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	dOc DVD Review: Barfly (1987)
		Barfly is less of a film about alcoholism than it is a film about human behavior.
		Barfly is one of his most stunningly realistic achievements, a film that polarizes the viewer with its honest depiction of life on the skids.
		The film moves in a vicious circle with little sense of purpose, as if it were just another desultory day in the life of a drunk, a stagnant soul caught in a cycle of flouts and hangovers.
	www.digitallyobsessed.com /showreview.php3?ID=3937 (1137 words)

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		The film is a large spectacle that won a record setting 11 Academy awards, the most impressive sequences of the film are the sea battle and the chariot race.
		Holliday’s first film as the "dumb" blonde, a character she was to repeat in almost all films of her short career.
		British film taking place in a small town where most men work in the coal mine, which is about to close, so they’ll all lose their jobs.
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	Barfly (1987)
		He has a gift for words and as we learn later in the film, his natural talents with the pen might be all that is needed to end his life on the streets and move him up to the higher classes.
		The thing I enjoy most about Barfly, is that even though we all know alcoholism is a very serious problem for a lot of people, this film chooses to look at the issue from a very light hearted perspective.
		While the film may be perceived by many to be nothing more than a serious drama, the comedy is definitely evident — all be it subtle.
	www.dvdmg.com /barfly.shtml (3447 words)

	Barfly (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		In a film that is both dingy and bright, Rourke staggers from the screen a pickled genius and gives a stellar performance as the hard-drinking, alley-brawling, pickup line-snarling Henry.
		"Barfly" is a weaving, grungy look at genius, at love, and at the strange social interactions among those that reside in what some mistakenly refer to as the subculture.
		She has a job, after all, and that sets her apart from the other barflies, who are afforded the luxery of running the bars all hours of all days.
	www.amarillometro.com /shopping/barfly_B0000696I5.html (1038 words)

	Barfly
		He learns that she is every bit as much a barfly as he is. She informs him that if a man came to her with a fifth, she would probably go home with him, and that she makes bad decisions when she drinks.
		The film is perfectly bookended when we see Rourke enter the same bar from the opening scene, but this time with Dunaway.
		Films under five are generally awful even if you like that kind of film, equivalent to about one and a half stars from the critics or less, depending on just how far below five the rating is.
	www.fakes.net /barfly.htm (625 words)

	Barfly - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Look up barfly in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
		A barfly is a person who spends a significant amount of time at a bar.
		Barfly (club), a chain of music venues in the United Kingdom
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Barfly (125 words)

	:: rogerebert.com :: Reviews :: Barfly (xhtml) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		"Barfly," based on his original screenplay, is a grimy comedy about what it might be like to spend a couple of days in his skin - a couple of the better and funnier days, although they aren't exactly a lark.
		"Barfly" is not heavy on plot, which is correct, since in the disordered world of the drinker, one thing rarely leads to another through any visible pattern.
		The result is a truly original American movie, a film like no other, a period of time spent in the company of the kinds of characters Saroyan and O'Neill would have understood, the kinds of people we try not to see, and yet might enjoy more than some of our more visible friends.
	rogerebert.suntimes.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19871218/REVIEWS/712180301/1023 (651 words)

	Barfly Film Review - Time Out Film (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		A few hard days' nights in Wanda's flat has the two barflies abandoning their tentative move towards a mutual expression of need in favour of rejoining the death-wish trail.
		Chimaski is as articulate as a lorry, so the arrival of 'beautiful' literary agent Tully (Krige) in pursuit of his genius and punchy charm comes as a surprise; his refusal of her largesse is merely a chance to show Integrity.
		Schroeder's direction of Charles Bukowski's script is consistent with the film's throwaway mood, stresses the upbeat, and mercifully eschews seriousness, cleverly relying on Robby Müller's efficient colour photography to create atmosphere.
	www.timeout.com /film/67382.html (162 words)

