Trainspotting (Boyle, 1996): Everyman Screen on the Green, 10.30pm
This film is part of a '90s on 35mm' season at Screen on the Green and is also being screened on August 10t. Full details here.
Chicago Reader review:
Danny Boyle's second feature (1996), a lot more stylish and entertaining than Shallow Grave.
Far from nihilistic, though certainly calculated to butt up against
various puritanical norms, this feel-good jaunt about young Scottish
heroin addicts and their degradation and betrayals of one another draws a
lot of its energy from Richard Lester movies of the 60s and 70s and
from A Clockwork Orange (the
novel as well as the movie). Adapted by John Hodge from Irvine Welsh's
popular pidgin-English novel (which had already been successfully
adapted for the stage) and partially redubbed for American ears, it
floats by almost as episodically as 94 minutes of MTV.
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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