Product Details

• Actors: Robert Armstrong, Aline Kominsky Crumb, Robert Crumb, Sophie Crumb, Carol Engberg
• Writers: Robert Crumb
• Producers: Anthony Wall, Mary Dickinson, Nigel Finch
• Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English (Unknown)
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Homevision
• DVD Release Date: February 19, 2002
• Run Time: 55 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00005UQ7P
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #203,973 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "The Confessions of Robert Crumb" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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60 of 61 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars R. Crumb's "Confessions" quite revealing, May 27, 2000

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r. cook (NYC) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Confessions of Robert Crumb [VHS] (VHS Tape)

For those who know much about underground cartoon giant R. Crumb, the "confessions" advertised in this tape's title will be, actually, old news. However, for the many who were completely or only dimly aware of R. Crumb before they may have viewed Terry Zwigoff's great film CRUMB, these CONFESSIONS will provide for a fuller picture of Crumb the family man and sympathetic human being. While Zwigoff's film focused on Crumb as product of a particular (and dysfunctional) family, this one-hour program, written by Crumb himself, is more concerned with Crumb the individual and artist. We also see more of Crumb's wife Aline, a unique and eccentric personality and cartoonist in her own right, and we see the comfortable and cooperative relationship she and her husband share. The film is quite entertaining, with little acted-out scenarios interspersed with the more straightforward interview segments. While both this film and CRUMB are outstanding and gripping as individual viewing experiences, one is advised to see both of them to gain a more three-dimensional view of the enigmatic R.Crumb. Highest recommendation!

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars If you own the Documentary "CRUMB" then you should have this one as well, March 16, 2008

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F. A. Schmidt "Fred USA" (Northern California) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Confessions of Robert Crumb (DVD)

True fans of Robert Crumb will get a kick out of this film. If you are an art student or "Comic" buff you will get something out of this film as well. This is a good addition to any Crumb collection.

15 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars WILD MAN OF UNDERGROUND COMICS STILL TRUCKIN', February 15, 2002

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Robin Simmons (Palm Springs area, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Confessions of Robert Crumb (DVD)

Since documentaries are featured as extras on many DVDs, there's a growing appetite for this cinematic art form. Criterion is feeding that craving with a series of fascinating glimpses into extraordinary real lives. Two artists that dabbled on the edge of the acceptable are featured in simultaneous releases.

The artistically apposite worlds of Jackson Pollock, and Robert Crumb are revealed in "JACKSON POLLOCK: LOVE AND DEATH ON LONG ISLAND" and "THE CONFESSIONS OF ROBERT CRUMB".

"The Confessions of Robert crumb" was actually written by Crumb himself. This pioneer of bawdy, irreverent, underground comics illustrates his own life from childhood, where he began creating comics with his brothers, to his choice to uproot himself and join the counterculture at the infamous intersections of Haight and Ashbury in San Francisco during the 60s, to his disillusionment and expatriation to France.

It's a hilarious, wild ride with the most "socially acerbic and recognized artists of the American underground comics landscape."

Don't miss this if you like "Fritz the Cat" and the "Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers." Crumb is disturbing and funny.

Is the compulsion to be an artist a kind of sanity? Maybe. They sure go hand in hand if you look at Pollock and Crumb (and many others, for that matter).