Barfly (film)

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Barfly
Film poster
Directed by	Barbet Schroeder
Produced by	Jack Baran Yoram Globus Menahem Golan Tom Luddy Fred Roos Barbet Schroeder
Written by	Charles Bukowski
Starring	Mickey Rourke Faye Dunaway Alice Krige Jack Nance J.C. Quinn
Distributed by	Cannon Film Distributors
Release date(s)	30 September 1987
Running time	97 min.
Language	English
IMDb profile

Barfly is a 1987 feature film. It is one of two films written by American author and poet Charles Bukowski (the other being Factotum), a semi-autobiography of the part of his life spent drinking in Los Angeles, California.

Barfly The Continuing Saga of Henry Chinaski is an original work by Charles Bukowski. Originally was a screenplay illustrated by the author for film but released three years earlier in 1984 and film production was still pending. It was commissioned by the French film director Barbet Schroeder who owns worldwide film rights. Production for this property was pending in 1984 (the copyright date of the original print work). Drawings and original work copyrighted 1984 by Charles Bukowski. ISBN 0-920348-44-0 DELUXE

Barfly (the feature film) stars Mickey Rourke and Faye Dunaway and was directed by Barbet Schroeder. It was produced by Francis Ford Coppola and Barbet Schroeder. The movie also features a silent cameo appearance by Bukowski himself.

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There is a scene where the camera pans upward over Faye Dunaway's legs. This glamour shot was done at her insistence and some fans of the movie consider this scene, and her character in general, to be in stark contrast to the theme of the movie. ^[1]
The film inspired an album, also titled Barfly, by the ska punk band, Buck-O-Nine.
Charles Bukowski later dramatized his experiences surrounding the film in the book Hollywood.
The punk rock group NOFX wrote a song on Bukowski titled "Green Corn" in reference to the movie.
An episode of Mission Hill, Andy French mentions the movie, expecting it to have a great "barf scene" since he pronounced it "Barf-ly."
Now out of print, though a petition has started to get the DVD re-released.