Bukowski: On Film

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Pub Date Aug 16 2023 | Archive Date Feb 27 2024

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If ever there was a match made in hell, it was legendary writer Charles Bukowski and the movies. Bukowski hated movies and movie makers with a passion. The late writer would often chronicle his dislike in short stories, poems and in his novels.

On the other hand, Hollywood filmmakers, from all strata of the industry, flocked to the powerful, raw and magnetic energy of his stories and poems and the cinematic possibilities they held.

Marc Shapiro delves into this complex hate/love relationship between author and auteur(s) with countless interviews of those who made cinematic sense of all levels of Bukowski films, from student efforts, to art house, to even the short experimental ones. The book also explores the obscure Bukowski films that were not so much released as escaped to. Of course, Shapiro also looks closely at the handful of major studio features coupled with close Bukowski confidants who offered up their reasoning behind the late author's hatred for the industry that, in many cases, he profited from.

Bukowski: On Film takes a deep, probing, often humorous and psychologically insightful, look at Bukowski and those who were driven by passion to try to get Bukowski right.


If ever there was a match made in hell, it was legendary writer Charles Bukowski and the movies. Bukowski hated movies and movie makers with a passion. The late writer would often chronicle his...


A Note From the Publisher

Author is a NY Times best-seller
Many original interviews with directors who worked with Bukowski
Trade and hardcover editions available

Author is a NY Times best-seller
Many original interviews with directors who worked with Bukowski
Trade and hardcover editions available


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Published on Bukowski's 103rd birthday

Published on Bukowski's 103rd birthday


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ISBN 9781626016583
PRICE $6.99 (USD)
PAGES 242

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