Posts Tagged ‘Trainspotting’

Thirty years after its 1996 release, Trainspotting still feels less like a period piece than a live wire. Danny Boyle’s film, adapted by John Hodge from Irvine Welsh’s 1993 novel, arrived with the velocity of a music video and the moral discomfort of social realism. It was funny, appalling, stylish, bleak and exhilarating, sometimes within…