{"id":5186,"date":"2018-11-17T11:37:51","date_gmt":"2018-11-17T16:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/?p=5186"},"modified":"2022-10-25T16:05:33","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T20:05:33","slug":"filmstruck-trainspotting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/filmstruck-trainspotting\/","title":{"rendered":"The treasures of FilmStruck include the Trainspotting commentary track"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Trainspotting<\/em> is a lifelong personal favorite film. Essential.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

FilmStruck subscribers should be sure to catch it one more time before before WarnerMedia and AT&T cruelly shut it down on November 29. FilmStruck is full of more invaluable treasures than anyone could watch in two weeks, but I must single out Trainspotting<\/em> as a particular treat, as the commentary track, deleted scenes, and more from the 1996 Criterion Collection laserdisc are included.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of many interesting details to be gleaned: Director Danny Boyle and producer Andrew Macdonald declined a higher budget in order to have the artistic freedom to depict the death of an infant. Yes, it is almost unbearable to watch, but it would have been a lesser movie without it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Ewan
The worst toilet in Scotland.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Screenwriter John Hodge notes that novelist Irving Welsh regretted his dominant focus on the male characters, and made a point of highlighting female characters in subsequent novels. Great, but this only highlights the biggest shortcoming of its belated sequel T2 Trainspotting<\/em> (2017), which made exactly the same mistake. It’s a cinematic crime to have Kelly Macdonald<\/a> and Shirley Henderson in your movie but give them little to no material. Perhaps not on a par with WarnerMedia and AT&T’s philistine, craven axing of FilmStruck, but still pretty bad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Further reading:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The spirit of FilmStruck will live on in The Criterion Collection’s own Criterion Channel streaming service, to launch in Spring 2019. According to the press release<\/a>, some or all of its programming will also be available on a separate WarnerMedia streaming service, but as history has shown that such partnerships have not lasted, I will personally be subscribing directly from Criterion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 1996 Trainspotting<\/em> commentary audio file is also available from The Director’s Commentary<\/a> blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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