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BUKOWSKI: BORN INTO THIS
Directed by John Dullaghan
USA, 2004 113 minutes In English |
"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 |
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Panel at 9 p.m. in the Lucas-Dodge Room (#256) on the second floor of the IMU. |
FILM SUMMARY
The first comprehensive documentary of Charles Bukowski (1920-1994), "Born Into This" 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. Director John Dullaghan spent seven years researching and shooting "Born Into This," conducting dozens of interviews with relatives, neighbors, teenage pals, fellow post office workers, girlfriends and other poets as well as better-known friends like Bono, Sean Penn, Harry Dean Stanton, Barbet Schroeder and Taylor Hackford. While the film was undertaken out of an appreciation for Bukowski, Dullaghan went to great lengths to present the different sides of the author, offering the most revealing look yet of Bukowski and his work. The result is a film that peels off the hardened mask of the mythic Bukowski to reveal the insecure, loving and extremely human man - and the artist - underneath. FILM LINKS
* Official Website
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