Richard E. Grant

  • Peter Capaldi – Franz Kafka’s It’s a Wonderful Life (1993)

    1991-2000ComedyPeter CapaldiShort FilmUnited Kingdom
    Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life (1995)
    Franz Kafka’s It’s a Wonderful Life (1995)

    While trying to decide what Gregor Samsa wakes up as, Kafka’s constantly being interrupted by knife-selling strangers, party noise, girls, fancy dress costumes, and other strange, dreamlike visions.Read More »

  • Bruce Robinson – Withnail & I (1987)

    Comedy1981-1990Bruce RobinsonCultQueer Cinema(s)United Kingdom

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    A darkly comic tale of desperation, writer/director Bruce Robinson’s post-mortem on the sixties plays out like one long hangover- its characters at the arse-end of a dying era, faced with the stark reality of their paltry existences and the inevitable onslaught of maturity, sobriety and worst of all, the seventies. The film moves with as little motivation as its protagonists, ambiently charting the exploits of its two out-of-work upper-middle class Londoners, their incessant boozing, their efforts to ward off unwelcome visitations from spaced-out dealer Danny (Ralph Brown), their ill-planned and largely accidental trip to the country, and their close encounters with Withnail’s outrageously queer relative Uncle Monty (Richard Griffiths). Grant’s central tragicomic performance is mesmerisingly unhinged, his beady eyes riveting around in his skull with absolute indignation, professing his own worth with completely unchecked arrogance.Read More »

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