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Bukowski On Video

Paula Killen (right) plays a triple role in Walls in the City

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The Charles Bukowski Tapes
Two Volume Set $100
(ca. 1989) Dir.: Barbet Schroeder, France, with Charles Bukowski and company. Inspired by that new MTV-style attraction, the video clip, and desperate to sell Barfly in Hollywood, Schroeder taped Buk getting drunk every night and wound up with 52 gems. They're all here in a standard format, since they were eventually used as signoffs on French TV the way US stations showed the flag and played the anthem before shutting down. (Do stations ever sign off anymore...?) The same musical cue accompanies yet another monologue or quick tour of West Hollywood: "The Masses Are Always Wrong" or "Elizabeth Taylor" or "My Police Record" and onward... wine in a triple shotglass and the same shirt almost every time... "decent, open violence." Volume One - 120 min., Volume Two - 120 min., Color, $100 for the deluxe, clamshell double cassette.

Barfly
(1987) Dir.: Barbet Schroeder, US, with Mickey Rourke & Faye Dunaway. A barroom poet resists the big time. 100 min., Color, Rated R, $19.99

Walls in the City
(1994) Dir: Jim Sikora, US, with Paula Killen & Tony Fitzpatrick. Another triple play, which features chameleon Paula Killen in three different roles. The middle segment is based on a Bukowski story, since the director bartered the rights for it in exchange for a twelve-pack of beer. The other two are by the director. Homegrown jazz score by the Denison-Kimball Trio. 70 min., Color, $19.99

New at The Picture Palace!
BUKOWSKI - LIVE AT BELLEVUE
In The Spring of 1970 Charles Bukowski, then little known, packed his overnight bag, locked the door of his tumbledown East Hollywood apartment behind him, and took his first plane to the state of Washington to read at Bellevue Community College.
The poet goes on the road for the first time.
This pioneer reading (only his fourth ever) was videotaped in black and white using two video cameras by students and the film lay forgotten for 18 years.
Ehile the technical aspects of this film are shaky, all of this one hour reading comes through loud and cleara. Here is Bukowski, at mid-life but at the beginning of a great career, reading powerfully and with grit and humor.
A once in a lifetime moment hasbeen rediscovered and preserved forever.
John Martin
(Black Sparrow Press)
R-3839 60 minutes VHS NTSC $39.95 British import, playable on USA systems.

NOW AVAILABLE AGAIN!
Tales of Ordinary Madness
(1981) Dir: Marco Ferreri, Italy/France, with Ben Gazzara & Ornella Muti. A drunken poet (hmmmm...) and his crazy loves, co-starring Muti as a safety-pin wielding fan. 108 min., Color, $19.99

AND NEW ON DVD!
Tales of Ordinary Madness DVD
(1981) Dir: Marco Ferreri, Italy/France, with Ben Gazzara & Ornella Muti. A drunken poet (hmmmm...) and his crazy loves, co-starring Muti as a safety-pin wielding fan. 108 min., Color, Audio Format: Mono, Screen Format: 1.78:1, 16x9: Yes $24.99.

Not currently on tape:

Crazy Love

(1987) Dir: Dominique Deruddere, Belgium, with Josse DePauw & Geert Hunaerts. A triptych, of episodes in the life of a sadsack kid - passion, sex and the heartbreak of acne. The director's debut, supposedly Bukowski's favorite film of his work. 87 min., not currently on tape in the US.

Also look for:
The Best Hotel on Skid Row (1990) (TV show)
Bukowski at Bellevue (1988) (small press commemorative videotape)
Hostage (1985/1994) (sound recording)
90 Minutes in Hell (1977) (sound recording)
Run with the Hunted (1993) (sound recording)

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