![]() (One brother, Charles, killed himself not long after Zwigoff was done filming.) But it’s Maxon, who sits on a bed of nails, who takes the film to its most absurd height when he demonstrates his cleansing ritual of swallowing string which he then excretes. ![]() Crumb may be disturbed in an ultimately redemptive, artistic way, but his brothers are pathologically so. Crumb goes off the rails when director Terry Zwigoff interviews Crumb’s brother, Maxon. The intensity, the clashing of cultures and the pure dramatic high of the moment, is at once baffling and cathartic. ![]() When she arrives in the Syracuse airport and sees her son for the first time, she lets out a heart-piercing wail and collapses to the floor. It tells of the boys being relocated to America, where one of them is reunited with his mother after twenty years. This documentary about the lost boys of Sudan breaks my heart. And as Mick Jagger replays the scene in a sound studio, we watch the death of a man, as well as a cultural moment. While the Rolling Stones play, the crowd rushes the stage, and a gun-toting audience member gets killed by the Hells Angels. The killing scene at the Altamont concert is an incredible document of crime mixed with concert footage. Gimme Shelter “Come on people, let’s be cool.” These moments are why we love documentaries so much, and why we believe it’s a filmmaking genre without equal. And I invite you to contribute your favorites in the comments section below. I present to you my top ten list of the most unforgettable moments in documentary history. It’s transformative when a filmmaker captures something so remarkable, you can hardly breathe. As a viewer, you feel like the floor has fallen out from under you, and you are no longer watching a documentary, but you are actually entering an alternate experience. Jesse, 27, Robert’s son by first wife Dana Morgan, is a commercial illustrator.Īn ascetic, mildly disturbed painter/beggar who seeks peace by sitting on a bed of nails in his San Francisco flophouse.Most of the best documentaries have them - a moment when you can’t believe what you are watching. A scathing satirist with eccentric - some say misogynist - sexual tastes often depicted in his work, he moved to southern France in 1991 with second wife Aline Kominsky-Crumb, 46, also a cartoonist, and their daughter, Sophie, now 13. Natural, Fritz the Cat, ”Keep on Truckin’,” and other underground cartoon icons. But in February 1993, one year after being interviewed for Crumb, he committed suicide at the age of 50. Filmmaker David Lynch once talked of writing a screenplay for Charles to star in. Crumb shows him to be a highly articulate depressive and a recluse in his mother’s home. ![]() She now lives alone outside Philadelphia.Ī gifted cartoonist as a child, Charles pushed his siblings into art. Portrayed as a one-time amphetamine freak. He’s remembered in Crumb as a ”sadistic bully” who, in a rage one Christmas, broke 5-year-old Robert’s collarbone. Madness, drugs, sexual perversity - if not for the redemptive power of art, you’d have met this clan on Geraldo:Ī career Marine and businessman who died at 68 in 1982. Tolstoy believed that all unhappy families are different, but there’s none quite so different as the one we meet in Terry Zwigoff’s brilliant new documentary, Crumb, about seminal underground cartoonist-godhead Robert Crumb and his deeply dysfunctional family.
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