Recent content by Charly Buke

At my point of view, Bukowski have four"periods" for novels. The beginnings - when he searched his style : all works until "Post Office". The "Factotum" era - when he finaly reached his own style and build the Chinaski mythology : from "Factotum" to "Women". The "Maturity" : "Ham On Rye"...

The first time I discovered Hank, I was 13 or 14 years old. It was a Friday night and I sat in front of the TV. I fell accidentally on "Barfly" and I had really enjoyed the movie. It was my first "contact" with Hank's world. Some months after, in a secondhand bookseller, I found a copy from...

It's me or Samuel Fuller really looks like Bukowski ?

http://archives.tsr.ch/player/personnalite-bukovski I just found it on the Swiss Television Archives website. It's a portrait about Buke by Claude Torracinta, from may 1986. He spends a day with him in the streets of LA, at the races and at his San Pedro home. Sorry, but the documentary is only...

For Marc-Edouard Nabe, Rock music was stolen from the blacks by the whites. For him, white musicians cannot make some good music... And so, Crumb was a symbol for the contre-culture and Frisco's scene. But he hated that. What a paradox.

The common point between Bukowski, Ellroy, Crumb, Woody Allen and the french writter Marc-Edouard Nabe : they hate Rock'n'Roll music. For them, Rock is a music for people with mental troubles. But I always thought that Bukowski hated Rock because it was associated with the hippies. However, he...

Good list. Generaly, this kind of list always describes Hank as an alcoholic, a misogyn, a pornographer, a tramp, but never as a fuckin' great writter.

Anaïs Nine's journals are incredibly overrated (specialy the 40's-50's parts). Boring. The story of a upper class girl who wants to become a "dirty and sensual bohemian", but the game doesn't works. She became famous by frequenting Miller, Artaud and writting some provocatives and sexuals...

I've never read "Killger Angel", but I saw "Gettysburg" who was the adaptation. Good movie with great actors (Sheen, Berenger, Daniels). But I find the representation of the war "too clean" in this movie. I saw "Gods & Generals" too. Maxwell has never had the money to finish the adaptation of...

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Great scene, great movie and great actor. Sadly, like the great Klaus Kinski, his career isn't representative of is whole acting talent. He played on a lot of B or Z shitty actions movies. He also played in "La donneuse", a pornographic Z-movie directed by the french Jean-Marie Pallardy...

Can't reduce to ten movies. And the list changes every weeks. - 1900 (Bernardo Bertolucci) - Alien (Ridley Scott) - Aguirre (Werner Herzog) - Andalousian Dog (Luis Bunuel) - Apocalypse Now Redux (Francis Ford Coppola) - Battleship Potemkin (Eisenstein) - Big Lebowski (Cohens) - Blade Runner...

Charles Bukowski James Ellroy Hunter S. Thompson Emily Dickinson Arthur Rimbaud Howard P. Lovecraft William S. Burroughs John Fante J.D. Salinger Philip K. Dick Milan Kundera John Kennedy Toole Irvine Welsh Thomas Hardy Frederich Nietzsche Francis Giauque Patti Smith (as a poet)

Today is birthday from Patrick Dewaere, talentued french actor who commited suicide in 1982 at the age of 35. So, for the circumstance, a little scene from the cult movie "Les Valseuses" ("the bollocks, but traduced by "Going Places") : [This video is unavailable.]