Daniel Clowes’s Adventures in Moviegoing

With his groundbreaking comics series “Eightball” and the acclaimed graphic novel “Ghost World,” Daniel Clowes brought the alternative-comics underground to mainstream recognition, channeling outsider alienation and an edgy humor steeped in the weirdo fringes of American pop culture. In this edition of Adventures in Moviegoing, he sits down with his friend Ari Aster to discuss the exploitation classics, counterculture oddities, and art-house touchstones that shaped his brilliantly cracked sensibility. The selections he has chosen to present include cult favorites like Peter Weir’s subversive thriller THE PLUMBER and the jaw-dropping animated odyssey JOURNEY TO THE BEGINNING OF TIME, films that have left a mark on his own work.