Caveh Zahedi
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The Late Great Charles Bukowski

"Work is the curse of the drinking classes."
- Oscar Wilde

I saw Factotum today, and really liked it. I'm not usually a big Matt Dillon fan, but I thought he was excellent in this film. Matt Dillon portrays the young Bukowski, and does so with the right balance of dignity and degradation. This is a Bukowski we can all identify with, as opposed to the broad-stroked Hollywood-inflected whino portrayed by Mickey Rourke in Barfly. It was the best Bukowski adaptation I've seen, and the only one that made me want to actually read Bukowski.

Years ago, I saw Barbet Shroeder's The Bukowski Tapes which was mind-blowing. What an amazing portrait of a person. I have yet to see the other documentary on Bukowski, Born Into This, but now I want to.


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Charles Bukowski



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By all means catch "Born Into This", it's an unflinching look at the man. Quite engaging I thought.


born into this is simply amazing. i love the man, and own the dvd. he actually talks about barfly and says he hated his portrayal. said rourke went too far and wasn't nearly humble enough.


I just watched Born Into This over the weekend and was blown away at quality of information pressented. It takes you into his world and answers a lot of questions. I now want to read some of his books.


In "Factotum," were you taken with the way Bukowski's poems were set to music? I know Milan has a soundtrack CD



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