![]() Crumb and his family leave behind Maxon, Charles and their mother for France. In spite of all this, it’s an incredibly moving portrait of an artist-and there is grateful sense of relief at the film’s end, when R. Despite his own sexual obsessions, Maxon remains celibate, as he believes sex causes him seizures, although he admits to molesting women and girls. Maxon Crumb is more functional, and a talented painter (as per the family genre, he portrays incredibly disturbing sexual subjects like incest and abuse). He committed suicide by overdose in 1993. Crumb’s childhood artistic collaborator-identified as a pedophile, and though he never acted on his urges, he refused to leave his mother’s house. Highly entertaining documentary about the life of eccentric underground artist Robert Crumb, who created famous cartoon characters such as 'Fritz the Cat' and the 'Keep on Truckin' Man. ![]() Crumb also features Robert Crumb’s brothers, Maxon and Charles and both come off like victims of parental-inflicted PTSD.Ĭharles-a brilliant artist in his own right and R. The Crumb boys grew up with a pill-addicted mother and a violent alcoholic father. While Crumb has always portrayed himself as a sort of deviant/pervert/degenerate, he is most definitely the most normal one in his family. During that time, Zwigoff was living off of “about $200 a month and living with back pain so intense that I spent three years with a loaded gun on the pillow next to my bed, trying to get up the nerve to kill myself.” It’s from this statement that Roger Ebert clarified the film may have saved Zwigoff’s life, meaning that his obsession with completing the film might’ve tempered his suicidal impulses.Īlthough Zwigoff and Crumb actually were very good friends at the time the film as made (they still are and once even played in a 1920s-style string band together), it is true that Crumb was hesitant to make the film, and it’s easy to see why. Directed by Terry Zwigoff and produced by Lynn ODonnell, it won widespread acclaim. Crumb and his family (including his two brothers) and his outlook on life. The documentary is absolutely fascinating, if just for the window into his familys life, if not. Crumb is a 1995 American documentary film about the noted underground cartoonist R. This was a legendary miscommunication that stemmed from a comment made by Zwigoff describing the intense nine years of production. The ticket was free and I didnt have much interest in Crumb. The famous myth about the 1994 documentary Crumb is that director Terry Zwigoff only got Robert Crumb to agree to make it because Zwigoff threatened to kill himself if Crumb didn’t participate. Lynch actually had nothing whatsoever to do with the film, but allowed his name to be used for promotion.
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