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	Movie Review - Trainspotting - Hollywood Bitchslap
		Danny Boyle's "Trainspotting" is a blast of ice-cold water across a sweaty brow; it's a lively, vibrant and pulsatingly addictive movie, an experience not unlike a roller-coaster ride through some of the sickest, slimiest and heart-stoppingly shocking sub-levels of drug addiction.
		Trainspotting is brave and ballsy and frequently hilarious; it's dark, smart and uncompromising in a way that only the best films are.
		Trainspotting is as difficult to categorize as it is to dismiss.
	www.hollywoodbitchslap.com /review.php?movie=589&reviewer=128&printer=1 (747 words)

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		As rude and scatalogical as Trainspotting often is, it represents a leap in maturity for Boyle and his scripter John Hodge, who broke through in 1994 with the nasty Hitchcockian doodle Shallow Grave.
		Trainspotting is lighter and more compassionate; among its deeper merits is that it proves a movie doesn't have to be mean to be fresh.
		Trainspotting, the title, refers to a meaningless activity meant to lend the illusion of structure to an aimless existence.
	www.angelfire.com /movies/oc/trainspotting.html (447 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Today's issues \| Trainspotters
		Trainspotting is the much-maligned pastime which revolves around the writing down of the serial numbers of locomotives.
		Some of trainspotting's more famous advocates include Michael Palin and WH Auden, who penned the Night Mail poem ("This is the night train crossing the border...
		The poem was reinterpreted for a voice-over at the climax of the film Trainspotting, the hit film based on Irvine Welsh's novel, which had precious little to do with railways.
	www.guardian.co.uk /netnotes/article/0,6729,633918,00.html (608 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Books \| News \| Eight years on from Trainspotting, Irvine Welsh pens the sequel: Porno
		Trainspotting, Welsh's first novel, became an instant sensation when it was published in 1993, even though it was written in working-class Edinburgh dialect so dense that well-heeled New Towners had difficulty understanding it.
		Picking up their stories 10 years after Trainspotting finished, the new book will be set in the same milieu of low-life Leith "scumbags and bampams", although large parts of the area notorious for squats and crack dens have now been yuppiefied.
		Trainspotting's most famous scene takes place on the first day of the jamboree, when Renton dredges through his own excrement in a bookie's toilet, searching for the opium suppositories he has inadvertently evacuated.
	books.guardian.co.uk /news/articles/0,6109,540572,00.html (1241 words)

	Trainspotting (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Trainspotting is a 1996 fl comedy film directed by Danny Boyle based on the novel Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh about a group of heroin addicts in Edinburgh and their passage through life.
		He is reportedly waiting until the original actors themselves age visibly enough to portray the same characters, ravaged by time; Boyle joked that the natural vanity of actors would make it a long wait.
		The Trainspotting Soundtracks were two best-selling albums of music centred around the film.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Trainspotting_%28movie%29 (500 words)

	Trainspotting
		Yet the perversely irresistible "Trainspotting" is itself geared to the tourist trade, since it keeps a safely voyeuristic distance from the real dangers that go with its subject matter.
		At the heart of the "Trainspotting" phenomenon is a clever dissonance: the film's characters may be stoned outlaws, but its directorial style is gleeful in slick, conventional ways.
		As the cheerfully outrageous "Trainspotting" unfolds, loosely adapted from the dialect-heavy novel by Irvine Welsh, it introduces a tart and unforgettable crew of miscreants.
	partners.nytimes.com /library/film/trainspotting.html (963 words)

	Trainspotting: Collector's Series (1996)
		Trainspotting didn’t exactly light up the box offices, but it received virtually universal praise and launched some careers that so far mostly reach the level of “moderately successful”.
		All of that makes Trainspotting feel more like a somber “Movie of the Week” than it is. Clearly the film depicts a great deal of darkness and ultimately makes a judgment about the negativity of drug use.
		Trainspotting appears in an aspect ratio of approximately 1.85:1 on this single-sided, double-layered DVD; the image has been enhanced for 16X9 televisions.
	www.dvdmg.com /trainspottingcs.shtml (2611 words)

