Barfly - The Movie
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Bukowski wrote the film script at the invitation of director Barbet Schroeder, tracking his life-worn alter ego Henry Chinaski through the lowlife bars and back alleys of Los Angeles.
The story follows Chinaski through alley brawls with night bartender Eddie, a turbulent bond with fellow drinker Wanda Wilcox, and an unexpected visit from wealthy literary editor Tully Sorenson.
This edition restores excised dialogue and scenes between square brackets, presenting the finished script alongside Bukowski’s original character descriptions.
- Film Production: Schroeder commissioned Bukowski to draft the project, first published in Toronto by Paget Press in 1984 before becoming the feature film starring Mickey Rourke and Faye Dunaway.
- Character Studies: Bukowski includes acerbic profile sketches of neighborhood fixtures, including the beer-nursing Lilly and Jim, the widowed day bartender at the Golden Horn who quietly supports Chinaski.
- Raw Honesty: Unsparing dialogue captures the toll of chronic alcoholism through Chinaski’s deadpan humor and refusal to surrender to an eight-hour workday.
- American Literature: Chinaski’s street existence collides with high society when editor Tully Sorenson uses family inheritance money to fund The Contemporary Review of Art and Literature and hires a private investigator to find him.
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Charles Bukowski is one of America’s best-known contemporary writers of poetry and prose and, many would claim, its most influential and imitated poet. He was born in 1920 in Andernach, Germany, to an American soldier father and a German mother, and brought to the United States at the age of two. He was raised in Los Angeles and lived there for over fifty years. He died in San Pedro, California, on March 9, 1994, at the age of seventy-three, shortly after completing his last novel, Pulp.Abel Debritto, a former Fulbright scholar and current Marie Curie fellow, works in the digital humanities. He is the author of Charles Bukowski, King of the Underground, and the editor of the Bukowski collections On Writing, On Cats, and On Love.
