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	The Thrilling Adventures of Harvey Pekar - In which he mopes, sulks, and complains a lot. By David Edelstein (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		I first read American Splendor in the early '80s, just after the yuppies had taken over and it was suddenly unhip to be a sad sack living in a messy apartment, railing against the government, and hanging out with people neither especially beautiful nor successful.
		American Splendor uses scratchy comic book frames and captions that evoke the comic's edginess, and the free-floating jazz score by Mark Suozzo might remind you, subliminally, of Peanuts—which is also about a bunch of neurotics (disguised as kids) hanging out and griping and developing odd fixations.
		American Splendor opens with a scene in which the young Pekar goes trick-or-treating as himself and is taken aback when people regard him as peculiar beside all the kids in superhero get-ups.
	slate.msn.com /id/2087000 (923 words)

	American Splendor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		American Splendor is a series of autobiographical comic books and graphic novels written by Harvey Pekar.
		Pekar was one of the first writers to believe that everyday real life could be a vital a topic for comic books, traditionally the province of fantasy-adventure and other genre stories.
		It was written and directed by documentarists Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/American_Splendor (285 words)

	American Splendor - a Movie Review of The Phantom Tollbooth
		American Splendor covers the true story of Harvey Pekar (played by Paul Giamatti), a Cleveland file clerk who wrote a comic series about his own life, aptly titled American Splendor.
		So what we have in the movie American Splendor is a true story of a guy who is writing a constantly occurring true story of himself.
		At least American Splendor proves that this theory works as far as movies are concerned.
	www.tollbooth.org /2003/movies/splendor.html (1493 words)

	Movie Publicity
		American Splendor is the true saga of a working-class Everyman who pursues self-expression without self-censorship — and finds a grateful audience, critical admiration, and that most remarkable of happy endings, a loving family.
		Like its namesake comic, American Splendor focuses on the large and small moments in the life of its curmudgeonly hero, and offers not one, but several illustrations of Harvey Pekar: the Harvey of the main narrative, portrayed by Paul Giamatti; a 2D animated Harvey; and the real Harvey, past (via archival footage) and present.
		Above all, American Splendor is the anti-biopic that Pekar’s life and work demands, a nervy film that refuses to play by the genre rulebook; a film as unique, smart and wonderful as Pekar himself.
	www.moviepublicity.com /fltheatrical/amersplendor_synopsis.html (976 words)

	Review: American Splendor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		American Splendor depicts how Harvey started the comic; how he met and married Joyce (his third wife); how he became a semi-regular on Letterman's show, then lost his guest status when he blasted GE (which owned NBC); and how he engaged in a battle with cancer.
		Producer Ted Hope, a big fan of the "American Splendor" comic books, hand-picked them for the job, and his faith was rewarded as they turned in one of the most inventive motion pictures of the year.
		American Splendor is deserving of such accolades, not only because it tells an interesting story about a fascinating man, but because it does so with such freedom and freshness.
	movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/a/american_splendor.html (1048 words)

	The Bubakar Awards...American Splendor reviewed (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Hell, they don't simply follow Zwigoff's path to quality filmmaking, with American Splendor, they blaze a trail all of their own in creating a fictional film that could have only come from documentarians.
		American Splendor, based on the comic books of the same name, is the tale of Harvey Pekar, a nebbishy Cleveland file clerk who had a thing for the comics.
		We watch the ups and downs of their lives move across the screen in fluid episodes, always narrated by the real Harvey Pekar, and occasionally interrupted with documentary footage of Pekar and Brabner discussing their lives in talking-head style interviews.
	home.earthlink.net /%7Ebubakar/americansplendor.html (575 words)

	American Splendor (2003): Reviews
		American Splendor presents Pekar as drawn on the page, Pekar as brilliantly interpreted by Paul Giamatti, and the actual Pekar, in the double role of narrator and interview subject -- sometimes all at once.
		American Splendor is deserving of accolades, not only because it tells an interesting story about a fascinating man, but because it does so with such freedom and freshness.
		American Splendor reminds you that sometimes, simply getting out of bed each morning can be the most heroic of acts.
	www.metacritic.com /video/titles/americansplendor (1466 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Film \| Reviews \| American Splendor
		Pekar is played partly by himself, interviewed in a stylised all-white studio as he records the movie's voiceovers and answers personal questions with the wary, genial dismissiveness into which his natural bad grace has evidently softened over the years.
		He is also played in the dramatised chapters of his life by that undisputed king of American indie ordinariness: Paul Giamatti, whose terrible combover, slightly bulging eyes and thin resentful mouth make him the go-to guy for this kind of role.
		American Splendor has, in its sarky and diffident way, some pretty serious things to say about the disaffected and the disenfranchised in American society, alienated from their jobs and their lives.
	film.guardian.co.uk /News_Story/Critic_Review/Guardian_Film_of_the_week/0,4267,1114616,00.html (919 words)

