Bruce Robinson’s WITHNAIL & I (1987)

RETROFANTASMA FILM SERIES
Select Wednesdays at 7pm in Cinema One | $10 per person.
September 9, 2026
Bruce Robinson’s WITHNAIL & I
(R, 1987, 107 min)
“We want the finest wines available to humanity. And we want them here, and we want them now!” One of the most quotable and tragically funny cult films ever made, this is a booze-fueled adrenaline trip through the end of the 1960s. Two unemployed, "resting" actors (Richard E. Grant and Paul McGann) escape their squalid London flat for a disastrous holiday in the country, only to find themselves besieged by rain, hunger, and a predatory Uncle Monty (Richard Griffiths). Grant’s Withnail is the ultimate antihero—a frantic, gin-soaked genius railing against a world that has no room for him. It’s like Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas crossed with a Shakespearean tragedy—with more lighter fluid. Raw, irreverent, and unexpectedly touching, this British gem is a forgotten masterpiece begging to be rediscovered.
TRAILER: www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-B0z28aHwM