{"id":4110,"date":"2009-04-02T21:08:40","date_gmt":"2009-04-03T05:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=4110"},"modified":"2009-04-03T17:32:55","modified_gmt":"2009-04-04T01:32:55","slug":"crumb-terry-zwigoff-1994-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=4110","title":{"rendered":"Crumb (Terry Zwigoff, 1994): USA"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reviewed by Byron Potau<\/a>.\u00a0 Viewed on DVD.<\/p>\n

\"\"Terry Zwigoff spent five years filming his 1994 documentary, Crumb<\/a><\/em>, about underground, counter culture cartoonist Robert Crumb.\u00a0 It was time well spent as we get a brilliant portrait of this nerdy, toothy misfit in coke bottle glasses who looks like a pervert, and in some ways is one.<\/p>\n

R. Crumb is going to be moving to France with his wife, as much for the rejection and disdain for American society as for the reason that she wants to move there, and the film intermittently follows him around in the time up to their moving day.\u00a0 Through interviews of friends, family, wife and ex wife, fans, and critics, reactions and opinions are given about Crumb and his work, which is offbeat, risqu\u00e9, and often times obscene.\u00a0 Extensive time is taken on Crumb\u2019s troubled brothers, Maxon and Charles, which is fascinating and most revealing about Crumb, and these scenes turn out to be the real meat of the film.<\/p>\n

What makes Crumb a great film is not the tangible things we learn about him, like his love of old music, but the sense we get of who he is; he talks about his brothers, his father, and his childhood in such a way as to not realize just how revealing he is being.\u00a0 Several small moments seem to resonate, as when Crumb matter of factly refuses to give an autograph to a fan in a comic book store.\u00a0 The fan is so sincere and courteous that we assume he will get the autograph and we are as stunned as he is when he doesn\u2019t, and we are left to wonder if Crumb is just an egotistical jerk, refusing purely on the basis that he does not believe in giving autographs.\u00a0 We come to find out he is just so detached that it would never occur to him how this act might be perceived.\u00a0 He simply doesn\u2019t give autographs, and why would anyone question that? \u00a0This is not just a film for R. Crumb\u2019s fans, but a film for people who want to know about a curiously\u00a0interesting human being who happens to be a famous underground cartoonist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reviewed by Byron Potau.\u00a0 Viewed on DVD. Terry Zwigoff spent five years filming his 1994 documentary, Crumb, about underground, counter culture cartoonist Robert Crumb.\u00a0 It was time well spent as we get a brilliant portrait of this nerdy, toothy misfit in coke bottle glasses who looks like a pervert, and in some ways is one. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,67,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-documentary","category-dvd","category-films"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}