Celebrate the birthday of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by getting wasted and watching it in the cinema
“We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold…”
So go the immortal opening words of author Hunter S. Thompson’s legendary book Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and director Terry Gilliam’s 1998 film adaptation of it.
The book, regarded as a seminal work in New Journalism, was long considered ‘unfilmable.’ Then Gilliam went and filmed the damn thing.
The film, which features astonishing shapeshifting performances from Johnny Depp and Benicio Del Toro, was savaged by critics when it was initially released but subsequently became a cult classic.
Now 20 years old, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is returning to the big screen in Melbourne for a special anniversary screening at Astor Theatre on November 16.
Why not get wasted and tag along? Hunter S. Thompson (and probably Johnny Depp, too) would approve.
