films about alcoholism, S/D

This must be near the top:

http://ontheboweryfilm.com/index.html

And then... Barfly?

I haven't seen Lost Weekend or Days of Wine and Roses in a long while, and Leaving Las Vegas, ick.

The Thin Man series

man named joe iirc. it's been so long that i don't know whether to s or d it but it sure fits.

Harvey

man named joe iirc.

Do you mean My Name is Joe, or are we talking about something different?

"A Star Is Born"... sort of

I think Lost Weekend is a good film with alcoholism as its subject but not necessarily a good film about alcoholism, if you get me. Too much poetry.

Haven't seen Barfly in over a decade but I love that movie.

"Nil By Mouth," sort of. "Sideways," sort of.

'small back room'

yes!

The Days of Wine and Roses

'withnail and i'

a woman under the influence

"Love is the Devil" (tangentially)

The Verdict, where the alcoholism is integrated into something larger.

'rio bravo' (sub-plot)

melville's 'le cercle rouge', subplot complete w dt hallucinations

cat on a hot tin roof

bad santa

Sixteen Years of Alcohol <--- right there in the title

my name is bill w.

who's afraid of virginia woolf

stuart saves his family.

a woman under the influence

― Chinedu "Edu" Obasi Ogbuke (nakhchivan), Tuesday, September 21, 2010 5:21 AM (1 hour ago)

while there is that scene where she ties one on, i think Mabel's issues run a bit deeper than mere alcoholism.

superman 3

The Legend of the Holy Drinker by Ermanno Olmi - a not-so-good movie taken from the beautiful Josef Roth short story (Rutger Hauer as the drunken clochard was quite good though).

Hoosiers

"Mere" xp

mentioning titles is not S/D, tweeters.

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for one thing, isn't The Lost Weekend kinda ridiculous at this point?

this is making me want a drink

Allan King made a TV documentary in '56 called Skid Row that's probably very similar to the Bowery film referenced above. I thought it was pretty good--not great.

Stewart Saves his Family is a surprisingly good film.

Ray Milland is a totally unconvincing alcoholic (he does bring off the curious scene between him and a gay male nurse though).

Lew Ayres in Holiday is my favorite screen alcoholic: ironic, probably gay, sad.

well the guy IS gay in the book of Lost Weekend, or the author was, sumthin like that.

Arthur. The Russell Brand version, obv

Shot as a BBC Play for Today so ymmv as to whether you want to call it a film or not, but Search Edna the Inebriate Woman.

http://www.screenonline.org.uk/tv/id/459072/index.html

Haven't seen it for a long time but I loved it when I saw it - looking back from here I think it's a pretty real portrait of a woman at the margins, too.

jack lemmon's booze fueled freakout (in the days of wine and roses) in his pop's greenhouse is more hilar than harrowing also

Ben Gazzara in Tales of Ordinary Madness is worth a search too as a worthy Bukowski flick, but I can't remember how much actual boozing goes on in the film.

I don't care for Barfly, but Faye Dunaway was convincingly blowzy.

The relationship between Rourke and Frank Stallone in Barfly is good fun, tbh I don't remember much more than that and Dunaway.

Oh, and "real pain for all my sham friends".

'Le feu follet' - Malle

^^^ yes

Haven't seen Under the Volcano since it came out, but I liked it at the time. As someone said above, Virginia Woolf for sure--I can't think of a more alcohol-soaked film. All they do is pour drinks for two hours.

Gazzara is a better Bukowski than Mickey Rourke, btw.

UtV is a great boozy epic of fiction, Huston's film was a bit prosaic.

I didn't watch UTV until 2007 – it took a while for a DVD to get released – but I found it an interesting failure. Albert Finney's perfectly cast while acting in a vacuum (Anthony Andrews and Jacqueline Bisset are in there somewhere)

never adapt a masterpiece novel into a movie

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Films_about_alcoholism

Trees Lounge is a good 'un.

mentioning titles is not S/D, tweeters.

― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, September 21, 2010 1:45 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

Search: In A Lonely Place

Destroy: 28 Days

lost weekend is a good film but the damn scene with the bat is so dopey it kinda ruins the mood of despair

I love Lost Weekend unreservedly (including the admittedly dopey bat scene.) Something about the over-the-top melodramatic tone (I think of Whatever Happened To Baby Jane and The Bad Seed in the same way) has stuck with me since first seeing it years ago.

while there is that scene where she ties one on, i think Mabel's issues run a bit deeper than mere alcoholism.

― Fartbritz Sootzveti (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 21 September 2010 14:40 (6 hours ago)

hmmmn were you the earnest psychiatric registrar? i'd agree, it's def a risk factor tho

really chilling performance by michael redgrave as alky in "time without pity"

see also powell and pressburger's "small back room"

oh wait, that's been mentioned already.

yeah 'time w/o pity' is a great pick. im sure there's another losey abt/concerning alcoholism.

I don't usually plug/shill things, but if anyone in the LA area is interested, a friend of mine is helping to put on the Writers in Treatment 'Reel Recovery Film Festival' - they screen films that deal with alcholism/addiction/etc and they usually get some pretty high profile guest speakers through their entertainment connections - open to the general public as well as members. Kind of a cool thing, I thought. http://www.writersintreatment.org/

No When A Man Loves A Woman?

screenplay by Sen. Stuart Smalley

Affliction--for me, far and away Schrader's best--is partly about alcoholism. It's more about abuse, obviously, but the one leads to the other. And Coburn's character himself was, and is, plainly an alcoholic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cGAcqBb_tA

Almost every Robert Downey Jr. performance.

After school special Sarah T. - Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic. All I really remember about it was that she would order booze over the phone and have it delivered. When the delivery came she would pretend her mom was in the shower. I thought it was pretty funny when I was a kid, reading IMDB about it now doesn't seem that funny. Nothing at all like Helen Hunt's after school special, Angel Dusted.

Actually thought Volcano was a far better film than Under the Volcano

some info about a bio of The Lost Weekend's novelist

http://knopfdoubleday.com/tag/the-lost-weekend/

It’s not necessarily ~about~ alcoholism, directly, but the grotesqueries of booze and masculinity probably never captured more harrowingly than Wake in Fright.

Not a movie to watch while hungover.

‘smash-up: the story of a woman’ (1947) with susan hayward as an alcoholic nightclub singer is very good (and not really as campy as the title would suggest). script by john howard lawson of the Hollywood Ten