	Barfly
		The film moves along at a brisk pace, bringing together a motley assortment of characters with Rourke playing his role to the hilt.
		The degree of subtilty is greater than we are accustomed to in a Hollywood film, so alot of people not only don't get it but don't know there is anything to get because they are not expecting anything this subtle.
		One of the most critically acclaimed films of 1995, this wrenchingly sad but extraordinarily moving drama provides an authentic, superbly acted portrait of two people whose lives intersect just as they've reached their lowest depths of despair.
	www.dvd-today.com /dvd/B0000696I5/Barfly.html (1382 words)

	Sacramento News and Review April 21, 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Sean Barfly, the amiable yet wired leader of local jam band Mind X, watched the musicians--mostly from his band--crammed onto the cave-like stage in the corner.
		Barfly, who sings and plays mandolin, fiddle, banjo and guitar, often relies on a rotation of musicians for Mind X, but guitarist Rick Zamora, percussionist Shawn King, bassist Marty Holland, keyboardist Kevin Burton and drummer Peter Philis make up the current--and seemingly permanent--lineup.
		Barfly said he feels fortunate to have played with an A list of local musicians, as well.
	www.newsreview.com /sacramento/Content?oid=oid:35010 (712 words)

	Barfly
		Barfly is one of those films that defy expectations and never even attempt to please the audience.
		It is this thwarting of expectations however that makes you immerse in the film, in an attempt to understand why it is the way it is, what the catch is.The film opens to a fight scene between the main character, Henry Chinaski (Mickey Rourke), and the bartender, Eddie played by Frank Stallone.
		Barfly is essentially a desperate song to the messy, hopeless lowlife of consumerist America, a parallel universe to the high life of LA which is the cradle of pompous US cinema.
	www.mickeyrourkeonline.com /barfly.html (1515 words)

	Barfly (1987) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Trivia: This film was almost never made because the financially-strapped Cannon films was on the verge of bankruptcy at the time (it went out of business a little more than a year later).
		Despite Bukowski's condemnation of Mickey Rourke's portrayal of him/Chinaski in the film (claiming Rourke was too cocky with the role, and didn't stick to the character of Chinaski as Bukowski intended) states Bukowski in the documentary "Bukowski: Born Into This", I still view it as one of the highlights of Rourke's career.
		With Barfly, Schroeder captures the gritty realities of lives given over to the excesses of substances and circumstances in a true-to-life way, as he did with his first film "More", a flick about heroin addiction done at a time when the subject was still considered very taboo.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0092618 (881 words)

	eBay - Barfly Reviews
		Based on a semiautobiographical short story by poet and screenwriter Charles Bukowksi and directed by Barbet Schroeder, BARFLY offers insight into the world of the alcoholic, where all that matters is the next drink.
		Their liaison is full of drama, humor, and irrational behavior; it is put to the test when Henry meets Tully (Alice Krige), a rich, privileged literary editor who wants to publish his stories and save him from himself.
		The film features exceptional performances from Rourke and Dunaway as they portray the highs and lows that are part and parcel of alcoholism--as well as love.
	search.reviews.ebay.com /Barfly-2002-DVD_W0QQfvcsZ1177QQsoprZ3393976 (563 words)

	Barfly News
		Barfly News continually updated from thousands of sources around the net.
		It is an unlikely literary marriage: Charles Bukowski, the chronicler of a hard-drinking, womanizing, bar-brawling life in L.A.'s underbelly, with the Huntington Library, the genteel San Marino repository of...
		N othing becomes this year's Santa Cruz Film Festival like the wrapping up of it.
	www.topix.net /movies/barfly (460 words)

	Film Festivals . com - People (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The film is based on Gardos' own story of a uniquely unsettled childhood, from a script which won the Hartley-Merrill International Screenwriting Award not so long ago.
		Now, I love the Avid and technology, and nobody who has ever worked on the Avid goes back to handling the film, but I do feel it is important to learn the craft of film and really understand how to put it together.
		One of the films that I want to make is a script that I think is just about ready to be shot.
	www.filmfestivals.com /cgi-bin/shownews.pl?obj=ShowNews&CfgPath=ffs/filinfo&Cfg=news.cfg&news=general&text_id=19511 (922 words)

