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| CATEGORY: | Video |
| DIRECTOR: | Barbet Schroeder |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 16 October, 1987 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Warner Home Video |
| MPAA RATING: | R (Restricted) |
| FEATURES: | Closed-captioned, Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC |
| TYPE: | Comedies, Drama, Feature Film-drama, Movie |
| MEDIA: | VHS Tape |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 085393721237 |
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Customer Reviews of Barfly
When you're a drunk you're a drunk Being a sloopy,falling down drunk ain't pretty...There isn't any romance to it at all..Most of the This-is-what-I-do-every-day-of-my-life-drunks that I have ever encountered are NOT wannabe poets..No..they are failed human beings,alcohol addicts with about as much poetry in them as an iguana..they don't brush thier teeth,they seldom change thier underwear,they smell stale,old,gin-soaked,cigarette stinky...sometimes they go for days with vomit on thier shirtfronts..The men seldom-if ever-land gals who look even remotely like Faye Dunaway..more often than not female drunks are missing teeth,have tattoos in all the wrong places,have bar-fight scars,and are nasty,mean spirited bottom feeders.."Barfly",on the other hand,almost makes being a drunk palatable,which,of course is a pity..Go ask the folks who attend AA meetings if being a mickey Rourke-like drunk is realistic..Sure,he has the scrungy look down pat,but he has this same look in a lot of his films..He looked as scrungy in"Angel Heart",and that flick had nothing whatsoever to do with drinking..Go ask the AA meeting folks if being a failed poet makes one a drunk...for that matter go ask the AA meeting folks what sort of poetry most drunks come up with..Usually it begins with the line; <
>"There was a young lady from Nantucket"...and goes downhill from there...In"Barfly"the mickey Rourke drunk gets to bed Faye Dunaway,and exchange fisticuffs with Frank Stallone(Sly Stone's less talented brother),but mostly he gets to drink,slobber,and feel sorry for himself,which is about the only really accurate aspect of this film...
When will a new Special Edition be released?
I had this on order with Amazon when they still showed it as being in stock; they kept putting it on backorder and then finally all record of it disappeared from my order just like the DVD Boomerang did. Why does Amazon do this? I remember seeing this movie on HBO or Showtime years ago and rate the movie a "5", not the DVD.
Inside the tight little world of drunk
In Rumblefish, Mickey Rourke was Motorcycle Boy,
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>too smart and sensitive for someone that tough.
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>This time, he's way too tough for someone that
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>smart and sensitive. The screenplay by Charles
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>Bukowski, who was at that time the world's most
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>famous unknown writer, is a frighteningly naturalistic
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>look into the world of living to drink. Bukowski
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>came by his knowledge honestly and this is
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>acknowledged to be his autobiography.
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>The movie is as comic as it is realistic and
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>it's beautifully supported by the direction of
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>Barbet Schroeder and the setst of Bob Ziembicki.
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>The most distracting oddity is Rourke's performance.
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>Sometimes alive and insightful, he occasionally
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>slips into a W.C. Fields drawl and a penguin-like
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>posture. Fay Dunaway and the rest of the cast
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>have a less labored touch. The myth of Bukowski
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>survives this movie intact and magnified. Barfly
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>is beautiful, funny, intelligent and laced with
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>just the right amount of darkness.
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>--Lynn Hoffman, author of THE NEW SHORT COURSE IN WINE
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>and the forthcoming novel bang-BANG from Kunati Books