The Charles Bukowski Tapes: Number 30

The Charles Bukowski Tapes are a collection of short-interviews with the American writer/poet Charles Bukowski, filmed and assembled by Barbet Schroeder and first published in 1987 in the USA. Today, the video documentary is considered a cult classic.

The Charles Bukowski Tapes are an altogether more than four hours long collection of 52 short-interviews with the American cult author Charles Bukowski, sorted by topic and each between one and ten minutes long. Director Barbet Schroeder (Barfly) interviews Bukowski about such themes as alcohol, violence, and women, and Bukowski answers willingly, losing himself in sometimes minute-long monologues. Amongst other things, Bukowski leads the small camera team through his parentss house and his former neighbourhood, but the largest part of the interviews takes place in Bukowskis flat or backyard. The documentary includes a scene in which Bukowski reacts violently toward his wife Linda Lee.

The documentary was assembled from about 64 hours of film footage, which accrued during the three-year lead time for Schroeders motion picture Barfly, for which Bukowski wrote the autobiographical script.

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[blinkboy2008]

@TubeZoogy @TubeZoogy apparently these tapes only include four hours' worth of footage that was whittled down from a whopping sixty-four hours by Barbet Schroeder

[TubeZoogy]

I find it a little amusing that the tape edits out his long rambling rant from 2:00 - 2:10

[mahatmaBit]

lol

this shit flew back to my face! i'm licking my lips: the guy _can_ handwrite! lol

i'm really having a treat being an asshole in the interwebs.

-> thanks for this tapes!

[RaymondMcCarron1]

'so it's pretty pitiful, but it's pretty automatic and that's kinda nice too ya know. it'a a thing ya got to do so you do it anyhow.'

[holden1787]

Thanks again for posting these tapes, wow---what a treat. Looking forward to watching all of them.