The Charles Bukowski tapes

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Movie
German title The Charles Bukowski tapes
Original title The Charles Bukowski Tapes
Country of production France
original language English
Publishing year 1987
length 210 (2 × 105) minutes
Age rating FSK 0
Rod
Director Barbet Schroeder
script Barbet Schroeder
production Barbet Schroeder
music Jean-Louis Vallero
camera Steven Hirsh, Elliot Enzig Porter, Paul Challacombe
cut Barbet Schroeder, Paul Challacombe
occupation

The Charles Bukowski Tapes are a collection of short interviews with the American writer Charles Bukowski , filmed and compiled by Barbet Schroeder and published in the USA in 1987 . The four-hour video documentation is now considered a cult film .

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The Charles Bukowski tapes are a total of more than four hours of collection of 52 short interviews between one and ten minutes, arranged according to topic, with the American cult author Charles Bukowski. Director Barbet Schroeder ( female, single, young seeks ... ) asks Bukowski about topics such as alcohol, violence and women. Among other things, Bukowski leads the small camera team through his parents' house and his former neighborhood, although the majority of the interviews take place in Bukowski's apartment or garden. Probably the most famous scene in the documentary shows Bukowski's violence against his wife Linda Lee.

History of origin

The documentation was compiled from around 64 hours of film material that was created in the course of research work during the three-year preparation period for Schroeder's film Barfly (1987), for which Bukowski wrote the autobiographical script.

Reviews

“An outrageously stimulating and unnerving all-night drinking session with a gutter eloquent barroom philosopher. [...] One of the most intimate, revealing and unsparing glimpses any film or video has ever given us of a writer's life and personality. "

- Michael Wilmington : The Los Angeles Times

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