The Last Straw (2008 film)

The Last Straw
Film poster
Directed byJon Monday
Produced byJon Monday
StarringCharles Bukowski
Distributed bymondayMEDIA
Running time
74 minutes
LanguageEnglish

The Last Straw is a film documenting the last live poetry reading given by Charles Bukowski, even though he lived and wrote for another 14 years. The reading was given at The Sweetwater, a music club in Redondo Beach, California on March 31, 1980. It is produced and directed by Jon Monday for mondayMEDIA.[1]

Plot synopsis

In March 1980, Takoma Records was about to re-release an audio recording on vinyl of a Charles Bukowski live poetry reading given in San Francisco years earlier. As part of the promotion of the album release, Bukowski agreed to give a new live reading, even though he hated doing them. Jon Monday, then General Manager of Takoma Records, video taped the event.[2][3]

By later that year Bukowski's book royalties and movie advances provided him enough of a living that he no longer had to do readings.

The Redondo Beach reading was Bukowski's last. The video recording of that night stayed in an archive until 2008 when mondayMEDIA entered into an agreement with Bukowski's widow Linda to release it on DVD.[4]

Bukowski's readings were known for their riotous back and forth with the audience and this recording shows this in full color. Each poem is set between a tense dialog - with Bukowski giving and taking insults and threats with members of the audience. It ends with the prophetic words "This reading is over."

The Last Straw was edited to avoid duplicating of poems on the 2nd to the last reading, There's Gonna Be a God Damn Riot in Here DVD. The complete video of both readings can be found in the box set released in 2010, One Tough Mother.[5]

References

  1. ^ ’’Record Collector Magazine” May – June 2021 Page 35
  2. ^ Link to story of reading on Bukowski fan site Archived 2011-02-19 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ ’’Record Collector Magazine” May – June 2021 Page 35
  4. ^ ’’Record Collector Magazine” May – June 2021 Page 35
  5. ^ ’’Record Collector Magazine” May – June 2021 Page 36


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