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	Ghost World - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ghost World is a set of comics stories by Daniel Clowes, usually presented as a graphic novel.
		The author describes the story as the examination of "the lives of two recent high school graduates from the advantaged perch of a constant and (mostly) undetectable eavesdropper, with the shaky detachment of a scientist who has grown fond of the prize microbes in his petri dish." The story is presented in spot color.
		Like many of Clowes' graphic novels, Ghost World breaks the stereotypical mold of the superheroes-dominated comics genre, in its realistic, banal, and practically objective portrayal of everyday life and adolescence (critics tend to describe the work as "literary" as opposed to some of its peers).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ghost_World (873 words)

	Ghost World (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ghost World is a 2001 film by Terry Zwigoff, based on a graphic novel (comic book) by Daniel Clowes, also titled Ghost World.
		Interested in directing Ghost World as a feature film for some time, Zwigoff sat in on an acting class in San Francisco.
		Essay: 'Ghost World' is the movie of a generation
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ghost_World_(movie) (575 words)

	Ghost World
		Ghost World doesn't have a ghost of a chance at the box office, but this wonderfully offbeat adaptation of Daniel Clowes' underground comic book by Terry Zwigoff (Crumb) is appealingly satirical and rebellious but often humanistic.
		Ghost World becomes more intriguing with their mischievous response to a personal ad by phone and that draws Buscemi's reclusive sort, Seymour, into a 50s styled diner as they observe a wistful embarrassment.
		In the end, Ghost World morphs to a degree from its caustic humor but the tone maintains a sharp imprint in realism that keeps the viewer alert to the pathos surrounding Enid, as Birch goes beyond her estranged daughter in American Beauty.
	www.projections-movies.com /reviews/ghostworld.html (473 words)

	The Comics Journal: Reviews
		Ghost World, after all, is directed by Terry Zwigoff, a very hip, non-Hollywood guy who knows comics and directed the excellent documentary Crumb.
		In this new, plot-driven Ghost World, Enid's personal-ad prank, in which she calls Seymour and pretends to be another woman, leads her to recognize in him a kindred alienation even though he is decades older than her.
		The world that Enid and Becky inhabit in the comic book is undeniably urban -- all windows and sidewalks, panels within panels -- but there is also an occasional tree or shrub, and the cover of the book even has a splash of sunlight, buzzing insects and flowers.
	www.tcj.com /236/r_ghost.html (2673 words)

	Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		We see repeatedly that the two friends can understand each other because they are at peace with the world and in tune with their surroundings, so that their bond transcends mere language.
		Ghost Dog also has a touching relationship with a young girl that he hopes to impart his code to so that she may one day have the tools of knowledge necessary to escape life in the inner city.
		Both characters note numerous times that the world is changing, the difference is the gangsters say it with fear and trepidation, while Whitaker notices it as observation.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0165798 (1244 words)

	Ghost World
		Ghost World beautifully captures the adolescent moment when Enid (Thora Birch) realizes that she is forever doomed because she stayed her course while everyone else compromised.
		Birch feels her only friend slipping into the mainstream, leaving her alone in the "ghost world" of individuals who coexist with society but are marginalized, unfelt and unseen.
		Ghost World's secondary characters have lives of their own, and the glimpses we catch are perfect snapshots of people we know.
	www.bigempire.com /filthy/ghostworld.html (1211 words)

	:: rogerebert.com :: Reviews :: Ghost World (xhtml) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		I thought of those words while I was watching "Ghost World," the story of an 18-year-old girl from Los Angeles who drifts forlorn through her loneliness, cheering herself up with an ironic running commentary.
		She is second-level satire in a one-level world, and so instead of realizing, for example, that she is mocking the 1970s punk look, stupid video store clerks merely think she's 25 years out of style.
		"Ghost World" is smart enough to know that Enid and Seymour can't solve their lives in a week or two.
	rogerebert.suntimes.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20010803/REVIEWS/108030301/1023 (943 words)

	AboutFilm.com - Ghost World (2001)
		The heroine of Ghost World is Enid (Thora Birch), a disaffected young woman not unlike Birch's Jane Burnham in American Beauty.
		Though heartbreaking, Ghost World has also a sublime sense of dark humor, playing on Enid's efforts to exist in a world of overly perky people and frauds, all of whom might as well be space aliens as far as she is concerned.
		What she perceives is that the world is brimming with hypocrisy, and her instinct is to expose it.
	www.aboutfilm.com /movies/g/ghostworld.htm (1120 words)

	Ghost World (2001): Reviews
		Based on the well-known comic, Ghost World tells the story of neo-cool Enid (Birch) and Rebecca (Johansson) who, faced with high school graduation take a hard look at the world they wryly observe and decide what they really want.
		Ghost World resists convenient closures and summaries and some may take issue with its open-endedness.
		Ghost World is above all a disquieting consciousness-raiser.
	www.metacritic.com /film/titles/ghostworld (1307 words)

