Young Adam

April 2005

Adaptation of the week
Sex and death on the Clyde
David Mackenzie's Young Adam (2003)
30 Apr 2005 00.43 BST

Young Adam picks up Edinburgh gong
The Edinburgh film festival drew to a close on Sunday night with gongs for Young Adam and American Splendor.
26 Aug 2003 12.06 BST
Young Adam opens Edinburgh
The 57th Edinburgh International Film Festival kicked off last night with the UK premiere of David McKenzie's Young Adam. Based on the novel by the hard-living Scottish writer Alexander Trocchi, the film stars Ewan McGregor, Tilda Swinton and Peter Mullan.
14 Aug 2003 10.28 BST
Mean streets
Alexander Trocchi was the smack-addled icon of beat literature, whose writings have been eclipsed by a lurid life of porn, pimping and dissolution in New York, Paris and London. But with a new film out adapted from his novel Young Adam, the Glasgow-born writer's life and work are ripe for re-evaluation. By Tim Cumming.
8 Aug 2003 11.22 BST

In brief: Ewan's Young Adam passed uncut
Plus: Reel Madness film festival starts today, Michael Keaton plays first father to Katie Holmes's First Daughter, Rob Schneider comes aboard 80 Days, German police make record piracy bust, and 'first pics' of Spidey 2
19 Jun 2003 11.53 BST

Young Adam
Andrew Pulver: Young Adam demonstrates a thematic aspiration and sureness of tone that remains rare in British film-making
19 May 2003 10.40 BST

Menace a trois
Alexander Trocchi, heroin addict and pariah of the Scottish literary world, died of an overdose in 1984. Eighteen years on, Ewan McGregor and Tilda Swinton are starring in Young Adam, his story of a love triangle set amid the canals of 1950s Glasgow. Will Hodgkinson reports
17 May 2002 01.05 BST