Mead Public Library (Sheboygan)

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Crumb [videorecording] / David Lynch presents ; a Superior Pictures production ; produced by Lynn O'Donnell & Terry Zwigoff ; directed by Terry Zwigoff.

Edition:

Director-approved DVD special edition.

Publisher, Date:

[Irvington, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection, [2010]

Description:

1 videodisc (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.

Summary:

An intimate documentary portrait of underground artist Robert Crumb, whose unique drawing style and sexually and racially provocative subject matter have made him a household name in popular American art. Zwigoff candidly and colorfully delves into the details of Crumb's incredible career, as well as his past, including his family of reclusive eccentrics, some of the most remarkable people ever seen on-screen.

Series:

Criterion collection ; 533.

Contents

Exciting subject for a movie -- The little guy that lives inside my brain -- Charles and Maxon -- Early memories and teenage years -- After I got famous -- The horror of America -- Beatrice Crumb -- Sex and relationships -- Family life -- Charles Crumb Sr. -- A bitchin bod and other controversies -- It's a beautiful world -- The die is cast -- Color bars.

Participant or Performer:

Robert Crumb, Aline Crumb, Charles Crumb, Maxon Crumb, Robert Hughes, Trina Robbins.

Notes:

Accompanying booklets includes essay by critic Jonathan Rosenbaum and artwork by Charles, Jesse, Maxon, and Robert Crumb.

Special features: audio commentary with Zwigoff; audio commentary with Zwigoff and critic Roger Ebert from 2006; 50 min. of unused footage (outtakes and deleted scenes); stills gallery.

Originally produced in 1994; theatrical release in 1995.

Cinematography, Maryse Alberti ; editor, Victor Livingston ; music, David Boeddinghaus ; executive producers, Lawrence Wilkinson, Albert Berger, Lianne Halfon.

DVD, NTSC, region 1, 1.33:1 aspect ratio; Dolby digital mono.

Closed-captioned in English, with optional English subtitles.

Subjects:

Crumb, R.

Cartoonists -- United States -- Biography.

Underground comic books, strips, etc. -- United States.

Genre:

Documentary films.

Biographical films.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Biographical films.

Biographies.