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Bookmark this pageBukowski Born into This (2003)
Director: John Dullaghan
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From Time Out Film Guide
For publisher John Martin, who put his money on a horse called Risk when he funded Bukowski to write full-time, the constantly contradictory street-scribe was the 'Walt Whitman of our age'. This comprehensive documentary deploys talking heads to scan decades of drinking, womanising and the penning of those notorious, explicit, angry but always honest 'outsider' stories, essays and verse. Bukowski might have reached the screen before (in Barfly, Crazy Love, Tales of Ordinary Madness and the coming Factotum), but not unmediated as here. Generous with revealing archive footage of the man, the film is more than essential for fans. For others, it's a study of the cost and call of writing as good as any around.Author: GE
Cast & crew
Director: John Dullaghan
Producer: John Dullaghan
Cast: Taylor Hackford, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Linda Lee Bukowski, Neeli Cherkovski, Joyce Fante, John Martin, Dom Muto, William Packard, FrancEye, Marina Bukowski, Steve Richmond, Pam 'Cupcakes' Miller, Beverly Knox, Tom Waits, Barbet Schroeder, Liza Williams, Bono, Sean Penn, Harry Dean Stanton, Charles Bukowski full cast
Duration: 121 mins
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