Mickey Rourke - Barfly

[@Rob954ever]

One of my all time favorite movies. The fact that almost no one saw or knows about ( and those who did see, didn't get it) it, only speaks to it's beautifully esoteric nature. This film is so gorgeous in it's raw and unwavering nature. To this day, I often find myself quoting lines from it.

[@mark1952able]

The movie is based on the real life story of Charles Bukowski....a drunken literary genius.

[@jarrettthomas4865]

@@mark1952able if it’s his favorite movie I’m sure he knows that

[@glitchesandglitter]

Also pope of greenwich village from Rourke was good

[@Dusan_Zdravkovic]

Same here... "Fuck you TWICE a night" is me favorite.

[@copsuicide]

lol this movie sucked shit, what are you talking about. it's interesting as a piece of strange media and the story of it's creation process but as a film it's dog shit

[@dustythe2nd188]

"Do you hate people?" "No but I seem to feel much better when they're not around." My fav line.

[@jasonhamada1671]

Some people dont go crazy what truly horrible lives they must live

[@blobcity3591]

while he's taking to someone

[@ronniecozzi8385]

Same here.

[@vicaldama9314]

He originally wrote it about cops, but it makes sense here too.

[@CommonContentArchive]

That's a W.C. Fields line. The entire movie is Mickey Rourke doing a bad W.C. Fields. Still entertaining though

[@MikeO-p8l]

This almost 10 minute clip has more acting and talent than most movies I've seen in many years i even remember there names .

[@threeg6966]

Mickey Rourke is a good actor. Under appreciated by most people.

[@stephenboroody3049]

This movie needs to be available for purchase. One of my favorites

[@repro24569]

One of my all time favorites and almost nobody saw this movie.

[@henrycodm896]

Same here.

[@miller6910]

LOVE this movie!

[@deniskostic1502]

U DONT KNOW MUCH ABOUT PEOPLE WHO LIKE THIS MOVIE, I DONT MEAN NOTHING BAD BUT ITS USUALLY NOT WORKING CLASS!!!!

[@reedallyn1767]

Totally agree. One of Rourke's top performances. A great movie.

[@carolineullrich7323]

I watched it!!! Fantastic movie.

[@clancykobane9102]

"[...]Part of my luck was the actor who played Henry Chinaski. Mickey Rourke stayed with the dialogue to the word and the sound intended. What surprised me was that he added another dimension to the character, in spirit. Mickey appeared to really love his role, and yet without exaggeration he added his own flavor, his zest, his madness, his gamble to Henry Chinaski without destroying the intent or the meaning of the character. To add spirit to spirit can be dangerous but not in the hands of a damned good actor. Without distorting, he added, and I was very pleased with the love and understanding he lent to the role of the BARFLY". - Charles bukowski

[@deniskostic1502]

Mickey Rourke is one and only !!!

[@user-dc1dr9kr8x]

Id say that man has a way with words....

[@clara-nt9rx]

It's wierd he said he the performance was exaggerated years later

[@travisgray8376]

Mickey Rourke should of been nominated for an academy award for his performance in this film.

[@Gerrys-Channel]

At least!

[@antonvrb1510]

Effing right!!!

[@JamesHadfield-v3t]

Nothing but cheap politics by them satanists. The Biggest F' was MALCOLM MCDOWELL NOT WINNING FOR CLOCKWORK ORANGE! it went to g.hackman for shitty French connection dreck.

[@gregorygraham4117]

the person he portrays, charles henry bukowski, hated his portrayal of himself. thought rourke behaved like a ‘cocky banty rooster’, found it insulting.

[@antonvrb1510]

@gregorygraham4117 that's sad.

