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Robert crumb documentary
Robert crumb documentary











robert crumb documentary

He begins a speech at an art school by mentioning the three things he is probably best known for (those being the " Keep on Truckin'" strip from 1968, the Cheap Thrills (1968) album cover, and Fritz the Cat), before spending much of the rest of the film detailing his distaste for modern American consumerist culture and his darkly cynical perspective on life. Robert Crumb, a pioneer in the underground comix movement of the 1960s, collects 78-rpm blues records from the 1920s and '30s and is moving soon with his wife (fellow comics artist Aline Kominsky-Crumb) and daughter ( Sophie) to a house in southern France that he is trading for some of his sketchbooks. Anderson (later critic for the San Francisco Examiner) placed the film on his list of the ten greatest films of all time, labeling it "the greatest documentary ever made." The Criterion Collection released the film on DVD and Blu-ray on August 10, 2010. It was released in the USA on April 28, 1995, having been screened at film festivals (and winning the Documentary Prize at Sundance) that year. Directed by Terry Zwigoff and produced by Lynn O'Donnell, it won widespread acclaim. Crumb and his family (including his two brothers) and his outlook on life. Crumb is a 1995 American documentary film about the noted underground cartoonist R.













Robert crumb documentary