Bukowski is a 1973 documentary film produced by Taylor Hackford and directed by Richard Davies.
The full 46-minute documentary begins with footage of Bukowski in his Los Angeles home and neighborhood as he discusses his history as a postal worker as well as his approach to and perspective on poetry.
At age 53, Bukowski is enjoying his first major success (a San Francisco poetry reading nets him 400 dollars).
Until 1969, Bukowski worked in the Post Office to support his writing, and the camera captures his reminiscences of those days as he walks around his Los Angeles neighborhood.
[1]A heavily-edited 28-minute version of the footage with alternate scenes and a rearranged structure was aired on PBS as an episode of the KCET[2] series Artbound under the title Bukowski Reads Bukowski on Thursday, October 16, 1975, at 10:30 PM.