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	City of Ghosts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Now he's made the riskiest choice of all and stars in City of Ghosts, both the screenwriting and the directing debut of none other than--Matt Dillon.
		In City of Ghosts Dillon is Jimmy Cremmins, a hotshot New York insurance salesman whose customers have just experienced a devastating hurricane.
		City of Ghosts is being distributed by United Artists and MGM, presumably banking on Dillon's box office draw.
	www.culturevulture.net /Movies6/CityofGhosts.htm (509 words)

	CITY OF GHOSTS
		City Of Ghosts, the directorial debut from actor Matt Dillon, is a nice-looking picture that is nearly ruined by the things that dog most actor-turned-auteurs.
		Ghosts is narcissistic and lacks a sharp focus.
		Ghosts was actually filmed in Cambodia - the first picture made there in nearly 40 years.
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	City Of Ghosts By Ali Fadhil
		Some of the worst fighting took place here in the center of the city, but there was no sign of the 1,200 to 1,600 fighters the Americans said they had killed.
		I had heard that there was a graveyard for the fighters somewhere in the city but people said that most of them had withdrawn from the city after the first week of fighting.
		But it is clear that by completely destroying this Sunni city, with the help of a mostly Shia National Guard, the US military has fanned the seeds of a civil war that is definitely coming.
	www.countercurrents.org /iraq-fadhil130105.htm (3836 words)

	DVD Verdict Review - City Of Ghosts
		Endorsed as the official selection of the 2003 Sundance Film Festival and the 2002 Toronto Film Festival, City of Ghosts is the story of a con man and his redemption on the surface and a scrutiny of the human spirit underneath.
		Even though the film was shot in color, there is a sense of darkness that fits perfectly into the film noir style: the abundance of shadows; the seedy bars and brothels; the twilight shots; the presence of thick, obliterating fog.
		The charges are against City of Ghosts are dropped and the DVD is free to walk out of this court.
	www.dvdverdict.com /reviews/cityghosts.php (1505 words)

	City of Ghosts (2003) - A Review by David Nusair
		Set in Cambodia, City of Ghosts is shrouded in fog and mystery; the film is probably more effective as a travelogue than anything else.
		He imbues the story with a moody vibe that proves to be the most effective aspect of the film; should he give filmmaking another stab, he'd be well advised to pick stronger material.
		MGM presents City of Ghosts with an anamorphic transfer that easily does justice to dark and gritty look of the movie.
	www.reelfilm.com /cityghst.htm (578 words)

	City of Ghosts Movie Review at Hollywood Video
		City of Ghosts may not be the year's most original film, but, for the most part, Dillon has skillfully captured the sojourn of a stranger in a strange land.
		Where City of Ghosts falters is in Dillon and Gifford's overly familiar narrative and shallow characterization.
		City of Ghosts opens in New York City, where Jimmy Cremmins (Dillon) is being investigated for his alleged role in a multi-million-dollar insurance scam.
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	DVD review of City Of Ghosts - DVD Town (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		"City of Ghosts," the 2003 dramatic thriller from star, cowriter, and first-time director Matt Dillon was a huge, huge box-office bomb.
		Thus, "City of Ghosts" becomes a kind of "Huckleberry Finn" for the twenty-first century.
		In all, "City of Ghosts" can be a pleasing experience if you let it, set as it is in a milieu of exotic climes and filled with old-fashioned romance and adventure, where terms like "good guys" and "bad" are often as muddled as the murky surroundings we find them in.
	www.dvdtown.com /review/City_Of_Ghosts/11318/1808 (1233 words)

