Posts Tagged ‘A Ghost Story’
Film Review – Peter Pan & Wendy
Writer/director David Lowery is establishing himself as one of the premiere fantasy filmmakers. Whether his work is centered around family-oriented tales (such as Pete’s Dragon (2016)) or adult centered fables (The Green Knight (2021)/A Ghost Story (2017)), Lowery has the ability to craft fantastical elements with sincerity and intelligence. He takes…
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Film Review – The Old Man & the Gun (Second Take)
When first viewing David Lowery’s The Old Man & The Gun, it is easy to regard film and film-festival icon Robert Redford’s supposed final film as an ode to all his classic performances of heist-man and hustler, outlaw and gunfighter and smooth talker and electric…
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Interview – David Lowery – A Ghost Story
David Lowery‘s A Ghost Story, his second film featuring actors Casey Affleck and Rooney Mara after 2013’s Ain’t Them Bodies Saints, is as much about the life within people as it is about the life within a house which makes it a home, and the slow, sometimes…
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Film Review – A Ghost Story (Second Take)
There is a scene in David Lowery’s A Ghost Story in which a newly minted young widow, played by Rooney Mara, sits on the kitchen floor of her simple ranch-style house and eats almost an entire pie, in real time, as the ghost of her newly…
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Film Review – A Ghost Story
Stories centering around the grieving process when facing loss have hit especially hard since the sudden death of my brother to cancer a year and a half back. (You’re now 2 for 2 making me cry in a theater, Affleck! Get a comedy under your…
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SIFF Interview – David Lowery – A Ghost Story
Spencer Fornaciari interviews director David Lowery from the romantic drama A Ghost Story at SIFF 2017.
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