“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 ...

“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 ...

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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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Harvey Pekar, who chronicled his travails as a low-level filing clerk in the autobiographical comics series "American Splendor," which was adapted into the award-winning 2003 film, has died. He was 70 ...

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 ...