Episode 9

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21st Apr 2021

American Splendor (2003 Sundance Award Winner)

The ninth episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 2003 features the Sundance Film Festival Grand Jury Prize winner, Robert Pulcini and Shari Springer Berman’s American Splendor. Written and directed by Robert Pulcini and Shari Springer Berman (based on the comics by Harvey Pekar) and starring Paul Giamatti, Hope Davis and Judah Friedlander, American Splendor premiered at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival and was nominated for an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay.

The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Roger Ebert (https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/american-splendor-2003), Lisa Schwarzbaum in Entertainment Weekly (https://ew.com/article/2003/08/14/american-splendor-2/), and Manohla Dargis in the Los Angeles Times (https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2003-aug-15-et-dargis15-story.html).

Please like, share, rate and comment on the show and this episode, and tune in for the next 2003 installment featuring the Best Picture Oscar winner, Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.

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Awesome Movie Year is a podcast co-hosted by film critic Josh Bell and filmmaker and comedian Jason Harris. Each season looks at why a certain year was an awesome movie year. Each episode focuses on a different film from the year being investigated. Produced by David Rosen of the Piecing It Together Podcast for the All Points West Podcast Network
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David Rosen is a music composer and podcast producer. He has scored feature films, commercials and more, as well as creating albums of instrumental music. He currently produced Piecing It Together which he hosts and Awesome Movie Year.