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	Trainspotting (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Trainspotting is a 1996 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.
		In 1999 the film came 10th in a BFI poll of British films, while in 2004 the magazine Total Film named it the 4th greatest British film of all time.
		The film's release was supported by an imaginative marketing campaign using flyers inspired by rave culture and posters of each of the main actors.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Trainspotting_(movie) (602 words)

	Trainspotting . Austin Chronicle . 12-08-97
		Trainspotting was the first of my forays into the world of Ewan McGregor.
		They create an artfully gritty world that continually echoes one of the main themes of this film ó addicts are addicts for the pleasure of it ó and it doesn't seem to matter if your drug of choice is injected or on the screen.
		Trainspotting is a visual trip, with several quirky homages to Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange, that draws you in with its sardonic humor, genuine pathos, and snappy writing that produced more wannabe catch-phrases than the latest Bruce Willis flick.
	www.filmvault.com /filmvault/austin/t/trainspotting1.html (1003 words)

	WashingtonPost.com: 'Trainspotting': Junk Culture
		The idea that "Trainspotting" is in the vanguard of heroin chic is a notion that Boyle and screenwriter John Hodge find nauseating.
		Boyle defends the film's emphasis on things scatological by explaining that that's exactly how addicts are: "If you're a junkie, that's one of your big obsessions, your bodily functions -- which ones of them have stopped, which ones of them are out of control, which ones of them are normal," he says.
		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)

	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.
		There's no trainspotting in the film, but there is plenty of drug taking, along with the attendant lying, puking and stealing.
		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)

	Guardian Unlimited Film \| News \| Trainspotting sequel should cast different actors, says Welsh
		A film sequel to Trainspotting would probably not reunite the cast from the landmark 1996 picture, the story's author said yesterday.
		Speaking at the Edinburgh Film Festival, novelist Irvine Welsh said that he doubts whether it would even be possible to reassemble the original line-up.
		The 23-year-old made her debut in Trainspotting and was snapped up for the title role in Stella Does Tricks.
	film.guardian.co.uk /News_Story/Exclusive/0,4029,541315,00.html (552 words)

	Live and Let Die - No, Trainspotting doesn't glamorize the junkie life. It just makes it sound reasonable. By Michael ...
		Trainspotting is a desolate, fast, funny, scary film, and it takes more risks than any recent film.
		(I gather the film has been dubbed for its American release.) It's that the Scottishness rattles at you; you hear the nation more than you hear the words, which is part of the hectic allure.
		The title: "Trainspotting" is a solitary pastime followed by British males of all ages.
	www.slate.com /id/3187 (1316 words)

	DVD Review - Trainspotting: Collector's Edition
		The film's main character, Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor), is trying to quit heroin, but is constantly torn between the complete misery he feels when off it and his euphoria while on it.
		The book (by Irvine Welsh, who also appears briefly in the film as Mikey Forrester) is a dense, highly stylized text filled with scenes that I never would have imagined the filmmakers being able to get on film (Spud's 'morning after' scene for example).
		The propulsive energy of the film cannot be ignored, and I'm not just talking about rapid-fire, hundred cuts per second editing (although it's there at times).
	www.thedigitalbits.com /reviews3/trainspottingcs.html (1305 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.
		Spud is the film's most comically hapless character, whether arriving for a job interview in speedy overdrive or embarrassing himself at a girlfriend's house in ways that cannot begin to be described here.
	partners.nytimes.com /library/film/trainspotting.html (963 words)

	Hour.ca - Film - Movie details - Trainspotting
		The hype claims that Trainspotting is the underground film event of the year.
		While it is amusing, and while it is in no way a film that encourages heroin use, the film does fail to convey memorable growth in the character.
		Considering Danny Boyle's films, one might conclude that his main effect is one of style, not necessarily depth of meaning.
	www.hour.ca /film/movie.aspx?iIDFilm=1633 (1247 words)

	SAN SEBASTIAN Film Festival 1996 - Films
		Trainspotting is only the second feature to be made by a trio of young Scottish film-makers.
		Shallow Grave was not the kind of film that gets invited to major festivals, so it made its debut in the market at Cannes in 1995, a year which saw quite a few British films in selection, including Ken Loach's politically-charged Land and Freedom..
		Trainspotting shot for four weeks from 22 May 1995, on location in Glasgow (standing in for Edinburgh), followed by three weeks in the studio and two days in London.
	www.filmfestivals.com /sanseb96/sfilgb4.htm (792 words)

