{"id":6490,"date":"2011-09-02T19:27:49","date_gmt":"2011-09-02T23:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=6490"},"modified":"2015-10-02T14:22:31","modified_gmt":"2015-10-02T19:22:31","slug":"crumb-1994-terry-zwigoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/6490","title":{"rendered":"Crumb (1994, Terry Zwigoff)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When we watched this in college (same day as <em>Basquiat<\/em>, or was it <em>Suburbia<\/em>), it got boring so we turned it off.  Years later someone told me we must&#8217;ve stopped the movie right before R. Crumb&#8217;s brother dies, because it gets really gripping after that.  Years after that I watch Zwigoff&#8217;s <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/23\">Art School Confidential<\/a><\/em> and lose all interest in him.  But with the Criterion release of his early stuff I give in, cuz I&#8217;m a Criterion fanboy, and give this one another shot.  And WTF, his brother dies in the closing credits, so I must&#8217;ve been pranked.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/journal\/image11\/crumb.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I&#8217;m more interested in Crumb now than I was in college, and it&#8217;s a worthwhile doc.  You have to wonder about the parents that produced these three sons: a bed-of-nails-sitting street beggar, an unemployable avid reader who barely leaves his room, and the world&#8217;s most acclaimed sexually perverse underground comic artist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When we watched this in college (same day as Basquiat, or was it Suburbia), it got boring so we turned it off. Years later someone told me we must&#8217;ve stopped the movie right before R. Crumb&#8217;s brother dies, because it gets really gripping after that. Years after that I watch Zwigoff&#8217;s Art School Confidential and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[451,139,13,93,731],"class_list":["post-6490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1990s","tag-comics","tag-criterion","tag-documentary","tag-terry-zwigoff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6490"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10293,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6490\/revisions\/10293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}