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	[KFCC] A Chinese Ghost Story Review
		Story: Ning Tsai-Shen (Leslie Cheung) is a roving tax collector that arrives in a small town but misfortune would have it that his tax documents are ruined.
		Chinese Ghost Story manages to have a bit of everything in it, swordplay action with some horror-esque elements along with a love story and some Chinese humor that comes off a little strange; I still don’t get half the jokes.
		These story genres are well blended together and non really take the forefront, a mixture of a ghost story and love story that works well together.
	www.kfccinema.com /reviews/swordplay/achineseghoststory/achineseghoststory.html (992 words)

	DVD Review - A Chinese Ghost Story (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		When I first heard that the "A Chinese Ghost Story" trilogy is coming to DVD I was cautiously ecstatic, especially so because I had heard that Media Asia remastered the movie for DVD and had given the soundtrack a Dolby Digital remix.
		I was astounded that they even had plans for the imminent DVD release of "A Chinese Ghost Story", as the movie has always been put in second place by Media Asia and not even a laserdisc version is available.
		Film conservation is almost non-existent in Hong Kong, making it extremely hard to find clean, unmarred film prints, which are needed to create a high quality transfer.
	www.dvdreview.com /fullreviews/a_chinese_ghost_story.shtml (1162 words)

	And You Call Yourself a Scientist! - Yangan Dou (A Chinese Ghost Story) (1990) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		While the film is, of course, set in "the past", it is impossible to believe that the film-makers’ criticisms were not aimed directly at the Chinese government of the time.
		A Chinese Ghost Story II opens with a couple of macabre scenes that prove, as far as the film’s overall tone is concerned, fairly misleading.
		A Chinese Ghost Story II tries, like its predecessor, to build itself upon a love story, but generally fails, chiefly because while some of its characters do, pretty much of necessity, "fall in love", none of them seems to care very much who they are "in love" with.
	twtd.bluemountains.net.au /Rick/liz_yd.htm (3581 words)

	A Chinese Ghost Story 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		A Chinese Ghost Story 2 (Sinnui yauman II, 1990)
		In a case of mistaken identity (not the first in the film), he is imprisoned and about to be executed.
		How she manages to be sexy, seductive, innocent, and confused, all while covered in ghost goo, is beyond me. So, cheesy special effects, awful pop music in Chinese, weird camera angles, and bizarre lenses, this movie has all the ingredients of a lasting classic.
	www.gotterdammerung.org /film/reviews/c/chinese-ghost-story-2.html (411 words)

	ipedia.com: Fred Astaire Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Fred Astaire, born Frederick Austerlitz in Omaha, Nebraska, was an American film and Broadway ballroom dancer and actor.
		His final film was the 1981 adaptation of Peter Straub's Ghost Story.
		Fred Astaire died in 1987 from pneumonia and was interred in the Oakwood Memorial Park Cemetery in Chatsworth, California.
	www.ipedia.com /fred_astaire.html (416 words)

	Chinese Ghost Story II
		But it wouldn't be called Chinese Ghost Story 2 if it was only about fake ghosts.
		Ultimately, it is the measure of a man or woman that ultimately defines who they are, as demonstrated by the warrior who fights to the death to defend the honor of those he wronged.
		Unfortunately, the subtitles of Chinese Ghost Story suffers from a lazy and inept translation.
	members.toast.net /talien/tmb/movietv/chineseghoststory2.html (356 words)

	Scotsman.com News - Features - Ghost story's a head-spinner without the potter's wheel
		A sombre blend of ghost story and romance, it is almost an arthouse version of Ghost but with the minimalism and mystery absent from a quick turn around the potter’s wheel.
		Rivette’s film is almost the antithesis of commercial; keeping the audience at arm’s length, concealing clarity beneath layers of confusion.
		It is an unsettling aspect of a film that goes out of its way to eschew the elements of a conventional ghost story.
	news.scotsman.com /features.cfm?id=1152372004 (693 words)