	'TRAINSPOTTING' NEEDS A FIX / But darkly comic tone of heroin-addiction film sets it apart
		Drug scenes are filmed to convey the sense of a drug rush, in a style not to be con fused with the psychedelic approach taken by filmmakers of the '60s.
		The latter is conveyed in harsh terms in the film's harrowing withdrawal scene.
		The first hour of ``Trainspotting'' is funny and energetic, with a modern rock soundtrack pushing the energy and underscoring nearly every scene.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=//chronicle/archive/1996/07/26/DD40142.DTL (775 words)

	Film Reviews - Trainspotting
		However, I felt the film lost the way a little in the closing third (when the action switches to London), treading instead the rather pedestrian home-grown thriller territory - a bit of a let-down.
		Also, perhaps understandably, the film takes less of an episodic approach to the subject matter, introducing a narrative thread and a main character that the book did not have (or indeed require).
		Trainspotting then is an excellent British-made film that is definitely worth going to see.
	web.ukonline.co.uk /Members/keith.dumble/train.htm (294 words)

	Bright Lights Film Journal \| Trainspotting
		Dialect is the film’s primary vehicle and simultaneous undertone to indicate heritage.
		This “synergy,” or phenomenon of successful film and music cross-promotion, served as an integrative strategy: even though the movie was artistically unique in its cross-diegetic, -generational, and -genre use of music, the moviemakers accepted and embraced the effective marketing methods of their own contemporary context.
		Trainspotting proceeds forward along with kineticism, full of energy and lust for its life, utilizing a customized playlist of sounds: songs which are played together, sounds played against each other, and aural surrealisms integrated as part of a hyper-realist sound scheme.
	www.brightlightsfilm.com /44/train.htm (6174 words)

	The Thresher Online: `Trainspotting': you'll definitely need a strong stomach for this new film (August 30, 1996)
		The film deals with a whole spectrum of issues ranging from the ridiculous to the existential; however, the heart of the movie remains decidedly pumped full of the film's main character, heroin.
		Trainspotting is currently enjoying some attention as it sits at the heart of the current media frenzy about heroin, only Trainspotting doesn't glamorize dead rock stars or models who look like (and are) junkies.
		Trainspotting is not a movie for the faint of heart.
	www.rice.edu /projects/thresher/issues/84/960830/AE/Story04.html (602 words)

	Review: Trainspotting (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Trainspotting is careful not to present a one-sided view of drug use.
		The giddiness of heroin addiction is well-illustrated during some of the film's early scenes, but it's a euphoria that gives way to tragedy.
		The film makers were determined to make this a street-level view of addiction, not some "voyeuristic Oxbridge graduate's perception of these people".
	movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/t/trainspotting.html (696 words)

	FILM ROTATION : DVD Review: Wyverex Enjoys TRAINSPOTTING: THE DEFINITIVE EDITION (R2) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Back in 1996 a film was made by director Danny Boyle, producer Andrew MacDonald and writer John Hodges that imprinted itself onto the consciousness of a generation, Trainspotting.
		The film itself is about the lives of a group of friends from the mid-80’s to the early to mid 90’s, Renton (Ewan McGregor), Sick-Boy (Jonny Lee Miller), Spud (Ewen Bremner), Begbie (Robert Carlyle), & Tommy (Kevin McKidd) and their girlfriends living in Edinburgh.
		The Sound Of The Film Featurette — Then:An interview with Danny Boyle at Shepperton Studios on 10/11/95 during the audio dub, where he says he is being used as a guinea pig for the new mixing desk before Ridley Scott comes in the week after to do the mixing on his film White Squall.
	www.filmrot.com /articles/reviews/004069.php (2801 words)

	SALON: Trainspotting (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		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" is the most convincing case yet made that rock-video sensibility can be used for the purposes of art.
		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)

	Train Spotting Movie - XYZ Train
		Trainspotting is also the name of a novel and a movie, the reference here being to the "mainlining" of heroin while hanging...
		Trainspotting is also the name of a novel and a movie, the reference here being to the...
		Trainspotting is also the name of a novel and a movie, the reference here being to the "mainlining" of...
	www.findawhitetrain.com /train-spotting-movie.html (340 words)

	/FILM - Dr. D's Dissection: "Trainspotting"
		Trainspotting is perhaps my favorite film of all time.
		By far this is the craziest scene in the film, and I love the tension and the realistic portrayal of kicking heroin.
		Has a rather nice "Trainspotting Retrospective," celebrating the impact that the film has had on society since its release in 1996, some deleted scenes, a commentary that offers little.
	www.slashfilm.com /article.php/20051113135005658 (986 words)