[@familiaandradeherederodelr2320]

mickey rourke is a legend. rumble fish and this movie alone are the reasons why

[@familiaandradeherederodelr2320]

its like this was the motorcycle boy from rumble fish when he was in california

[@Abbiekesey]

Classic, when mickey rourke was king,, and a throwback to when bars and pubs were full of characters,, those days are gone sadly. And all the people who say they don't like this film, you were never proper drinkers

[@kimvannote3690]

Love this Movie - Real Life. Mickey should've gotten an Academy Award for this.

[@smecking]

Mickey Rourke was fantastic in this. This and Johnny Handsome are among my favorite Rourke performances.

[@travisgray8376]

This is an Oscar worthy performance I'm saying...U don't see Mickey Rourke he becomes the character

[@copsuicide]

love watching a scabby drunk walk around from scene to scene like he's got a hot lump of shit crammed in between his ass cheeks

[@suzukinez]

this film is never brought up by mickey yet its one of his finest performances

[@mark1952able]

Barfly and The Wrestler, in my opinion was Mickey's best movies...

[@richlee509]

Rumblefish.

[@gibby6904]

Also Pope of Greenwich village

[@jamesmentzer]

Diner too! Don't forget!!

[@ward9306]

Yes it were

[@jamesradski9082]

Mickey really nails this Character such great acting.

[@user98xp]

He does, absolutely. The thing is that it was supposed to be Bukowski- esque, since Henry Chinasky was based on him. Bukowski himself was quite disappointed in Rourke's portrayal of what was supposed to be him. regardless of that, however, this movie ia a huge fan favorite. Cheers!

[@josephhernandez9480]

Foreal

[@dustythe2nd188]

Yes he sure does a great job. So does Dunaway.

[@ignorecorporatenews]

Brilliant movie. First saw it back in 1988. Loved it then and still love it.

[@paulmc3457]

Just wanted to give a shout out to ALL the supporting cast of the bars patrons, so gritty and real, such an incredible movie! 🙌👌👏👏

[@STONEPOET2]

Jack Nance, Lynch's best man, R.I.P.

[@walcoman]

So many great one liners in this unique and groundbreaking movie. Absolutely amazing.

[@scottdavis2711]

He played the role brilliantly!

[@kaitlynzuniga]

never heard of this movie until the tattoo artist who did my charles bukowski quote told me about it. so excited to watch it

[@theBIGBLUTO]

Well did you watch it ??

[@sluggzmcgee7420]

One of my favorite Mickey Rourke flicks.

[@jamesradski9082]

+Sluggz McGee Its a toss up for me this and Pope of Greenwich Village

[@kevinkim390]

Sluggz McGee Mickey should've gotten an Academy Award nomination for this splendid work.

[@nuthouse99]

scene 3:55 to 4:30. is absolutely brilliant. "This is a world where everybody's got do something...

[@CircleofShit]

Great scene, and I relate big time.

[@jeannepaul4975]

Love tut his movie and yes everyone I know has never seen this movie. This movie is fantastic

[@Stubby1085]

“Yeah but that counts too.” Used that line a few times when people come at me with the luck argument.

[@mebobbygillis]

This is a great movie. I saw it in the theater and loved it. I just wish it was available on DVD in the US.

[@ciadella1971]

It's available on Ebay.

[@housearrestband]

one of my favourite movies ever !! love gritty, true to life films...you can almost smell the booze on Henrys breath

[@paulfrantizek102]

Barfly had some world-class dialogue. "Was he dead?" "I don't think so, he was smoking a cigarette."

[@tedQAZ]

One of my favorite movies, none of my friends understand why.

[@ImYourHuckleberry_29]

If i wasn't a Rourke fan I would never have heard of Bukowski. I owe him big for that.

[@raymond3803]

I'd had 3 hours sleep in the last 48. My wife woke me, and said "You've got to see this" The dog was barking at him by the time I got up and around. I stayed up another 1.5 hours, engrossed in this movie. I guess she knew me. Easily in my top 5 movies of all time. Here I thought I was the only one. "how come nobody sits next to her" "She's crazy" "I noticed your class too baby"

[@UnkleAce]

They looked so good then before plastic surgery

[@dcarr5959]

I lost track of how many times I’ve seen this movie.

