“Pee-wee as Himself” offers a refreshing contrast to celebrity documentaries shaped by estate-approved image control. Director Matt Wolf approached the film as a gay man profoundly influenced by ...

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Director Matt Wolf; 'Pee-wee as Himself.' Michael Buckner for Deadline/HBO Making Pee-wee as Himself was no picnic for director Matt Wolf. He clashed with the protagonist of his film, the late Pee-wee ...

Pee-wee Herman was director Matt Wolf’s dream subject for a documentary, he says. By Matthew Jacobs thrnews@thr.com Streaming services are teeming with celebrity documentaries, but few of those movies ...

Matt Wolf wasn’t Paul Reubens’ first choice to direct a documentary about his life. Nobody was, really. From the outset of the project that would become “Pee-wee as Himself,” Reubens insisted that he ...

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Throughout his career, documentary filmmaker Matt Wolf has excelled at portraits of complicated artists and individuals whose work is both highly idiosyncratic as well as, at least seen in retrospect, ...

Paul Reubens, the eccentric performance artist best known as Pee-wee Herman, was an intensely private person. After a number of people had approached him about making a documentary about himself, he ...

"Pee-wee as Himself" offers a refreshing contrast to celebrity documentaries shaped by estate-approved image control. Director Matt Wolf approached the film as a gay man profoundly influenced by ...

Inside the year Paul Reubens effectively shelved the Emmy-nominated documentary, and how it changed Wolf as a filmmaker and person. Wolf’s introduction to Reubens came through Josh and Benny Safdie, ...