Films

Alien Love Triangle (2008)

A Life Less Ordinary (1997)

A Danny Boyle double-bill courtesy of FilmBath Festival — one short, one feature. Normally you'd assume the latter was the main draw. It was Boyle's follow-up to Shallow Grave and Trainspotting, and though it's not as well remembered as either, it's one of his I'd never seen, so it was fun to get the chance to see it on the big screen. It's pretty good.

But the real attraction was the short that screened before it. Filmed in 1999 for a project that was never completed, this is only its third-ever public screening — and the other two were over 15 years ago, both on very limited and special occasions; and this is another of those (it's not just beginning a wide tour or something, as far as I know). Quite how FilmBath scored that coup, I don't know. Frankly, it does make me wonder if it's being prepped to pop up somewhere more significant. The fact Criterion are about to release Trainspotting on 4K, with the extras not yet fully revealed, makes me wonder if it'll be on that disc. Well, I hope it does become more widely available at some point, because it's fun and I'd like to see it again.