	GHOSTS - Real Ghost Pictures - True Ghost Stories - Pictures of Ghosts - Real GhostHunters.
		Ghosts seen at haunted houses are believed by many ghost experts to be a 'psychic recording' that has been imprinted in the earth's energy field.
		A ghost is often thought to be the spirit or soul of a person who has remained on Earth after death.
		Some Ghost Stories from The Psychics and Mediums Network publications with answers to your stories by the TV psychic and author Craig Hamilton-Parker.
	www.ukghost.com (4104 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Numerous stories have been passed down about her, but it is not always clear if they involved her, her daughter, also named Marie, one of the other Voodoo practitioners through the years who have used or invoked her name, or if they even occurred at all.
		The ghost stories tied to her plantations, manors, churches, and other buildings are too many to be counted, not to mention the role the city plays in numerous fictional accounts, most especially Anne Rice's best-selling Vampire Chronicles.
		Ghosts are known to travel along fixed paths on the islands, and these are so notorious they are marked on maps and land surveys.
	www.patientcreatures.com /GhostArchive.html (11817 words)

	Urban Ghost Story - DVD Reviewed by Lee Bailes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The film is being marketed with his name, even though he is barely in the film for more than five minutes.
		Even though the film is being pushed as Genevieve Joliffe's vision, as Hollywood is hungry to promote Women Directors' it would appear that the two (Chris and Jen) worked as a very strong team and Chris's contribution should not be ignored either or the talented cast and crew who largely worked for peanuts.
		The film was well worth waiting for and is a nice addition to anyone's British genre films collection, although it could just as easily be viewed by fans of gritty emotional drama for all the fine acting and minimalism of the genre content.
	www.rumourmachine.com /Reviews/Urban_Ghost_Story.htm (1100 words)

	"The Others" with Nicole Kidman reviewed by Steve Sailer for UPI; Alejandro Amenábar, ghost story
		Before the film began, the 75 year old ladies in front of me were admiring how chipper one of their friends appeared despite her 94 years.
		In the grand tradition of English it-was-a-dark-and-stormy-night suspense stories, the estate is cut off from the outside world by a sinister blanket of fog that thickens when Kidman tries to escape.
		Yet, for people who see a more sane number of films annually, there are perfectly good reasons why the standard upfront method of developing empathy for the main character is indeed the standard.
	www.isteve.com /Film_Others.htm (804 words)

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		Most of the stories in the series were based on the work of M R James, widely regarded as England's greatest ghost story writer.
		The story was already unusual compared to most M R James stories in that most of the explanation for the haunting comes after the climax which rather dampens the end of the tale.
		The Ghost Story for Christmas title disappeared again the year after but there was a large photo of The Signalman and the Traveller to advertise their tale.
	www.shigson.freeserve.co.uk /Fineline/ghosts.htm (4069 words)

	Urban Ghost Story (1998)
		As a result of this traumatic event, Lizzie not only blames and hates herself, but her family is suddenly visited by a ghost who moves heavy furniture as though it were a feather and keeps them awake nights with bone-shaking sounds.
		The direction, by Genevieve Jolliffe, is supportive of this drama disguised as a ghost story, balancing the suitable mix of genres so we are frightened or concerned at the proper moments, and continually wanting to know what will happen next.
		Urban Ghost Story is available at your local video store beginning in early April, or available for purchase from MTI Home Video.
	www.filmmonthly.com /Video/Articles/UrbanGhostStory/UrbanGhostStory.html (447 words)

	Urban Ghost Story (1998)
		In this film’s need to specifically differentiate that it is an ‘urban’ ghost story comes the suggestion that all other ghost stories are by comparison rural in nature, something which could not entirely be said to be correct.
		It uniquely translates the ghost story genre to a tenement locale in an inner-city ghetto, a locale that offers as much a whole new dwelling for the genre as it does a whole new social milieu.
		Far more interestingly the film falls into a small sub-genre of supernatural films whose paranormal content hovers in a twilight zone of uncertainty between whether the manifestations can passed off with a rational/psychological explanation or are genuinely supernatural.
	www.moria.co.nz /horror/urbanghost.htm (678 words)

