In most movies, the audience can say, "It'll
be okay. This is just a movie." But because Crumb is
a documentary, the audience can only watch (or leave), but
everything will not be okay. Crumb is more than a film;
it holds the shards of a life. After David Lynch's success as a director, he became an executive producer backing other directors' films such asCrumb and Nadja. Although one is a documentary and the other is a horror film, the genre "domestic horror" describes them both (as well as many of Lynch's own films).
In most movies, the audience can say, "It'll
be okay. This is just a movie." But because Crumb is
a documentary, the audience can only watch (or leave), but
everything will not be okay. Crumb is more than a film;
it holds the shards of a life.
R. Crumb is Robert Crumb, the artist of the picture of four guys in big shoes stepping out under the words "Keep on truckin'." Other well-known Crumb creations include the cover to Janis Joplin's "Cheap Thrills" album and the character Fritz the Cat, whom animator Ralph Bakshi adapted into the first x-rated animation movie. However, to know this much about Crumb is to know almost nothing about him or his art.
Click here for the full review of Crumb.
The image to the left is a self-portrait by R. Crumb.
The image below comes from Nadja.
The movies have sucked
a few more drops of inspiration from the vampire myth. In Nadja,
Screenwriter and director Michael Almereyda transfuses Dracula's
story with the most foul bloodlines in contemporary culture: the
family. The real monsters of Nadja are not the vampires
but parents who replicate themselves so they can fill one empty
life with another.
For the full reveiw of Nadja, click here.
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