1204 Trainspotting

[Captain Paranoia]

The 30th Anniversary premieres today in what appears to be a wide release. The poster (which I saw displayed at my local AMC earlier this week!) is credited to Sony Pictures Classics so it appears they acquired the rights to all formats. (Between this, Amélie and Velvet Goldmine, I wonder what other Miramax titles they acquired?)

[The Narrator Returns]

It was just announced today that they’re rereleasing The Piano.

[Mr.DarjeelingLimited]

The 30th Anniversary premieres today in what appears to be a wide release. The poster (which I saw displayed at my local AMC earlier this week!) is credited to Sony Pictures Classics so it appears they acquired the rights to all formats. (Between this, Amélie and Velvet Goldmine, I wonder what other Miramax titles they acquired?)

Saw it today, first time in theaters, one of my favorite films. I brought my mother, she loved it.

[MichaelB]

I always loved the story about how fellow Scottish politicians Nicola Sturgeon and the late Charles Kennedy first became best mates (despite representing and indeed later leading different political parties and therefore being obliged to tear strips off each other professionally) over a shared trip to Trainspotting, as it was showing locally to a conference they were both attending in Melbourne.

They were almost certainly the only two actual Scottish people in the audience, and were consequently laughing uproariously at stuff that was whooshing over the heads of everyone else.

(At the risk of sounding churlish, I've never been a huge fan; I completely recognise its immense cultural importance, but I'd already read the source novel—more than once—and seen Harry Gibson's far more faithful stage adaptation, which did much more justice to the book's multiplicity of viewpoints, which translate very well into theatrical monologues. Begbie is infinitely more terrifying when you actually get inside his head on a regular basis!)