“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 ...

“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 underground comic writer Harvey Pekar didn't really do happy, but he did truth and humour in spades, which is why American Splendor, a 2002 film about Pekar (in which he also appears), got under ...

Three films inspired by seminal graphic novels comprise the Mondavi Center’s second and final film series of the year. First up is American Splendor on March 8, followed by Ghost World and Persepolis.

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

The late 70’s are a great period in filmmaking. The artists in charge of defining the decade changed the game, giving us Taxi Drivers and Godfathers and Mean Streets to grow up on. They pulled the ...

"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 Saturday by the National Society ...

In Cemetery of Splendor, a new film by Apichatpong Weerasethakul, an older Thai woman, Jen, is led around the grounds of a ramshackle building in provincial Thailand by an ecstatic young psychic named ...

The American Splendor author was a humane and masterful storyteller who saw through the artifice of the US mainstream, writes Ben Myers Comic book writer who penned the autobiographical American ...

“American Splendor” was named top movie of the year by the National Society of Film Critics, topping “Mystic River” and “Lost in Translation” in Saturday’s balloting. The 55 critics also awarded ...

Standing out among specialty releases this year was Fine Line’s groundbreaking adaptation “American Splendor,” which fused fictional filmmaking, documentary and even comic strip inserts to paint a ...