#simon fitzmaurice

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my name is emily (2015) dir. simon fitzmaurice

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Book Review: It's Not Yet Dark by Simon Fitzmaurice

"It’s arrogance and a burden to tell someone who’s sick that it’s their fault if it’s not.” Behind every disease is a person, and this book does a remarkable job of emphasizing that. Of reminding us all that sometimes people fall ill, severely so, and that they may suffer from pain we may not always be able to detect or perceive. It asks us to contemplate the reality of there being some things out there that are outside the scope of medicine, or reason, or willpower that would enable us to change the outcome of something debilitating we, or someone we love, may face in the future. Like cancer. Like ALS. Like any number of things. What Fitzmaurice tells us is that sometimes there is no escape from this. There is no surviving. There is only living and dying. Sometimes, all we have in the interim is a choice. We can let our suffering crush us until we die, or, taking one little footstep after another, we can bear the weight and live. The point is we can choose how to do it--learning, listening, loving, whatever--for as much time as we're given. "Death is not in us, despite what the scientists say. Yet death is as real as our reflection. As present. A presence that we must ponder, must endure. Until we die. And become that which we are not."

3/5 stars

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Evanna Lynch in “My Name Is Emily”

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2019 Projects

Evanna Lynch is set to play Lucia Joyce, famous yet complex and overlooked Parisian dancer of the 20th century who is often remembered for her mental health struggles, her relationship to Samuel Beckett and connection to her father, Irish writer James Joyce, in a short film project currently being funded. Lucia Joyce: Full Capacity, if successfully funded, will begin principal photography in March. The film is currently undergoing rehearsals in Merrion Square, Dublin, Ireland and is being directed by dance historian Deirdre Mulrooney and choreographed by Megan Kennedy with costume designs by Claire Garvey and photography by Mella Travers. Camerawork is being done by Brian O'Leary and Aoife Carey will serve as editor. You can help donate to the project here. 

Evanna previously mentioned on Instagram and in an interview last year that she has had a strong admiration for and desire to play Lucia Joyce. “She’s the only person I’ve connected to deeply in reading over the last few years. People are always making projects about her as she was so fascinating so I hope there’ll be an opportunity to play her.” In fact, she was in talks with Simon Fitzmaurice, who directed her in 2017′s My Name Is Emily, to collaborate on a possible feature about her. Unfortunately, Simon passed away after an ongoing battle with motor neurone disease on 26 October 2017 and the project was never realised.

Evanna will also appear in another play, Claudio Tolcachir's Argentinian comedy The Omission of the Family Coleman, adapted by Stella Feehily and directed by Laurence Boswell, following three generations of the dysfunctional Coleman family who fall apart following their grandmother’s death. The play will premiere as the final lineup in A Season of UK Premieres from the Americas at the Royal Theatre Bath’s Ustinov Studio in Bath, England on 28 March and will run through 27 April. Opening press night will be held on 3 April. Tickets can be purchased here.

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“A fiercely eloquent testament to making the most out of every moment we're given.” —People, Book of the Week

You can get IT’S NOT YET DARK by the late Simon Fitzmaurice for $2.99 at the links below.

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Movie Review: "My Name is Emily" Starring Evanna Lynch:http://www.mugglenet.com/2017/02/movie-review-name-emily-starring-evanna-lynch/

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While we're on the subject of Evanna's love life, do you know if she's still dating that musician, AnDel? Or is she now single again? Or has she stayed mum on the topic?

Hello. She hasn’t spoken about it publicly, exactly… though around the end of 2017, they deleted all of their posts that were pics of them together from each other’s social media accounts. And Evanna was pretty candid on her Instagram about a rough patch in her life - the loss of relationships - without getting into specifics. Simon Fitzmaurice passed away around the same time, so it was fairly hard for her. :( I can’t speak for her, so I feel I can’t really say anything else.

Regards,

J.D.

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“Simon, I hope you’re not resting peacefully but dancing, singing, screaming, swimming and laughing. Anything but stillness. I’m jealous that you’re in a new unknown place and we’ll never hear the beautiful words you’d write to describe it. I really thought you were going to keep living despite the odds on love and stories and I think most days you did. I don’t have any regrets with you because you taught me there was no time not to be completely honest and raw and to tell people ‘I love you’ generously and lightly. I wish the world could have heard more of your voice. It’s the greatest irony that MND took your voice away, but I’m glad your passion was so strong you found ways to make it heard anyway through your films. It helps to think that maybe MND is what made every word ring out. Everything I write sounds so stupid that I want to email you for a proof read in case you’re still in that computer somewhere. I’ll never have a friend like you again but I love that I had. I love you. Also, fuck MND.” — Evanna Lynch on the late Simon Fitzmaurice [x]

Simon directed Evanna in My Name Is Emily which was nominated for eight Irish Film and Television Awards in 2016, his first (and only) directorial feature. He sadly passed away on 26 October 2017 after a lengthy battle with MND/ALS. He was the subject of the critically acclaimed 2016 documentary It’s Not Yet Dark (also the name of his memoir), narrated by Colin Farrell and is survived by his wife and five young children. R.I.P.