Crumb (film)
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| Directed by | Terry Zwigoff |
| Produced by | David Lynch Lynn O'Donnell Terry Zwigoff |
| Starring | Robert Crumb |
| Music by | David Boeddinghaus |
| Cinematography | Maryse Alberti |
| Editing by | Victor Livingston |
| Distributed by | Sony Pictures Classics |
| Release date(s) | September 10, 1994 |
| Running time | 119 min. |
| Language | English |
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Crumb is a 1994 documentary film about the noted underground comic artist Robert Crumb (R. Crumb) and his family. Directed by Terry Zwigoff, it won widespread acclaim, including the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival. The late critic Gene Siskel hailed Crumb as the best film of the year, as did critic Jeffrey M. Anderson, who writes for the San Francisco Examiner.
The tagline for the film is "Weird Sex, Obsession, Comic Books"; and while it is certainly full of all three, Crumb is considered a moving film about the experiences and characters of the Crumb family, particularly Robert Crumb's brothers, Maxon and Charles, his wife and children (his sisters declined to be interviewed).
Robert Crumb initially did not want to make the film, but eventually agreed. There was an urban legend accidentally created by Roger Ebert, that Terry Zwigoff made Crumb cooperate by threatening to shoot himself. Ebert has clarified this in the commentary of the film's recent rerelease.
[edit] External links
- Review of the documentary on Crumb by Roger Ebert
- Ebert's 'Great Movies' Review of Zwiggof's 'Crumb'
- Interview with director Terry Zwigoff - Now Playing magazine
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