	Guardian \| City of ghosts
		We spent the day going through the rubble that had been the centre of the city; I didn't see a single building that was functioning.
		Some of the worst fighting took place here in the centre of the city, but there was no sign of the 1,200 to 1,600 fighters the Americans said they had killed.
		It was the interview with Alzaim Abu, who had led the fighters in the Shuhada district of Falluja and fought the Americans in the early battles in the city centre.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,5100171-103550,00.html (3842 words)

	filmcritic.com Movie Review: City of Ghosts
		And what he's turned in here for his theatrical film debut is a rather atmospheric journey set within the corrupt, decrepit precincts of Cambodia with plenty of opportunities for tension and intrigue.
		City of Ghosts leads us through a set of agendas and lack of scruples against a decaying city in the heat and heart of the Asian continent.
		This is the territory and modality of Graham Greene, whose The Quiet American might have been Dillon's template for this venture into the exotic, though his hero's struggle for clarity while suffering assorted brutalities wears thin by story's end.
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	village voice > news > City of Ghosts by Tom Robbins and Jennifer Gonnerman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		It coated the streets and cars, the trapped rescue vehicles, the trees in the parks, the late summer flowers, the faces and clothes of the panicky citizens rushing for their lives; it nestled on the hats and helmets of the police and firefighters, and into the hair of the emergency medical workers.
		They are the ghosts of those who perished, who would otherwise walk the streets, ride the subways and buses, dine in restaurants, toil at their jobs, laugh aloud in movie theaters, hold their children, make love to their partners.
		Haunted as well are the city neighborhoods that took the brunt of the deadly crack cocaine epidemic in the late '80s and early '90s, when the city's murder rate crested at 2245.
	www.villagevoice.com /issues/0138/gonnerman.php (2911 words)

	City of Ghosts
		He discovered people had been shot in their beds, rabid dogs were feeding on corpses, and there was little to no water, electricity or sewage.
		A city of over 300,000 people had been destroyed and its inhabitants were homeless.
		Far from stabilizing the region in preparation for the election, it seems the US military's decision to use the Iraqi National Guard against this Sunni city has fanned the flames of civil war in the entire country.
	www.commondreams.org /headlines05/0111-12.htm (4156 words)

	City of Ghosts (2002): Matt Dillon, Gérard Depardieu, James Caan, Stellan Skarsgård - PopMatters Film Review
		City of Ghosts, Matt Dillon's directorial debut, is a strangely moralistic romance, premised on his relationship with the setting, Cambodia.
		Whatever it means to him, Dillon's reverence for "Cambodia" is clear enough in City of Ghosts, in its images of Phnom Penh's exquisite architecture and hectic street life (it's the first Western feature to be filmed in Cambodia since 1964's Lord Jim).
		Ironically and predictably, City of Ghosts's blind spot is its quixotic image of "Cambodia," which, for all its profuse visual intensity, remains an abstraction.
	popmatters.com /film/reviews/c/city-of-ghosts.shtml (1229 words)

	CITY OF GHOSTS - DVD
		On a technical level, the film is unimpeachable, moving at a comfortable click and remarkably seamless in its creation and assembly; it's not genius, perhaps, but it's certainly capable and, considering that it's a first feature, surprisingly at ease with the mechanics of imagemaking.
		For all of its tsk-tsk'ing over the underdeveloped hell of Cambodia, City of Ghosts can't find a single positive character in all of Phnom Penh beyond the obsequious Man Friday of Sok and the occasional prostitute, making whatever altruistic intentions Dillon might have crumble into dust.
		The image is extremely sharp, and colours are vivid without bleeding--the palette of tans, ochres and olives come through with both remarkable definition and superb shadow detail.
	filmfreakcentral.net /dvdreviews/cityofghosts.htm (564 words)

	dvdfuture.com :: Review - City of Ghosts
		"City of Ghosts" took six years to finally bring to the silver screen, but Matt Dillon's directorial debut was a winner.
		While it is not the most engaging performance he has made as an actor, you can see that as a director, he has a good eye for making a film.
		All in all, I would give "City of Ghosts" a three and a half star rating out of five stars.
	www.dvdfuture.com /review.php?id=515 (595 words)

	City of Ghosts
		When a movie that could have been great turns out to be merely very good, there's a bittersweet tint to its virtues that can't help reminding you that if everything had been kicked up a few notches, the filmmakers would have achieved something much better.
		Matt Dillon's first directorial effort, City of Ghosts, is such a film - one that's laced with good performances, a memorable setting, some real suspense and a handful of well-drawn characters.
		City of Ghosts, though a bit rough around the edges and at times underdeveloped (McElhone's love interest barely registers), is a complex mystery that's exceedingly well-told and acted.
	www.reelmoviecritic.com /movie20033q/id1934.htm (676 words)

