Bukowski: Born into This (2003)

User Rating:

7.8/10   

Director:

John Dullaghan

Release Date:

30 April 2004 (UK)

Genre:

Documentary | Biography

Plot:

Documentary on Charles Bukowski, author of 'Notes of a Dirty Old Man', 'Love Is a Dog from Hell', and the autobiographical novels, 'Women', 'Hollywood', and 'Post Office'. |

Plot Keywords:

Memory | Photograph | Novelist | Poetry Reading | Poet

Awards:

1 nomination

Cast

Charles Bukowski	...	Himself (archive footage)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Bono	...	Himself
John Bryan	...	Himself
Linda Lee Bukowski	...	Herself
Marina Bukowski	...	Herself
Neeli Cherkovski	...	Herself
Joyce Fante	...	Herself
FrancEyE	...	Herself
Taylor Hackford	...	Himself
John Martin	...	Himself
Mike Meloan	...	Himself
Jack Micheline	...	Himself
Pam 'Cupcakes' Miller	...	Herself
Dom Muto	...	Himself
William Packard	...	Himself
Sean Penn	...	Himself
Steve Richmond	...	Himself
Barbet Schroeder	...	Himself
Harry Dean Stanton	...	Himself
Tom Waits	...	Himself
Carl Weissner	...	Himself
Liza Williams	...	Herself

Directed by
John Dullaghan

Produced by
Diane Markow	....	co-producer
John McCormick	....	co-producer

Original Music by
James Stemple		(as James Wesley Stemple)

Cinematography by
Matt Mindlin
Art Simon

Film Editing by
Victor Livingston

Sound Department
Richard Burton	....	sound re-recording mixer
Gary Gossett	....	sound
Paul Hackner	....	sound
Ted Sheibar	....	additional sound engineer
David Silberberg	....	sound

Music Department
Charlie Paakkari	....	music editor

Distributors

• Magnolia Pictures (2004) (USA) (theatrical)
• Pretty Pictures (2005) (France) (theatrical)
• Zazie Films (2005) (Japan) (theatrical)
• Magnolia Home Entertainment (2006) (USA) (DVD)

MPAA:

Rated R for language and sexual content/nudity.

Runtime:

130 min | Japan:113 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

USA:R | Australia:MA

Trivia:

The title of the film comes from Bukowski's poem, "Dinosauria, we", which was published in his book, "The Last Night Of The Earth Poems". Published in 1992, it was the final book of poetry released while the poet was still alive.

Movie Connections:

Edited from The Charles Bukowski Tapes (1985)

beautiful look into the life of a great writer

I'd never heard Bukowski speak before. I'd seen the pictures and read the words. This hard-nosed writer surprised me as a very soft spoken, very sensitive artist. His intimidating face became friendlier and friendlier to me as the film progressed. With this movie, you get to see a lot of interview footage and a lot of personal commentary from close friends. You get your heart tugged at when his childhood is filled in for you. You laugh at his wit while handling interviewers. And you probably get thirsty looking at all the wine and beer he drinks. The only thing I didn't care for about this was the ever-so-pompous Bono sharing his 2 cents.