Paul Sng On Avoiding Fan Service In His Immersive Documentary Portrait Of ‘Trainspotting’ Novelist Irvine Welsh: “I Didn’t Want To Make A Hagiography” — Edinburgh

The year’s Edinburgh Film Festival will end, just like it did in 2023, with a feature documentary on the cult Scottish writer Irvine Welsh, best known for the Trainspotting novels.  As a factoid, that is perhaps unsurprising considering Welsh’s popularity in the Scottish capital, which is also his hometown. Thankfully for audiences in Edinburgh, however, […]