#872: ZWIGOFF, Terry: Ghost World (2001)
ZWIGOFF, Terry (United States)
Ghost World [2001]
Spine #872
DVD
111 minutes
The Booklet
Forty-page booklet featuring an essay by critic Howard Hampton, a 2001 piece by Zwigoff on the film’s soundtrack, and reprinted excerpts from Clowes’s comic Ghost World.
Commentary
Featuring Zwigoff, Ghost World comic creator and film cowriter Clowes, and producer Lianne Halfon.
Interviews
With actors Birch, Johansson, and Douglas.
Extended excerpt
From Gumnaam (1965) featuring the Bollywood number that appears in Ghost World’s opening title sequence, with commentary.
Deleted scenes
Trailer
Extras Rating (0-40):
Ghost World [2001]
Spine #872
DVD
Terry Zwigoff's first fiction film, adapted from a cult-classic comic by Daniel Clowes, is an idiosyncratic portrait of adolescent alienation that is at once bleakly funny and wholly endearing. Set during the malaise-filled months following high-school graduation, Ghost World follows the proud misfit Enid (Thora Birch), who confronts an uncertain future amid the cultural wasteland of consumerist America. As her cynicism becomes too much to bear even for her best friend, Rebecca (Scarlett Johansson), Enid finds herself drawn to an unlikely kindred spirit: a sad-sack record collector many years her senior (Steve Buscemi). With its parade of oddball characters, quotable, Oscar-nominated script, and eclectic soundtrack of vintage obscurities, Ghost World is one of the twenty-first century's most fiercely beloved comedies.
111 minutes
Color
5.1 Surround
1:85:1 aspect ratio
5.1 Surround
1:85:1 aspect ratio
Criterion Release 2017
Director/Writers
Based upon the comic book by Daniel Clowes.
Written by Clowes and Terry Zwigoff.
Zwigoff was 52 when he directed Ghost World.
Other Zwigoff films in the Collection:
#532: Louie Bluie (1985)
#533: Crumb (1995)
The Film
A
Other Zwigoff films in the Collection:
#532: Louie Bluie (1985)
#533: Crumb (1995)
The Film
A
Film Rating (0-60):
60
The ExtrasThe Booklet
Forty-page booklet featuring an essay by critic Howard Hampton, a 2001 piece by Zwigoff on the film’s soundtrack, and reprinted excerpts from Clowes’s comic Ghost World.
Commentary
Featuring Zwigoff, Ghost World comic creator and film cowriter Clowes, and producer Lianne Halfon.
Interviews
With actors Birch, Johansson, and Douglas.
Extended excerpt
From Gumnaam (1965) featuring the Bollywood number that appears in Ghost World’s opening title sequence, with commentary.
Deleted scenes
Trailer
Extras Rating (0-40):
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