Director Rodney Ascher’s obsession with horror and mysterious phenomena takes a tragic real turn in Ghost Boy, which is based on the book of the same title by South African author, speaker and ...

Like Alexandre O. Philippe, Rodney Ascher is a director who pushes the interpretive limits of what a documentary can do, something he made abundantly clear with his 2012 film Room 237. Named after ...

“Ghost Boy” director Rodney Ascher first learned about Martin Pistorius through the NPR podcast “Invisibilia.” “I remember hearing the story and thinking, ‘This is the kind of story ...

While my father’s story may be very different from that of Martin Pistorius’ depicted in Rodney Ascher‘s latest documentary, “Ghost Boy,” I nonetheless felt a connection to its portrayal ...

“Ghost Boy” was the opposite. “It was great timing to move from that to a story that went the other way, one that led out from isolation to human connection.

One whole year before the Lutzes' arrival in Amityville, at the infamous house on 112 Ocean Avenue portrayed in The Amityville Horror (1979), the eldest son of Ronald and Louise DeFeo--the ...

SXSW Anyone alarmed by that proposition will probably want to give Ascher’s latest film a wide berth, since it tells the story of Martin Pistorius, South African author of the 2011 memoir Ghost Boy: ...

You have to die.” RELATED: ‘Glorious Summer’ Trailer: Alief Boards Sales On Polish Experimental Drama Ahead Of SXSW Debut The reverse of Benjamin Ree’s recent Oscar near-miss The Remarkable Life of ...