festival.
Here s Your First Look at the Creation Records Biopic Creation Stories reunites Trainspotting duo Danny Boyle and Irvine Welsh
Creation Stories below. Directed by Nick Moran, the film reunites the
Trainspotting duo of Danny Boyle and Irvine Welsh, who executive-produced and scripted the new film, respectively.
Starring as label founder Alan McGee is Ewen Bremner, who appeared as Daniel Spud Murphy both in
Trainspotting and 2017 sequel
The film, adapted from McGee s autobiography
The Creation Records Story: Riots, Raves and Running a Label, will first premiere in the United Kingdom on February 24 as part of the virtual Glasgow Film Festival, ahead of a wider release on March 29. A United States release date has been set for March 20 through Sky Cinema.
It’s A Wonderful Life, Christmas Eve, Channel 4, 2.35pm Although a box office failure in its day there is no better Christmas movie than Frank Capra’s 1946 fantasy and it’s one of that elite club of English language films – see The Wizard Of Oz, ET, Star Wars, The Magnificent Seven etc. – that everyone should watch at least once in their lives. Always guaranteed to bring a tear to the eye it’s a sublime piece of work, from James Stewart’s pitch-perfect performance as George Bailey, who is prevented from killing himself on Christmas Eve by a guardian angel, to its over-arching themes of kindness, charity and redemption. It’s amazing to think it was nominated for the Best Picture, Director and Actor awards at the 1947 Oscars and didn’t win any of them, losing in each case to The Best Years Of Our Lives. Still, its standing today is perhaps a greater legacy.