Any news on this? Apparently released in 2013/14 but can't find a trailer or anything except the legal issues around copyright. Any info appreciated. Apologies in advance if this has been covered.
All I can find are references to it and articles about the lawsuit over the rights. I'd like to see it. Just re-watched Barfly and got on a "Buk on film" kick.
Any Angelinos out there? Are there still a lot of those old school dive bars around like in the film? Tampa used to have dozens but a lot have gone the way of the dodo. All the new bars serve 8 dollar pints of craft beer. I love the good beer, but still like those dark places where PBR isn't ironic and Schlitz can be found. The kind of place where fights break out but no one will bother you if you don't look for trouble. I used to go to a place called Leo's. One afternoon I'm getting drunk, a somewhat classy guy and his lady having a drink next to me, and another guy starts to get lippy. A warning is given but lippy guy keeps at it. First guy calmly puts down his Scotch, gives a swift right-left to lippy, whose knees buckle; classy guy grabs him by the collar and belt and tosses him out the door. Lippy stands up and threatens classy guy, who tenses up to deal a few more blows, but lippy begs off and hurries away. First guy comes back and looks at me, nods with a slight raise of his glass, as if to say sorry for the disturbance, and resumes talking to his lady where he'd left off, no mention of the fight, cool as a cucumber.
That kind of place. :)
Albuquerque had its share of great dives. The worst was El Rey. I once sat there as two guys so drunk they could barely punch writhed at my feet while some young woman hinted at sexual favors if I bought her drinks. I bought her drinks, but declined the favors. Jack's was a good one but closed. I think Mori's is still kicking. Tradition was at five or five-thirty a song was song, something about "we are lost little sheep". The song and music were printed on cards. Any of those places would be good sets for a film about Buk, but I suppose LA still has it's share. Any places he frequented still open?
Sorry that got off track, but seeing those dives in the opening to Barfly stirred a powerful nostalgia in me. Tampa: Leo's, The Hub, Corsica Jean and Juanita's Palace. Albuquerque: Mori's, El Rey, Jack's. Ithaca: The Chanticleer. France doesn't have places like that. One thing I really miss about the States. That and Cuban sandwiches.