Dead right. In my snotty way, I sometimes think that anyone who sees it purely as a HaHa film about two guys getting stoned and pissed and dicking about shouldn't be allowed to watch it.
@@sheilawells100 For me, it shows the tragedy of people moving apart. The ending is two best friends going their seperate ways which I have experienced a few times and it's always heartbreaking
It’s a very deep film that works across many levels. It’s incredibly sad, incredibly funny, incredibly moving, incredibly tragic. It really does encapsulates the hopeless and helplessness that we can all be reduced to at times and there’s something beautifully male about it. As guys we often try so hard to be greater than we are and mask our frailties but this film gracefully, kindly and hilariously exposes the farce of it. In my top three films and by far the best British film ever made imho.
Strange how both Withnail and Marwood live in misery with no food and no work🤧, but when they part, they know that those years will be the ones they look back on with the most fondness. 😔
In 2019 I felt compelled to tell Richard E. Grant on his Twitter that Withnail & I was the best film about friendship ever made. He replied with three kisses, which made my summer. ❤️❤️❤️ What a perfect storm this film is. 🇬🇧
Just curious as to how you got in touch with Richard!! 🤔 I know where he lives in Richmond (Petersham Road, directly opposite Richmond Park!), and I want to get my Withnail & I DVDs and "...Diaries" book signed, and I don't want to scare him!!!
Thank you Bruce for putting up with all the twats for it is one of the best films ever made, it's been the quote soundtrack of mine and my wife's life.
Was in leister square with my then girlfreind and it started raining hard, went into cinema to get dry and thought might as well watch a film…It was With ail and I in its opening week….Absolutely loved it, always have.
Back in the day, i saw the DVDs in Woolworth's bargain bin for a quid. I bought six of them to lend out if anyone asked to borrow it 😁 I'm not losing Withnail And I. I put it on as background noise at home and STILL laugh.
Best movie ever made, big lebowski second, i could watch withnail and i every week, you can smell the countryside and the camden flat squalor is palpable, the movie oozes sentimentality and atmosphere, aling with the best an amazing script, just a classic.
I have watched this movie more than any other and will continue to watch it as much as possible. I have proudly introduced it to friends and quote it daily. Thank you Mr. Robinson.
So many subtle but hysterically funny moments in the film, one of my favourites in McGann's room at the cottage after a priapic Uncle Monty has burst in in the small hours, momentarily losing eye with him as he glances down in horror when Monty's dressing gown falls open.
It's an absolute jewel in the crown for many of us Bruce, more quotable than even the pythons managed to be. Can't possibly imagine it being anything other than what it is, so thanks for holding the line. I'd put Withnail up there with Pinter's The Caretaker or Mike Leigh's Nuts in May. Legendary.
This is a cult classic film. It's not necessary to have lived the 1960s to appreciate and resonate with the characters and ethos depicted in this masterpiece, but it does make it more of a walk down memory lane for those of us who did.
A brilliant interview and a very engaging dialogue. Good candour and realism of the process was a great insight into such an amazing film. I utterly loved watching it when I was a student and still do to this day.
one of the greatest movies ever made. So true to the era we grew up in and i know i, for one, can put my own experiences and associates in place of each of the characters or situations...maybe you had to come from that 'scene' or at least rejoice in it's unique eccenticity. For example i had a mate, Norman, circa '76 who was a spitting image of Danny,long black ringlety hair,elegantly wasted,black leathered and around 6ft2 but more of a mild pill-popper/smoker than a dealer who went by the nickname 'spiney' after spiney norman (Monty Python) cos he was paranoid as hell and his name just happened to be Norman.Many funny stories about him but for briefness just one one. I bumped into him with a gorgeous lass on his arm( he always had a dolly) and i said 'ello Spiney long time no see, how are ya... he shuffled and looked uncomfortable and strongly announced "...they don't call me that anymore they call me wolf now" obviously he never did like his original monicker haha as i walked off i sez righto spiney. But, whatever, he was a legend too
When I was an undergrad at Sydney University in the late 80s this move was The Test. Among arts students noway were you going to get into a girls knickers unless you knew it. And the driving back to London scene converted me to Jimi Hendrix against my better inclination. I later was convicted of DUI. Without the aplomb of Withnail.