[@maciejprandota9542]

Mickey rourke had a couple of fantastic roles

[@ralphmangrella8515]

One of my favorite movies of all time.

[@Willybird37]

one of the most underrated movies of all time

[@lukeskywalkerc3896]

Truly one of the best movies ever made that hardly no one even knows about. In my Top 5 All-Time. Check out Slaughter House 5 sometime. It's brilliant too.

[@2calljohnson175]

Remembering Big Ed's Bar Culver City where a lot of this was filmed. Long since gone to urban renewal.

[@mcc11505]

Thanks for sharing this here & allowing comments too. So grateful i am clean & sober.

[@pullingthestrings5233]

It'll be sad if i drink a 12 pack while watching this and chain smoking

[@solitaryman777]

Getting into character

[@Willybird37]

excellent movie, no one could have portrayed bukowski better. thanks for the upload, brother!

[@taylorahern3755]

Despite the lack of shootings, stabbings, dismemberments, bombings & outbreaks of vicious mayhem this was indeed an outstanding & fantastically enjoyable movie, nonetheless. Mickey Rourke was never finer nor more superlative, as he became the character whom he was depicting so flawlessly (he was King back in the 80s!). The Perfect Ode to Bukowski & his famously degenerate lifestyle back during the 70s-early 80s. Immortal!

[@solitaryman777]

There was a stabbing in this clip! Didja miss it?

[@theFCAP]

Regardless that I don't drink, this film is truly visual poetry from a time when Hollywood still made art and not dress up parties for talentless Nepo Babies.

[@RawFitChris]

One of my and my friends and family's favorite movies of all time!

[@austinreid7229]

Mickey Rourke would not the game with the establishment.That Ultimatly cut short what could have been a great great acting career.Rourke is brilliant in all his films it's just a shame theirs not enough of them.

[@Valkonnen]

No, sometimes it's a case of a person who makes terrible decisions with their career and it's as simple as that. Saying that he "Wouldn't game with the establishment" is the dumbest thing that a person could say. It's that underachiever mentality that some people have where anyone who has something outside of your experience is obviously in league with some big conspiracy. All gains and success that anyone has must be ill gotten. People like you have kids who think the same stupid way. It's very limiting to a person to believe shit that simple does not exist...It's that way to you because you've never been in the film industry and it's way beyond your experience. I on the other hand have worked in film professionally for over 30 years , so I know that your "Establishment" theory about why Rourke failed is complete bullshit..He was becoming undependable and made terrible decisions ...That's it.....

[@mas7230]

yea he doesnt take shit, kiss ass or compromise....cool cat with great style too!

[@biscobisco1882]

Cut short? Did you miss him starring in Sin City, The Wrestler, Iron Man 2, The Expendables? His career didn't die in the 80s.

[@akhillong4068]

I found this movie for free on an app and it was mind blowing. Just a fantastic film !

[@TheYeahsta]

Great movie, great performance. If you don't like it big deal, why waste your time posting negative comments about it because your not gonna change anyone's mind about the greatness of this movie.

[@pinz2022]

My biggest problem was that the Mickey Rourke character had these two exquisite women fighting over him whereas the real-life Bukowski admitted that he could only get the old, ugly ones until he became famous (then he couldn't beat the groupies off with a stick). Furthermore, Bukowski had to toil as a postal clerk for years until he hit it big, whereas Mickey Rourke's character is that mythical Hollywood beast: The Being With No Obvious Means of Support.

[@vincenzollamas]

the screenplay, written by Charles Bukowski himself, is only semi-autobiographical, it's not meant to be historically accurate, it's a work of cinematic fiction more or less

[@LikeKools]

87’ Faye is hardly exquisite without context. Especially in this role

[@reader509]

I love the movie, love his books, love him. This compilation of scenes highlights almost all of the things that make this particular film (Bukowski's script) great. Thanks for posting!

