Hubert Selby Jr: It/ll Be Better Tomorrow

This film is a soulful, compassionate, funny, inspiring fly-on-the-wall look right into the heart and soul of one of the great, unsung minds of American letters. One of those movies where you come out wanting to run home and get... Full review

Hubert Selby is the author of "Last Exit to Brooklyn" and "Requiem for a Dream". Michael W. Dean and Kenneth Shiffrin have done a great service by shedding illumination on the history of this author and the importance of his... Full review

Hubert Selby Jr.: It/ll be Better Tomorrow is a simple and profound explication on an oft-overlooked literary genius who, by challenging norms and conventions in his writing and in his life, helped to shape a bold new era of American... Full review

I saw this wonderful film last night at the Egyptian Theater in Hollywood. I have often wished I had met Cubby Selby in person - the directors, Kenneth Shiffrin and Michael W. Dean, did more than deliver a film -... Full review

Hubert Selby Jr: It/ll be Better Tomorrow touched me, taught me, revealed to me a man through the eyes of those who knew him, maybe loved him, but were most certainly enriched by him. The portrait they paint is not... Full review

For those who've never heard of Selby, this film is a perfectly-pitched introduction to his life and writings. For those already familiar with Selby's astonishing literary creations -- LAST EXIT TO BROOKLYN primary among them, of course -- HUBERT SELBY... Full review

I had read "Last Exit to Brooklyn" and had seen the film of "Requiem For A Dream" so I was familiar with Hubert Selby Jr., in fact a fan. Being a writer myself, I'm an obvious audience for this film... Full review

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... Full review

Selby states that he thought he could be a writer because he knew the alphabet and his greatly enfeebled physical health, coupled with only a rudimentary education, ruled out a large number of other options. His famous method of punctuation, replacing the comma with a slash as in It/ll be better tomorrow, came about as a result of punching away at a manual typewriter where the shift key had to be held down at the same time as the apostrophe on the opposite side of the keyboard. ... Full Review

Among the myriad interviews in this superb documentary, filmmaker Nicolas Winding Refn makes a morbidly amusing point when he recalls his own surprise that people assumed Hubert Selby Jr. was dead, which of course he wasn't, because Refn subsequently co-wrote... ... Full Article