Trance posterDan­ny Boyle is a British film direc­tor with a quite extra­or­di­nary track record includ­ing Trainspot­ting, The Beach, 28 Days Lat­er and mul­ti-Acad­e­my Award win­ner Slum­dog Mil­lion­aire. His lat­est film, Trance (reunit­ing him with Trainspot­ting and Shal­low Grave writer John Hodge) opens on Thurs­day and the Light House Cuba have a spe­cial pre­view screen­ing of it tomor­row night (Tues­day) at 6pm.

The screen­ing will be intro­duced by my good self (self-pro­mot­ing link here) with a brief audio-visu­al sur­vey of Mr. Boyle’s career, hope­ful­ly illu­mi­nat­ing some of the con­nec­tions among the eclec­tic career choic­es that he has made since that first fea­ture in 1994.

Tick­ets for the screen­ing include a free drink (wine or OJ) and a very nec­es­sary debrief in the bar after­wards. Click here to reserve your seat. Read more about the mind-mess­ing Trance here:

Simon (James McAvoy), a fine art auc­tion­eer, teams up with a crim­i­nal gang to steal a Goya paint­ing worth mil­lions of dol­lars, but after suf­fer­ing a blow to the head dur­ing the heist he awak­ens to dis­cov­er he has no mem­o­ry of where he hid the paint­ing. When phys­i­cal threats and tor­ture fail to pro­duce answers, the gang’s leader Frank (Vin­cent Cas­sel) hires hyp­nother­a­pist Eliz­a­beth Lamb (Rosario Daw­son) to delve into the dark­est recess­es of Simon’s psy­che. As Eliz­a­beth begins to unrav­el Simon’s bro­ken sub­con­scious, the lines between truth, sug­ges­tion, and deceit begin to blur.

Mean­while, with the impend­ing clo­sure of the Cap­i­tal Times and the loss of my long-stand­ing soap­box, I have start­ed a mail­ing list so that read­ers can still get their week­ly fix of my com­pre­hen­sive sur­vey of each week’s cin­e­ma releas­es. Click here to sign up.