Kraichgauer
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Kraichgauer
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29 May 2018, 3:34 am
Robert Crumb, ah Robert Crumb on Music, Drugs, Spirituality, Aliens, Autism, Art, Society
i've seen other RC docu's but maybe this is interesting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyXs2O51lW8
On the track of Robert van Gulik - Official Trailer
I remember another Robert Crumb documentary very well.
29 May 2018, 4:56 am
American Splendor is a biographical film about the comic book writer Harvey Pekar.
Harvey was a frustrated person just working a job a file clerk and felt like he had a creative spark he just couldn't get going. Eventually he tried just jotting down random bits of his life in Cleveland, OH in comic book format, but with very crude stick figures as he really had no drawing skill.
By a weird fluke, Harvey was also a fan of collecting jazz records and through this hobby became friends with the previously mentioned Robert Crumb who kind of on a whim drew some of Pekar's crude comic panels. Slowly from this point a self biographical comic book AMERICAN SPLENDOR emerged with different guest illustrators drawing Pekar's life.
In the movie, Harvey plays himself in current interviews, but in flash back scenes his life is re-enacted by Paul Giamatti. 
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Kraichgauer
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29 May 2018, 5:00 am
Harvey was a frustrated person just working a job a file clerk and felt like he had a creative spark he just couldn't get going. Eventually he tried just jotting down random bits of his life in Cleveland, OH in comic book format, but with very crude stick figures as he really had no drawing skill.
By a weird fluke, Harvey was also a fan of collecting jazz records and through this hobby became friends with the previously mentioned Robert Crumb who kind of on a whim drew some of Pekar's crude comic panels. Slowly from this point a self biographical comic book AMERICAN SPLENDOR emerged with different guest illustrators drawing Pekar's life.
In the movie, Harvey plays himself in current interviews, but in flash back scenes his life is re-enacted by Paul Giamatti.
A very enjoyable movie.
29 May 2018, 5:09 am
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