	WashingtonPost.com: 'Trainspotting': Junk Culture
		Indeed, not all of what "Trainspotting" depicts is glamorous, and viewers will get a good look at the "misery and desperation and death" that Renton initially dismisses.
		The idea that "Trainspotting" is in the vanguard of heroin chic is a notion that Boyle and screenwriter John Hodge find nauseating.
		Certainly, if "Trainspotting" was a product of Hollywood, it would not have included the film's soon-to-be-legendary toilet scene, which rivals Quentin Tarantino's ear-cutting horror in "Reservoir Dogs" as one of the grossest-ever movie moments.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/style/longterm/review96/ftrainspotting.htm (2357 words)

	Metroactive Movies \| Trainspotting
		Trainspotting, which is based on the British bestseller by novelist Irvine Welsh, looks at junkie life in an unself-consciously cheerful way that is as free of hand-wringing as a TV commercial for "Heroin: The choice of a new generation."
		Critics embracing the high spirits of Trainspotting seem to fear the essential glibness of camp-following movies to come and are muted in their praise: the thought of all of the negativity and squalor oozing out of the British Isles gives them pause.
		Trainspotting (Rating; 94 min.), directed by Danny Boyle, written by John Hodge, based on the novel by Irvine Welsh, photographed by Brian Tufano and starring Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner and Jonny Lee Miller.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/08.01.96/trainspot-9631.html (1839 words)

	Trainspotting - The Definitive Edition reviewed by AllZone4DVD.net (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Trainspotting doesn't have a complicated plot, it is the writing and acting that make it stand out.
		Trainspotting has several sound formats, DTS, Dolby Digital 5.1 and an audio commentary which I have discussed in the Special Features.
		What is unique about Trainspotting's soundtrack music, is that one minute there is music from the opera Carmen and the next you have the more recent rhythmic dance music of Born Slippy by Underworld, which is an interesting mix.
	www.allzone4dvd.net /review_details.htm?id=564 (1205 words)

	[ Empowerment4Women - Trainspotting ] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		It follows the drug addicts' highs (quite literally) as well as their lows as each of the four carves out his own fate—for better or worse.
		But even though it may be disturbing, it is an (albeit subtle, in a dark humor sort of way) intellectually stimulating film, which illustrates without being preachy the downfalls of drug use.
		And while this is fine (and perhaps even necessary) for a film such as this, I imagine the bold filmmaking approach will prevent the movie from becoming a regular in many a film buff's DVD player.
	www.empowerment4women.org /attitude/movies/trainspotting.html (560 words)

	Apollo Movie Guide's Review of Trainspotting (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Trainspotting is bookended by the same frenzied and bleak rap, informing us that our middle class lives are as void of meaning as that of the most desperate heroin addict.
		"Trainspotting", the British hobby of tracking locomotive engine numbers is used as a metaphor, not only for heroin addiction, but also for life's general meaninglessness.
		Trainspotting has a grim heart of darkness at its core, offering little hope of redemption.
	www.apolloguide.com /mov_fullrev.asp?CID=145 (372 words)

	Trainspotting (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Trainspotting was hardly an obvious choice for the trio that made the distinctly upwardly mobile thriller Shallow Grave: producer Andrew Macdonald, director Danny Boyle and screenwriter John Hodge.
		There's no story to speak of, just a handful of unemployed youths, none of them on speaking terms with the English language—even in their heads, which is where most of the novel takes place.
		Trainspotting, the second film from Shallow Grave director Danny Boyle (in which McGregor also starred), has become a kind of cultural signpost in Europe.
	www.timeoutny.com /features/42/42.feat.train.lo.html (1929 words)

	Scotsman.com News - Irvine Welsh & Trainspotting
		PRODUCERS of an adaptation of Irvine Welsh's hit novel Trainspotting are appealing for new Scottish actors to join the crew.
		The psychotic character portrayed by Robert Carlyle in the film of Trainspotting has long epitomised the grim subculture for which the novel's author, Irvine Welsh, is famed.
		TRAINSPOTTING author Irvine Welsh is planning to go into the director's chair for a feature film.
	news.scotsman.com /topics.cfm?tid=523 (431 words)

