Bukowski : born into this
(DVD) 

Originally produced as an American documentary in 2003.

Special features: Director's commentary [audio feature]; "Dinosauria, we" and a sneak peek at unpublished poems [text feature]; Bukowski's final home movie footage from 1992 (13 min.); Deleted scene (4 min.); Extended interviews: Taylor Hackford, Linda Lee Bukowski, Bono, John Martin (36 min.); Tom Waits and Bono read Bukowski poetry (3 min.); Born Into This: Behind-the-scenes featurette (9 min.); Bukowski published works [text feature]; DVD credits [text feature]; Also available from Magnolia Home Entertainment [previews] (12 min.).

Cinematography, Matt Mindlin, Art Simon ; edited by Victor Livingston ; original score by James Wesley Stemple.

Charles Bukowski, Taylor Hackford, Linda Lee Bukowski, Neeli Cherkovski, Bono, Joyce Fante, Michael Cano, John Martin, Dom Muto, Harry Dean Stanton, Jack Micheline, Mike Meloan, William Packard, FrancEyE, Marina Bukowski, Liza Williams, Tom Waits, Carl Weissner, Steve Richmond, Pam Miller, Sean Penn, Beverly Knox, Barbet Schroeder.

Charles "Hank" Bukowski, Los Angeles-based poet, novelist and counterculture icon, succumbed to leukemia at age 73, on March 9, 1994. Written off by critics as a drunken blowhard, his work was a slashing rebuke to polite academic formalism, cutting through the labyrinthine indulgent difficulty of much modern verse; his poems are poems anyone can understand. The self-proclaimed "dirty old man" profiled by this film, was possibly a misunderstood romantic, and defiantly a major American poet. With rare footage, photos, readings, and interviews with friends, ex-lovers, and celebrity admirers, the film paints a straightforward introductory portrait of Bukowski, the patron saint of skid row poetry.

DVD; Region 1, NTSC; Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo; fullscreen, presentation aspect ratio 1.33:1.

In English; closed-captioned in English.

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