Off Screen Death
A podcast about all the things we must do before the inevitable. Mostly watching movies.
3 years ago

Withnail & I (BFI #29)

In which we learn that Mike hates Richard E. Grant’s face.

"This is and always will be a perfect dark comedy."

William Thomas of Empire would definitely love our choice of movie...but maybe not our opinion of it. We discuss the idea of cult films and how it has changed just in the last few years. But WITHNAIL AND I took place many years before that, and it is possible that it is a product of its time. A 1987 film, set in the late 70’s, and we attempted to watch it in 2021.  If it is truly timeless, that shouldn’t matter, but we are putting that to the test. 

Much to Mike’s chagrin, we have gone away from sexy films once again, but maybe that’s good, given his opinion of these ugly, ugly people...

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