Review of Crumb (1995) by Stuart K — 04 Oct 2008
A very candid and offbeat documentary about one of the best cartoonists and artists of our time, Robert Crumb. Born in Philadelphia in 1943, it documents Crumbs life and times, and how he became interested in cartooning, he became famous for the likes of Fritz the Cat, Mr.
Natural and the album cover for Cheap Thrills by Big Brother and the Holding Company. It also explains how drugs would help bring out a darker and sexually explicit side to his work, we also meet his extremely dysfunctional family, his mother, two brothers, wife, ex-wife and ex-girlfriends are interviewed as well, and it ends with Crumb and his family upping sticks and moving to the South of France, where he's lived ever since.
Produced by David Lynch, and directed by Terry Zwigoff, the film paints and extraordinary but dark picture of Crumb, although he is a very talented artist, you can't help but feel sorry for his family, (his brother Charles, who was see as a recluse, committed suicide a year after he was filmed.
) But, in the long term, it's a very good picture of a man who loves to draw, and he loves old rare blues records he plays on 78's. For Zwigoff, he later went on to do Ghost World (2001) and Bad Santa (2003)!! :D.
This review of Crumb (1995) was written by Stuart K on 04 Oct 2008.
Crumb has generally received very positive reviews.
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