	Portsmouth Herald South of the Border: Small town's ghost story haunts independent film
		Stimpson's story places a young couple _ played by Julie Delpy, who starred in "Before Sunset," and Justin Theroux, who was in "Mulholland Drive" _ in modern-day Princeton with their two daughters.
		Trailers and trucks are parked a few yards from his house while cameras and lighting equipment bustle around his property as the crew of about 75 people go through the slow and deliberate process of shooting and re-shooting scenes.
		If there are any ghosts haunting the Princeton woods, there's a chance they may have been scared away from all the activity rumbling through this otherwise quiet area.
	www.seacoastonline.com /2004news/11212004/south_of/49899.htm (913 words)

	Boston.com / News / Local / Mass. / Small town's ghost story haunts independent film
		Now, 250 years later, local movie director John Stimpson is making a film that retells the tale of Lucy Keyes and the ghost story that goes with it: The woods, local legend has it, still ring with the call of Lucy's mother looking for her lost daughter.
		"The story intrigued me right away," Stimpson said recently during a day of shooting "The Legend of Lucy Keyes," an independent film running on a budget expected to stay under $1 million.
		Stimpson's story places a young couple -- played by Julie Delpy, who starred in "Before Sunset," and Justin Theroux, who was in "Mulholland Drive" -- in modern-day Princeton with their two daughters.
	www.boston.com /news/local/massachusetts/articles/2004/11/20/small_towns_ghost_story_haunts_independent_film (497 words)

	AAW: A Chinese Ghost Story Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		On the down side, the story is fittingly simple for a kids' movie; there is never much depth to the action, and much of the stuff in the ghost world that could have been scary or at least wild and whimsical ended up being weird to no end.
		Its weakest points are the uninteresting ghosts, mutant things that are neither scary nor creative, and the colorful ghost city, which resembles a stylized carnival or neon-encrusted villa.
		A Chinese Ghost Story was basically a Disney movie with an unusually weird premise and a little bit of that anime spirit bringing it a little above the level it would have otherwise been stuck at.
	animeworld.com /reviews/chineseghoststory.html (1191 words)

	ROSE RED! STEPHEN KING FILM INSPIRED BY REAL GHOSTS!
		The story goes that the house once belonged to a Seattle millionaire and that his wife, Ellen Rimbauer, haunts the mansion after being told that she would live forever as long as construction on Rose Red was never completed.
		Although filming could not be done at King’s original choice for a setting, the Winchester House, there was apparently no shortage of ghosts at the house that was eventually chosen to portray Rose Red in the film.
		While there is no word of ghostly happenings during the filming of the movie, there have long been stories of brides-to-be who claim to see the apparition of a woman in a mirror as they prepare for their wedding.
	www.prairieghosts.com /rosered.html (1412 words)

	Baby's Breath Project Soundtrack - the story behind the movie score soundtrack to the independent film
		It's a story of murder, mystery, romance, and the supernatural all blended into an intriguing tale.
		With all the wonderful elements in the story to work with, I came up with some music of which I'm very proud.
		All of the music was inspired by the story and the filming, but as is so often the case, the final cut couldn't accomodate everything I'd written.
	www.babysbreathsoundtrack.com /Story.html (622 words)

	dallasobserver.com \| \| Film \| Ghost story \| 2000-03-23
		The reason Keith Gordon's new film Waking the Dead is so beautiful and satisfying is that it takes no shortcuts through the aforementioned wasteland.
		Based on the novel by Scott Spencer, the movie is at once a romance, a mystery, a political drama, and a subtle ghost story.
		Most notably, it robustly broaches a theme seldom explored in mainstream film, that of a young man's quest to regain his spiritual integrity in the wake of a soul mate's passing.
	www.dallasobserver.com /issues/2000-03-23/film.html (1083 words)

	Kubrick FAQ - The Shining
		The Overlook, as seen in the film, doesn't exist in real life, the interiors of the Timberline Lodge are different to Kubrick's sets, however it is true to say the Overlook is an amalgamation of bits of real hotels located in the USA.
		The film was shot and conceived for 1:1.85 ratio screening (and the camera viewfinders had the 1.85 framelines marked on them) This is the standard ratio that widescreen films in the US are projected in.
		As Kubrick said: "One of the things that horror stories can do is show us the archetypes of the unconscious: we can see the dark side without having to confront it directly." The structure of a maze allows for just such an indirect confrontation of these dark forces.
	www.visual-memory.co.uk /faq/html/shining/shining.html (5786 words)

