Bukowski: Born Into This
2003 · 115 MIN · IMDB 7.8 · 3,690 VOTES · DIR. John Dullaghan
Overview
Director John Dullaghan’s biographical documentary about infamous poet Charles Bukowski, Bukowski: Born Into This, is as much a touching portrait of the author as it is an exposé of his sordid lifestyle. Interspersed between ample vintage footage of Bukowski’s poetry readings are interviews with the poet’s fans including such legendary figures such as Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Joyce Fante (wife of John), Bono, and Harry Dean Stanton. Filmed in grainy black and white by Bukowski’s friend, Taylor Hackford, due to lack of funding, the old films edited into this movie paint Bukowski’s life of boozing and brawling romantically, securing Bukowski’s legendary status.
Dialogue Timeline — 1,156 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:00:00 PICTURE UP, B-ROLL
00:03:41 Don’t grin at me like that. It’s true. They came too late. I’m
00:06:40 column at the L.A. Free Press called
00:11:02 MAN IN AUDIENCE: [INAUDIBLE].
00:15:09 What is your definition of sex?
00:19:43 CHARLES BUKOWSKI: I’d have it at night.
00:23:58 you always figure even though you’ve only been there once or twice there
00:27:52 what a? United States Post Office. Two and a half years of hell, pure hell.
00:31:38 what Freud would have thought of the twentieth century and she said there’s
00:35:12 could be his little cave to write in.
00:38:42 of accuracy within a given amount of time.
00:42:58 TAYLOR HACKFORD: After a certain number of books John Martin started to realize
00:46:17 oh my God Bukowski would say. Why, why did I start with crap like that?
00:49:53 STEVE RICHMOND: So at the end of the party
00:53:42 You are waiting for her, yeah? No?
00:59:07 doing all this research with women so I had no intention of becoming
01:02:49 CHARLES BUKOWSKI: Twenty-one, Twenty- two Longwood Avenue.
01:07:04 disfigured to go in and too ashamed disfigured to go
01:10:23 inside of me? It cries. It demands. It says there’s a chance. It will not say no.
01:14:12 out of here so bright and so fast with a Jewish attorney. You’re going to feel
01:17:36 I should run for mayor. He didn’t get it right because I’d walk in and I’d
01:21:00 that would have been enough for him. I’m absolutely convinced of that.
01:25:07 so filled with a younger man’s inventiveness and suppleness.
02:19:07 around the twenty-fifth of January and