“Barfly” Screening in LA Will Feature a Discussion With Director Barbet Schroeder

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Mickey Rourke, Faye Dunaway, Barbet Schroeder, and Charles Bukowski on the set of “Barfly,” via barbet-schroeder.com.

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Los Angeles area Charles Bukowski fans have a rare opportunity to see a screening of Barfly, the only film he ever wrote, this Friday, July 28. Not only that, you’ll get to see director Barbet Schroeder, as there will be a discussion between films.

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Schroeder also directed The Bukowski Tapes, a collection of interviews with the writer, and shows up in Hollywood.

Via The Los Angeles Times:

The Films of Barbet Schroeder In one of his best roles, Mickey Rourke stars in Barfly(1987) as Charles Bukowski alter-ego, Henry Chinaski, an alcoholic writer who spends his days and nights in gritty L.A. flats and dive bars, sparring with lover and partner in drink, Wanda (Faye Dunaway). Bukowski wrote the screenplay and director Schroeder made it his American feature debut. Schroeder’s next film, Reversal of Fortune (1990), for which he was Oscar-nomiated for best director, follows the mystery of how enigmatic socialite Sunny von Bulow (Glenn Close) ended up in a decades-long coma, and the criminal appeal case of her cold aristocrat husband, Claus von Bulow (Oscar winner Jeremy Irons), for her attempted murder. There will be a discussion between films with Schroeder. American Cinematheque, Aero Theatre, 1328 Montana Ave., Santa Monica, (310) 260-1528. July 28, 7:30 p.m. The series continues July 29-30.$15; $13 for seniors; $11 for Cinematheque members. www.americancinematheque.com

Are you going to try to make it to the screening?