100 mins |
Rated
R16 (Violence & offensive language)
Directed by Barbet Schroeder
Starring Jack Nance, Alice Krige, Frank Stallone, Faye Dunaway, Mickey Rourke
Playing as party of Academy's Lost Weekend: A Film Series of Cinema's Most Infamous Drunks, playing March 21 - 28.
Henry Chinaski (Mickey Rourke, THE WRESTLER) is a talented writer of prolific prose; unfortunately, he’s also a skid-row alcoholic with a violent temper. He picks fights nightly with Eddie (Frank Stallone), the bartender at the local watering hole, the Golden Horn, and lives in a seedy tenement, stealing food and trying to scrape together enough money for booze. Fellow alcoholic Wanda Wilcox (Faye Dunaway, NETWORK) catches Henry’s eye at the bar one afternoon and although she has a reputation for being unstable, the two embark on a relationship with each other and the bottle.
Based on a semi-autobiographical short story by poet and screenwriter Charles Bukowski and directed by Barbet Schroeder, BARFLY offers insight into the world of the alcoholic, where all that matters is the next drink.
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Playing as party of Academy's Lost Weekend: A Film Series of Cinema's Most Infamous Drunks, playing March 21 - 28.
Henry Chinaski (Mickey Rourke, THE WRESTLER) is a talented writer of prolific prose; unfortunately, he’s also a skid-row alcoholic with a violent temper. He picks fights nightly with Eddie (Frank Stallone), the bartender at the local watering hole, the Golden Horn, and lives in a seedy tenement, stealing food and trying to scrape together enough money for booze. Fellow alcoholic Wanda Wilcox (Faye Dunaway, NETWORK) catches Henry’s eye at the bar one afternoon and although she has a reputation for being unstable, the two embark on a relationship with each other and the bottle.
Based on a semi-autobiographical short story by poet and screenwriter Charles Bukowski and directed by Barbet Schroeder, BARFLY offers insight into the world of the alcoholic, where all that matters is the next drink.