	Trainspotting (1996) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		When it came out this film was very hyped, the poster became a must-have on every student's bedroom wall and the media went nuts over it's supposed glamorisation of drug use.
		Too often I see films that are style over substance; Trainspotting gets it just perfect, stylish but not at the expense of dialogue, character or film.
		Overall this is a great film that is refreshing to see now without all the `cult student cool' hype or media feeding frenzy over it's supposed pro-drug approach.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0117951 (652 words)

	The Film Festivals Server - AFM News
		Not all films will be released through FFD, however - Trainspotting is handled by PolyGram in the UK due to a special request put in by producer Andrew Macdonald, in recognition of PolyGram's efforts with Shallow Grave.
		As for his films competing at Cannes, Stephens has hopes for Trainspotting, but admits “they've turned down so many of my films in the past which I thought were naturals: Shallow Grave, The Crying Game, Four Weddings and a Funeral...
		With this record number of projects on it's slate and buoyant from Trainspotting, Film Four is setting a precedent which the BBC, with plans afoot to merge its drama and films division, seems keen to follow.
	www.filmfestivals.com /afm/afnewb25.htm (661 words)

	The Richmond Review, Feature Article, An interview with the makers of Trainspotting by Monika Maurer
		Their film sidesteps the bleakness of Welsh's novel, and concentrates instead on its fl and cynical sense of humour.
		What he did was cut it ruthlessly, honing the cast of characters and transferring scenes, keeping only what the team thought was essential.
		While Boyle is by far the most loquacious and eloquent of the trio, his partners continually nod in assent.
	www.richmondreview.co.uk /features/maurer01.html (966 words)

	SALON: Trainspotting
		he "Trainspotting" machine, which started rolling as a cult novel in Scotland's slums (passed hand-to-hand at outlawed raves) and gathered steam as a controversial West End play, is now in full locomotion, a wildly successful movie in Europe with raging fires of hype being stoked for its arrival on our shores.
		And yet the nicest guy in the whole film, and the last to use, is the first to die.
		This is, after all, the first film in years that dares to point out that people who do drugs do them because, at least for a moment, it feels wonderful.
	www.salon.com /weekly/movies3960715.html (1155 words)

	Trainspotting
		The film addresses the problem of heroin addiction, considering both the users' and the anti-drug sides of the issue.
		His thoughts guide the film in voiceovers: "Take the best orgasm you ever had, multiply it by a thousand and you're still nowhere near it." He also gives a shopping list of reasons for not quitting, mostly relating to the domesticated, mundane life that non-addicts live.
		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)

	Irvine Welsh: the unofficial site
		The Scotsman: "The filming of Irvine Welsh's novel Ecstasy will have to take place south of the Border after producers were told it "wasn't Scottish enough" to be shot in Scotland.
		There's been a lot of coverage of Trainspotting's return to the theatre: just yesterday The Times said it was a bit old hat, while The Independent had declared it "just as shocking" during a preview back in December.
		There are always questions, around the Trainspotting cult, about whether, by naming so much that is traditionally unnameable, Welsh doesn't tend, at a visceral level, to validate some of the brutal attitudes, particularly towards women, that he outwardly wants to condemn.
	www.irvinewelsh.com (2352 words)

	Scotland on Sunday - Welsh at work on meaty movie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The author of Trainspotting is working on a new film script that threatens to make his celebrated tale of heroin abuse look like a romantic comedy.
		Speaking for the first time about the film production company he runs with actor Robert Carlyle, Welsh reveals that Meat Trade is about a psychopath who murders people for their internal organs and then sells them to the living victims of alcohol abuse.
		Both Danny Boyle, the director of the Trainspotting film in 1996, and scriptwriter John Hodge are said to be considering a return for the sequel.
	scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com /index.cfm?id=812262003 (1245 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Trainspotting: The Definitive Edition [DTS] [1996]: DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The film that effectively launched the star careers of Robert Carlyle, Ewan McGregor and Jonny Lee Miller, Trainspotting is a hard, barbed picaresque, culled from the bestseller by Irvine Welsh and thrown down against the heroin hinterlands of Edinburgh.
		Whilst the film is laced with many clever and Tarinto-esque pop culture references, such as the memorable opening scene with Iggy Pop's Lust For Live blazing, it does not save the film from being style over substance.
		Making a good film based around hardcore drug abuse is a tough thing to pull off, however somehow this tale of gritt, violence, sex, betrayal and drugs found its way to international stardom.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B000092W9R (991 words)

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