![]() ![]() We do not meet his two sisters, who wanted nothing to do with the film (one of them, Zwigoff said, has demanded "reparations" of $400 a month from Crumb for his "crimes against women"). Crumb, his mother, his brothers Charles and Max, his wife, and various friends. He just wasn't interested he doesn't like publicity." ![]() It was very hard to talk him into doing it. You were making a film about Crumb's misery while you were in greater misery. The two of you must have made a great pair, I said. He spent nine years on his film while averaging an income of "about $200 a month," and "living with back pain so intense that I spent three years with a loaded gun on the pillow next to my bed, trying to get up the nerve to kill myself." He is small, intense, with worry lines chiseled between his eyes, and although "Crumb" is an enormous hit (and would win the Sundance prize as best documentary), he almost seems to wonder if it was worth the sacrifices he made to film it. Zwigoff looks like vast stretches of his own human condition need first-aid even as we speak. "Crumb" is one of those defining experiences, like "Hoop Dreams," like "Gates of Heaven," that shows you how documentary films can reach parts of the human condition that fiction films don't even know about. It is about the way Crumb has hung on by his fingernails to life and sanity, using art as his lifeline. The movie, now going into national release, is not about underground comics. (for Robert) Crumb, the San Francisco underground comix artist whose style straddled the 1960s like his famous "Keep on "Truckin'" panel. We had met at the lodge to discuss " Crumb," Zwigoff's great and astonishing new documentary about R. ![]()
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