	Ghost Story Review (1981)
		Each story is more fantastic than the last, but there is one in particular which never crosses their lips or breathes a day of life, and is as old as time itself -- the death of a woman so many years before.
		Ghost Story presents some interesting scenarios, but on the whole is an uneven concoction that boils in the kettle, but burns and scalds without letting us enjoy a fulfilling storyline.
		The next time you begin to recite a ghost story, be it around the campfire or in front of a raging fireplace, be careful what you say.
	www.moviereviewindex.com /getreview/128072 (1146 words)

	Foster on Film - Ghost Stories Film Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		I intended this list for ghost stories—not just films with ghosts in them, but horror films about hauntings.
		Like most sub-genres, there is a standard storyline that most of the films touch on.
		When they do, they confront the ghost, at which point it vanishes (sometimes happily, sometimes not), or our heroes realize that the secret means the ghost will always be there and attempt to leave themselves.
	home.comcast.net /~fosteronfilm/revhaunt.htm (227 words)

	Bookselling This Week: A Perfect Summer Ghost Story
		To switch metaphors, a writer's writing (or a painter's painting, or a musician's playing) can be considered as a conduit for truth, or a lightning rod for life.
		Much of the practice of an artist's life is the fitful attempt to widen the diameter of the pipe and to try to encourage what comes through that pipe to be more and more true.
		The "writing" part was a lot like writing a Dickensian serial novel, with the additional requirement that the story was to be delivered over as many different communication platforms as possible.
	news.bookweb.org /features/2780.html (1247 words)

	H. Rider Haggard - Free Online Library
		According to a story, when R.L. Stevenson's Treasure Island appeared in book form in 1883, Haggard did not think much of it, and made a five-shilling bet with his brother, that he could write a better story.
		In the story Sir Henry Curtis, Captain John Good and the veteran hunter Allan Quatermain, accompanied by Umbopa, their native servant, set off to reveal the fate of Curtis's missing brother - he has gone to look for the treasure of King Solomon in the land of Kukuanas.
		In this, his works anticipated Edgar Rice Burroughs' Tarzan books or the John Carter stories set in Mars, in which the lost world idea was applied to science fiction.
	haggard.thefreelibrary.com (1799 words)

	The Uninvited (1944): Ray Milland and Gail Russell in one of the best ghost stories ever made.
		After moving in they find rooms growing strangely cold, the scent of mimosa in the air, the sound of a woman crying in the night, and the former owner's disturbed granddaughter, Stella Meredith (Gail Russell), strangely drawn to the house where her mother died and her own life is in danger.
		This is a ghost story and the ghost scenes are strikingly well done.
		Ruth Hussey, in Forties Film Talk, relates that at the preview when “those doors up there on the screen suddenly whooshed open, I literally jumped out of my seat”.
	www.findagoodmovie.com /movies/theuninvited.html (329 words)

	SF film reviews: Chinese Ghost Stories (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		A Chinese Ghost Story II (Sinnui Yauman II)
		This is a great action packed adventure: Cheung's character is falsely imprisoned, escapes with the help of his cell mate, teams up with a ghost hunter, encounters a grisly monster, helps a family (one of whom resembles his lost ghostly love) to rescue their father, and challenges an evil Buddhist priest.
		This sequel is not as 'haunting' as the first film, but there's lots of jumping and flying about inside houses, various monsters, good fight scenes, great humour (especially the "freezing the monster" and "stolen robe whilst bathing" scenes), and wonderful villains.
	www-users.cs.york.ac.uk /~susan/sf/films/cghost.htm (144 words)

	The Works of Rick Kennett, Author
		A young wife, managing her husband's estate during his long absences at sea, uses the rubble from a ruin on the grounds to repair susidence damage to the house.
		Unknown to her, a ghost whose appearance presages death has been brought in with the old rock.
		"Shades of Grey: The Ship that Died of Shame": Discusses the 1952 Nicholas Monsarrat novella and the 1955 film made from it, depicting a gunboat with a proud war record and its subsequent fall from grace as a smuggler's vessel and physical disintegration, and asks whether it's a crime or a ghost story.
	fire.prohosting.com /rkennett (2923 words)

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