Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Uncle Monty's cottage

Twenty-some years after its making, I'm not sure if we can yet refer to Withnail and I as a classic film, but certainly another decade or so will do it. At any rate, I noticed a few weeks ago that Uncle Monty's cottage had been listed for sale. Now a fellow's bought it, one who sees the place as a cultural treasure and wants to restore it (though, one presumes, not too much!), preserving even the graffiti scribbled about the walls that fans of the film have left behind over the years. He's talking Wordsworth (it is the Lake District, after all). We can only guess how Mr. Wordsworth would feel about being spoken of in the same breath as Bruce Robinson's black comedy, but you can tour the cottage with the new owner (graffiti included) here.

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