- Actors: Hubert Selby Jr., Susan Anton, Darren Aronofsky, Alexis Arquette, Amiri Baraka
- Directors: Kenneth Shiffrin, Michael W. Dean
- Writers: Michael W. Dean
- Producers: Kenneth Shiffrin, Michael W. Dean, Jonathan Elias, Merl Edelman, Ryan Brown
- Format: Closed-captioned, Colour, DVD-Video, NTSC
- Language English
- Region: Region 1 (US and Canada DVD formats.)
- Aspect Ratio: 4:3 - 1.33:1
- Number of discs: 1
- Classification: Unrated (US MPAA rating. See details.)
- Studio: Eclectic DVD Dist.
- DVD Release Date: 13 Mar 2007
- Run Time: 79 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- ASIN: B000LC4ZK8
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 132,910 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)
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Words of Humane Depravity,
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This review is from: Hubert Selby Jr: It'll Be Better Tomorrow [DVD] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] (DVD)
Talking heads of Lou Reed and Cubbies friends add gravitas to an auto biog as Hube discusses his early life and its impact on his writings. This is an accompanying piece to his writings as he narrates verse and his stories.
The piece goes back to his childhood and his TB that nearly killed him. It discusses his zestfor life and his inner demon formed from his violent rages. Hube one of a handful of seminal writers in the USA (Algren, Miller, Burroughs, Dick, Thompson, Bukowksi, Fante) and one of the elect across the Globe (Celine, Mishima, Hamsun, Bao Ninh) described how he came to write about an outre world. He discussed its impact on him, his struggle with self medication, poverty and his demon. He also discusses spirituality in a form of Jungian synchronicity minus the pretension to reveal a very humble man. This was the self taught street thug who nearly died in a sanatorium who had one shot to document himself. He fought tooth and nail to teach himself to write and transformed the English vernacular ushering in the modern age. Selby is a tour de force, his novels being the Sex Pistols of their era in destabilising what was once sacred. Latterly his vision has been corrupted as a sea of lesser human writers have grasped his mantle shedding the humanity to claim his mantle. This collections shows how Hubert is still vital to the modern age as it has lapsed into a less intense focus of what he originally delivered. Hubert was all about stripping power of its pretense to show the human underneath the outcast of the depravity within the included. Last Exit to Brooklyn, The Room, The Demon, Songs of the Silent Snow and The Willow Tree are all classics. The Waiting Period is the only novel that is a lapse. This is an accompaniment to agreat mind who has receded from being at the forefront of change but leads at the vanguard of humanity. Well worth watching to ascertain how cultural revoltion can be wielded through the application of the word
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Hubert Selby Jr. One Not To be Overlooked,
By Sufferwords "Sufferwords" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Hubert Selby Jr: It'll Be Better Tomorrow [DVD] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] (DVD)
Hubert Selby Jr. It'll Be Better Tomorrow is a fascinating film. How could an author of such overwhelming influence have become so overlooked for so long. Controversy and drugs derailed this genius but when you hear those he influenced tell it, it was the mainstream that passed him by not the artists. Selby's battles with TB, heroin, and everything else belie the spiritual giant he seems to have become. Lou Reed tells how 'Last Exit To Brooklyn' spun his world, Lou Reed goes on to spin the world of music, the impact is profound. Writing when books could still be banned 'England banned Last Exit', Selby triumphed and didn't bow. Amazing film, well crafted and concise, a great look into the soul of the artist
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Informative documentary of my favorite novelist,
By Drew Hunkins - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Hubert Selby Jr: It'll Be Better Tomorrow [DVD] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] (DVD)
It had to be about 1991 when I finally came across an old dusty library copy of Selby's Last Exit to Brooklyn; I had recently seen Uli Edel's excellent film adaptation and was always curious about the book. I promptly sat down and for the next four hours devoured Selby's classic. It's such a great work that I make it a point to re-read it at least once every few years.
When I lived in Greenwich Village in the mid 1990s everyone seemed crazy about the Beats, I'd mention Selby and a lot of them barely knew who he was. For me, Kerouac and the rest of them, though damn good at what they did, just don't match up to Selby's genius level. I recall I borrowed my copy of his book of short stories, Song of the Silent Snow, to a gal who lived in my building, after all these years I still haven't gotten it back. It/ll Be Better Tomorrow gets into everything Selby, from his youth in Brooklyn, his days in the merchant Marine, the heroin addiction, the debilitating TB, his early attempts at writing, the life of penury, it's all here in detail. Interesting commentary touches on the development of his unique and certainly eccentric style that utilizes the ever present Selby /slash/ and different paragraph indentations. Readers who haven't read any of his books have no idea what in the hell that means, but once you read one of his works you'll realize that he doesn't always use regular punctuation and definitely has his own style of setting up words on paper. All one has to do is see a single paragraph of his writing and it's immediately identifiable. A nice array of notables comment on Selby's life throughout the documentary. Arguably the closest writer to him presently, Richard Price, adds some interesting thoughts, while Ellen Burstyn, Henry Rollins, Amiri Baraka, and various actors and writers discuss his life and work. The best additions to the film are simply the stories provided from his boyhood pals in Brooklyn who surprisingly were able to stay in touch with him throughout his life. 6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Hubert Selby, Jr. : Ten Times More Life-Affirming Than Anything Authored By Mitch Albom,
By Tom Lavagnino - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Hubert Selby Jr: It'll Be Better Tomorrow [DVD] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] (DVD)
Most people probably know Selby through the (justly-acclaimed) film versions of his two most famous novels, LAST EXIT TO BROOKLYN and REQUIEM FOR A DREAM. But the excellence of these two movies will never replace the jaw-droppingly-amazing achievements of Selby's prose -- as this documentary ably and evocatively proves. Fearless, passionate, and wildly experimental (the very title of this documentary is a reference to Selby's completely original style of punctuation/grammar), Selby -- somewhat surprisingly -- was also a writer who, while wallowing among the dregs of society and dredging up its truths, somehow emerges, at the end of the day, as the most life-affirming literary personage imaginable. It's an alchemy that was all Selby's own, and this documentary is a must-see for anyone and everyone intrigued by the intermingling of words, storytelling, and spirituality in our contemporary world.
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