1.8K views · 509 reactions | On this day 47 years ago, Halloween (1978), directed by John Carpenter and starring Donald Pleasence and Jamie Lee Curtis in her film debut, was released in the U.S. | History of Cinema | Facebook

Withnail & I is a bleakly poetic meditation on failure, friendship, and the decaying end of an era. Bruce Robinson crafts a world where wit is weapon and alcohol a crutch, capturing the slow unraveling of youth’s delusions. Richard E. Grant’s Withnail is Shakespearean in his tragic grandeur—hilarious, repellent, and painfully human. The film’s cult status is not nostalgia, but recognition: it speaks to all who have watched dreams curdle into irony, and found strange comfort in the absurd. | Hist