	Anorak, a term of abuse (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Trainspotting was a common childhood pursuit of British children in the post-war period, it comes under that category of hobbies that involve collecting.
		It is possible to buy books listing the serial numbers of all the railway rolling stock in the country and then check off each one as it is seen.
		The subject of the book is heroin addiction which is a high risk high return activity - something diametrically opposed to trainspotting, which has no risk attached and no experiential gain to be made.
	www.geocities.com /athens/parthenon/6197/anorak.htm (257 words)

	Trainspotting
		Adapted by John Hodge from the acclaimed novel by Irving Welsh, the film was a phenomenal hit in England, Scotland, and (to a lesser extent) the U.S. For all of its comedic vitality and invigorating filmmaking, the movie is no ode to heroin, nor is it a straight-laced cautionary tale.
		Trainspotting is just a very honest and well-made film about the nature of addiction, and it doesn't pull any punches when it is time to show the alternating pleasure and pain of substance abuse.
		Directed by Danny Boyle Trainspotting is a fantastic film probably one of my favorite films of all time.
	www.dvdvan.com /info/6304806442/Trainspotting.html (669 words)

	All-Reviews.com Movie/Video Review: Trainspotting
		TRAINSPOTTING was a smashing success last year in Britain and made buckets of money.
		TRAINSPOTTING is a far, far out comedy about a group of young heroin addicts in Scotland.
		Mainly TRAINSPOTTING focuses on the camaraderie of the druggies and of their humor.
	www.all-reviews.com /videos-2/trainspotting.htm (777 words)

	Trainspotting . Tucson Weekly . 08-01-96
		Trainspotting, the activity, is a pointless hobby in which mainly British males watch trains go through stations and log their serial numbers.
		Nonetheless, Trainspotting doesn't glamorize heroin addiction all that much; and if several of the principal actors weren't so good-looking, it would be safe to claim it didn't glamorize it at all.
		Trainspotting has already become the second-highest grossing British film of all time in the UK (after Four Weddings and a Funeral), and it's probably its unrelenting hipness that best accounts for its success.
	www.filmvault.com /filmvault/tw/t/trainspotting_f.html (705 words)

	News for Trainspotting (1996) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The Tomb Raider actress, who has remained close friends with the Trainspotting actor since their divorce in 1999, is keen to follow in the footsteps of fellow Hollywood stars like Nicole Kidman and Gwyneth Paltrow - who have all trod the West End boards.
		Ewan McGregor is reluctant to appear in a sequel to Trainspotting - because he was less-than impressed with the follow-up novel.
		Scottish actor James Cosmo (Braveheart, Trainspotting, Babe: Pig in the City), one of the partners in the company developing the studio, told the newspaper: "This is a huge step -- we have worked all the way through with the planning department and we're very confident that it's going to be passed.
	french.imdb.com /title/tt0117951/news (6066 words)

	Trainspotting (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Trainspotting is a chilling film, made all the more horrifying by the calmness in Mark's voice as he describes everything from the crib death of a friend's infant to his own drug overdose and hospitalization.
		Even at the funeral of a friend, Mark seems more concerned with the details of the death than the implication -- despite the fact that it was Mark who started his friend on the drug that led to his HIV infection.
		Note: Trainspotting is rated R for graphic practically everything.
	www.rambles.net /trainspotting.html (511 words)

	Forums - whats Trainspotting??
		I always took trainspotting in the title in the title of the film as a reference to the alternative to being a junkie as being a boring monotonous life (i.e.
		Trainspotters in the traditional definition are people who hang out at train stations with little notepads who's delight in life is taking down the numbers of trains, and noting the type of train it is, what station they saw it at, and when.
		On the dance scene, trainspotters are people like me who hear a track in the mix and their brain immediately goes into action (as a trainspotters does when he sees a train..have i seen that one before?!!)....I'll be standing there trying to recall the artist, title, remix and on a really good day, the label.
	www.inthemix.com.au /forum/printthread.php?t=494 (1353 words)

