Produced by David Lynch, this acclaimed, often unsettling portrait of cartoonist Robert Crumb, most famous for his Zap Comix, "Keep on Truckin'" cartoon and the x-rated character Fritz the Cat, lifts the page and looks into the twisted roots of the artist's inspired lunacy.
CRUMB traces the lives of underground cartoonist Robert Crumb and his extraordinarily dysfunctional family. As children, the three Crumb brothers escaped from their abusive home by indulging in an imaginative life centered on comic books, but Robert is the only one who has fashioned any sort of normal existence. Now a famous cartoonist, he creates work that revels in the darker side of the human condition, hilarious and often offensive work that is obviously influenced by his troubled upbringing.
Co-produced by David Lynch and Superior Pictures Production.
The Los Angeles Film Critics Association voted it Best Documentary of 1995.
The film was a 1995 runner-up for the best picture prize by the National Society of Film Critics.
Rated BBFC 18 by the British Board of Film Classification.
Review 1:
"...A monument to a prodigious talent..." - Recommended
Source: Premiere
pp.130-1 04/01/1996
Review 2:
"...CRUMB is a funny, touching and vital portrait..."
Source: Rolling Stone
p.73-76 05/04/1995
Review 3:
"...Riveting....A vision of American life as a phantasmagoric gallery of grotesques that is as gripping as it is harshly funny..."
Source: New York Times
p.C16 09/27/1994
Review 4:
"...Crumb comes off in some ways as charmingly self-aware and dedicated....[With] enlightening moments..."
Source: Film Comment
p.74-7 11/01/1994
Review 5:
"...Riveting....The film offers an astonishingly unguarded portrait of Mr. Crumb....[With] amazingly candid interviews..."
Source: New York Times
p.C6 04/21/1995
Review 6:
"...Fascinating and oddly moving..."
Source: Sight and Sound
p.44 07/01/1995
Review 7:
"...Remarkable....When it comes to unflinching, riveting looks at a compulsive artist who can't be other than who he is, nothing comes close to CRUMB..."
Source: Los Angeles Times
p.F1 04/28/1995
Review 8:
"...As a technical achievement, it's impressive, and entertaining....CRUMB is a film that gives new meaning to the notion of art as therapy..."
Source: Chicago Sun-Times
p.37 05/26/1995
Review 9:
"Zwigoff paints a bittersweet portrait of his longtime pal as both quirky charmer and unsavory misanthrope." -- Grade: A-
Source: Entertainment Weekly
p.123 04/28/2006
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