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Part coming-of-age tale, part mystery, part ghost story, Alice Sebold's first novel (she's also the author of a memoir, Lucky) is the tale of an ordinary girl who is raped, murdered and dismembered in a field near her house. Three days later, a neighbor's dog comes trotting home with her elbow in its mouth. This is horror at its darkest and most tantalizing--a stiff cocktail of David Lynch and Judy Blume, served with a distinct chill--and as first chapters go, it's a knockout. The second chapter tops...
...learn that Yoshimi is trapped in her situation by a bitter custody dispute with her ex-husband; moving her daughter to a new school might look bad to the court. If they want to stay together, she and Ikuko have nowhere left to run, even when a demanding juvenile ghost starts making very physical appearances...
...Still, Dark Water has enough scares to keep your knuckles white. Japanese films have often sought out the ghost within the machine of modern life; and this one creepily finds the ghost within the water fixtures. If nothing else, Dark Water is a reminder that when flat-hunting, you should always watch out for lousy plumbing?and vengeful child spirits...
...perspective, his most powerful photograph is not of a Brazilian slum, a Philippine village inundated by mud or a quake-ravaged Turkish town. Rather, it is a view of the Ukrainian city of Pripiat in snow. Three kilometers from the now-closed Chernobyl nuclear plant, Pripiat is a ghost town, emptied of its 50,000 people. His feelings about the planet, though, are perhaps symbolized by the main photo used to promote the exhibition. Taken from above a mangrove swamp in Voh, New Caledonia, it captures a huge, naturally formed green heart...
...released in China last month, Beijing cineasts thought they saw a bit of Jiang behind the camera as well as on the screen. The film's director is Lu Chuan, a 28-year-old film school grad with only commercials on his r?sum?. Certain scenes convinced people that Jiang ghost-directed the movie. Not so, insists Lu. "Jiang Wen played a very important role making the movie," he says, leaning forward emphatically in his Hawaiian shirt, "but he spent only 40 days on set. We've worked on this project for two years...