“American Splendor” begins in 1950 but freely jumps back and forth in time, allowing particular events to trigger memories — the way Pekar himself might tell us his story over a burger at some ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Harvey Pekar, the Cleveland comic book author who made prickly honesty about everyday life into an artistic credo and whose outward aspect of dour dishevelment masked a passionate, elegant intellect, ...

At the opening of “American Splendor,” protagonist Harvey Pekar ” comic-book artist, depressive, cancer survivor ” issues a warning about the film. “If you’re the kind of person looking for romance or ...

“American Splendor”There are lots of guys like Harvey Pekar among us. Odd, neurotic, fascinating, insecure, gifted and even a little paranoid, they toil away at mundane jobs in relative obscurity.

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 ...

About the script: Combining nonfiction, dramatic and animated scenes, Berman and Pulcini’s “American Splendor” is one of the most innovative scripts of the year; with its tender story of the travails ...

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 ...

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 ...