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Article: 'Art School' tinted with a dark palette: `Art School Confidential' (star)(star)(star).(Movie review)
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- Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
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- May 12, 2006
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Byline: Michael Phillips
May 12--A match made in a particularly clammy suburb of heaven, director Terry Zwigoff and screenwriter Daniel Clowes are masters of a specific worldview: that of daily life as a series of low-key interpersonal train wrecks, plus the occasional, baleful crush.
"Ghost World" (2001), taken from Clowes' graphic novel and directed by Zwigoff, made you believe that graphic novels really could be made into memorable movies. I suppose it's unfair to think about "Ghost World" in relation to the bloodthirsty vengeance and obsessively literal-minded comic-book compositions of "Road to Perdition" or "Sin City" or "V for Vendetta," three of ...