	'American Splendor's' working-class hero more paunch than panache
		In the world of comic-book movies, "American Splendor" is the real deal, the warts-and-all adventures of the most unlikely hero on the comic stands.
		The "American Splendor" created by documentary veterans Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini is part biographical drama, part literary adaptation and part documentary.
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	seattlepi.nwsource.com /movies/136078_splendor22q.html (356 words)

	American Splendor
		American Splendor är ett collage gjort av spelfilm, seriestrippar och dokumentärfilm.
		American Splendor blandar autentiska serierutor från serietidningarna med dokumentära intervjuer med den åldrade Harvey och människorna i hans närhet.
		American Splendor vann stora jurypriset vid Sundance-festivalen 2003 och ett av kritikerpriserna i Cannes.
	www.bio.nu /film/?id=100615 (589 words)

	American Splendor
		American Splendor follows Pekar over the course of nearly thirty years, from the divorce of his second wife to a particularly troubled time in his life in the 80s.
		The film is based on Pekar's American Splendor comic books, and Our Cancer Year, a graphic novel by Pekar and Brabner.
		Nothing much happens in American Splendor, but by the time ends, one gets a good sense of whom Pekar actually is, and he makes sense in his strange way.
	www.haro-online.com /movies/american_splendor.html (568 words)

	IGN: Exclusive Interview with Paul Giamatti
		Now turn it up in American Splendor and Giamatti is a storm of acidity as the cantankerous Harvey Pekar –; a role which could get him an Oscar nomination.
		American Splendor took top prize at the Sundance Film Festival this year, and was an audience favorite at the Nantucket Film Festival, where our interview took place.
		American Splendor is a rare film that breaks from the standard idea of a feature.
	filmforce.ign.com /articles/431/431741p1.html (1273 words)

	American Splendor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		An issue of "American Splendor" will typically contain scenes from Pekar's life: a search for a lost set of keys, say, or a conversation with his wife Joyce about his substandard dishwashing skills.
		American Splendor, the film, is as inventive and unbound as its subject.
		American Splendor shot for five weeks in November-December 2001 in Pekar's hometown of Cleveland, Ohio.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /m/AmericanSplendor-1124972/about.php (4054 words)

	Splendor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Splendor', writer/director Gregg Araki's debut film, is a bright, witty comedy of relationships, told from a...
		Splendor Boats is in need of some demographical information as to who is finding this website and what...
		American Splendor is one of the most original films in years.
	www.moviesbytitle.com /Splendor.html (684 words)

	American Splendor Movie Review
		Primarily known for American Slendor, an insightful comic book that he collaborated on with Robert Crumb, Harvey Pekar was an interesting fellow who'd pass his time reading, writing and listening to jazz.
		Before meeting Crumb, he was a lonely burnout with a bored life, but with American Splendor becoming more and more popular, and the addition of a girlfriend, Pekar would soon become a burnout in love.
		American Splendor is a fantastically entertaining film in the tradition of Ghost World.
	www.zboneman.com /movies/636.html (269 words)

	Encyclopedia: American Splendor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		American Splendor is an autobiographical comic book series and graphic novels written by Harvey Pekar.
		The Sundance Film Festival is a film festival in the United States, and ranks amongst the top five events of its type in the world.
		The Writers Guild of America (WGA) is the collective bargaining representative, or labor union, for writers in the motion picture and television industries.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/American-Splendor (661 words)

	Harvey, Meet Woody - American Splendor vs. Annie Hall. By Jaime Wolf (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		American Splendor uses comic book thought-balloons to convey subtext; in Annie Hall, a conversation between Allen and Diane Keaton is "translated" by subtitles indicating their actual thoughts.
		And like American Splendor, Annie Hall even contains its own animated sequence, in which Allen's fixation on the Wicked Queen from Snow White is brought to bear on his romantic relationships.
		American Splendor, on the other hand, hews to the ideals and practices of the nonfiction portrait film, foregrounding the unpleasant and inescapable aspects of Pekar's actual, lived life.
	slate.msn.com /id/2088843 (858 words)

	Metroactive Movies \| 'American Splendor'
		Cleveland weather might be a metaphor for the splendor of American politics during Pekar's lifetime: brief springs of progress crushed by long winters of repression.
		American Splendor is as funny and full of feeling as any American film this year.
		American Splendor (R; 101 min.), directed by Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini, written by Harvey Pekar, Joyce Brabner, Berman and Pulcini, photographed by Terry Stacey and starring Paul Giamatti, Hope Davis and James Urbaniak, opens Friday at selected theaters valleywide.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/08.21.03/splendor-0334.html (4426 words)

