Tag: American Splendor
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Remembering Amanda Seyfried’s Netflix Horror Film And The Beating It Took From Critics
Filmmakers Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini got their start with a documentary about a famous Los Angeles restaurant called “Off the Menu: The Last Days of Chasen’s,” but broke through the world of narrative features with “American Splendor,” a comedy biopic starring Paul Giamatti about the underground comic book writer, Harvey Pekar. At the…
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‘Things Heard & Seen’ Review: A Marriage Story with Ghosts Starring Amanda Seyfried, Though Not Much Lies Beneath It
It was 18 years ago — how time flies in the indie world — that the married directing team of Robert Pulcini and Shari Springer Berman brought us “American Splendor,” an achingly humane, scabrously funny, miraculously playful and inventive lower-depths comedy based on the life and work of the lumpen verité comic-book diarist Harvey Pekar,…