I, Curmudgeon

Canadian filmmaker Alan Zweig, himself an admitted curmudgeon, devotes this talking-head documentary primarily to interviews with other curmudgeons with a similar sensibility. The movie consists largely of talking-head interviews with a variety of men and women, spanning several generations, who ...more

Like Alan Zweig's previous documentary Vinyl, I, Curmudgeon isn't a terribly impressive piece of filmmaking on a technical or compositional level. However, like Vinyl, it entertainingly taps into a vein of popular culture often discussed by people with alternative/alienated sensibilities, but rarely covered in film (or anywhere in the mainstream media, for that matter). The movie is dominated by straightforward talking-head interviews with a wide variety of characters who -- like Zweig himself ...more