	Dillon takes plunge into gritty caper / Odd details jack up Cambodian thriller
		There's a way to love "City of Ghosts," and that's to watch it not as a story that should add up to something, but as a series of little episodes with their own specialness and integrity.
		"City of Ghosts" was shot in Cambodia -- not Toronto or Montreal standing in for Cambodia -- and its distinct atmosphere, of dirt streets and dark alleys, old buildings and airy rooms, gets under the viewer's skin.
		In its handling of its lead actor, "City of Ghosts" is like any other Dillon movie, except it's smarter than most.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/05/09/DD209796.DTL (636 words)

	OFFOFFOFF film review CITY OF GHOSTS movie by Matt Dillon with Matt Dillon, James Caan, Natascha McElhone, Gérard ...
		Matt Dillon's directorial debut "City of Ghosts" unfortunately keeps its Cambodian setting at arm's length and its characters on the far side of believability.
		I knew that I would have trouble with "City of Ghosts" when I got the press kit.
		The problem with "City of Ghosts" is that the locale is supposedly Cambodia, but the movie never gets off the boat.
	www.offoffoff.com /film/2003/cityofghosts.php (1034 words)

	'Salonica, City of Ghosts,' by Mark Mazower - The New York Times - Book Review - New York Times (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		IN the 1980's, with cold war divisions having cut Greece off from its Communist neighbors, the northern city of Salonika was a sterile panorama of apartment buildings with tacky Greek signage -- so thoroughly monolingual that when I went there I saw no reference to its multiethnic past.
		In ''Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims and Jews, 1430-1950,'' the Columbia University professor Mark Mazower attempts ''to see the experiences'' of competing ethnic groups ''within the terms of a single encompassing historical narrative,'' that is to say, from no particular point of view except that of the empathetic observer.
		It was the Ottomans' lazy imperial manner -- their very lack of concern with ''policing people's private beliefs'' -- that provided enough communal autonomy for what Mazower calls a ''dense grid of holy places.'' Yet this freedom came at a cost: rampant criminality, caused particularly by Albanian brigands and Turkish janizaries.
	www.nytimes.com /2005/05/08/books/review/08KAPLANL.html?ex=1273291200&en=3b8b209dede9d403&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss (852 words)

	NYPOST.COM Movie Reviews: PRETTY 'CITY,' NO STORY By LOU LUMENICK (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		MATT Dillon is in way over his head with his directing debut "City of Ghosts," a Southeast Asian thriller that positively reeks of atmosphere - but is woefully lacking in narrative credibility or character development.
		Reportedly the first Western film shot mostly in Cambodia since "Lord Jim" in 1965, "Ghosts" is at its best when Jim Denault's cameras are wandering through the country's eerie ruins.
		"City of Ghosts" effectively projects a sense of a country where human life is cheap and danger lies everywhere.
	www.nypost.com /movies/56945.htm (315 words)

	City of Ghosts (2002) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		"City of Ghosts" works like a film noir suspense thriller, Dillon and co-writer Barry Gifford also layered human drama into the mix.
		"City of Ghosts" must be a rewarding experience for him to shoot on location at Cambodia and Thailand, besides Canada and New York.
		"City of Ghosts" is more entertaining per se.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0164003 (792 words)

	AboutFilm.com - City of Ghosts (2002)
		ity of Ghosts is what happens when a film is inspired by a location and not a story idea or a character.
		City of Ghosts is best described as a film shot in Cambodia.
		This history, never explicitly referenced but palpable in every frame, is why Phnom Pehn is a city of ghosts.
	www.aboutfilm.com /movies/c/cityofghosts.htm (712 words)

