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The 30th Anniversary premieres today in what appears to be a wide release. The poster (which I saw displayed at my local AMC earlier this week!) is credited to Sony Pictures Classics so it appears they acquired the rights to all formats. (Between this, Amélie and Velvet Goldmine, I wonder what other Miramax titles they acquired?)

It was just announced today that they’re rereleasing The Piano.

Captain Paranoia wrote: Fri Jun 05, 2026 5:00 am The 30th Anniversary premieres today in what appears to be a wide release. The poster (which I saw displayed at my local AMC earlier this week!) is credited to Sony Pictures Classics so it appears they acquired the rights to all formats. (Between this, Amélie and Velvet Goldmine, I wonder what other Miramax titles they acquired?)

Saw it today, first time in theaters, one of my favorite films. I brought my mother, she loved it.

I always loved the story about how fellow Scottish politicians Nicola Sturgeon and the late Charles Kennedy first became best mates (despite representing and indeed later leading different political parties and therefore being obliged to tear strips off each other professionally) over a shared trip to Trainspotting, as it was showing locally to a conference they were both attending in Melbourne.

They were almost certainly the only two actual Scottish people in the audience, and were consequently laughing uproariously at stuff that was whooshing over the heads of everyone else.

(At the risk of sounding churlish, I've never been a huge fan; I completely recognise its immense cultural importance, but I'd already read the source novel—more than once—and seen Harry Gibson's far more faithful stage adaptation, which did much more justice to the book's multiplicity of viewpoints, which translate very well into theatrical monologues. Begbie is infinitely more terrifying when you actually get inside his head on a regular basis!)

How do people feel about the sequel? I rolled my eyes at its very existence, but was relieved and surprised that I really enjoyed it. It was an interesting slant on the "can't go home again" trope, and I thought the plot and script were largely clever in dealing with this material. Obviously, nowhere near as good as the first one. But I am glad all of the original main creatives were able to come back together and work on it (much like the movie's central plot).

Bought it when it was going cheap out of curiosity, still haven't watched it!

But I probably will at some point; I'm aware that quite a few people regarded it as a pleasant surprise.

aox wrote: Fri Jun 05, 2026 3:02 pm How do people feel about the sequel? I rolled my eyes at its very existence, but was relieved and surprised that I really enjoyed it. It was an interesting slant on the "can't go home again" trope, and I thought the plot and script were largely clever in dealing with this material. Obviously, nowhere near as good as the first one. But I am glad all of the original main creatives were able to come back together and work on it (much like the movie's central plot).

We have a thread about it! That may be my favourite Danny Boyle film of recent years (that and Steve Jobs, perhaps) because, whilst being entirely in line with everything I find aggravating about his recent films when dealt with as a kind of flippant plot hook (overwriting history for your preferred narrative to take precedence particularly, which was egregious in Yesterday), becomes rather touching when he is doing it to the legacy characters from his most famous film. And since I'm on a one track mind about that film at the moment, that final impossible fourth wall breaking CGI-pullback shot is very Backrooms-anticipating in how it is a psychological expression of the main character's mindset! (That and the mirrored tile bathroom fight sequence)

Apologies. Thanks. I didn't even think to look for a T2 thread. My post above was just impulsive.

I remember being excited about the cast returning, but I liked T2 so little that I refuse to bump that thread. Take that with a grain of salt however, as A Life Less Ordinary in 1997 already put me off of Boyle indefinitely. Now that was an aggressively horrible movie.

Perhaps this has been discussed here already elsewhere, but the new 2026 repackaging also has a new UHD disc encode. Not sure what’s been changed, specifically, but the file sizes are different.

mfunk9786 wrote: Fri Jun 05, 2026 9:47 pm Perhaps this has been discussed here already elsewhere, but the new 2026 repackaging also has a new UHD disc encode. Not sure what’s been changed, specifically, but the file sizes are different.

Yes, supposedly it's a noticeable upgrade

I watched it and it is a better encoded. The last one wasn't terrible but it had issues in the highlights (blocky patterns and such) that are resolved here. Smoky interiors also look better. Basically, it's more in line with their recent 4Ks.

Also has the Sony Pictures Classics logo, replacing the Miramax one.