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...regeneration a possibility for Willie? Sure. This is a Christmas movie. But it's also a Terry Zwigoff film, and the auteur of such dark delights as Crumb and Ghost World is not about to abandon his obsession with dysfunction among the lower socioeconomic classes. He holds back Willie's reformation until the last possible moment...
...white, psychedelic-inspired books from the mid-sixties, with titles like "Zap" and "Big Ass," reinvented the art form into "comix." Then he got better. Through the following decades Crumb continued to stretch the form's limits with his mix of biting satire and naked autobiography. When Terry Zwigoff's documentary, "Crumb," came out in 1994, he became the world's best-known comicbook artist. Residing in France since the 1990s, Crumb's output has slowed. But this month fans will get a double dose of Crumb material both old and new. "The Complete Crumb Comics" volume 16 (Fantagraphics Books...
...GHOST WORLD An Amelie with attitude, teen Enid (the frighteningly assured Thora Birch) adopts orphan things and people in order to make fun of them. This daringly undarling comedy, from director Terry Zwigoff and comix writer Daniel Clowes, shows just how furtive and morose an ordeal growing up can be. It's a Heathers for the 9/11 Generation...
...Ghost World An Amélie with attitude, teen Enid (the frighteningly assured Thora Birch) adopts orphan things and people in order to make fun of them. This daringly undarling comedy, from director Terry Zwigoff and comix writer Daniel Clowes, shows just how furtive and morose an ordeal growing up can be. It's a Heathers for the 9/11 Generation...
...Zwigoff's major contribution to the script was the fleshing out of Seymour, a minor character in the comic. Zwigoff took aspects from Robert Crumb and his brother Charles, but mainly, the director says, "he was based on me." It was easier to write the character than to get the studio bosses' approval of the actor to play him. "I fought and fought to have Steve Buscemi. We could have made this film four years earlier if I'd agreed to cast the people they were giving me, like Freddie Prinze Jr.--people who were absurd for the part. Also...