On that score, this new Crumb packs a brand-new full-length commentary with director Terry Zwigoff, bringing a fresh perspective, as well as the previously released Zwigoff/Roger Ebert track from 2006. in HD!) of Unused Footage, some of these 14 vignettes offering optional audio commentary. The disc boasts almost an hour (about 52 minutes total. The original track also benefits from the involvement of the great audio maven Walter Murch, who worked on the film for its initial release. The music comes from a variety of sources, including old 78 records, and here too the sound is quite pleasing. It has been cleaned for its arrival on Blu-ray, showing no pops and no hiss. The only audio option is Uncompressed Linear PCM mono, but this track is full and strong and clear, again all the more impressive for the fact that it was recorded live in myriad real-world environments, ostensibly with no retakes. We need only check out the deleted scenes in the extras to see how nasty this footage could have looked. There's the occasional scratch but overall the 4:3 image-pillarboxed between vertical black bars left and right-is quite clean, with the amount of dirt drastically reduced. The quality of the blacks is better-than-expected, while colors are surprisingly strong as well. This newly created HD master was culled from a 16mm film interpositive, which shows remarkably restrained grain considering its humble origins. As with the subjects of the radical artwork, nothing is off-limits in Crumb, as his own anecdotes and those of his brothers, supporters and critics combine to unravel the mysteries of one of pop culture's more unusual figures. We're given ample glances of his decades-spanning body of bizarre, brilliant work, reflective of a creative powerhouse stuck in an adolescent, sex-obsessed mindset that resonates with a loyal audience. Zwigoff has structured the movie to give us the basics of the man and his work up front, as Crumb introduces himself to an art class where he's guest lecturing, before we plumb the depths of his psyche. His family sets a new standard for dysfunction, still tainted by old sibling rivalries and parenting issues, with no Crumb left unscathed. While he admits to enjoying such a level of success, and even some of the fame that has come with it, we soon wonder if he enjoys anything else in life. Crumb (and his brother and his other brother and his mother) would likely be dismissed by the vast majority of the American public with the handle "weirdo." Even those closest to Robert acknowledge his eccentricity, and yet filmmaker Terry Zwigoff ( Ghost World) knew enough about the man to pursue a documentary feature, which in turn yielded a torrent of dark revelation.Ĭrumb shows the artist at work and at play, traveling America in anticipation of an upcoming move to the south of France, where he will be given a house in exchange for a bunch of his sketchbooks.
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