The Bukowski Tapes by Barbet Schroeder
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Do you guys know already that The Bukowski Tapes are available at Google Videos?
EDIT: sorry, should've read the old messages properly first, you do know. Well, how about this: do you know that they can be downloaded as AVI-files as well?
EDIT 2: damn it, I really should read all the messages, you know that as well. Well, to contribute at least something, if somebody has trouble doing that, I have the rapidshare links for them if somebody wants to download them from there.
- m
EDIT: sorry, should've read the old messages properly first, you do know. Well, how about this: do you know that they can be downloaded as AVI-files as well?
EDIT 2: damn it, I really should read all the messages, you know that as well. Well, to contribute at least something, if somebody has trouble doing that, I have the rapidshare links for them if somebody wants to download them from there.
- m
Well, as for sections, within the Video, audio, film and other media you could have separate areas for the well known films and documentaries, with sticky threads containing the most often wanted info - such as links to online streams...
Errr... I won't suggest a seperate section for each book...
I guess its bound to be harder to maintain a neat and simple format as this place gets bigger and bigger, so maybe merging is the answer, but even thats going to take time after a while.
Oh well, I can cope with reading the same info more than once - and as I get older, it might be necessary to keep my brain ticking over...
Errr... I won't suggest a seperate section for each book...
I guess its bound to be harder to maintain a neat and simple format as this place gets bigger and bigger, so maybe merging is the answer, but even thats going to take time after a while.
Oh well, I can cope with reading the same info more than once - and as I get older, it might be necessary to keep my brain ticking over...
Good Lord! This was a great find! I had never seen the Bukowski Tapes before, and was always curious about the bootlegs on eBay...
Thanks!
mjp, I just noticed how in Chapter One of the Tapes, Bukowski talks about his love for the smog. Did that line have anything to do with the name behind smog.net? Just wondering...
Thanks!
mjp, I just noticed how in Chapter One of the Tapes, Bukowski talks about his love for the smog. Did that line have anything to do with the name behind smog.net? Just wondering...
mjp
Founding member
Nope. The excuse I usually give is at the bottom of this page: http://smog.net/about/
The reality is, it was a short, appropriate-for-Los Angeles domain, and I was early enough to grab it. No special reason behind it. The site started a little over two years before the smog.net domain, under a different name.
Here's a little trivia for you; domain name registration used to be free. The cost was underwritten by the NSF (National Science Foundation) in the U.S.. You had to be a bit of a geek in those days to register a domain, much less actually host a site. Things have changed a bit since then.
The reality is, it was a short, appropriate-for-Los Angeles domain, and I was early enough to grab it. No special reason behind it. The site started a little over two years before the smog.net domain, under a different name.
Here's a little trivia for you; domain name registration used to be free. The cost was underwritten by the NSF (National Science Foundation) in the U.S.. You had to be a bit of a geek in those days to register a domain, much less actually host a site. Things have changed a bit since then.
Live footage of Bukowski
A BUS LOAD OF live bukowski interviews can be found here: http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=Bukowski
You might already have this link. but there's a shitload of footage here. buk direct. buk in front of cam. muts be about 40 videos.
This is winner footage for all us pathetic Bukowski lovers....
HERE HE IS....belly eyed life wise and life sized!
:) :) :) :)
A BUS LOAD OF live bukowski interviews can be found here: http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=Bukowski
You might already have this link. but there's a shitload of footage here. buk direct. buk in front of cam. muts be about 40 videos.
This is winner footage for all us pathetic Bukowski lovers....
HERE HE IS....belly eyed life wise and life sized!
:) :) :) :)
Errr....
that'll be the famous Charles Bukowski Tapes by Barbet Schroeder then...
https://bukowskiforum.com/threads/the-bukowski-tapes-by-barbet-schroeder.28/
We really need some sticky threads mjp
:p
that'll be the famous Charles Bukowski Tapes by Barbet Schroeder then...
https://bukowskiforum.com/threads/the-bukowski-tapes-by-barbet-schroeder.28/
We really need some sticky threads mjp
:p
Brother Schenker
Founding member
Does anyone know who owns the master footage of these Tapes?
It would be quite wonderful to see ALL the footage unedited and without that horribly sad dirge music between clips. I don't care if it is 64 hours long, I assure you I would watch every minute of it. :)
It would be quite wonderful to see ALL the footage unedited and without that horribly sad dirge music between clips. I don't care if it is 64 hours long, I assure you I would watch every minute of it. :)
Brother Schenker said:
Oy, amen to that. When you watch a gaggle of them in one sitting, that music makes you want to stick your head in the oven. . .
Official DVD Release of Bukowski Tapes
Barbet Schroeder's "The Charles Bukowski Tapes" documentary is coming to DVD on August 29th from Barrel Entertainment in a delux two-disc set. The DVD is available for pre-ordering already at Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0..._11_1/104-8994643-2064711?redirect=true&n=130
More info will be up at the Barrel Entertainment web site later this week:
http://www.barrel-entertainment.com
Here's the press release info:
BARREL ENTERTAINMENT PROUDLY PRESENTS
THE CHARLES BUKOWSKI TAPES
A FILM BY BARBET SCHROEDER
When Barbet Schroeder (More, General Idi Amin Dada, Single White Female) began work on the movie Barfly, he had no idea that it would be such a struggle. During the seven years it took him to complete the film, he turned his cameras on its screenwriter, poet and novelist Charles Bukowski.
