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FILM COMMENT
July/August 2003
INSTANT AUTHENTICITY
BY HOWARD HAMPTON
HBO Films production American Splendor, a scruffy-charming distillation of Harvey Pekar's autobiographical comic books, is yet another example of the convergence between indie-auteur hipness and cable-ready conventionality, their mutual appetite for buzz and prestige eating away from opposite ends toward a boxed-in aesthetic.
You can read the complete version of this article in the July/August 2003 print edition of Film Comment.
© 2003 by Howard Hampton
