American Splendor (2003)

The cleverest answer anyone has found to adapting autobiographical comics. Harvey Pekar wrote about his ordinary Cleveland life and had other artists draw it, so Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini, who had previously made only documentaries, mix Paul Giamatti's performance as Pekar with interviews with the real man and animated sections drawn by the likes of R. Crumb. Hope Davis is terrific as his partner Joyce Brabner. The film won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance in 2003, and the way it keeps cutting between actor, cartoon and the genuine article is the closest a film has come to the feel of flipping through an anthology comic.