?I couldn?t stand the thought of not being able to share the extraordinary evenings we spent together,? said Schroeder. ?I finally brought in a small crew, friends of mine, with a high quality video set up. Whoever was the least drunk took control of the camera.?
Bukowski, legendary for his drunken excess and frank observations on life, love, and survival, took no exception with Schroeder.
Barbet Schroeder recalls, ?I had no idea of what I might do with the material, but I didn?t want those evenings to be lost. As I don?t like formal interviews, I tried to get him started on a topic and then keep from interrupting him. The result was often a monologue of three minutes or longer.?
Schroeder eventually completed The Charles Bukowski Tapes, a four-hour long study of the man and the music of his words. ?The ideal way to show this material was in short video-clips?a new style of film. Once I had screened it this way, it seemed twice as powerful.?
Available for the first time in the world on DVD, Barrel Entertainment is proud to present this exceptional portrait of one of America?s most vital voices.
?For those of you interested in madness, yours or mine, I can tell you a little about mine.??Charles Bukowski
Special Features Include:
? The original, complete four-hour edition, with all 52 segments presented in two volumes:
o Disc 1: Segments 1-26
o Disc 2: Segments 27-52
? Plus: A 36-page booklet featuring essays by Barbet Schroeder and Bukowski biographer Neeli Cherkovski, as well as a 1987 interview with Charles Bukowski
?An outrageously stimulating and unnerving all-night drinking session with a gutter eloquent barroom philosopher... One of the most intimate, revealing and unsparing glimpses any film or video has ever given us of a writer?s life and personality.? ? Michael Wilmington, Los Angeles Times
?Four full hours of one of America's most talented, no-bullshit writers--pulling acidic humor and streetwise honesty out of his lifetime of liquor? an incredible, one-of-a-kind document.? ? Steven Puchalski, Shock Cinema
Best,
Brian Krueger
Barrel Entertainment
Barbet Schroeder's "The Charles Bukowski Tapes" documentary is coming to DVD on August 29th from Barrel Entertainment in a delux two-disc set. The DVD is available for pre-ordering already at Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0..._11_1/104-8994643-2064711?redirect=true&n=130
More info will be up at the Barrel Entertainment web site later this week:
http://www.barrel-entertainment.com
Here's the press release info:
BARREL ENTERTAINMENT PROUDLY PRESENTS
THE CHARLES BUKOWSKI TAPES
A FILM BY BARBET SCHROEDER
When Barbet Schroeder (More, General Idi Amin Dada, Single White Female) began work on the movie Barfly, he had no idea that it would be such a struggle. During the seven years it took him to complete the film, he turned his cameras on its screenwriter, poet and novelist Charles Bukowski.
?I couldn?t stand the thought of not being able to share the extraordinary evenings we spent together,? said Schroeder. ?I finally brought in a small crew, friends of mine, with a high quality video set up. Whoever was the least drunk took control of the camera.?
Bukowski, legendary for his drunken excess and frank observations on life, love, and survival, took no exception with Schroeder.
Barbet Schroeder recalls, ?I had no idea of what I might do with the material, but I didn?t want those evenings to be lost. As I don?t like formal interviews, I tried to get him started on a topic and then keep from interrupting him. The result was often a monologue of three minutes or longer.?
Schroeder eventually completed The Charles Bukowski Tapes, a four-hour long study of the man and the music of his words. ?The ideal way to show this material was in short video-clips?a new style of film. Once I had screened it this way, it seemed twice as powerful.?
Available for the first time in the world on DVD, Barrel Entertainment is proud to present this exceptional portrait of one of America?s most vital voices.
?For those of you interested in madness, yours or mine, I can tell you a little about mine.??Charles Bukowski
Special Features Include:
? The original, complete four-hour edition, with all 52 segments presented in two volumes:
o Disc 1: Segments 1-26
o Disc 2: Segments 27-52
? Plus: A 36-page booklet featuring essays by Barbet Schroeder and Bukowski biographer Neeli Cherkovski, as well as a 1987 interview with Charles Bukowski
?An outrageously stimulating and unnerving all-night drinking session with a gutter eloquent barroom philosopher... One of the most intimate, revealing and unsparing glimpses any film or video has ever given us of a writer?s life and personality.? ? Michael Wilmington, Los Angeles Times
?Four full hours of one of America's most talented, no-bullshit writers--pulling acidic humor and streetwise honesty out of his lifetime of liquor? an incredible, one-of-a-kind document.? ? Steven Puchalski, Shock Cinema
Best,
Brian Krueger
Barrel Entertainment
wahooooooooooo
I seem to remember someone offering me a bootleg of the tapes that was 15 hours long, the four-hour version being just the edited highlights that Schroeder made for French TV. Is my memory/imagination playing tricks on me again... or are there 11 hours of "lowlights" remaining in Schroeder's archives?
Brother Schenker
Founding member
I seem to recall that 64 hours were recorded, why not make them all available? I don't care if alot of the footage is considered dull by someone else; it's Buk when he was alive.
It's like footage of tornadoes: I don't want 15 second highlights, I want to see all of it; from the moment the camera was turned on until it was turned off.
It's like footage of tornadoes: I don't want 15 second highlights, I want to see all of it; from the moment the camera was turned on until it was turned off.
I love these tapes...they are the backbone of my dvd and cd collection. They would be the last Bukowski items to go. Barbet should be given the French Legion of Honor for having the foresight to record them. And let's not forget the immortal slapping scene and the other drunken debauches caught on camera. Here's a candid and engaging Bukowski right when he was starting to get hot recognition and his typer would be blazing for at least another ten years. Yo!