Director Matt Wolf discusses the ups and downs of working with Paul Reubens on an honest film about a private life.

Paul Reubens did not tell his director, Matt Wolf, that he was dying from cancer. The actor and comedian, who famously starred as Pee-wee Herman in the 1980s, passed away in 2023 at age 70.

O n its surface, Pee-wee as Himself is a loving two-part documentary looking at the life of the late Paul Reubens, the ...

Pee-wee as Himself,' a two-part documentary directed by Matt Wolf premiering Friday on HBO, supplies a vivid portrait of Paul ...

As Reubens states in Pee-wee as Himself, he wanted to make his own film about himself. "Turns out that you're not really supposed to direct your own documentary," he says. While identifying that the ...

Paul Reubens did not tell his director, Matt Wolf ... if he did have all the perspective he thought he had, or if he had learned something about himself through the course of telling his full ...

Director Matt Wolf shrewdly recounts Reubens’ life and his career as ... I interviewed other people for contrasting perspectives and to gain insight. But at the end of the day, this was a ...

"Pee-Wee as Himself," Matt Wolf's documentary about Paul Reubens and his famous alter ego, Pee-Wee Herman, deconstructs the genre. It's fascinating.

Matt Wolf's documentary "Pee-wee as Himself" follows the life of Paul Reubens, who came to resent the fame of his own ...