It's not a great line but I love "We're coming back! We're coming back in here!" Beyond a masterpiece, not because it's well made, - it isn't - but because it's great character and great dialogue. Love forever to Bruce, Paul, Granty, Griffiths and Ralph. xxx (Fuck bright comedy, embrace the darkness) xxx BTW It's not a comedy, it's a funny drama, with heartbreak. xxx ... How dare you!...
It's an almost Bergmanesque examination of the initial euphoria of an eccentric, but ultimately toxic, friendship, which, that of its progressively unstable nature, finally collapses, and ends. If Woody Allen was an Englishman, he would have made a film such as this.
I only recently learned that Daniel Day-Lewis was asked to play Withnail, but he turned down the role. Can anyone imagine what a method actor would have done with a role like that, trying to get into the _mind_ of Withnail? It would have been a nightmare! 😆
It's from a 1999 doco on Withnail & I. It came with a 2 disc 'Special Edition' I recieved as a birthday present 14 years ago. I filmed it from the tele on an iPhone, hence the sub par audio quality. There's also a commentary with Paul McGan & Ralph Brown and another with Bruce Robinson.
Actually , I laughed ONCE, when withnail & i went 'fishing ' in the upper reaches of the stream; and of course withnail's dissertation on his hatred of russian plays, and ducks going to moscow. So, that's twice I laughed, but please don't tell anybody else.
So just because YOU didn't laugh once then the film isn't funny? Regardless of its status as a classic dark comedy? Rarely have I seen such an arrogant comment.
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This film is way more than about making people laugh. It expresses the whole tragedy of life.
Dead right. In my snotty way, I sometimes think that anyone who sees it purely as a HaHa film about two guys getting stoned and pissed and dicking about shouldn't be allowed to watch it.
True. It wonderfully represents life at end of the sixties in London
@@sheilawells100 For me, it shows the tragedy of people moving apart. The ending is two best friends going their seperate ways which I have experienced a few times and it's always heartbreaking
It’s a very deep film that works across many levels. It’s incredibly sad, incredibly funny, incredibly moving, incredibly tragic. It really does encapsulates the hopeless and helplessness that we can all be reduced to at times and there’s something beautifully male about it. As guys we often try so hard to be greater than we are and mask our frailties but this film gracefully, kindly and hilariously exposes the farce of it. In my top three films and by far the best British film ever made imho.
Tragedy of the 60s
I’m eternally grateful to Bruce for giving this masterpiece to the world
Still the funniest and most quotable film I've ever seen.
Strange how both Withnail and Marwood live in misery with no food and no work🤧, but when they part, they know that those years will be the ones they look back on with the most fondness. 😔
Hmm, lets not get into hardship worship. They would still have had good memories together if they were well fed and working.
@@nebularain3338 'Strange how people who suffer together have stronger connections
than people who are most content.' Dylan.
What I find weird about this movie is the amount of people I've met who haven't seen it.
They may "own" the film, but it will always be Bruce's. One of the greatest gifts to cinema there will ever be. Thank you, sir.
'I will never play the Dane' - post edwardian eccentricity at it's finest.
He's absolutely right about luck. The older I get, the more obvious it becomes.
‘I’m in a park and I’m practically dead.’ Remember belly laughing at that one.
An absolute masterpiece of a movie, one of my favourites of all time.
Masterpieces and movies are not mutually exclusive
Levitating with anxiety? Balls, I'l swallow it and run a mile. Best film ever made Bruce.
In 2019 I felt compelled to tell Richard E. Grant on his Twitter that Withnail & I was the best film about friendship ever made.
