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Reviews Counted:47
Fresh:39
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Average Rating:7.3/10
Consensus: A thoroughly engrossing documentary examining the life of talented but troubled writer Charles Bukowski.
Theatrical Release:Nov 30, 1999 Limited
Box Office: $81,682
Synopsis: Director John Dullaghan spent seven years searching high and low for the most pertinent material he could find about the notorious writer, drinker, and recluse Charles Bukowski (1920-1994). The... [More]
Starring: Bono, Sean Penn, Harry Dean Stanton, Barbet Schroeder
Director: John Dullaghan
'Poet laureate of the gutter,' ranter, sexual boaster, bane of the middle class and lifelong outcast, the writer cultivated a persona that begs for documentary treatment, and he gets a good one in Bukowski: Born Into This.
Top Critica loving tribute to a writer, his craft and, above all, the idea of living and dying by one’s own creed
Dullaghan's raw and defining documentary about the man -- and the myth.
Top CriticCharles Bukowski - who wasn't always particularly pleasant, but who was always pleasantly particular - would have loved this gruff homage.
Bukowski: Born Into This presents a spunky up-close and personal portrait of a bohemian, cantankerous writer who stayed the course.
You come out of the theater wanting to beeline to a bookstore, grab a copy of Post Office or Love Is a Dog From Hell, and adjust your opinion as necessary.
Top CriticBukowski is one of my all time favorite writers and now I have an all new respect for the man thanks to John Dullaghan's phenomenal film.
The triumph of Born Into This isn’t that is makes us understand the man, but rather that it is able to reproduce him so vividly.
You get to see more of the down side of the man than the genius of his work, it almost falls into that 'too much information' category.
Provides an overview of Bukowski's work and allows us to gaze into the soul of a man who built a fortress of toughness around his vulnerable core.
Top Critic[Bukowski] is never seen in less than fighting spirit or formidable form throughout the documentary Bukowski: Born into This.
How much was legend, how much was pose, how much was real? I think it was all real, and the documentary suggests as much.
Top CriticHas the right, Bukowskian approach: Just tell it, just show it, no fancy dancing.
[Bukowski's] grumbling, cursing, and hard-working persona remains an inspiration. Admirably, Born Into This does him justice.
The more the film labors to canonize the man and his work, the further it gets away from their pungent essence.
It reveals Bukowski to be a far grander artist than his bum's armor would suggest.
Top CriticOver a period of seven years, Dullaghan interviewed hundreds of people who knew or were affected by Bukowski. The result is both wide-ranging and intimate.
A fan-boy hagiography of a mean-spirited alcoholic rather than a serious examination of a powerful writer and his writings.
Top CriticIt never gets beneath the skin of Bukowski, who seems much more interested in preserving his pugilist/poet image than in revealing himself.
...the next best thing [to Bukowski's autobiographical stories]: an extended Bukowski book-flap bio, complete with grizzled author photo, annotated by a knowledgeable zealot.
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