WITHNAIL & I
Los Angeles, CA
11/17/09
Richard E. Grant gives not only one of the greatest comedic performances on film of the last few decades, but also one of the best on-screen drunks ever in Bruce Robinson’s criminally underseen Withnail And I, which comes to the Cinefamily in a rare 35mm screening. Grant and Paul McGann breathe boozy, riotous life into the duo of Withnail and Marwood, two out-of-work actors in late ’60s London who decide to take a break from their drug-and-drink-riddled squalor, and head out to the country for some R&R — only to encounter something even more distressing in the
form of predatory Uncle Monty (a scene-stealing Richard Griffiths). Alternately funny, creepy and poignant, this cracked classic plays like a big screen version of “The Young Ones” as filtered through the cracked
sensibilities of late-era Beatles.*Director Bruce Robinson will be in person at the Cinefamily for a Q&A after the screening, moderated by Bob Odenkirk (Mr. Show)!*

Location:
The Cinefamily
611 N. Fairfax Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90036
(323) 655-2510

via EM Staff, 11 November 2009 9:48am | |