Word: ghosts
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...rest is a fairly stately, sometimes stilted evocation of antique attitudes and older, better movies. The torpid pace and expertly muted cinematography (by Caleb Deschanel) inevitably suggest the fading fragrance of those flowers Fante described. Ask the Dust is the ghost of a cult novel; it can't bring itself to life...
...Ghost of Harvard Presidents Past to see the error of his ways...
...haircut, Keak performs at a fast food joint, and video vixens are conspicuously absent, although everyone involved does seem to wear a giant chain.As a bonus, it all ends with a visual glossary of Bay Area slang, which is nice because the vernacular is otherwise incomprehensible (“ghost ride the whip”, anyone?). If there’s any justice, by March it will be common knowledge.—Eric L. FritzCat Power“Living Proof”Film symbolism comes in two forms: the indelible images of the true auteurs and the bumbling scenes...
...Bill Sienkiewicz (Electra: Assassin) and Dave McKean (Cages), Williams combines pen and ink with bursts of rich, painterly color. It's a style that best serves the most outrageous sequences, like the future third of the book, depicting Thomas as a lonely, nude space traveler. Haunted by the ghost of Isabel, he searches for a dying star that he hopes will re-invigorate the Tree of Life that he carries on his soap-bubble ship...
...camera falls behind the bureaucrats and pans up to reveal a portrait of President Eisenhower hovering above silently like a ghost...