Documentary
American
1995 · Directed by Terry Zwigoff · 121 min
A documentary portrait of the underground cartoonist Robert Crumb, made by a close friend. It moves between his drawings, his sharp-tongued commentary and the people who shaped him, and it is funny, uncomfortable and unusually frank about art and its costs.
Why it matters in cinema history
A central film of the 1990s revival of documentary, it brought the intimate, access-driven portrait to a wide art-house audience and helped make documentary a commercial and critical force.
Watch with intention
Watch how the film uses the drawings and the people around Crumb to test what he says about himself.
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