On July 31, 2023, the news of Reubens' death came as a shock to documentary filmmaker Matt Wolf, who had spent a year trying ...

Filmmaker Matt Wolf learned that Paul Reubens had died along with the rest of the world. Wolf had spent years and hundreds of ...

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

He died on July 30, 2023, at 70, while fighting acute myelogenous leukemia and metastatic lung cancer, according to ...

Matt Wolf's two-part HBO documentary on the life and career of Paul Reubens, a.k.a. Pee-wee Herman, explores his identity and ...

In the new two-part documentary Pee-wee as Himself, Paul Reubens, best known for his alter ego Pee-wee Herman, aims to "set ...

Some bio documentaries are carried mostly by the reflective, archival footage that send you back to the subject’s heyday. But ...

My career would’ve absolutely suffered if I was openly gay,” he reveals in the moving posthumous HBO documentary ‘Pee-wee as Himself.’ “So I went to great lengths for many, many years to keep it a ...

Matt Wolf’s two-part documentary looks behind the Pee-wee persona as it revisits both the delights of the actor-comedian’s ...

Considering that Paul Reubens helped deconstruct performance art and children’s TV — not your usual combo — is it any surprise that “Pee-wee as Himself” deconstructs the documentary?

Before his death in 2023, Reubens filmed an HBO documentary in which he explained why he refused to be seen or interviewed as himself for the whole time Pee-Wee Herman was starring in TV and films.