''There's Gonna Be a God Damn Riot in Here'' is a film documenting the last live poetry reading given outside the US by

Charles Bukowski Henry Charles Bukowski ( ; born Heinrich Karl Bukowski, ; August 16, 1920 – March 9, 1994) was a German-American poet, novelist, and short story writer. His writing was influenced by the social, cultural, and economic ambience of his adopted ...

, even though he lived and wrote for another 14 years. The reading was given at the Viking Inn, a small concert hall in

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada Vancouver ( ) is a major city in western Canada, located in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia. As the most populous city in the province, the 2021 Canadian census recorded 662,248 people in the city, up from 631,486 in 2016. The ...

on October 12, 1979. It is produced by Dennis Del Torre and directed by

Jon Monday Jon Monday (born 1947 in San Jose, California) is an American producer and distributor of CDs and DVDs across an eclectic range of material such as Swami Prabhavananda, Aldous Huxley, Christopher Isherwood, Huston Smith, Chalmers Johnson, and Char ...

for mondayMEDIA distribution.

Plot

Dennis Del Torre was a fan of

Bukowski Henry Charles Bukowski ( ; born Heinrich Karl Bukowski, ; August 16, 1920 – March 9, 1994) was a German-American poet, novelist, and short story writer. His writing was influenced by the social, cultural, and economic ambience of his adopted ...

and wanted to bring him to Vancouver for a reading. He wrote to Bukowski and Bukowski agreed, but with certain conditions, including that he receive a copy of any recording. Del Torre hired a video crew from the local college to video tape the event. The video tape was lost, but years later when John Dullaghan was working on his Bukowski documentary ''Born Into This'', he discovered a copy of the tape at the home of the widow Linda Bukowski. The video was restored and a deal was made with Bukowski's widow and mondayMEDIA to turn it into a DVD and distribute it. It was Bukowski's penultimate live reading. By 1980 Bukowski's book royalties and movie advances provided him enough of a living that he no longer had to do readings. 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 statement that "I'll never do another of these readings", but he did one more in California in March 1980, documented on the 2008 DVD ''

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''. There's Gonna Be a God Damn Riot in Here was edited to avoid duplicating of poems on the last Bukowski reading,

DVD. The complete video of both readings can be found in the box set released in 2010, One Tough Mother.’’Record Collector Magazine” May – June 2021 Page 36

External links

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* ttp://thebeatgeneration.net/theres-gonna-be-a-god-damn-riot-in-here-for-the-holidaze/ The Beat Generation Review

References

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