Movies found: 3, viewing from 1 to 3
Year: 1988
Country: USA, Canada
Actors: Stan Lee, Frank Miller, Bill Griffith, Robert Crumb, Lynda Barry
Director: Ron Mann
Available Quality: DivX
Country: USA, Canada
In the 20th century, no artistic medium in North America with so much potential for creative expression has had a more turbulent history plagued with less respect than comic books. Through animated montages, readings and interviews, this film guides us through the history of the medium from the late 1930s and 1940s with the first explosion of popularity with the superheroes created by great talents like Jack Kirby and hitting its first artistic zenith with Will Eisner's "Spirit". It then shifts to the post war comics world with the rising popularity of crime and horror comics, especially those published by EC Comics under the editorshiop of W...
Year: 2008
Country: USA
Actors: Dennis Hopper, Robert Oppel, Adam Goldberg, Giancarlo Esposito, Bijou Phillips
Director: Abel Ferrara
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
Country: USA
considered an untouchable, impenetrable tower for writers, artists, musicians and mavericks, it has recently been claimed as a boutique hotel venture for a management company that shows blatant disregard for its formidable history. The film intertwines archival footage, interviews and narrative sequences as well as actors who are very much part of the soul of the hotel (Ethan Hawke, Dennis Hopper and others). ... ... Expanded Synopsis: CHELSEA ON THE ROCKS celebrates the personalities and artistic voices that have emerged from this legendary residence in the heart of New York. The 12-storey, 250- room Chelsea Hotel - originally built in 1883 ...
Year: 1994
Country: USA
Actors: Bill Griffith, Robert Hughes, Robert Crumb, Aline Kominsky, Charles Crumb
Director: Terry Zwigoff
Available Quality: Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def
Country: USA
This movie chronicles the life and times of R. Crumb. Robert Crumb is the cartoonist/artist who drew Keep On Truckin', Fritz the Cat, and played a major pioneering role in the genesis of underground comix. Through interviews with his mother, two brothers, wife, and ex-girlfriends, as well as selections from his vast quantity of graphic art, we are treated to a darkly comic ride through one man's subconscious mind. As stream-of-consciousness images incessantly flow forth from the tip of his pen, biting social satire is revealed, often along with a disturbing and haunting vision of Crumb's own betes noires and inadequacies. As his acid-trip ind...
Movies found: 3, viewing from 1 to 3