Withnail and I

by Kevin Jackson

Overview

Kevin Jackson recounts that experience in addition to giving a full account of the film's production. But chiefly he analyses the mood and magic of the film, its aesthetics and sensibility, seeking to show, without ever detracting from the film's comic brilliance, just how much more there is to Withnail & I than drunkenness and swearing. 'It is an outstandingly touching yet witheringly unsentimental drama of male friendship,' Jackson writes, 'a bleak up-ending of the English pastoral dream, a piece of ferocious verbal inventiveness' - and, without question, one of the greatest of all British films.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781844570355
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	08/28/2004
Series:	BFI Film Classics
Edition description:	2004
Pages:	96
Product dimensions:	5.34(w) x 7.56(h) x 0.29(d)

About the Author

KEVIN JACKSON is author of Invisible Forms: A Guide to Literary Curiosities (2003), Letters of Introduction (2004), and Humphrey Jennings (1993).

Table of Contents

Foreword to the 2022 Edition Bharat Tandon 6

Acknowledgments 14

Introduction: Withnail & Me 15

1 A Terrible Cult? 17

2 The Arena of the Unwell 23

3 A Kingdom of Rains 58

4 The Last Island of Beauty 74

5 The Company of Wolves 86

Notes 108

Credits 110

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

Bruce Robinson's first and most famous outing as a writer/director, Withnail & I has gone down in history as the student film...this book is lively with enthusiasm and full to bursting point with anecdotes and analysis...He doesn't try to come across as anything more than what he certainly is: a die-hard Withnail fan with a keen eye for detail and a delightful nose for a story.' - Filmwerk

Editorial Reviews

Bruce Robinson's first and most famous outing as a writer/director, Withnail & I has gone down in history as the student film...this book is lively with enthusiasm and full to bursting point with anecdotes and analysis...He doesn't try to come across as anything more than what he certainly is: a die-hard Withnail fan with a keen eye for detail and a delightful nose for a story.” —Filmwerk

From the Publisher