	'Barfly' meets 'Casablanca' in Mideast film \| csmonitor.com
		Because Gorlin shot the film at the end of 1999, a relatively peaceful time, he and his crew concentrated on less often explored, internal subjects, such as labor workers and immigrants.
		Gorlin failed to find a distributor and put the film away until a few days after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, at which time he applied for the Slamdance Film Festival on a whim.
		The film won the festival's Feature Grand Jury prize in 2002 and was picked up by CAVU films, who marketed the picture through grass-roots methods such as free screenings to Jewish groups.
	www.csmonitor.com /2003/1121/p18s02-almo.htm (605 words)

	Moviehole.net - Barfly (DVD)
		A movie about the bond between two alcoholics, “Barfly” stars Rourke as boozehound/poet Henry and Faye Dunaway as Wanda, a seemingly stable but crackling hole of nothingness whose only solace, like Henry, is found in the bottle at her local watering hole.
		Rourke — as always — is a tour de force in the role of the mixed-up, unshaven and ultimately depressing Henry, while Dunaway gives the performance of her career as the perplexed, hopeless Wanda.
		The image transfer of “Barfly” is surprisingly clean and sharp bringing out the film’s minute use of colour and excellent detail.
	www.moviehole.net /reviews/726.html (519 words)

	The DVD Clinic Movie Review of Barfly
		This film actually breaks most of the rules of narrative in terms of screenwriting and taking into account that Bukowski himself also wrote the script, I’m not surprised.
		Commentary with Barbet Schroeder (feature length): Barbet is obviously very fond of this film and he enthusiastically shares info on the locations, lots of trivia in respect to specific scenes, how he hooked up with Bukowski and the screenplay process which he had to go through with the drunken writer.
		BARFLY is a raw, always entertaining, very well acted and at times, thought-provoking dive into a bottle.
	www.joblo.com /reviews.php?mode=joblo_dvds&id=338 (962 words)

	Barfly
		The real star of Barbet Schroeder's film Barfly is the script by writer and poet Charles Bukowski. Bukowski gives us a complex and very realistic story about an alienated writer who uses drinking as a means of escaping from his tedious life.
		Up until this point in the film, the audience knows little about Henry except that he is a dirty drunk and bum.
		The film is full of memorable scenes and lines that leave a powerful impression on the viewer.
	www.geocities.com /Hollywood/Set/7601/barfly.htm (1461 words)

	DVDBeaver.com - DVD/Film Review - Barbet Schroeder's - Barfly - Charles Bukowski Mickey Rourke DVD Review Barbet ...
		It is somewhat comforting that a man can carve out his place in society and obtain a stage for his creation with such stalwart conviction that forces society to rethink their perceptions of life, materialism and their own delusions.
		This film is by-no-means everyone's cup of tea, but it is a film that I think some would definitely benefit from viewing.
		In the final stages of completing the negotiations for the film, Schroeder had to threaten to cut off his finger and perform a hunger strike in front of Cannon Films office.
	www.dvdbeaver.com /film/DVDReview/barfly.htm (405 words)

	south by southwest festivals + conferences
		FILM SCHOOL began life as a group of like-minded San Francisco musicians writing and producing music by themselves for themselves.
		Film School had long since been discovered and heavily supported locally by Aaron Axelson of Live 105 and news travelled north as Seattle's KEXP began championing them and therefore helping them sell out shows and getting the music industry abuzz.
		After a super buzzy appearance at SXSW in 2005, The London Sunday Times Culture Magazine hailed them as one of the new bands that 'should be huge' and UK's Music Week included them in their rundown of the 'eleven buzz bands on the brink of greater things'.
	2006.sxsw.com /music/showcases/band/6341.html (390 words)

	Amazon.com: Barfly: DVD: Barbet Schroeder,Mickey Rourke,Faye Dunaway,Alice Krige,Jack Nance,J.C. Quinn,Frank ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Her beauty is not vanquished in the role, but is rubbed away some as if by the eraser of hard years and hard living.
		Some of these great drinkers are quite content down there in the mud and beer, with their genius tucked away some place secret, like something stashed in a battered knapsack.
		When they were filming the bar scene where Chinaski meets Wanda, as Mickey Rourke passed along the bar past Charles Bukowski, who was making a cameo appearance, the Buk spat the beer in his mouth rig...
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000696I5?v=glance (2231 words)

