Crumb
By: David Lynch presents ; a Superior Pictures production ; produced by Lynn O'Donnell & Terry Zwigoff ; directed by Terry Zwigoff
Contributors: Kominsky-Crumb, Aline, 1948- interviewee (expression); Crumb, Maxon, interviewee (expression); Crumb, Charles, 1942- interviewee (expression); Boeddinghaus, David, composer (expression); Rosenbaum, Jonathan, writer of supplementary textual content; Alberti, Maryse, director of photography; Superior Pictures; Criterion Collection (Firm)
Edition: Director-approved DVD special ed.
Series: Criterion collection -- 533; Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) -- 533.
Publisher: Criterion Collection
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Irvington, N.Y.]
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 120
ISBN-13: 9781604653106
Subjects: Cartoonists; Underground comic books, strips; Biography
Description: 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.
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.

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

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

Closed-captioned in English, with optional English subtitles.
Table of contents: title: Exciting subject for a movie; title: The little guy that lives inside my brain; title: Charles and Maxon; title: Early memories and teenage years; title: After I got famous; title: The horror of America; title: Beatrice Crumb; title: Sex and relationships; title: Family life; title: Charles Crumb Sr.; title: A bitchin bod and other controversies; title: It's a beautiful world; title: The die is cast; title: Color bars.