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Synopsis: This movie chronicles the life and times of R. Crumb. Robert Crumb is the cartoonist/artist who drew Keep On Truckin', Fritz the Cat, and played a major pioneering role in the genesis of underground comix. Through interviews with his mother, two brothers, wife, and ex-girlfriends, as well as selections from his vast quantity of graphic art, we are treated to a darkly comic ride through one man's subconscious mind. As stream-of-consciousness images incessantly flow forth from the tip of his pen, biting social satire is revealed, often along with a disturbing and haunting vision of Crumb's own betes noires and inadequacies. As his acid-trip induced images flicker across our own retinas, we gain a little insight into this complex and highly creative individual.
Director(s): Terry Zwigoff
Production: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
  16 wins & 5 nominations.
 
IMDB:
8.0
Metacritic:
93
Rotten Tomatoes:
95%
R
Year:
1994
119 min
419 Views


their connection to eternity

or whatever you want to call it.

Modern music doesn't have

that calamitous loss.

People can't express themselves

that way anymore.

It was late 1948...

when I was five years old, we moved

to this section of Philadelphia.

This is this project that we lived in.

I can't remember which we lived in.

They all look the same.

Jesus. It's grim here.

Oh, my God! This is where

we went to the market.

There was a dime store

that sold toys there.

We used to buy candy and stuff

and comic books.

The three brothers, me, Charles

and Maxon, hung around together a lot.

We'd rummage for stuff in the dump.

One time Charles brought this thing

back from the dump.

It was this beautiful wooden truck.

Like an ice cream truck made of wood.

I wanted it really bad.

He wouldn't let me touch it.

He was spiteful that way.

So I made a big fuss,

and I told my mother.

She said, Charles,

let him play with that.

He said, Okay.

About 15 minutes later, he said,

Okay, you can play with it now.

I ran outside, and he had smashed it

to smithereens against the wall.

Charles, you read

any good books lately?

Yeah, I guess I have.

I don't know.

You seem to be recycling

a lot of these books.

What do you mean by recycling?

You read them 20 years ago.

Now you're reading them again.

I'm reading them again. Yeah.

I do that because

there's nothing else to do.

You've read them all.

You ever read anything new?

I haven't read Kant or Hegel.

- You have any interest in that stuff?

- Maybe I'll get around to reading them.

- You read any recent writers?

- Not really, no.

- Not interested in them?

- Most aren't that good or interesting.

They're not as interesting

as the Victorian writers...

of the late 19th century.

I always kind of envied your life

in a way.

My life has become so hectic.

Why? Because I was so detached

from the human race?

Is that one of the reasons

why you envy me?

This cloistered environment

with your books.

Believe me, it's nothing to envy.

Charles started this comic thing.

He was completely obsessed with comics

when we were kids...

and had absolutely no other

normal kid interest.

He wasn't interested in toys or games.

He didn't play sports.

He didn't do anything but read comics,

draw comics, think comics and talk them.

I like drawing, but I had other

drawing interests besides comics.

I liked to draw realistic scenes...

just pictures of buildings

and cars and stuff.

He wasn't interested in that at all.

It was only comics.

This is the earliest one that still

exists that I have. Charles drew this.

That's supposed to be me,

and that's him.

You made me feel absolutely worthless

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