Posted by Frank Reynolds at spider-wk043.proxy.aol.com on December 14, 1999 at 10:58:30:
In Reply to: The horriffic insanity of 5 A.M. lost on the coast posted by I hate Nick Names on December 14, 1999 at 10:09:41:
: I love decent film as well, but have recently turned to Europe where the films in the last few years have been fantastic...Irish, English, Scottish...Roddy Doyle, Irvine Welsh and the rest of the lot have captured surburbia in a way, never presented to an audience before.
I find it interesting that your list of European "filmmakers" is actually a list of European *novelists*..yes, great films were made out of Welsh's and Doyle's novels, and yes, Doyle did adapt or co-adapt his novels, but I wouldn't exactly put him on a list of filmmakers.
(By the way, the only way I can do a decent Scottish accent is if I read Welsh's TRAINSPOTTING out loud..."The sweat wis lashing ofay Sick Boy, he wis trEEmbling..."