	Charles Bukowski - Barfly the Biographical Movie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The film was called, "Barfly" and was essentially a snapshot into the life of Buk's alter ego, young Henry Chinaski.
		Perhaps this was the only way he could cope with her eventual death from alcohol abuse.
		In the film, Bukowski painted humor and tenderness in equal strokes.
	www.thebuk.com /buk_barfly.html (188 words)

	GreenCine \| product main - Barfly (1987)
		Charles Bukowski, the talented crown prince of self-abuse, wrote the short stories upon which the surprisingly entertaining Barfly was based.
		The film concentrates on alcoholic writer Mickey Rourke (the Bukowski alter ego) who carries on a hate-hate relationship with bartender Frank Stallone.
		Rourke makes the acquaintance of another of society's castaways, Faye Dunaway, who in addition to being a souse is said to be crazy.
	www.greencine.com /webCatalog?id=19748 (235 words)

	NewsRegister.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Given the film's relentlessly optimistic spirit, perhaps the question is worth debating.
		But to do that, you need to see the film.
		"Barfly" is not only worth seeing, it's also surprisingly easy to like.
	www.newsregister.com /news/story_print.cfm?story_no=172089 (65 words)

	MoMA \| Press \| Releases \| 2001 \| BARBET SCHROEDER
		In anticipation of the September release of Barbet Schroeder’s recent film, Our Lady of the Assassins (La virgen de los sicarios, 2000), The Museum of Modern Art is pleased to present a special preview of the film and two other Schroeder films from the MoMA film archives, Barfly (1987) and Reversal of Fortune (1990).
		The film tells the story of a celebrated writer, Fernando, who, after 30 years abroad, returns to his hometown of Medellín, a once gracious colonial capital now defined by casual and murderous violence.
		The film is about the accusation that Klaus von Bülow tried to murder his wife by overdosing her.
	www.moma.org /about_moma/press/2001/barbet_schroeder_7_18_01.html (540 words)

	The Frank Stallone Website
		His fiery portrayal of a brutish bartender Eddie in the film Barfly had Hollywood insiders abuzz at Oscar time, and his #1 hit Far From Over, from the film Staying Alive, was likewise touted for a 'Best Song' nomination.
		Frank also wrote and recorded 11 songs for the soundtrack and film Staying Alive, which gained the respect from his industry peers and critics alike when he received a Golden Globe nomination for 'Best Soundtrack' and Grammy nomination for Best Original Song, with his single, Far From Over.
		One of his most memorable on-screen appearances was his role as Ed Bailey, a dangerous gunslinger in Tombstone, and as Eddie the bartender in Barfly, which gave rise to serious consideration for Frank for an Academy Award nomination, and won the acclaim of renowned film critic Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun Times.
	www.frankstallone.com /bio.html (865 words)

	DVD Empire - Item - Barfly / DVD-Video
		But they like each other's company- and Barfly captures their giddy, gin-soaked attempts to make a go of life on the skids.
		American original and poet/novelist extraordinaire Charles Bukowski drew upon his own life to script this story that tickles and jabs the social underbelly of booze, bars and brave madness and eventually forces Henry to choose between life as a literary lion or freewheeling alley cat.
		He may be the quintessential(sp?) bad boy of Hollywood but fortunately we don't have to deal so much with that and for those of us who are Rourke fans he is a pleasure to watch on the screen.
	www.dvdempire.com /Exec/movie.asp?movie_id=213667&partner_id=49648684 (220 words)

	Charles Bukowski: The Biography Project - biography, bibliography for poet and author Charles Bukowski
		The loosely biographical film Crazy Love, (based on Love Is a Dog From Hell), is made in Belgium.
		The movie, Barfly, made in 1987, effectively making Bukowski a name for the masses.
		Of how he was surviving all the attentions, he wrote: "You've got to instinct what will suck you dry." And adds: "Barfly is not a great film, but it kicks along.
	www.popsubculture.com /pop/bio_project/charles_bukowski.html (867 words)

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