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Bukowski: Born into This (2003) Rank 4 Reviews
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Film Threat, Hollywood's Indie Voice
The man, the myth, the Bukowski. Here's a movie that requires you to tie one on after, if not during the screening.For a first time filmmaker who only turned onto Charles Bukowski about 10 years ago, Bukowski: Born Into This presents just about ...read the complete Bukowski: Born into This movie review at Film Threat, Hollywood's Indie Voice
Atlanta Journal-Constitution (Bob Longino)
A great documentary about a fine writer and horrible human being. ...read the complete Bukowski: Born into This movie review at Atlanta Journal-Constitution (Bob Longino)
Entertainment Weekly (Owen Gleiberman)
It reveals Bukowski to be a far grander artist than his bum's armor would suggest. ...read the complete Bukowski: Born into This movie review at Entertainment Weekly (Owen Gleiberman)
MovieWeb (Evan "Mushy" Jacobs)
Dallas Morning News (Jane Sumner)
An amazing, worthy journey. ...read the complete Bukowski: Born into This movie review at Dallas Morning News (Jane Sumner)
Denver Rocky Mountain News (Robert Denerstein)
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. ...read the complete Bukowski: Born into This movie review at Denver Rocky Mountain News (Robert Denerstein)
HNR - Hollywood North Report DVD Review (Ricky Smith)
Boston Globe
In "Bukowski: Born Into This," the late LA writer Charles Bukowski is seen reading from his poems and stories at staged events, and it's as though a Sterno bum has commandeered the podium. He clutches a bottle of beer and peers at the ...read the complete Bukowski: Born into This movie review at Boston Globe
Austin Chronicle (Marc Savlov)
Los Angelean to his surprisingly soft center, poet and novelist Bukowski became the patron saint of skid row poetry in the Sixties, a bona fide celebrity in the Seventies, and an icon of truth and beauty masquerading as one of Mickey Spillane’s ...read the complete Bukowski: Born into This movie review at Austin Chronicle (Marc Savlov)
DVD Talk (Svet Atanasov)
I can not recommend highly enough this astonishing documentary. If you ever wanted to dive deep into the world of a man who created as many passionate admirers as he inspired dedicated haters then Born Into This is it. This is indeed quite an ambitious ...read the complete Bukowski: Born into This movie review at DVD Talk (Svet Atanasov)
Reel.com
Charles Bukowski has achieved such iconic status as the enfant terrible of letters, it's hard not to utter his name without a bit self-consciousness. People should like what they like, of course, but Bukowski fans often turn the man into an anti-hero of ...read the complete Bukowski: Born into This movie review at Reel.com
Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
Bukowski was blessed, as if to compensate for everything else, with the most beautiful smile. It was, as more than one woman probably told him, his best feature. When he was not smiling he ...read the complete Bukowski: Born into This movie review at Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
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