Paul Reubens did not tell his director that he was dying. On July 31, 2023, the news of Reubens' death came as a shock to documentary filmmaker Matt Wolf, who had spent a year trying to convince him ...

Perhaps the most shocking thing about Pee-wee as Himself – a new documentary tracing the life and career of Paul Reubens, now streaming with a Max subscription – is that the film got made in the first ...

Paul Reubens — aka Pee-wee Herman — left a heartbreaking phone message for filmmaker Matt Wolf the day before he died. The two had been collaborating on “Pee-wee Herman as Himself,” a documentary ...

Actor and comedian Paul Reubens had myelogenous leukemia and metastatic lung cancer during the filming of the docuseries “Pee-wee as Himself,” but almost no one knew it at the time. Reubens died at ...

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 ...

The new two-part documentary “Pee-wee as Himself” premiered on HBO and Max on May 23, a complex portrait of a complicated man, Paul Reubens, who found fame as his alter ego, Pee-wee Herman, and ...

Some bio documentaries are carried mostly by the reflective, archival footage that send you back to the subject’s heyday. But in Matt Wolf’s “Pee-wee as Himself” – as wonderful as much of the archival ...

Paul Reubens did not tell his director that he was dying. On July 31, 2023, the news of Reubens’ death came as a shock to documentary filmmaker Matt Wolf, who had spent a year trying to convince him ...