He replied with three kisses, which made my summer. ❤️❤️❤️
What a perfect storm this film is. 🇬🇧
Just curious as to how you got in touch with Richard!! 🤔
I know where he lives in Richmond (Petersham Road, directly opposite Richmond Park!), and I want to get my Withnail & I DVDs and "...Diaries" book signed, and I don't want to scare him!!!
Why are you telling people where he lives :(
@@nickthelickif you like him, delete that!
Thank you Bruce for putting up with all the twats for it is one of the best films ever made, it's been the quote soundtrack of mine and my wife's life.
It changed my life watching a film that I can identify with and experience as real but also innovative and new
He caught lightning in a bottle , absolutely no doubt about that.
Very nicely put - lightning in a bottle.
Was in leister square with my then girlfreind and it started raining hard, went into cinema to get dry and thought might as well watch a film…It was With ail and I in its opening week….Absolutely loved it, always have.
Back in the day, i saw the DVDs in Woolworth's bargain bin for a quid. I bought six of them to lend out if anyone asked to borrow it 😁
I'm not losing Withnail And I.
I put it on as background noise at home and STILL laugh.
Thank you Bruce, to sticking to your guns. Favourite film ever. 😅
I love Bruce Robinson. He is right about so many things.
Best movie ever made, big lebowski second, i could watch withnail and i every week, you can smell the countryside and the camden flat squalor is palpable, the movie oozes sentimentality and atmosphere, aling with the best an amazing script, just a classic.
One of my all time favourites
This is still my favourite movie..
One of the best films ever made)
I have watched this movie more than any other and will continue to watch it as much as possible. I have proudly introduced it to friends and quote it daily. Thank you Mr. Robinson.
Bruce it's a great film,accept it and I know I lived it at the time and that was what it was like back then I lived through it.
Fabulous film. The German test audience??!! Oh my lord- that publicist should have been tarred and feathered!!!😂
🤓😬😆
A hilarious superb film. Collectible and a gem....
So many subtle but hysterically funny moments in the film, one of my favourites in McGann's room at the cottage after a priapic Uncle Monty has burst in in the small hours, momentarily losing eye with him as he glances down in horror when Monty's dressing gown falls open.
and he wrote the screenplay for The Killing Fields among other things. truly brilliant man. great interview.
One of my all time favorites. Seen innumerable times and find something new each time. A truly remarkable film.
by far the greatest writing acting etc etc etc etc etc etc etc etc bravo
It's an absolute jewel in the crown for many of us Bruce, more quotable than even the pythons managed to be. Can't possibly imagine it being anything other than what it is, so thanks for holding the line. I'd put Withnail up there with Pinter's The Caretaker or Mike Leigh's Nuts in May. Legendary.
This is a cult classic film. It's not necessary to have lived the 1960s to appreciate and resonate with the characters and ethos depicted in this masterpiece, but it does make it more of a walk down memory lane for those of us who did.
Oh yes.
A TRUE MASTERPIECE.
A brilliant interview and a very engaging dialogue. Good candour and realism of the process was a great insight into such an amazing film. I utterly loved watching it when I was a student and still do to this day.
there...hare...there!
one of the greatest movies ever made. So true to the era we grew up in and i know i, for one, can put my own experiences and associates in place of each of the characters or situations...maybe you had to come from that 'scene' or at least rejoice in it's unique eccenticity.
For example i had a mate, Norman, circa '76 who was a spitting image of Danny,long black ringlety hair,elegantly wasted,black leathered and around 6ft2 but more of a mild pill-popper/smoker than a dealer who went by the nickname 'spiney' after spiney norman (Monty Python) cos he was paranoid as hell and his name just happened to be Norman.Many funny stories about him but for briefness just one one. I bumped into him with a gorgeous lass on his arm( he always had a dolly) and i said 'ello Spiney long time no see, how are ya... he shuffled and looked uncomfortable and strongly announced "...they don't call me that anymore they call me wolf now" obviously he never did like his original monicker haha as i walked off i sez righto spiney. But, whatever, he was a legend too
How right you are my boy, how right you are!