	SPLICEDwire \| "Ghost World" review (2001) Terry Zwigoff, Thora Birch, Scarlett Johansson, Steve Buscemi, Illeana ...
		But "Ghost World" is more than an adaptation -- it truly looks and feels as if the pages of the 1990s teen alienation anthology have come alive.
		The palate of primary colors is an homage to the art form (although not directly to "Ghost World," which was drawn in fl and white).
		Published in the mid-90s, "Ghost World" was a comic about two misanthropic out-crowd teenage girls set adrift after high school graduation in a loathsome, nondescript semi-suburban world of Starbucks and strip malls.
	www.splicedonline.com /01reviews/ghostworld.html (775 words)

	Ghost World: Comic and Film (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Ghost World's two main characters, Enid and Rebecca (capably played by Thora Birch and Scarlett Johansson, respectively) are fresh out of high school and wandering around suburbia looking for an apartment.
		Where I thought Ghost World failed, was more in the scenes where the film tried to stay true to the comic.
		The Ghost World comic was nice rendered in shades of blue, but director Terry Zwigoff clearly realized that mimicking that look would be a lost cause.
	www.acidlogic.com /ghostworld.htm (1214 words)

	Ghost World (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Crumb, was a portrait of the artist as an old crank, Ghost World catches that moment when teen alienation starts to calcify into bitterness.
		He's accepted his lot in life and retreated to a complicated nostalgia: he mourns the loss of a quieter world that respected craftsmanship and blues singers while knowing full well that everyday life is better today.
		Ghost World isn't as good as that - its tone wavers here and there, and the ending loses some of the mysterious gravity of the comic book - but it's a remarkable piece of work nonetheless.
	www.culturevulture.net /Movies2/GhostWorld.htm (792 words)

	Flipside Movie Emporium: Ghost World Movie Review
		I guess you could say that Ghost World is a comedy, albeit a very bleak one at times, but simply labeling it as such is like referring to Casablanca as just a romance.
		Making witty and astute observations about other people is a way for her to feel a bit better about the depressing state of the world and the mindless conformity that surrounds her.
		Ghost World is based on the comic book by Daniel Clowes.
	www.flipsidemovies.com /ghostworld.html (1049 words)

	Ghost World: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Film is a term that encompasses motion pictures as individual projects, as well as the field in general....
		Terry zwigoff (born 1948) is an american film-maker who is most famous for two widely-popular small budget films, both arising out of the world of underground or...
		Ghost World is a fairly close adaptation of a serial story that appeared in Eightball Eightball quick summary:
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/g/gh/ghost_world.htm (1404 words)

	Ghost World
		What makes "Ghost World" worthwhile are the terrific performances from Thora Birch as the ultimate counter culture wiseass and Steve Buscemi, who finds exactly the right note for a difficult character.
		Thora Birch and Scarlett Johansson are co-billed in "Ghost World," but the veteran Birch takes over early on and is the real star of the film.
		The music, especially, has a place as a character in "Ghost World." Vintage jazz and blues tunes abound with particular attention paid to the 1931 Skip James song, "Devil Got My Woman." Of course, contemporary music is amply supplied, but the blues rules.
	www.reelingreviews.com /ghostworld.htm (1551 words)

	slant // magazine.com: Film Review - Ghost World
		The "ghost world" in question is a nameless town inundated by mini-malls, coffee shops, movie theaters, and people desperately and hopelessly trying to get rid of yesterday's knick-knacks.
		Enid can't bring herself to sell a toy during a yard sale not necessarily because the potential buyer is a perceived "loser" but because it's easier to keep it than to perceive someone else reinventing the life of something she once held dear.
		Ghost World is a beautiful evocation of the ghostly nature of love, loss, and ultimately memory itself.
	www.slantmagazine.com /film/film_review.asp?ID=174 (292 words)

	Jimmy O's Review of Ghost World
		Ghost World opens with the image of cabana boys dancing around in flmasks from a 1950's musical.
		This is a world viewed by the main characters as a place where everything is hiding something deeper or confusing but is too scared to face.
		Enid and Seymour are two types who can face the world for its true value and feel all the more alienated because of it.
	www.filmsnobs.com /www/jimmyo/ghostworld.htm (805 words)

	Ghost World
		Neither urban or suburban, this is a vision of the outskirts, littered with billboards and logos and lit by a constant TV-blue glow from the windows overhead.
		As a comic book, each page of "Ghost World" bore the eerily recognizable patina of everyday life, but the movie is a little more candy-colored (it's shot by Almodóvar compadre Affonso Beato, surely an inspired matching of sensibility to material).
		I guess Ghost World is the West Coast equivalent of Solondz's New York/New Jersey-set opuses.
	www.deep-focus.com /flicker/ghostwor.html (983 words)

