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 ...

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 contains some of that, being such an unbelievable true story that it’s almost impossible not to wonder how such a thing can happen, and just how many people have been affected by it ...

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 ...

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: ...

“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 of trauma’s ...

In Linda Joan Smith’s “The Peach Thief,” an orphaned girl posing as a boy raids an English Eden ... Ouija board in the child’s room and a ghost made of Kleenex and cotton balls in ...