There is one indelible scene in the new documentary Bukowski: Born Into This in which we find the poet and novelist Charles Bukowski standing old and craggy in the driveway of his childhood home, next ...

Magnolia Pictures has acquired the Sundance 2003 competition documentary, “Bukowski: Born Into This.” The film, directed by John Dullaghan, was produced by the director with consulting producers Diane ...

The importance of alcohol to literary genius has always been exaggerated, particularly by literary geniuses. That seems to be the case with Charles Bukowski, the late Los Angeles poet and novelist who ...

Charles Bukowski has probably driven more dreamy-eyed notebook scribblers to bars than to bookstores, but it's not his fault. Over the years the myth has bloated up and nearly blotted out the man. In ...

Magnolia Pictures’ “Bukowski: Born Into This,” preemed Wednesday at the ArcLight, with friends and admirers Sean Penn, Bono and Tom Waits making onscreen appearances in the feature doc. Screening was ...

Like Howard Brookner’s 1985 film about William Burroughs, this profile of poet and novelist Charles Bukowski exploits the writer’s counterculture persona but also works to dispel it, revealing a ...