The Movie: "Barfly": An Original Screenplay by Charles Bukowski for a Film by Barbet Schroeder

by Charles Bukowski

Overview

The screenplay of the 1987 movie, as written by Charles Bukowski.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780876857076
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	05/31/2002
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	176
Sales rank:	843,949
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

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.

Date of Birth:

August 16, 1920

Date of Death:

March 9, 1994

Place of Birth:

Andernach, Germany

Place of Death:

San Pedro, California

Education:

Los Angeles City College, 2 years

Editorial Reviews

"At first Barfly seems merely a slice of particularly wretched life," observes David Ansen in Newsweek. "But under its seedy surface emerges a cunning comedy--and a touching love story." Vincent Canby, writing in the New York Times, sees the film as dealing "in the continuing revelation of character in a succession of horrifying, buoyant, crazy confrontations of barflies, bartenders, police and other representatives of the world of the sober." And Michael Wilmington concludes in the Los Angeles Times: "Whatever its flaws, [Barfly] does something more films should do: It opens up territory, opens up a human being. The worst of it has the edge of coughed-up whimsy and barroom bragging. But the best has the shock of truth and the harsh sweet kiss of dreams."

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