{"id":285741,"date":"2026-02-11T12:44:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T12:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/285741\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T12:44:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T12:44:07","slug":"beyond-trainspotting-the-world-of-irvine-welsh-review-uniquely-funny-writer-holds-court-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/285741\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyond Trainspotting: The World of Irvine Welsh review \u2013 uniquely funny writer holds court | Movies"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here, in addition to Paul Sng\u2019s recent documentary about Irvine Welsh<\/a>, is another one; it is watchable enough, though with less original interview material. The extended footage of Welsh in conversation is certainly engaging, as he discusses his writing and the movies it created, and his own youth in Edinburgh.<\/p>\n

Some of the rest of the interviewees aren\u2019t quite so gripping, however, and the film is padded out with a fair bit of redundant anecdotage from people on the subject of getting hilariously wasted in Irvine\u2019s company \u2014 or at least his approximate vicinity. As for one 90s ladmag-style story about Irvine doing some kind of Marquis de Sade-themed photoshoot in Ibiza\u2019s Manumission club involving prising apart young women\u2019s buttocks for the camera \u2026 well maybe you had to be there.<\/p>\n

Iggy Pop, whose Lust for Life featured in Trainspotting, is interviewed, and so is producer Andrew Macdonald, but interview footage with director Danny Boyle and the Trainspotting stars seems to have been cannibalised from junket videos they did back in 2017 for the film sequel T2 Trainspotting<\/a> (based on Welsh\u2019s book Porno). Be that as it may, I would have liked to hear more from Welsh about the cities he loves and about other authors and music he loves \u2013 and more from other authors about how he influenced them. But it\u2019s always a pleasure to hear from this uniquely funny and articulate writer.<\/p>\n

Beyond Trainspotting: The World of Irvine Welsh is on digital platforms from 16 February.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Here, in addition to Paul Sng\u2019s recent documentary about Irvine Welsh, is another one; it is watchable enough,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":285742,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[146,85,46,397],"class_list":{"0":"post-285741","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-israel","11":"tag-movies"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}