“American Splendor” represents a bold deconstruction of the fatigued biopic form. Not content to present the Cleveland-based Pekar’s life as anything resembling a straightforward narrative, Berman and ...

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“American Splendor,” which already made a big splash at Sundance earlier this year, winning the grand jury prize, has taken Cannes by storm. This brilliant mélange of documentary and fiction film, in ...

At the beginning of American Splendor, a v.o. narration by the real Harvey Pekar describes the man portraying him in the film. “This guy here, he’s our man, all grown up and going nowhere,” says Pekar ...

CLEVELAND (AP) — Comic book writer Harvey Pekar, whose “American Splendor” was made into a 2003 film starring Paul Giamatti, was found dead in his home early Monday, authorities said. He was 70.

I don’t imagine Woody Allen to be any kind of a fan of Harvey Pekar’s “American Splendor” comics: Allen’s films make a recurring point of his acute discomfiture in the presence of slobs like Pekar. At ...

American Splendor: Comedy-drama. Starring Paul Giamatti, Hope Davis, Harvey Pekar and Joyce Brabner. Directed by Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini. (R. 101 minutes. At Bay Area theaters.

“American Splendor,” Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini’s quirky look at the life of underground comic book writer Harvey Pekar, was voted best picture of 2003 on Saturday by the National ...

The semi-legendary cult comic-book writer Harvey Pekar is more generous and open than you’d expect a crank to be. And Pekar is a crank. His “American Splendor” comics — which he has been writing since ...

Xpress' 6th grade reviewer offers her thoughts on Pixar's latest gem. I don’t quite know what I expected when I settled in to watch this first quasi-narrative film from husband-wife documentary team ...

Gothamist saw American Splendor this past weekend and enjoyed this twist on a biopic. The film offers Paul Giamatti as underground writer/cartoonist (though he doesn't draw) Harvey Pekar, as well as ...