This is great, thanks for sharing. Bruce is such an amusing person.
When I was an undergrad at Sydney University in the late 80s this move was The Test. Among arts students noway were you going to get into a girls knickers unless you knew it. And the driving back to London scene converted me to Jimi Hendrix against my better inclination. I later was convicted of DUI. Without the aplomb of Withnail.
Masterpiece of comedy. I recite this often and learn the script front to back over the years
I demand to have some booze!
Excellent interview
Thank's for sharing. Fantastic film.
It's not a great line but I love "We're coming back! We're coming back in here!" Beyond a masterpiece, not because it's well made, - it isn't - but because it's great character and great dialogue. Love forever to Bruce, Paul, Granty, Griffiths and Ralph. xxx (Fuck bright comedy, embrace the darkness) xxx BTW It's not a comedy, it's a funny drama, with heartbreak. xxx ... How dare you!...
Is that astma spray and a quarter Camberwell carrot on the armrest?
Are you the farmer?
Stop saying that, Withnail, of course he's the *fucking* farmer.
It's an almost Bergmanesque examination of the initial euphoria of an eccentric, but ultimately toxic, friendship, which, that of its progressively unstable nature, finally collapses, and ends.
If Woody Allen was an Englishman, he would have made a film such as this.
Great comedy...tragedy plus time.
Who's going to the stage show at Birmingham Rep this month?
Good to see something new on Withnail
Wonderful interview
Brilliant!
Hinge wrist job 😁
I bought your book, Bruce: They All Love Jack.
I only recently learned that Daniel Day-Lewis was asked to play Withnail, but he turned down the role. Can anyone imagine what a method actor would have done with a role like that, trying to get into the _mind_ of Withnail? It would have been a nightmare! 😆
Thankgod for George Harrison❤
Absolute best comedy movie their is its a classic
So a day out at London Zoo is out of the question then Bruce.
Its an unusual black comedy.
I mean to have you, even if it means burglary
'It's you he wants. Offer yourself to him!'
Hinged wrist job.... classic...
Hey, that was fun for a happy anarchist. .
When was this interview filmed? Any other info on it?
It's from a 1999 doco on Withnail & I. It came with a 2 disc 'Special Edition' I recieved as a birthday present 14 years ago. I filmed it from the tele on an iPhone, hence the sub par audio quality. There's also a commentary with Paul McGan & Ralph Brown and another with Bruce Robinson.
Germans watching a screening, poor bastard. what were they thinking?
Hugely funny, hugely sad film.
My all time favourite film. So many classic lines. We’ve come on holiday by mistake’ 😂
Mine too. It’s both hilarious and sad. The end still gets me every time
Actually , I laughed ONCE, when withnail & i went 'fishing ' in the upper reaches of the stream; and of course withnail's dissertation on his hatred of russian plays, and ducks going to moscow. So, that's twice I laughed, but please don't tell anybody else.
Very interesting back ground to the movie. Obrian didn't seem to like it at all
I don't think about Dennis much either.
You Terrible _ _ _ _ .
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Genius! Particularly because Americans dont get it.
Not true
This is NOT a funny film. I have watched it in excess of 38 times, and I did not laugh once.
So just because YOU didn't laugh once then the film isn't funny? Regardless of its status as a classic dark comedy?
Rarely have I seen such an arrogant comment.
paulmitchell359: Really?
I laughed but cried at the end
Hahaha. Well done.
much obliged.
If you were by chance to own a tea room, Withnail would come by directly and install a juke box.
Fancy showing it to Germans.And then Americans ( English speaking Germans) you couldn't make this shit up.
"A pair of quadruple whiskeys"
Hahahaha!! I loved that as well!! I’m watching it now on Turner Classic Movies in the US!
@@gailblue6803 Cider and gin ... !
He went from some of the greatest film of all time to Jennifer 8? 😂