“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 ...

“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 ...

For directors Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini, both documentary filmmakers, the critical success of American Splendor is beyond their conception of a Best Case Scenario. They didn't plan for ...

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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.

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 ...

American Splendor is everything a comic book movie adaptation should be. Well, at least an adaptation of an autobiographical comic book, that is. You know what? Forget that last statement and go back ...

Highly original and extremely imaginative, American Splendor is a rich, densely layered comedy drama cum biopic. For the most part, the superb Paul Giamatti plays Harvey Pekar, a clerk at a Cleveland ...

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.

Following the premiere screening of his life, “American Splendor” author Harvey Pekar at the after party at Eyebeam Studio takes a moment off from chatting with the press to flash his cool “American ...