Two Films by Terry Zwigoff and Daniel Clowes
2 Episodes
United by their roots in the alternative-comics underground, a shared love of eccentric Americana, and a misfit misanthropy that belies a cracked humanism, director Terry Zwigoff and cartoonist-screenwriter Daniel Clowes are uniquely well-matched collaborators. Adapted by Clowes from his own graphic work, the cult classics GHOST WORLD and ART SCHOOL CONFIDENTIAL capture the awkwardness, melancholy, and absurdity of youth with dark, deadpan humor and a refreshingly cynical edge, seamlessly making the leap from page to screen through Zwigoff’s idiosyncratic direction.
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1:51:32Episode 1Ghost World
Episode 1
Directed by Terry Zwigoff • 2001 • United States
Starring Thora Birch, Scarlett Johansson, Steve BuscemiTerry 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 endearin...
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1:42:40Episode 2Art School Confidential
Episode 2
Directed by Terry Zwigoff • 2006 • United States
Starring Max Minghella, Sophia Myles, John MalkovichJerome Platz (Max Minghella) dreams of becoming a great artist—perhaps the greatest artist of the twenty-first century. Enrolling at Strathmore College, he finds himself surrounded by the quirky...