CRUMB
Terry Zwigoff · 1994 · U.S. · 120 min
Get tickets at Film ForumFeaturing Robert Crumb A portrait of the artist whom critic Robert Hughes called “the Brueghel of the 20th Century,” the film explores Robert Crumb’s iconoclastic vision, sexual obsessions, and use of taboo imagery as a response to the “family values” instilled by a brutal father and amphetamine-addicted mother. Interviews with brothers Charles and Max, who as children also took refuge in art, complete this darkly funny, haunting look at the nuclear family and the artist as outsider. Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the 1995 Sundance Film Festival, CRUMB premiered theatrically at Film Forum, where it played for a record-setting seven months.