"Actor: Charles Bukowski"

• Bukowski - Born Into This | DVD | (23/02/2009) from £20.23   |  Saving you £-5.24 (-35.00%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Bukowski: Born Into This is the first comprehensive documentary of Charles Bukowski (1920-1994) - international celebrity poet novelist and underground cult icon. Director John Dullaghan spent seven years researching and shooting conducting dozens of interviews with relatives girlfriends and other poets as well as better-known friends like Bono Sean Penn Harry Dean Stanton Barbet Schroeder and Taylor Hackford.

• Charles Bukowski at Belle Vue | DVD | (27/09/2004) from £18.98   |  Saving you £-2.99 (-18.70%)   |  RRP £15.99

  In the spring of 1970 CHARLES BUKOWSKI then little known packed his overnight bag locked the door of his tumbledown East Hollywood apartment behind him and took his first plane ride to the state of Washington to read at Bellevue Community College.This pioneer reading (only his fourth ever) was videotaped in black-and-white using two cameras by students and the film lay forgotten for 18 years.Featured PoemsSoup Cosmos And TearsI Think of the Little MenAnother AcademyMy Father Was...The LesbianThe Night I Killed TommyA Last Shot on Two Good HorsesDrawing of a Band Concert on a MatchboxKaakaa and Other ImmolationsI Wanted To Overthrow The GovernmentFire Station (For Jane With Love)Something For The Touts The Nuns The Grocery Clerks And YouWhile the technical aspects of this film are shaky all of this one hour reading comes through loud and clear. Here is Bukowski at a mid-life but at the beginning of a great career reading powerfully and with grit and humour.