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Terry Zwigoff (born May 18, 1949 in Appleton, Wisconsin) is an American filmmaker best known for two popular small budget films, both arising out of the world of underground or alternative comics: the documentary Crumb (1994), about underground comics figure Robert Crumb, and the feature Ghost World (2001), adapted from the Dan Clowes comic ...
May 19, 2017 · The Sly Poetics of Terry Zwigoff. “I can’t relate to 99 percent of humanity,” says a character in Terry Zwigoff’s perceptive cult film Ghost World (2001). That movie—an ode to alienation, loneliness, and the melancholy process of growing up—was inspired by the graphic novel of the same name by Daniel Clowes.
Nov 13, 2023 · Zwigoff introduced and talked after screenings of “Bad Santa” and “Ghost World,” as well as a 1954 noir he particularly liked called “The Wicked Woman.”. But the Friday afternoon talk, called “Meet Terry Zwigoff,” was a chance for Zwigoff to show clips from classic films that had influenced him as a filmmaker, including “The ...
United States. Language. English. Box office. $3,174,695 [1] Crumb is a 1994 American documentary film about the noted underground cartoonist R. Crumb and his family (including his two brothers) and his outlook on life. Directed by Terry Zwigoff and produced by Lynn O'Donnell, it won widespread acclaim.
Birthday: May 18, 1949. Birthplace: Appleton, Wisconsin, USA. San Francisco-based documentarian Terry Zwigoff was well-known for his 1994 film "Crumb," a frankly intimate portrait of the legendary ...
May 12, 2017 · By Michael Nordine. May 12, 2017 3:01 pm. Beginning next Friday, New York’s Metrograph will present a Terry Zwigoff retrospective that includes screenings of all five of his feature films. The ...
In fact, Zwigoff traces his film career back to discovering a rare blues recording by an unknown Chicago blues musician he discovered in 1978. The experience of the two years spent researching this artist, a highly eccentric Howard Armstrong, became Zwigoff's first film project, a documentary titled "Louie Bluie" (1985) which premiered at ...
