Film Forum

U.S., 1994
Directed by Terry Zwigoff
Featuring Robert Crumb
Approx. 120 min.

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.

Presented with support from The Roy Lichtenstein Foundation Fund

Reviews

“A profound and unsettling consideration of what it means to be an American artist. Essential viewing.”
– Jonathan Rosenbaum

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