	Review: Trainspotting (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		In rejecting the yuppie culture of a nuclear family, material possessions, a paying job, and dental insurance, Renton is rebelling, but this isn't just the usual disaffection of youth -- it's a deeper, more pervasive dissatisfaction with a culture he views as sick and stifling.
		Trainspotting is careful not to present a one-sided view of drug use.
		The overlong epilogue aside, Trainspotting is one of the summer's most arresting motion pictures, and not just because of the offbeat visual style.
	movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/t/trainspotting.html (696 words)

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		The US premiere of Trainspotting, the stage play, opened at the Edinburgh Castle Pub in February 1996.
		Brilliantly directed by James Reese, Trainspotting in San Francisco introduced the city to the electrifying world of Irvine Welsh prose.
		Trainspotting put the Edinburgh Castle Pub on the map as a venue for challenging stage work.
	www.castlenews.com /trainspotting.html (246 words)

	Trainspotting - EvBoard (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Trainspotting is the only movie I like Ewan in..
		IMO Trainspotting was the forerunner for flicks like Requiem for a Dream.
		Trainspotting and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas were a couple of the only movies I watched all the time when I smoked pot.
	www.evboard.com /showthread.php?t=4771 (249 words)

	MMI Review:Trainspotting (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		If I were to list even a fraction of the grim things that occur during the course of "Trainspotting", it wouldn't sound anything like much of a laugh.
		It captures the flip side, too, the horrors of cold turkey, the self-deception of hanging out with your old mates while trying to kick the habit, the screwed-up drug deals that seem like such a great idea after you've had a free sample.
		Add the fact that Irvine Welsh only dabbled with heroin before writing his account in the early eighties and you have a tale that reveals the best and the worst of drug times, told by a tourist, and interpreted by the manic Scottish talent who reinvented the concept of a "Shallow Grave".
	www.shoestring.org /mmi_revs/trainspotting.html (435 words)

	SALON: Trainspotting (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The most original, daring, thrilling movie to be released this year, "Trainspotting" is one of those occasional, astonishing triumphs of risk and imagination that gets you excited about what smart people, pushing themselves and the medium, can accomplish in the movies.
		"Trainspotting" reads like a cross between Colin MacInnes' "Absolute Beginners" and "A Clockwork Orange." Welsh's prose is dialogue-driven, encrusted with phonetic transcriptions of Scottish dialect and slang, and it doesn't take long to get into the rhythms of the characters' speech.
		It does, because Boyle, Hodge and their actors are capturing a milieu and a way of life that's never made it to the screen before; they set the movies on their ear with the excitement and brash confidence that young artists have always assumed to announce their arrival.
	www.salon.com /weekly/movies2960715.html (1423 words)

	Trainspotting
		Trainspotting has evoked so much debate about illicit drug abuse that it has achieved a cult following all over the US and UK.
		The imagery that director Danny Boyle uses to convey the sense of dread and hopelessness surrounding Renton's prolonged heroin abuse is amazingly realistic.
		Trainspotting was based on the novel by Irvine Welsh, who has a bit part in the film as a drug connection.
	www.culturevulture.net /Movies/Trainspotting.htm (871 words)

	Trainspotting (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		In sneltreinvaart en met veel absurdisme toont TRAINSPOTTING beide kanten van het drugsgebruik: de euforie van het high worden en het -soms letterlijk- in de shit zitten.
		TRAINSPOTTING is de best bezochte Britse film sinds Four Weddings And A Funeral.
		Laat TRAINSPOTTING het begin zijn van uw voornemen de voor-stellingen van het Filmhuis in 1997 met grotere regelmaat bij te wonen.
	www.cinemaparadiso.nl /trainspotting.html (268 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Trainspotting (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The book "Trainspotting" is comprised of a series of short stories previously published independently in various periodicals over a stretch of time...the stories deal with the same core of characters, but that is really all that ties them together.
		For those who do not know, Irvine Welsh's Trainspotting is set in Scotland in roughly contemporary times, and tells the tale of Mark Renton, a twenty-ish philosophical junky and his band of mates, as they run, walk and crawl through a sometimes dismal, sometimes upbeat life in a post-industrial, pre-future society.
		Trainspotting is worth the effort of dissecting the meaning of the odd, Celtic-flavored words Welsh uses to tell this tale of a crew of heroin-using Scotsmen in a pessimistic society that has seen better days.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0393314804?v=glance (1953 words)

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