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Ghost World
A Screenplay author: Clowes, Daniel; publisher: Fantagraphics,U.S.
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Ghost World
Best friends Enid and Rebecca have just graduated and they need to figure out what comes next. Rebecca is slightly more focussed than the aimless Enid. She gets a menial job in a 'frapo-mocho-chino' coffee shop and starts apartment hunting. Enid is too busy wallowing in her miserable worldview, where all jobs are sell-outs and people are creeps or geeks. But, when she plays a practical joke on a middle-aged record fanatic Seymour, probably the biggest dud of them all, she finds her life turned upside down.
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Ghost World
A graphic novel, which tells of the adventures of Enid Coleslaw and Beck Doppelmeyer, two bored, supremely ironic teenage girls. They pass the time complaining about the guys they know and fantasising about strange men they see in the local diner. author: Clowes, Daniel; publisher: Cape
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Ghost World
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ICON HOME ENTERTAINMENT Ghost World [2001]
In an inspired opening, <I>Ghost World</I> begins with a montage from a 1960s Bollywood video and voyeuristic shots of the neighbours of the eponymous suburban town. This is teenage angst taken beyond the realms of the pure sexual frustration of <I>American Pie</I>, onto the level of displacement. <p> Just what lies in store for two girls after school has finished? Enid (Thora Birch) and Rebecca (Scarlett Johansson) mull over life, love and the weird and wonderful inhabitants of the small town of Ghost World. But while Rebecca attempts to grow up by getting a job and an apartment, Enid is forced into summer Art School and begins a friendship with the sad loner Seymour (Steve Buscemi), who has more of a relationship with his seven-inches than the human race. The girls' relationship begins to strain and as the story progresses Rebecca appears in both Enid's life and the film, less and less.<p> Based on the comics by Daniel Clowes, which have themselves been acclaimed as a modern-day <I>Catcher in the Rye</I>, and directed by Terry (<I>Crumb</I>) Zwigoff, <I>Ghost World</I> is a beautiful exploration of the confusions and choices faced by young adults. Although criticised for being slow in places, the film's pace adds extra realism to its exposure of the constraints of small-town life. The poignant ending leaves us unsure about what's next for Enid; though from what we've learnt through the course of the film, going it alone and making big decisions is the only way to reap the rewards in an uncertain life.<p> <B>On the DVD:</B> <I>Ghost World</I> 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. In the section entitled Daniel Clowes' Ghost World there's a tour of his old neighbourhood, the inspiration for the comic, in which the author states he never made anything up; a self portrait and Clowes talking about the process of turning his comic into a film--which is about as close as you will get on this disc to a commentary. --<I>Nikki Disney</I>
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Jonathan Cape Ghost World
Dan Clowes described the story in <I>Ghost World</I> 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. From this perch comes a revelation about adolescence that is both subtle and coolly beautiful. Critics have pointed out Clowes's cynicism and vicious social commentary, but if you concentrate on those aspects, you'll miss the exquisite whole that Clowes has captured. Each chapter ends with a melancholia that builds towards the amazing, detached, ghost-like ending. --<I>Poppy Andress</I>
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Dover Publications Inc. Irish Tales of the Fairies and the Ghost World
Pages: 124, Paperback, Dover Publications Inc.
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