John Dullaghan
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Meticulously researched and often highly entertaining, "Bukowski" consists of -- along with archival footage of and interviews with its alternately cantankerous and surprisingly sweet namesake -- newer conversations with some of the writer's celebrity fans, friends and collaborators (e.g., singers Tom Waits and Bono of U2; actors Sean Penn and Harry Dean Stanton; and filmmakers Taylor Hackford and Barbet Schroeder, who made the Bukowski-inspired "Barfly").
But perhaps his most astonishing discovery is a bit of footage shot by the German director Barbet Schroeder, a Bukowski devotee who, while waiting to raise money for his feature version of the Bukowski novel "Barfly" (with Mickey Rourke -- not a very good film, actually), spent much time at the writer's domicile.