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Alcohol Abuse | Prostitute
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Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture Drama | 1988 | Faye
Best Foreign Film | 1989
Budget 3,000,000 USD
Box Office Collection 3,221,568 USD
The apartment building where Wanda's apartment was located was an actual building where Charles Bukowski and his lover Jane Baker Cooley, the real-life counterparts to Henry and Wanda, had lived. No one knew this until Bukowski, who was watching the filming, remembered.
The first Kino Flo (professional LED-based lighting equipment) unit was created in 1987, during the filming of this movie. Director of photography Robby Müller was filming in a cramped interior and couldn't fit traditional lights into the location. In order to work around the problem, the film's gaffer Frieder Hocheim and best boy Gary H. Swink designed a high-output fluorescent light that had a remote ballast, allowing the lamp unit to be sufficiently small and lightweight to be taped to the wall. Hochheim and Swink subsequently created a company, Kino Flo Incorporated, to manufacture and market their innovation to the film industry. The new lights were quickly embraced by cinematographers and now are considered a staple of a standard motion picture lighting package.
In its obituary of Charles Bukowski, "The New York Post" used a photo of Mickey Rourke as Henry Chinaski in Barfly (1987) instead of a photo of the poet himself.
According to Charles Bukowski's novel Hollywood, which was based on the events surrounding the making of Barfly, it was at Mickey Rourke's insistence that his close friend Frank Stallone have a part in the movie.
The names of the night clubs, cocktail bars, and drinking establishments seen, particularly in montages that bookend the picture, were Firefly, Boulevard Inn, Ski Room, Catelina Cocktails, The Elbow Inn, The Golden Horn, Craby Joe's, Smog Cutter, Frady Hank, The Sunset, Silver Platter, Side Show, Snug Harbor, The Hollyway Cocktails, and Oasis (aka Club Oasis).
"Wanda: I can't stand people, I hate them. Henry: Oh yeah? Wanda: Do you hate them? Henry: No, but I seem to feel better when they're not around."
"Henry: Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead."
