Login

Bukowski: Born Into This

The first comprehensive documentary on the controversial poet, underground writer and cult icon. Director John Dullaghan spent seven years researching and chronicling the unique life of Charles Bukowski. Through extensive interviews with family and friends including Tom Waits, Harry Dean Stanton and Bono, a portrait of this brilliant, irreverent and undoubtedly messed up artist emerges.

Year: 2003
Genre: Documentaries, General Docos, Biography
Country: USA
Director: John Dullaghan
Starring: Charles Bukowski, Bono, Harry Dean Stanton, Tom Waits, Linda Lee Bukowski, Taylor Hackford
Duration: 113 Minutes
Rating: Ex
7.9/10
Location in store: Documentary (Biographies)
This DVD requires a multi-zone DVD player

AVAILABILITY

DVD AVAILABLE NOW!

Permanent Collection

For in-store pickup reservations please call 03 3650 615

ALICE ALSO SUGGESTS:

Barfly (1987)

Mickey Rourke and Faye Dunaway are superb in this film, based on Charles Bukowski's writings, which...

Tales of Ordinary Madness (1983)

Based on the short stories of American writer Charles Bukowski ('Barfly'), this paints a passionate,...

Jack Kerouac: King of the Beats (2001)

Jack Kerouac's novel "On The Road" and its stream-of-consciousness style of poetry greatly influence...

What Happened to Kerouac? (1986)

A lively and revealing investigation into the personal history and creative process of Jack Kerouac...

The Charles Bukowski Tapes (1985)

During the years filmmaker Barbet Schroeder spent making the 1987 film 'Barfly', his evenings were o...

Factotum (2005)

The life of celebrated poet, novelist and wild man Charles Bukowski is examined in this darkly humou...

William Gibson - No Maps for these Territories (2001)

William Gibson - visionary writer, author of 'Neuromancer' and creator of the term 'cyberspace' - is...

Buy the Ticket, Take the Ride: Hunter S. Thompson on Film (2006)

Nick Nolte narrates this acclaimed bio-documentary about the maverick writer and Gonzo journalist th...

No More to Say & Nothing to Weep For: An Elegy for Allen Ginsberg (1997)

Witness the last days of the Beat poet whose works would capture the very essence of the 1960 counte...

Destroy All Rational Thought (2006)

The great Beat Generation experiments took place in Tangier, the Moroccan city where William Burroug...

Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr Hunter S Thompson (2008)

Living and dying with a fast, hard, and uncompromising style was the only choice for writer/journali...

Barfly ( Blu-ray ) (1987)

Mickey Rourke and Faye Dunaway are superb in this film, based on Charles Bukowski's writings, which...