[@ChrisSkinner-q8b]

Good stuff

[@henrycodm896]

That's just the nature of the way things woyks!😂

[@scotthildebrand991]

I say that all the time. It's so pure and true...I just wish I had made it up instead of copying it, but Ya know, dat's just de nature of de way things woyk!

[@vanillasiciliana]

That guy looks like the Grinch.

[@omerbrooklyn8716]

Fairest Of Them All lmfffaaoo

[@kylacronn9262]

THIS IS MY FAVORITE MOVIE!

[@acb9896]

Frank Stallone. The brother that nobody wanted.

[@fcruz43215]

It's an amazing film!

[@setpunks13]

Great movie. I just love Bukowski. His opinion of Rourke was a little contradictory. In his book Hollywood he said he liked the performance but thought Rourke was kind of a spoiled Hollywood kid. Later on, he said he didn't like his performance so much. I, for one, thought Rourke did a brilliant job.

[@mrronnie123]

Doesn't get any better than this!

[@johnmanning5193]

Been a long while for this one. Bought the VHS after a couple work buddies of mine sent me in the direction.

[@henrycodm896]

As fucked up as he seems, he's really talking about something so real and deep. And that's how it happens so much.

[@theprolificnetwork4670]

He got stuck on this character and is living it till this day

[@dontlookatthispagedlatpt.v7819]

Fantastic movie. Brutally honest!

[@wasteland70]

@edchuckndoug abolutely. I saw this when I was 16 or 17, when it hit video tape. I remember hearing those words like it was yesterday. I found a home in those lines and have lived by them for a long time. Glad to see you appreciate them as well.

[@HiddenSoulsMusic]

One of my favorite Rourke and Dunaway roles. Too bad Rourke clashed with the director.

[@bubbalong7646]

Bukowski said that Rourke looked too scruffy and too much like a bum.

[@carmelitameyer7135]

Why can't I see the BARFLY movie

[@theBIGBLUTO]

I used to be Eddie, metaphorically, I was the epidemy of " unoriginal Macho energy " in the 80's, I was a Chippendales dancer at there new location in Ft. Lauderdale & not only did women throw themselves at me, they stuffed their old rich husband's money in my g-string. I was also a boxer, but my only claim to fame was sparring with Mike Tyson. When my brother told me about this amazing movie & that Mickey Rourke played the role of a lifetime I scoffed at the idea of watching it. Mind you I owned a video store at the time it was released to my store (1989), and just seeing the box cover with Mickey & Faye & the title " Barfly " turned me off. The classic don't judge the book by the cover...

[@aaronamccoy]

one of my faves of all time, great upload, bukowski was great , roarke did him well

[@kenmarshall9907]

Mickey Rourke's constant Snagglepuss imitation is the highlight of this film, and , perhaps, its only saving grace.

[@EbenezarGold]

@4:44. the heartbreak of being in a lush relationship. anybody who likes this should check out "Fat City" . another gritty bar flick. Godman, now I want a beer. And it's Saturday. yeah, baby.

[@Doctortantramantra]

I think it was pivotal point in J.Bridges career when Stacy Keach called out his pretentiousness at the end of Fat City. God, Huston was such a tremendous director.

[@sydneyprescott3374]

So sad too

[@user-qr8ki8ue4i]

And the legend Albert King "Born Under a Bad Sign" playing in the background.

[@RavnerRavner]

I noticed that too

[@user-qr8ki8ue4i]

@@RavnerRavner Such a great choice.

[@ArthurFellig]

"Why are you so fucked up?" - Possibly the best line in any movie.

[@theBIGBLUTO]

I thought of a great line for a comeback " you mean drunk or my disposition ? "

[@solitaryman777]

Wasn't that in Rumblefish, too?

