| | Bukowski: Born Into This DVD (1 Customer Review)
| Category | Docudrama DVDs, Dramas Movies, Education Videos, Documentary, Biography, Writers, Authors | | Director | John Dullaghan | | Featured | Harry Dean Stanton, Sean Penn, Taylor Hackford, Bono, Barbet Schroeder | | Producer | John Dullaghan | | Subject | Charles Bukowski |
Bukowski: Born Into This is the first comprehensive documentary of Charles Bukowski (1920-1994) and while longtime fans will find confirmation of the Bukowski they'd always imagined, there are plenty of surprises in store. The film traces his extraordinary life, from an abusive childhood through decades of poverty and alcoholism; numerous menial jobs and turbulent relationships; through 14 years as a postal employee; and his eventual international celebrity as a poet, novelist and underground cult icon. In his lifetime, Bukowski became most widely known as the screenwriter and real-life model for Barfly, the feature film based on his early life. Director John Dullaghan spent seven years searching high and low for the most pertinent material he could find about the notorious writer, drinker, and recluse Charles Bukowski (1920-1994). The result is BUKOWSKI: BORN INTO THIS, a highly entertaining, informative tribute to Bukowski's work, his life, and the people who were inspired and influenced by him. Using a large quantity of grainy black-and-white interview footage shot by German Cosmopolitan in the 1970s, some of the most frank conversations and classic moments in the film--Bukowski driving his car through L.A. with a big crack in the windshield, telling stories--come from this archival material. Other interviews come from Bukowski's wife and a smattering of girlfriends ranging from "Cupcakes" to Linda King, from a former post office coworker, and from celebrities and friends like Taylor Hackford, Bono, Sean Penn, Harry Dean Stanton, and Tom Waits. Barbet Schroeder also appears in the film to talk about his feature film BARFLY, based on Bukowski, which starred Mickey Rourke. With readings of Bukowski's poems peppered throughout, the documentary traces the progress of his life from his miserable childhood to his 14-year tenure as a postal worker, his column "Notes of a Dirty Old Man" in the L.A. Free Press, his foul mouth and dark outlook, his misogynistic view of women, his books, and of course, his steady heavy drinking. And yet, the film is uplifting and shows Bukowski's soft, ironic side. BUKOWSKI: BORN INTO THIS succeeds with flying colors, adding new insight to this fascinating and hard-to-know character whose memory will not soon be forgotten. Theatrical Release: June 4, 2004 (NY) Bukowski: Born Into This Reviews: "[The film] accomplishes beautifully what it sets out to do, which is to reveal the man behind the crusty, hard-drinking, tough-talking persona Charles Bukowski so artfully crafted."-- Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times "[A] definitive and engrossing documentary portrait..."-- Stephen Holden, New York Times
This is the only John Dullaghan video. Bukowski: Born Into This | List Price | $19.98 (You save $4.43) | | Studio | Magnolia Home Entertainment | | Orig Year | 2004 | | All Time Sales Rank |  19550  | | CD Universe Part number | 7031988 | | Catalog number | 10006 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Mar 21, 2006 | | Rating | Not Rated | | Running Time | 113 Minutes | | Movie Details | Color |
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