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""A look at the life and career of Charles Bukowski, a Los Angeles-based poet, novelist and counterculture icon.""
"Comprehensive documentary of Charles Bukowski - international celebrity, poet, novelist and underground cult icon."@en
"Traces the life of poet, novelist and underground cult icon Charles Bukowski (screenwriter and real-life model for feature film 'Barfly'), from an abusive childhood through decades of poverty, alcoholism, menial jobs and turbulent relationships to international celebrity. Features interviews with relatives and colleagues."
"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."
"Traces Los Angeles author Charles Bukowski's life, from an abusive childhood through decades of poverty and alcoholism, menial jobs, relationships and eventual international celebrity as a poet and novelist."@en
"Comprehensive documentary of Charles Bukowski (1920-1994) - international celebrity, poet, novelist and underground cult icon."
""Author Charles Bukowski was one of those rare writers whose work created a myth of epic proportions around its creator. This film 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. In his lifetime, Bukowski became most widely known as the screenwriter and real-life model for Barfly, the feature film based on his early life. Director John Dullaghan spent seven years researching and shooting this documentary, conducting dozens of interviews with Bukowski's wife Linda, relatives, neighbours, post office workers, girlfriends and other poets as well as Bono, Sean Penn, Harry Dean Stanton, Barbet Schroeder and Taylor Hackford."--Web site."@en

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http://worldcat.org/entity/person/id/2636066831

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"Film documentaire (Descripteur de forme)"
"Poetry"
"Biographical films"
"Video recordings for the hearing impaired"
"Biographie (Descripteur de forme)"
"Biography"@en
"Biography"
"Interviews"
"Interviews"@en
"Documentary films"

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"Bukowski - born into this"
"Bukowski born into this : a film"
"Bukowski born into this : a film"@en
"Bukowski [Videograbación]. Born into this"@es
"Bukowski : born into this"
"Bukowski born into this"@en
"Bukowski born into this"

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