Episode 499: Withnail & I (1987)

The Projection Booth Podcast

The Projection Booth

Film Reviews, Film Interviews, Film History, Tv & Film

4.8 • 686 Ratings

🗓️ 23 December 2020

⏱️ 159 minutes

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Summary

We're looking at a film about the end of the ‘60s, Bruce Robinson's Withnail & I. Released in 1987, the film stars Richard E. Grant as the titular Withnall -- an acerbic drunk who, along with the titular, I (Paul McGann) -- go on holiday by mistake. It's an examination of a friendship between two out of work actors.

Jon Cross and Vincenzo Natali join Mike to talk about the movie while actor Ralph Brown (Danny the drug dealer) and Kim Leggatt (co-director of An Accidental Studio, a documentary about Handmade Films) discuss the making of the film.
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0:00.0	You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast.
0:04.5	Christopher Media. Let's make some noise.
0:11.2	Hold your ears, folks. It's showtime. People pay good money to see this movie. When they go out to a theater, they want cold sodas, hot popcorn, and milk monsters in the
0:22.7	projection booth. Everyone pretend podcasting isn't boring. Turn it off. Turn it off.
0:49.4	Yeah! 13 million Londoners have to wake up to this and murder and all Brian and rape
0:52.5	and I'm sitting in this bloody shack and I can't go with Whistle.
0:56.6	I must be out of my mind.
0:58.6	I must go home at once and discuss his problems in death.
1:05.2	I think we've been in here too long.
1:07.6	I feel unusual.
1:09.9	I think we should go outside.
1:11.6	You've got soup? Why don't I get any soup?
1:24.6	Coffee. Why don't you use a cup like any other human being? Why don't you use a cup like any other human being?
1:28.3	Why don't you wash up occasionally like any other human being?
1:31.3	We are indeed drifting into the arena of the unwell.
1:36.3	Making an enemy of our own future.
1:39.3	I've got your servant, I don't want it.
1:42.3	Then stick it in a soap tray and save it for later.
1:45.0	Balls.
1:46.0	We want the finest wines available to humanity.
1:49.0	We want them here and we want them now.
1:52.0	I called him a pons.
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