Ghostlight

Ghostlight (2003)

  • 63% of critics liked it
    (8 reviews)

  • 40% of users liked it
    (26 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,
Directed By
Genres
Comedy
In Theaters
Jun 23, 2004 Wide
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    Achieves substance as a historical document, an homage, an appreciation of the axis of empathy shared between larger- than-life women and the (frequently) gay men who venerate them.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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