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Plot:
A fascinating, funny and finally troubling documentary about the prolific, iconoclastic underground cartoonist Robert Crumb.
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MCT:May 9, 2008It wasn't the misogyny, depression, abuse, or strange sexual perversion that startled me - it was how cheerful Robert Crumb was about it. Now I'm even more convinced you need more than just talent to create great art - you need a twisted life-view too.
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MCT:May 8, 2008Crumb is Terry Zwigoff's quintessential documentary about legendary underground artist Robert Crumb, famous for his unique, highly strange and sexualized style, and for revolutionizing the comic and art world with it. I was vaguely familiar with the man before seeing this, but not as much with his art, but luckily Crumb is a very good introduction to the man, as well as a wonderfully constructed, very entertaining examination of Robert and also his more troubled but also talented brothers. Zwigoff leaves no stone unturned and really gets to the root of the matter, and by the end one has gained a great understanding and appreciation for the subject matter, which is generally the purpose for a documentary of this nature (about an artist or a particular body of work). To my understanding, this was a very well received film critically and won an award at is premiere at Sundance or some major festival, and I can see why. I would put this on a list of essential documentaries.
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MCT:April 14, 2008
Wow, not documentary like this one his brothers are mind-altering. You'll never see the world the same after this one.
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MCT:April 13, 2008
This film really disturbed me, precisely because it's real. This isn't a particularly cinematic documentary, but it's pretty fascinating (and troubling).
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MCT:April 12, 2008
In September of 1973 DC comics came out with a short-lived spoof called Plop! My friends, who were into other offerings like Superman and Batman, and myself, a Tales from the Crypt junkie, were taken with this new, offbeat publication. It was unlike anything else we'd ever seen. Once a month I would race to the Arcade Newsstand to grab the latest issue and marvel over the out-of-this-world artwork and outrageous humor.
Plop! - DC Comics
Now, to my knowledge, Robert Crumb had absolutely nothing (directly) to do with Plop! It's too mainstream and too commercial. But I don't think I'm going too far out on a limb here when I say that without Crumb and his underground comic contributions, there would never have been a Plop!
Crumb, the documentary, is fantastically fascinating and, at the end, slightly disturbing. It's a real-life Revenge of the Nerds, but a thousand times more interesting.
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