Terry Zwigoff’s landmark 1995 film is 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 you’ll ever see on-screen. At once a profound biographical portrait, a riotous examination of a man’s controversial art, and a devastating look at a troubled family, Crumb is a genuine American original.
Crumb is being reissued by Criterion Collection and includes a
New, restored high-definition digital transfer
2010 audio commentary with Zwigoff
2006 with Zwigoff and critic Roger Ebert
Outtakes and deleted scenes
Stills gallery
and A booklet featuring an essay by critic Jonathan Rosenbaum
This is the behind scene look at our good friend Alan Poon’s music video he co-directed with Adam Makarenko for Arts and Craft’s Zeus from their debut full-length album Say Us.
The video accompanied a sculpture, called Inochi (Japanese for ‘life’), Takashi Murakami made in an attempt to blur the lines between human and non-human, the alive and the manufactured.
The new animated works, alongside paintings by Painters Eleven. Eleven in Motion: Abstract Expressions in Animation, will be on display at the Christopher Cutts Gallery at 21 Morrow Street, Toronto, from November 18 – 25, 2009. The gallery opening takes place November 18, 2009 from 6 to 9 PM.
“The Raftman’s Razor” is Keith’s first short film and is a part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art. You can see the trailer for his most recent short “Train Town” on YouTube. His first feature comes out next year.
I just watched this little gem and am thourghy impressed. Such great writing and imagery and effective story telling..ahhh. If only my writing was this seamless.
