Comedy Death-Ray / every first Monday of the month!
Known as Los Angeles’ best comedy night, Comedy Death-Ray (held Tuesdays at the UCB) is famous for offering world-class comics in an intimate and revealing setting. Now host Scott Aukerman is bringing those same comedians to the Cinefamily on the first Sunday of every month to show you the films that influence them! . Each night, a different comedian showcases their favorite film in 35mm, and also shares short films and clips that they’ve either made, start in, or just love. For more Comedy Death-Ray action, follow Scott Aukerman on Twitter!
8/02 @ 8pm / Series: Comedy Death-Ray Zach Galifianakis presents:
Withnail & I (SOLD OUT!!!!)
Richard E. Grant gives not only one of the greatest comedic performances on film of the last few decades, but also one of the best on-screen drunks ever in Bruce Robinson's criminally underseen Withnail & I, which comes to the Cinefamily in a rare 35mm screening, hosted by one of our favorite funny people, Zach Galifianakis (The Hangover)! Grant and Paul McGann breathe boozy, riotous life into the duo of Withnail and Marwood, two out-of-work actors in late '60s London who decide to take a break from their drug-and-drink-riddled squalor, and head out to the country for some R&R -- only to encounter something even more distressing in the form of predatory Uncle Monty (a scene-stealing Richard Griffiths). This cracked classic plays like a big screen version of "The Young Ones" as filtered through the cracked sensibilities of late-era Beatles; alternately funny, creepy and poignant, Withnail & I is pure brilliance.
Dir. Bruce Robinson, 1987, 35mm, 107 min.
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