Barfly Page #4

Synopsis: Henry Chinaski never cared for the American dream, the thought of needing to become 'something' and fit into the system disgusts him. He believes that life is free and yours to live like you see fit, and if that in some cases involves copious amounts of whiskey then so be it. Henry spends his days drinking and listening to the radio, and he spends his nights drinking and fighting against Eddy who he thinks personifies shallowness and shameless self promoting. Sometimes in the middle of this he finds the time to jot down a few lines of poetry or a short story. After fighting Eddy and winning for a change Henry is thrown out of his regular bar where Eddy is a bartender. This leads him to seek another watering hole where he happens to find Wanda who is a barfly, in her own words "if another man came along with a fifth of whiskey, I'd go with him". Henry is not fazed by this thou and moves in with her. Of course Wanda immediately goes off and sleeps with Eddy, but after some clothes throwi
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director(s): Barbet Schroeder
Production: Cannon Releasing
  Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 3 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.3
Metacritic:
70
Rotten Tomatoes:
74%
R
Year:
1987
100 min
1,781 Views


I've got nothin', but time.

- ? ?crazy.

- That's crazy.

I dunno.

We're all in some kind of hell.

And the madhouse is the only place,

where people know they're in hell.

I don't know, I'm just a crazy beer

drinking wrestler. Let's fart.

You ass. You've got anything to

pick up at your place?

Yeah, some rags and a radio.

Hey, we don't need a moving wan.

Ah, let's go.

But I wanna make myself look good.

Hey Jim, can you hold this stuff

for me for a while?

Yeah, sure.

Last time I saw you, you've got nothing

neither a woman nor a radio.

Hey, Jim. I'm used to radios.

Wanda, this is Jim. Jim, this is Wanda.

- Hi.

- Hi. Me beer.

Yeah, likewise.

Hey Jim, can you cash this check for me?

I signed him.

Hey, what's this?

You're not gonna believe this,

but that's an income tax refund.

I found it in the mailbox of the old place.

You mean, you worked last year? Six month in a toy factory.

You don't know how men suffer for children.

Hey, Henry. You're gonna buy one or be one.

Hey, I'm gonna be one. Give her a beer.

- Yes, sir?

- Shot of bark whiskey, please.

- Hey, old timer. This one's on the house.

- I thank you.

Thanx, Jim.

? ?Take this.This covers the rent,

I'll keep the rest.

You trust me?

Why not? It's easier that way.

Oh, look at this. Schifern Incorporated

- labourer, no experience.

Oh, look at this. Shifrin Incorporated

- labourer, no experience.

Hey, that's me.

I'm gonna run down there,

I'm gonna hop on the pass.

Henry, are you losing what's

left of your goddamned mind?

You mean, you gonna leave me here all alone?

All alone? Hey baby, there's Jim,

there is Lilly. Come on.

What are you doing with a woman, Henry?

Lilly, sometimes I think you could use one too.

Four whiskeys.

Look Hank, why don't you go tomorrow.

We just met.

When you ran off like this,

I feel you're trying to get away from me.

Hey, baby. I'm doing this for us.

We're be able to drink with class.

We don't have to be barflies,

returned from the grave.

- Thank you, bartender.

- Ok, oldtimer.

Hey, he didn't pay.

He already paid.

Oh, god, I will get a job.

Yeah, hey. To the working class. Right.

- To us.

- To us. With gods help.

No chance. Even the devil wouldn't have you.

Hey, what's your problem?

Hey, you got any of those little

mints for breath?

Oh yeah. Baby.

Excuse me, who are you?

Hmm, the eternal question.

The eternal answer: I don't know.

- How do you explain this recent unemployment record?

- Hey, anybody didn't get a job.

- Takes some man to make you a hard worker.

- Excuse me?

Hey, I was just joking.

Everything here seems to read 'none'.

Hobbies none, religion none, education none.

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Charles Bukowski

Henry Charles Bukowski (born Heinrich Karl Bukowski; August 16, 1920 – March 9, 1994) was a German-born American poet, novelist, and short story writer. His writing was influenced by the social, cultural, and economic ambience of his home city of Los Angeles. His work addresses the ordinary lives of poor Americans, the act of writing, alcohol, relationships with women, and the drudgery of work. Bukowski wrote thousands of poems, hundreds of short stories and six novels, eventually publishing over 60 books. The FBI kept a file on him as a result of his column, Notes of a Dirty Old Man, in the LA underground newspaper Open City.Bukowski published extensively in small literary magazines and with small presses beginning in the early 1940s and continuing on through the early 1990s. As noted by one reviewer, "Bukowski continued to be, thanks to his antics and deliberate clownish performances, the king of the underground and the epitome of the littles in the ensuing decades, stressing his loyalty to those small press editors who had first championed his work and consolidating his presence in new ventures such as the New York Quarterly, Chiron Review, or Slipstream." Some of these works include his Poems Written Before Jumping Out of an 8 Story Window, published by his friend and fellow poet Charles Potts, and better known works such as Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame. These poems and stories were later republished by John Martin's Black Sparrow Press (now HarperCollins/Ecco Press) as collected volumes of his work. In 1986 Time called Bukowski a "laureate of American lowlife". Regarding Bukowski's enduring popular appeal, Adam Kirsch of The New Yorker wrote, "the secret of Bukowski's appeal. . . [is that] he combines the confessional poet's promise of intimacy with the larger-than-life aplomb of a pulp-fiction hero."Since his death in 1994, Bukowski has been the subject of a number of critical articles and books about both his life and writings, despite his work having received relatively little attention from academic critics during his lifetime. more…

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