The Long Haul of AI Bezzerides (2005)

Filled with humor and defining experiences in both his own life and in the lives of some of his closest friends William Faulkner and Robert Aldrich as well as on his late wife screenwriter Silvia Richards Mr Bezzerides offers colorful reflections as to why he and his typewriter unabashedly need to keep creating honest characters worlds and stories Through recently discovered boxes of photographs film clips the haunting music by Fugazi interviews including Jules Dassin Mickey Spillane and Barry Gifford and testaments to his progressive creativity from other writers Fay Lellios straightahead documentary gives us a start in discovering this 97yearold proletariat storyteller and the meaning of his favorite phrase by Carl Jung There can be no birth of consciousness without pain