The title says it all: "Memories of Trainspotting" covers all the recollection of memories and events from the production of Danny Boyle's acclaimed film "Trainspotting" (1996) with stars Ewan McGregor, Robert Carlyle, Kelly Macdonald and Ewen Bremner, producer Andrew MacDonald, writer John Hodge and Boyle himself sharing their experiences about the film and the making of it.
It's all the usual type of making of with interesting stories about the film and how it was working on it like many bonus material tend to present (all fun and games and some obstacles) but it's interesting to notice how everyone involved with it were thinking back in 2009 (13 years after the film's release) how they were sort of commited in making a sequel, hitting at possibilities and today we can see that the collaboration worked and succeed it with the sequel released in 2017, "T2: Trainspotting", 21 years after the first film). The interviews were gold standard when presenting what would attract them to a new movie - Boyle mentions that the Irvine Welsh novel had so many aspects left out from "Trainspotting" that it was a obvious decision that they should go ahead with a sequel but they were unsure how it would turn out - specially if they all be alive by then. They made it happen!
As for "Trainspotting", it's an iconic film of the 1990's that transcended the Scottish setting barrier and showed to the world the adversities and dangers of drug addiction; a film that created its own cinematic language with the youth culture just as the likes of "A Clockwork Orange", "Pulp Fiction" and similars made in the history of cinema. Boyle and team accomplished a great feat with this movie; and this documentary proves it. Amazing.9/10.
It's all the usual type of making of with interesting stories about the film and how it was working on it like many bonus material tend to present (all fun and games and some obstacles) but it's interesting to notice how everyone involved with it were thinking back in 2009 (13 years after the film's release) how they were sort of commited in making a sequel, hitting at possibilities and today we can see that the collaboration worked and succeed it with the sequel released in 2017, "T2: Trainspotting", 21 years after the first film). The interviews were gold standard when presenting what would attract them to a new movie - Boyle mentions that the Irvine Welsh novel had so many aspects left out from "Trainspotting" that it was a obvious decision that they should go ahead with a sequel but they were unsure how it would turn out - specially if they all be alive by then. They made it happen!
As for "Trainspotting", it's an iconic film of the 1990's that transcended the Scottish setting barrier and showed to the world the adversities and dangers of drug addiction; a film that created its own cinematic language with the youth culture just as the likes of "A Clockwork Orange", "Pulp Fiction" and similars made in the history of cinema. Boyle and team accomplished a great feat with this movie; and this documentary proves it. Amazing.9/10.
