Barfly (1987)

Charles Bukowski's Barfly (1987).

Charles Bukowski makes a movie. You can smell Barfly (1987) before you even hit play. That hot, fetid stink of beer sweat and piss-soaked alleyways under a neon buzzing like a swarm of flies hitting a dirty bug zapper. It’s a film that shouldn’t exist – too grimy for prestige, too literary for the Ivar … Read more