Bruce Robinson’s film Withnail and I, which premiered thirty years ago on April 10, gets the black comedy tag as if by a fait accompli, like the label is woven into the very bylaws of any ...

Withnail and I wasn’t a box-office sensation when it came out in 1987. “I remember actor friends really liking it,” one of the film’s stars, Paul McGann, tells BBC Culture.

For unlike Withnail (in front of an audience of wolves in the driving rain, alone save for a bottle confiscated from Monty’s cellar), neither jobbing actors on DVD extras, nor the disgraceful student ...

This was Withnail and I – a small film largely overlooked upon its 1987 cinematic release but now widely considered among the most-loved British motion pictures of all time, and surely the funniest.

Withnail’s status as one of the great black comedies ... trudging alone through the rain. “I remember Bruce saying it when we were screening it in 1987. He said to us, almost prophetically, ...

It's been 30 years since the alcohol-fuelled 'Withnail and I' was released but despite drinking up to five bottles of red a day – and the thread of booze running throughout his work – director ...

This was a church for cult cinema fans to worship at the Withnail and I altar – and for 107 minutes, In The Mood For Film allowed us to drift into a world of randy bulls, Camberwell carrots ...

Murray Close, the on-set photographer for Withnail & I, describes his favourite moments behind the scenes of the 1986 cult film. His photographs will be on display from 20 June at The Proud Galleries.

FLASHBACKS: The boozy British comedy classic was produced by Beatle George Harrison and made stars out of Richard E Grant and Paul McGann, but its initial cinema release went almost unnoticed.