Word: macdonaldization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...they are, after all, creations of the filmmaking team--director Danny Boyle, writer John Hodge and producer Andrew Macdonald--who gave us Trainspotting and Shallow Grave and who have yet to make a movie that is less than extraordinary, stylistically speaking. Boyle is a director who has never encountered a radical angle he doesn't like, a dislocating cut between two of them that doesn't capture his fancy, an eccentric minor character he won't encourage to subvert a cliche...
When director Danny Boyle, writer John Hodge, producer Andrew MacDonald, and star Ewan McGregor cruised over from the U.K. and crashed onto the U.S. film scene last year with the brilliant Trainspotting, cinema got the adrenaline shot that the Pulp Fiction only purported to give. Trainspotting's startling ability to combine black humor, wit, romance, violence and pathos in a story about Scottish heroin addicts marked it as one of the best films of the year, if not the decade. The team embraced their incredibly risky subject matter with energy and vigor, and managed to make commercially palatable a screenplay...
...fire engines had been taken out several years ago," said Steve MacDonald, spokesperson for the Boston Fire Department...
...MacDonald said that the station was serving in a "support service" capacity prior to the department's relinquishing control...
...rented the building for six months, MacDonald said...