Harvey Pekar

Cinema has always liked telling a good life story, and all kinds of biography – from the humblest to the starriest – have been given a filmic going-over. The Guardian and Observer's critics pick the 10 best in a very crowded field

We're picking out your finest responses to our My favourite film series, for which Guardian writers have selected the movies they go back to time and again.

Here's a roundup of how you responded in week three, when the selections were American Splendor, The Red Shoes, The Princess Bride, Rio Bravo and Hoop Dreams

The American Splendor author was a humane and masterful storyteller who saw through the artifice of the US mainstream, writes Ben Myers

Comic book writer who penned the autobiographical American Splendor

Comic book writer acclaimed for chronicles of mundane tribulations of US life found dead at home

American Splendor, the film adaptation of Harvey Pekar's cult comic book, has won the best picture award from the LA Film Critics Association

Film of the week: Harvey Pekar's cult comics, drawn by his friend Robert Crumb, celebrated eccentric working-class people. Now Pekar stars in American Splendor - or does he?

Danny Leigh meets Harvey Pekar, the hero of his own comic strip, American Splendor.