Mills conceived 2016’s 20th Century Women, also semiautobiographical, as a companion piece to that earlier film: Annette ...

This month’s selection was an HBO original movie in 2003, but it was made on a relatively low budget for the independent film circuit. In the era before comic-book movies arrived multiple times per ...

Oscar winner Jessica Chastain and Chris Pine are teaming for a prestige project launching at the upcoming European Film Market. “This Is Pleasure,” based on Mary Gaitskill’s novella, will be directed ...

Harvey Pekar, whose autobiographical comic book series “American Splendor” portrayed his unglamorous life with bone-dry honesty and wit, was found dead at home early Monday, authorities said. He was ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook The movie American Splendor (2003) adapts Pekar’s comics of the same (which were released between ...

Harvey Pekar, the Cleveland cartoon writer whose "American Splendor" inspired a film of the same name, died early Monday. Pekar, who had battled cancer, was found dead just before 1 am by his wife, ...

Harvey Pekar — blue-collar scholar, retired file clerk, television celebrity, journalist, observer of life and creator of the 25 year-old comic series “American Splendor” — can now add “movie star” to ...

Thomas Butt is a senior writer. An avid film connoisseur, Thomas actively logs his film consumption on Letterboxd and vows to connect with many more cinephiles through the platform. He is immensely ...

Harvey Pekar, the cartoonist behind American Splendor, died this morning at his Cleveland home at the age of 70. Memories of Pekar are already flooding the Web, along with official obits (The New York ...

“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 ...

Read up on the latest American Splendor film News, Reviews and Features from the team at Collider. An original mix of fiction and reality illuminates the life of comic book hero everyman Harvey Pekar.