	From Off the Streets of Cleveland Comes Harvey Pekar’s Official Blog
		She'd keep on asking me where she could see "American Splendor," and I would tell her when it opened in Cleveland and she would go to mark the date on her calendar only to find she'd marked it previously.
		There was a nice “American Splendor” for people in the industry the other night with a cordial and friendly QandA session that followed.
		Joyce, Danielle and I arrived in Edinburgh, Scotland, where “American Splendor” was scheduled to close the Edinburgh film Festival.
	www.harveypekar.com /categories/harveyPekar (3113 words)

	The High Sign: American Splendor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		American Splendor is a movie about a guy who despises nearly everything, yet the movie itself seems desperate to be liked.
		The critics are falling over each other to make American Splendor a nice dinner and offer it their bed while they sleep on the couch, and certainly the packed house with which Amy Goodman and I saw it on opening weekend giggled along amiably enough.
		I still haven't quite figured out why it is I didn't like American Splendor, and if someone else picks up the tab, I may well see it again to be sure.
	www.thehighsign.net /archives/review/american_splendor.html (758 words)

	Don Markstein's Toonopedia: American Splendor
		Like most Americans of his generation, Harvey Pekar read comic books as a child, but set them aside when he grew up.
		It has been anthologized in paperback form, and was adapted into at least two stage plays (in one of which Dan Castellaneta, voice of Homer Simpson, played Pekar).
		Despite quarreling on the air with Letterman about the show's corporate masters, he was invited back repeatedly for the next two years, after which Letterman, apparently having had enough of the prickly writer, banished him from the show forever.
	www.toonopedia.com /splendor.htm (542 words)

	Boxoffice Magazine [American Splendor DVD Film Review] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		"American Splendor." HBO Films' fascinating little gender-bender is a triumph of innovative and "out of the box" filmmaking from documentarians Robert Pulcini and Shari Springer Berman.
		Recognizing that any film about pop culture icon Harvey Pekar would have to be every bit as peculiar as Pekar and his autobiographical cult comic series "American Splendor," they went about making a film that fused the best of both the narrative and documentary worlds.
		With an equally brilliant performance from Hope Davis as the Pekar's eventual bride, "American Splendor" is both funny and artful, one of the few American comedies that actually endeavors to do more than generate laughs.
	www.boxoffice.com /scripts/fiw.dll?GetDVDReview?&where=ID&terms=5071 (509 words)

	KDHX Film Review - American Splendor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Based on the underground comic book series of the same name, American Splendor is an alternately amusing and touching, wildly inventive presentation of the life and art of Harvey Pekar.
		American Splendor earned the 2003 Sundance Grand Jury Prize and the International Critics Award at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, credit to filmmakers Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini.
		Not so with HBO and Fine Line whose American Splendor is a tribute to merging nonfiction and fiction worlds while honoring Harvey Pekar.
	www.kdhx.org /reviews/american_splendor.htm (307 words)

	MichaelBarrier.com -- Commentary: American Splendor
		Readers of American Splendor have shared the quotidian details of his work as a government file clerk, his record collecting, and his happy (but far from serene) third marriage.
		Crumb's last work appeared in American Splendor No. 12, in 1987, but he is still the cartoonist most indelibly associated with Pekar.
		Watching American Splendor, I was reminded most of the Seinfeld episodes devoted to the filming of a pilot for a sitcom called Jerry, in which actors played fictional versions of characters who were themselves not only actors but also fictional versions of real people.
	michaelbarrier.com /Commentary/American_Splendor/American_Splendor.htm (1332 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Books: American Splendor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		With American Splendor now an award-winning movie, Titan is proud to present this bumper edition of the comics that started it all...
		After watching the movie American Splendor, I was intrigued by what this comic book had to offer.
		Harvey paid for the printing &c himself, and as they've never been especially popular, he's never made any money out of his strange project, which is in essence a kind of ongoing comic book diary/autobiography/social commentary.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/1840237872 (1039 words)

	Reality and Fiction Meet in Brilliant "American Splendor"
		Since the very raison d'etre of the "American Splendor" comics is their proximity to Pekar's real life, a film without the real Harvey Pekar would be unthinkable.
		The one objection that might be made concerning "American Splendor" is that it contains little in the way of psychological development.
		The brilliance of American Splendor is in the recognition of disgruntled misanthrope Harvey Pekar's homely, unpretentious, perfectly resonating success in work, in self-expression and in love.
	www.indiewire.com /movies/movies_030519splend.html (1333 words)

	The New Yorker: The Critics: The Current Cinema (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		“American Splendor” is directed by Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini, who have done a remarkable job, not least by refusing to confound us.
		And so a comic strip entitled “American Splendor” was born, with Crumb as the draftsman and Harvey supplying the words.
		When our man finds the nerve to approach her, he does so by sidling in from the edge of the frame, as wary as a hermit crab, with no establishing shot to tell us that he was even on the premises.
	www.newyorker.com /critics/cinema?030818crci_cinema (1231 words)

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