Crumb (1994 Documentary)

Crumb (1994 Documentary)

Author: Awesome Movie Year July 31, 2019 Duration: 42:34

The fifth episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1994 features one of the year’s most notable documentaries (and one of the most acclaimed documentaries of all time), Terry Zwigoff’s Crumb. Directed by Zwigoff and featuring legendary cartoonist Robert Crumb and his eccentric family, Crumb premiered at the 1994 Toronto International Film Festival and went on to win the Documentary Grand Jury Prize at Sundance the next year.

The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Roger Ebert

(https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/crumb-1995), Owen Gleiberman in Entertainment Weekly (https://ew.com/article/1995/04/28/crumb/) and Marjorie Baumgarten in the Austin Chronicle (https://www.austinchronicle.com/events/film/1995-06-30/142710/).

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