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• #ROBERT CRUMB DOCUMENTARY MOVIE#

Zwigoff, whose only previous finished film is "Louie Bluie" (1985), a documentary about country blues fiddler Howard Armstrong, has known Crumb for 25 years. Haunting documentaries of the last decade. Winner of the Grand Jury Prize for best documentary at the Sundance Film Festival, and also the subject of a scornful New Yorker cartoon that Crumb and his wife, Aline Kominsky, drew in reaction to the film, "Crumb" is one of the most provocative,

Crumb, who rose to fame in the late '60s with his feverish, LSD-induced work in underground comics, comes across as brilliant, self-loathing, suspicious of his celebrity, sexually fetishistic, contemptuous of American pop culture and psychologically decimated by a sadistic, tyrannical father. In "Crumb," the controversial two-hour film that opens today at Bay Area theaters, San Francisco film maker Terry Zwigoff doesn't spare his subject. It's Crumb's defenselessness - his tendency to confess his sins and exorcise his ugliest, most misanthropic urges through his art - that makes him such a fascinating, unforgettable film subject. Maybe I should be locked up and my pencils taken away." It ruthlessly forces itself out of me on the paper. "I have hostilities toward women, I admit it. "I can't defend myself," an exasperated, geeky-looking Robert Crumb pleads.

Crumb, when a young journalist confronts him and says that his grotesque, sexist images had shocked her as a child and made her afraid to join the adult world.

#ROBERT CRUMB DOCUMENTARY MOVIE#

There's a moment in "Crumb," the new movie about cartoonist R.