Film

The Long Haul of A.I. Bezzerides

2005 · 1h 1m · Documentary

IMDb

7.8

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' straight-ahead documentary gives us a start in discovering this 97-year-old proletariat storyteller, and the meaning of his favorite phrase by Carl Jung, "There can be no birth of consciousness without pain."

A.I. Bezzerides

Self

Jason Baldwin

Narrator (voice)

Jules Dassin

Narrator (voice)

Barry Gifford

Narrator (voice)

George Pelecanos

Narrator (voice)

Mickey Spillane

Narrator (voice)

• Fay Efrosini LelliosDirector · Producer
• Wilton CruzProducer
• Bill DurkinExecutive Producer
• H. Michael HeuserExecutive Producer
• Jim PedasExecutive Producer
• Ted PedasExecutive Producer
• George PelecanosExecutive Producer
• Marc LeidyDirector of Photography
• Wilton CruzEditor

Release date

January 1, 2005

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

1h 1m

Genres

Documentary