[@MsLinjohn]

Loved this movie. I watched it in LA

[@dorengarcia4761]

3:55 he says it all. Almost Buddhist.

[@makeit7579]

the carpet cleaner routine get's um every time

[@jmb-bj9gs]

Mickey Rourke is my favorite actor , by far.

[@charlielaunder4520]

Drinks for all my friends

[@IETCHX69]

Holy shit!!!!!!!! It's ON...123movies!!!!!!

[@bhobo09]

I love this movie!

[@kryptikdark7041]

Mickey Rourque is a pretty cool guy

[@jaxsun72]

One of my all-time favorites.

[@savidge08]

The second bartender a lot nicer

[@NCLUSA]

I have never seen this crap, now I feel good about it, and now I'm going to hit the out button. (:

[@SteveAustin-jp3ev]

One of Mickey's best roles

[@UpTick21]

Great video . . . thanks for the upload!!!

[@wasteland70]

This fim changed my entire word view.

[@mcgruff3309]

Mickey is a actor not a parrot! Love you Brother 😎

[@catch22punk]

Who plays the bartender? You guessed it! Frank Stallone!!

[@James-fv9bh]

Only seen once back in the 80s Good movies back then

[@bjoler2008]

Brilliant!

[@omariomariomario]

@zmitregnistegra I hated the movey when I first saw it, but later it became an all time favourite for me. Mickey Rourke is just legendary in this movie. Give it another chance. And... BarryWhitwell, thanks!

[@MegaTriumph1]

No Barfly 2, now that's criminal.

[@brianwalsh1401]

I don't know about that. Very rarely is the sequel even close to the original.

[@attheranch873]

I want to watch this, but it’s not available anywhere in the US now. 😣

[@vpcproduction7070]

rourke was amazing in the day.

[@TheRampagingGallowglass75]

One of The Greatest scenes in movie history! And with Mickey Rourke & Frank Stallone (who was also fantastic!) both at the top of their respective games how could it not be amongst the top 15 best, most riveting & funniest movie scenes to come out of the 1980s? Mickey Rourke was born to play this role, it's like he was magically preordained for this part, fulfilling this long held prophesy that he would be The Chosen One, all while more than living up to already high expectations as he slid quite smoothly & seamlessly into the proverbial shoes of Bukowski's larger than life literary creation, that barroom bozo misfit driven to drink & casually disgorge hilarious yet profoundly deep philosophical musings. Mickey Rourke nailed this role perfectly, in a comically gritty though realistic & mesmerizing fashion. He should have won an Oscar for this movie (then barflies the World over could have rejoiced in harmony, vindication & solidarity!). Yo Mickey, next brew I guzzle is going to be in your honor you stupendous Irish lad!

[@noname-bv7ue]

Who's that? You guessed it, Frank Stallone!

[@dustythe2nd188]

Also one of my fav all time movies!

[@srugel44]

Classic. I have no idea why people are slamming at you personally for uploading this film. Even if you don't dig the movie, it was written by Bukowski himself and serves as an adjunct to his other works. Works which have him ranked among the greatest writers in American history. Bukowski is the greatest poet of the age. Seeing the film, which Bukowski himself thought didn't quite represent him the way he intended, is still instructive and worthwhile and offers insight into his poet's mind.

[@chummy665]

Henry didn't like it because Mickey nailed it

[@Scyber_Official]

Cheers to Barfly! 🍻

[@KarlSnyder-jh9ic]

Nuthin but dumb luck Yeah, but that counts too

[@johnmanning5193]

"Unoriginal Macho Energy!"

[@keithleeuwen877]

Good Flick !

[@andydiaz6384]

great movie

[@mitsurugi2651]

One medium never translates into another medium too well.

[@lanslater]

good stuff Ill buy this for a dollar lol Thx for sharing Barry

[@davy_K]

He's got the Bukowski delivery down pretty good in this.

[@yamatokurosawa5763]

Mickey rourke is who i admire fashion wise out of some other people