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- 2004
- R
- Magnolia Pictures
- 2 h 10 m
- 2004
- R
- Magnolia Pictures
- 2 h 10 m
Summary The first comprehensive documentary on author Charles Bukowski, one of those rare writers whose work created a myth of epic proportions around its creator. (Magnolia Pictures)
Directed By: John Dullaghan
- 2004
- R
- Magnolia Pictures
- 2 h 10 m
- 2004
- R
- Magnolia Pictures
- 2 h 10 m
Bukowski: Born into This
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Summary The first comprehensive documentary on author Charles Bukowski, one of those rare writers whose work created a myth of epic proportions around its creator. (Magnolia Pictures)
Directed By: John Dullaghan
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 25 Critic Reviews
77
84% Positive
21 Reviews
21 Reviews
16% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
0% Negative
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It reveals Bukowski to be a far grander artist than his bum's armor would suggest.
A portrait of a sometimes surly, often foulmouthed, always brilliant artist that is at once humane, horrific, hilarious and deeply moving.
Wants to claim Bukowski (1920-1994) as a 20th-century West Coast Walt Whitman -- a people's poet of modern degradation. Through a selective presentation of his writing and a reverently crass treatment of his life, it makes a funny, often intensely moving case, and you're having such a good time that you're glad to let it.
Makes a compelling case for raising him (Bukowski) from cult status to the top rank of 20th century U.S. literary figures -- while providing ample evidence of a very colorful life and times.
The dirty old man who became a cult poet and author was a true original, and every minute he's on screen, whether it's reading from his brutally honest work or musing on a hard-lived life for the cameras, it's hard to look away.
Dullaghan's film is a bit too straightforward and introductory to be declared a definitive portraiture. The gold nuggets worth sifting for lie in the anecdotal minutiae.
Goes to great lengths to show the man-child behind the barfly, but in its rush to deify its subject, it lacks critical voices and context.
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Awards
Sundance Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
