Ghostlight

Ghostlight (2003)

  • 63% of critics liked it
    (8 reviews)

  • 100% of users liked it
    (21 ratings)

For his feature debut, writer/director Christopher Herrmann chose a subject near and dear to his heart. Herrmann had been the biographer and a close friend of renowned choreographer Martha Graham before the dance legend passed away in 1991 at the age of 96. With Ghostlight, Herrmann pays tribute to… More

Unrated, 1 hr. 20 min.
Directed By
Christopher Herrmann
Genres
Comedy
In Theaters
Jun 23, 2004 Wide
On DVD
May 7, 2012
Lot 47 Films

Critic Reviews

  • Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News

    Few performances are hardy enough both to blossom in the dark intimacy of live theater and bloom under the glaring eye of a movie camera. Ghostlight is not the exception.

  • Jan Stuart, Newsday

    Achieves substance as a historical document, an homage, an appreciation of the axis of empathy shared between larger- than-life women and the (frequently) gay men who venerate them.

  • Dave Kehr, New York Times

    Ms. Magnuson's consummate professionalism offers an unflattering contrast to Mr. Move's not-so-inspired amateurism.

  • Lou Lumenick, New York Post

    A bizarre and campily amusing 'tribute.'

  • Elizabeth Zimmer, Village Voice

    Real history and raunch poke through, but the thirtysomething Move is too vital to be Martha in her dotage.

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