My review of The Criterion Collections release ofCrumbon Blu-ray follows after the jump.

Besides his resolutely anti-sellout aesthetic, the film offers three core elements.

This ties into the sexuality.

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Of course as he says that all changed when he got famous.

One such piece has a man sodomizing a headless woman, and theres other similarly-themed, sexually explicit text.

A lot of this comes at the beginning of the film.

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The genius of the film is that it contrasts this with his brothers.

The Criterion Collections Blu-ray is going to look as good as it ever could.

The film was shot in the academy ratio (1.33:1) and in 2.0 monoaural sound.

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The picture looks better than previous releases, but it suffers some grain.

There are fourteen sequences labeled unused footage (52 min.)

with very sporadic optional commentary.

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