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Withnail and I and How to Get Ahead in Advertising
This volume contains two film scripts by Bruce Robinson, who was nominated for an Academy Award for his screenplay of The Killing Fields. Robinson has directed as well as written both Withnail and I and How to Get Ahead in Advertising.
Some copies of this book appear to share an ISBN with an edition of Mrs Frampton by Pam Gems, also published by Bloomsbury in 1989.
Some copies of this book appear to share an ISBN with an edition of Mrs Frampton by Pam Gems, also published by Bloomsbury in 1989.
- GenresFilm
208 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1989
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Bruce Robinson
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Bruce Robinson is an English director, screenwriter, novelist and actor. He is arguably most famous for writing and directing the cult classic Withnail and I (1986), a film with comic and tragic elements set in London in the 1960s, which drew on his experiences as 'a chronic alcoholic and resting actor, living in squalor' in Camden Town. He is married to Sophie Windham, children's author and illustrator, and has contributed to some of her books. A book of interviews with Robinson, edited by Alistair Owen, is published as Smoking in Bed: Conversations with Bruce Robinson
Bruce Robinson is an English director, screenwriter, novelist and actor. He is arguably most famous for writing and directing the cult classic Withnail and I (1986), a film with comic and tragic elements set in London in the 1960s, which drew on his experiences as 'a chronic alcoholic and resting actor, living in squalor' in Camden Town. He is married to Sophie Windham, children's author and illustrator, and has contributed to some of her books. A book of interviews with Robinson, edited by Alistair Owen, is published as Smoking in Bed: Conversations with Bruce Robinson
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January 18, 2018
Bruce Robinson is a genius. Someone please give him a gazillion dollars so he can make more movies and write more novels.
April 20, 2013
Oh yes, best finish this.
Not going to bother discussing Withnail; I wrote more than enough about it last year, besides which you probably know it's a brilliant screenplay anyway. I got this out-of-print edition in January simply for the second film. How To Get Ahead in Advertising - though still not as good as Withnail - is somewhat better on the page than most of it is on the screen. You've got sometimes witty, and always well-written, descriptions of the action and settings, and the satiric detail is easier to pick up on when reading than whilst listening to Richard E. Grant's rants as they go beyond manic and up into orbit. As with Robinson's novel, reading this makes one wish the author had published more prose.
Not going to bother discussing Withnail; I wrote more than enough about it last year, besides which you probably know it's a brilliant screenplay anyway. I got this out-of-print edition in January simply for the second film. How To Get Ahead in Advertising - though still not as good as Withnail - is somewhat better on the page than most of it is on the screen. You've got sometimes witty, and always well-written, descriptions of the action and settings, and the satiric detail is easier to pick up on when reading than whilst listening to Richard E. Grant's rants as they go beyond manic and up into orbit. As with Robinson's novel, reading this makes one wish the author had published more prose.
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