by tim_bell | Feb 23, 2016 | Latest News
Today’s the day! Twenty years since Trainspotting the film premiered. Here’s the opening paragraph of my chapter on the film: On February 23rd, 1996, Trainspotting the film was premiered. The speed of developments since the launch and that daring, insolent...
by tim_bell | Feb 20, 2016 | Latest News
Nice to be in the forefront. Edinburgh Central Library kindly invited me to give the talk Trainspotting at Twenty a week ahead of the anniversary of the launch of the film. Got a nice review: apparently I educate as effortlessly as I entertain, for example, which was...
by tim_bell | Jan 23, 2016 | Latest News
It’s twenty years next month since Trainspotting the film was launched in Glasgow. Do you remember it? Were you there? When was the first time you saw it? Subversive and insolent, it was ruthlessly marketed as a consumer item: the best of both worlds! Does it...
by tim_bell | Dec 18, 2015 | Latest News
On my birthday weekend in December 1980 we moved in to our present house. Best move I ever made. Coming from a rural background I was astonished to find myself drawn to this intensely urban area. It’s the social, human mix that stays the same. In the countryside...
by tim_bell | Nov 30, 2015 | Latest News
Or, as Nicola Sturgeon wittily suggests, St Andy’s Day, after Andy Murray’s major contribution to Britain’s Davis Cup victory yesterday. He says himself, he tends to play his best tennis for a team. OK, so we make the comparison between...