	GHOST WORLD - DVD
		Power lines resurface in Ghost World's final image, hanging umbillical cords that connect otherwise disparate individuals/souls the world over--we are all but enwombed in our living rooms, our bedrooms, our restaurant booths.
		Ghost World deals in the supernatural insomuch as it says that we are most of us enigmas afraid to establish meaningful contact with one another.
		"Ghost World: A Comic Comes to Life" is a nice featurette in which Zwigoff tells us that his wife has a mad crush on Buscemi and various cast and crew hash out the meaning of the film's title.
	filmfreakcentral.net /dvdreviews/ghostworld.htm (827 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Ghost World [2001]: DVD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Based on the comics by Daniel Clowes, which have themselves been acclaimed as a modern-day Catcher in the Rye, and directed by Terry (Crumb) Zwigoff, Ghost World is a beautiful exploration of the confusions and choices faced by young adults.
		On the DVD: Ghost World on disc comes with a standard range of special features, including a photo gallery (mainly of Birch in her distinctive costumes), trailers and one subtitle option: English for the hard of hearing.
		I went in to Ghost World expecting an oddball comedy, so I was surprised by the nuance, depth, and emotional complexity of this film.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000649JX (2144 words)

	Ghost World (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Zwigoff’s previous feature was the 1994 documentary Crumb (about the underground artist Robert Crumb) and with Ghost World the director has once again gone thumbing through the world of comic books for his cinematic inspiration (the film is based on the popular underground rag of the same name).
		Seymour isn’t exactly the star of Ghost World but he’s the catalyst at its very special center, a social misfit who greatly affects the relationship between two high-school outcasts (played by Thora Birch—the daughter in American Beauty—and Scarlett Johansson—the daughter in The Horse Whisperer).
		Ghost World is slow moving and thoughtful and worth savoring, as director Zwigoff (together with Daniel Clowes, creator of the original comic book) unearth the frustrations and discontentedness experienced by individuals—here two teenage girls—reluctantly forced to face reality.
	members.dca.net /dnb/reviews/ghostworld.htm (476 words)

	EI > Reviews > Ghost World (2001)
		It’s a film that is able to accurately capture that peculiar and pivotal summer after high school graduation and before the real world in a style that’s fully immersed in the detailed atmosphere of the comic book realm.
		Ghost World follows two girls -- Enid and Rebecca -- who have just graduated from high school, where they no doubt spent their days coldly doling out scathing cynicisms to anyone unfortunate enough to be in earshot.
		It is a stinging reality that resonates deeply in Ghost World, and makes it one of the most intriguing films to come out this year.
	www.einsiders.com /reviews/archives/ghostworld.php (668 words)

	HSX Prediction Market: MovieStocks® : Ghost World
		Ghost World follows two high school graduates, Enid and Rebecca, who face the difficult prospect of an uncertain future.
		Although both of the girls scoff at society for being uncool, Enid's world view is shaken when she meets Seymour, a disarmingly uncool teenager.
		Ghost World is directed by Terry Zwigoff, who wowed critics in 1994 with his haunting documentary, Crumb.
	movies.hsx.com /servlet/SecurityDetail?symbol=GWRLD (108 words)

	Salt Lake City Weekly - Ghost World
		Ghost hunters seek physical proof of the existence of ghosts.
		Chris Peterson of the UGHS thinks that most ghosts still haunt the earthly plane because they’re stuck for one reason or another, whether by addiction to alcohol, tobacco, or drugs; by their love for a person or place; or by their fear of what may await them after they pass on.
		Another well-known story in Salt Lake City is that a local dance club called Area 51 is haunted by the ghost of a woman who died of a cocaine overdose in the middle stall of the upstairs bathroom.
	www.slweekly.com /editorial/2004/feat_2004-10-28.cfm (3850 words)

	Ghost World (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Ghost World is the most accurate depiction of modern teenage angst and life after high school that I've seen in years, and the only real comedy in a year of recycled films.
		Ghost World is directed with efficiency by Terry Zwigoff, who made the wonderful documentary about cartoonist Robert Crumb called Crumb.
		Ghost World is adapted from a comic book of the same name written by modern comic book author Daniel Clowes, who helped write the script for this film.
	www.davegunn.com /gw.html (692 words)

	Salon.com Arts & Entertainment \| "Ghost World"
		But "Ghost World" is such a bittersweet comic delight, with a core of real seriousness and sadness, that such concerns don't matter, or almost don't.
		Based on the cult-fave comic book series by Daniel Clowes and directed by Terry Zwigoff (who made the unforgettable documentary "Crumb"), "Ghost World" offers an exquisite tour of the twilight zone between high school and the so-called real world, as well as between bohemian subculture and the even stranger culture of America at large.
		"Ghost World" is set on the west side of Los Angeles sometime right around now, but it could be almost any North American city at almost any time since the mid-'80s.
	archive.salon.com /ent/movies/review/2001/07/27/ghost_world (357 words)

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