Posted by I hate Nick Names at proxy2-external.crdva1.bc.home.com on December 14, 1999 at 18:41:35:
In Reply to: Interesting choice of European "filmmakers"... posted by Frank Reynolds on December 14, 1999 at 10:58:30:
Yes, I was ghoing to mention that they are novelists, but I'd been up all night, was crazed with whiskey and involved in an ugly incident with the fine men and women of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police ans some heinous bull shit about unpaid traffic tickets! So please forgive me for not being concise...They are novelists but that was hardly the point!
: : 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.
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: 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..."