![]() Having established Crumb as a successful, serious artist, the film then turns the clock back to his nightmarish upbringing in a hothouse home where he and his brothers hid from the world and drew their comics in a frenzy. Zwigoff - Crumb's former friend turned tormentor - chases him down and shoots him at length. His other siblings were not so blessed.Ĭrumb (the movie) paints a portrait of the artist as snickering, self-loathing geek, pushing the boundaries of taste with his exultant inky emissions and view of modern-day America as a kind of circus of the damned. It was Crumb's abiding good fortune to find an outlet for his demons. Terry Zwigoff's bewitching 1994 documentary, however, reveals him to be arguably the sanest brother in the most wild and wonky brood this side of the Addams family. The cartoonist Robert Crumb is a man who made his name by sketching gleeful and disturbing pictures of a dysfunctional USA, who is reported to masturbate over his own drawings, and who confesses to becoming sexually aroused by the sight of Bugs Bunny in drag. Mandatory Credit: Photo by Moviestore Collection/REX (1539944a)ġ2064203 Photograph: Moviestore Collection/REX Indeed, you could draw a direct line from Vertov's film to the deadpan electronic beats of Kraftwerk, whose 1978 album Man Machine the Polish-born director would surely have relished. Seen now, its celebration of the burgeoning machine age is still resonant but not without humour – even if its constantly self-reflexive nature borders on exhausting (the breakneck 65-minute film has had arguably more influence on art and music than it did on cinema itself, perhaps bested in the latter regard by Dali and Bunuel's more purely surreal Un Chien Andalou, premiered later the same year). Hence the result is a heady and vertiginous piece of cinema, using optical effects, split screens and double exposures as it jump-cuts, by association, from city to city and moment to moment, the titular "man with a movie camera" more of a magician – maybe even a cyborg – than a social historian, and far from a passive bystander. Significantly, though, there is nothing mimetic about this documentation Vertov's plan was to make the camera and the celluloid itself as significant as the scenes portrayed. Heavily influenced by futurism and constructivism, both key concerns of the Soviet avant-garde, Vertov set out with a simple plan – to record a day in the life of urban Russia. ![]() For Vertov, film was something physical, to be manipulated by man, and yet, paradoxically, he also saw it as a medium that revealed the truths of life. Some say the name derives from the Russian word for spinning top, but the pseudonym is more likely an onomatopeic approximation of the sound made by the twin reels of film as the director ran them backwards and forwards through his flatbed editor. Hate is too great a burden to bear.To best understand this 1929 silent documentary, one ought to know that its director, the exotically named "Dziga Vertov", was actually born David Abelevich Kaufman in 1896. Respect the community, and do not consign their comments to the memory hole. If your submission is popular, please don't delete it. Always message the mods instead of attacking users in public. No file lockers, torrents or linkjacking: site must stream video.Īny brigading or continual harassment of one user against another may result in a ban. if they're wrong, tell them why! Personal attacks or comments that insult, demean or threaten users will be removed and result in bans. Mods reserve the right to apply the don't be a jackass rule. ![]() ![]() The following are not considered documentaries on this subreddit: TV news, articles, interviews, lectures, amateur home videos, mockumentaries, biopics, and vlogs. Soliciting for donations or linking to your own YouTube channel is annoying and prohibited.ĭocumentaries only. Please upvote if it adds to intelligent discussion, downvote if it doesn't. tag is mandatory in the description for trailers A (CC) tag in the description is strongly encouraged. Do not post titles or descriptions using 100% capitalised words. Posting format: Title (year) - optional short description Ĭorrect title, year of release and length are mandatory. Submissions and comments from brand-new accounts will be removed. Welcome, friends! Check the top of the subreddit for a request thread Search By Topic
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