	Fallujah, City of Ghosts
		In a joint investigation for the Guardian and Channel 4 News, Iraqi doctor Ali Fadhil compiled the first independent reports from the devastated city, where he found scores of unburied corpses, rabid dogs - and a dangerously embittered population.
		Ali Fadhil, an Iraqi journalist working with the Guardian's film unit and one of the few reporters to travel independently to Falluja, describes in a Channel 4 News film tonight a "city of ghosts" where dogs feed on uncollected corpses.
		Despite the intense fight in Falluja, the insurgency has gathered pace across Iraq, particularly in the northern city of Mosul, once a model of peace and calm, and in Baghdad, where the deputy police chief was assassinated yesterday.
	www.truthout.org /docs_05/printer_011205A.shtml (4878 words)

	deseretnews.com - Movie review: City of Ghosts \| Deseret Morning News Web edition
		For the first 15 or so minutes, "City of Ghosts" really seems to be building toward something.
		In fact, at one point early on, it almost appears that it will be one of the better dramatic thrillers so far this year.
		"City of Ghosts" is rated R for frequent use of strong sex-related profanity, violence (beatings, gunplay and violence against women), graphic gore, a brief sex scene (more alluded to than anything else) and some sexual contact, brief drug use (ecstacy) and use of crude slang terms, gestures and racial epithets.
	deseretnews.com /movies/view/1,1257,355000213,00.html (407 words)

	DVD Talk > Reviews > City of Ghosts
		"City of Ghosts" does start to lose its footing in the middle with some unnecessary scenes and noticably slow stretches, but it does pick up towards the end and, overall, I enjoyed it.
		VIDEO: Despite not being much of a success at the box office, MGM has still put together a fine effort for "City of Ghosts".
		The film is presented in 1.85:1 anamorphic widescreen here and, aside from a few issues, looks awfully good.
	www.dvdtalk.com /reviews/read.php?ID=7942 (733 words)

	Film Threat - Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		"City of Ghosts" is trying so hard to be an epic tale of crime and intrigue, but it just doesn't quite succeed.
		This has the unmistakable feel of a vanity project about it, which makes it a little tough to take either Dillon or the film seriously.
		It's not that "City of Ghosts" is an awful film or anything, because it definitely has its moments.
	www.filmthreat.com /Reviews.asp?Id=3992 (457 words)

	City of Ghosts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		PARK CITY -- "City of Ghosts" drips with atmosphere.
		For his feature debut as a writer-director, Matt Dillon heads into the heart of Southeast Asian darkness previously explored by such novelists as Joseph Conrad and Graham Green, not to mention a host of old movies.
		"City of Ghosts" claims to be the first Western feature to film almost entirely in Cambodia since "Lord Jim" in 1964.
	www.hollywoodreporter.com /thr/awards/sundance/reviews_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1789208 (644 words)

	City of Ghosts on DVD - MovieWeb (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Soon, Jimmy is prowling the streets of the downtrodden city, trying to solve a mystery that gets more convoluted every day.
		Written by Dillon and novelist/friend Barry Gifford (WILD AT HEART), CITY OF GHOSTS is an ambitious, entertaining mood piece that features enough twists and turns for three movies.
		City of Ghosts - Jimmy, a con man from New York, is on the run from an investigation into an insurance scam.
	movieweb.com /dvd/dvd.php?027616889997 (372 words)

	Amazon.com: Salonica, City of Ghosts : Christians, Muslims and Jews, 1430-1950: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The city of Thessaloniki, or Salonica, is a port city in northern Greece that apparently emerged as a polity under the reign of Phillip of Macadon in the fourth century B.C.E. In the Hellenistic and Roman eras, the city became a vibrant, cosmopolitan commercial center sitting astride the trade routes to Africa and Asia.
		The author laments the loss of the multiethnic character of the city that persisted between the late fifteenth and early twentieth century.
		By the 16th century, the city was divided among the Christians, Muslims and Jews, with the last group being the largest in number.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0375412980?v=glance (3420 words)

	Planet Shogo: Shogo Walkthroughs
		Even though you're in the city now, you can't mess around and go window shopping when there are mechas to blow up and soldiers to step on.
		Once everyone's dead head back the way you came but don't go back into the other city through the opening in the huge wall.
		Pass the Museum of Warfare again (there is a sign on it) and at the top of that hill you should see a road leading down (two foot soldiers are there).
	www.planetshogo.com /walkthroughs/city_of_ghosts.shtml (432 words)

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