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“that’s a ‘crazy’ china story of unprecedented proportions! ” he joked of the ghost city description .
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los angeles (ap) — casey affleck plays the ghost in the new david lowery film, “a ghost story. ” for most of the movie, expanding wide friday, he’s silent and cloaked in a white sheet with eye holes cut out as he returns to his home to look in on his still - living partner played by rooney mara. it’s a weird, wild, sometimes funny and breathtakingly gorgeous film that will leave you thinking about the big ideas of love, life, eternity .
mountains have been flattened and villages bulldozed to build lanzhou new area in china’s wild west. four years ago tom phillips met empty streets and an eerie hush, but now he finds this improbable desert mirage finally filling up
the best thing is the infrastructure. the roads. the squares. the biggest problem is that there aren’t any people
lowery can’t always keep the movie from drifting through the mists of pretension, and the tremulous, too - precious score, by daniel hart, is sometimes intrusive. still, the picture’s visual imagery–the cinematographer is andrew droz palermo–is so restlessly poetic that it’s hard to turn away. like a wild, sonorous piano chord struck by someone or something in the middle of the night–where did that come from? –the contemplative aura of a ghost story sticks with you. who knows if there’s life after death? but if there is, it could very well look something like this .
young artist monte crandell is being sued for an unauthorized caricature. to escape arrest, he disguises himself as a mystic, only to conjure up a genuine ghost during a seance. things come to a head during his trial, where the invisible ghost takes the witness stand on our hero' s behalf .
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“the best thing is the infrastructure, the roads, the squares. the living environment is better than lanzhou, ” said the 23 - year - old .
ap: congratulations on “a ghost story. ” it is not a scary film per se, but it has truly haunted me .
but shepard said he was convinced about the incipient awakening of places such as lanzhou new area and suggested the world had been too quick to write off china’s new cities, preferring to embrace the sensational but inaccurate narrative of ghost cities .
many remain skeptical that china’s ghost cities will ever truly come to life. last year, one government thinktank reportedly claimed that the new areas would eventually have enough space to house about 3. 4 billion residents, more than double the population of the whole of china .
in many cases, the masses did not immediately flock to these new cities and so a notorious generation of chinese “ghost cities” was born: hollow urban shells that were apparently home to more cranes than humans .
xu said the city’s portrayal as a ghost town was still half accurate, but insisted business at his 76 - room hotel was steadily improving. the average occupancy rate was now about 70% , xu said during an interview in the hotel’s deathly quiet lobby, although on the day of the guardian’s visit he said only 30% of rooms were occupied .
review: artist ellison takes to masquerading as a spiritualist, using the ruse as a means of escaping a court date. but he gets more than he bargained for when a real ghost pops into the picture. luckily for ellison, the spirit is friendly and helps him get out of… (more )
“the chinese government doesn’t care what the west thinks of their new cities, because they know the plan and they know how these places develop and they know that there is really no such thing as a ghost city. it’s pretty much just a phase of development, between the time the initial downtown core of a city is built and 15 years later when they are completely connected to the urban and national transport network. ”
and as cities such as lanzhou new area slowly find their feet, shepard said the world would need to find a new way of referring to china’s increasingly lively ghost cities. “i guess now you would just call them cities. ”
monty crandall is a commercial artist who ridicules a dowager with a caricature of her on a magazine cover and she sues him. his troubles are multiplied when a pretty wife forces her attentions on him, and her gun - toting husband is somewhat incensed about it, blaming monty. he fakes his death and returns as a ghost to frighten off the trouble - makers, but it is only when he enlists the aid of a real ghost, eric, that his problems are solved .
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“when they were just being built it was otherworldly. you are walking through these massive new cities – some of them the size of manhattan or even bigger – and you can’t really believe what you are seeing, ” said shepard, who charts the rise of such cities in his book ghost cities of china .
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there’s more to this elegiac, nearly wordless drama than that. and writer - director lowery (pete’s dragon, ain’t them bodies saints) works in a twist at the end. what’s most remarkable about a ghost story is how easy it becomes to care for that figure under the sheet, presumably affleck, who can convey the deepest sense of sorrow, or of just feeling lost in the world, with a mere twist of the torso. and mara is perfectly cast as the girl who’s been left behind; even the willowy curve of her neck suggests a quiet thoughtfulness .
monty crandall (james ellison) is a commercial artist who ridicules a dowager (ruth donnelly) with a caricature of her on a magazine cover and she sues him. his troubles are multiplied when a pretty wife (stephanie bachelor) forces her attentions on him, and her gun - toting husband (grant withers) is somewhat incensed about it, blaming monty. he fakes his death and returns as a ghost to frighten off the trouble - makers, but it is only when he enlists the aid of a real ghost, eric (edward everett horton), that his problems are solved .
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xu, the hotel owner, scoffed at that idea. “it is not the political centre of [ gansu province ], nor is it the economic centre. ” but he said he had faith that things were on the up. “i’m optimistic about the future. ”
the classic cheap halloween costume–a bedsheet with two holes for eyes–becomes a symbol of grief and longing in david lowery’s spooky - somber chamber piece a ghost story. casey affleck and rooney mara star as a young suburban couple mostly in love, though it’s clear that some kind of rift has opened between the two of them. there’s an accident. mara’s character–the duo go unnamed throughout the film–is called upon to identify her partner’s body. as she turns to leave, he, or the spiritual entity he has become, rises from the gurney. fully draped in a sheet, he follows her back to the house they shared, the site of both their greatest happiness and creeping unrest. this melancholic presence, a melding of the spiritual and the workaday, watches in sober silence as his partner mourns him, and eventually moves on .
another immigrant hoping the city will take off is xu haike, who moved to lanzhou new area last may to help manage the city’s only luxury guesthouse, the binhu international garden hotel .
the city, too, was gradually filling up, although at night the dearth of switched - on lights suggested it still had a way to go. “it’s like we have built the house but the furniture hasn’t arrived yet, ” xu joked .
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one of the city’s liveliest corners is the 20, 000 - strong rainbow town estate, a concrete jungle of high - rise flats thrown up for displaced villagers whose homes were bulldozed, and migrant workers helping to build the rest of the city around them .
but the communist party’s urban planners have not stopped there. desperate to lure outsiders to this far - flung, sparsely populated region, officials have ordered the construction of a replica of the great sphinx of egypt; the parthenon; beijing’s summer palace and forbidden city, and even of a stretch of the great wall of china .
lanzhou new area was one of the last such state - level new areas to be given the green light before xi jinping, the president, came to power in late 2012. apparently alarmed by the soaring levels of local debt, he started to rein in such mega - projects as the country sought a more sustainable urbanisation model .
lanzhou new area was conceived as part of a broader government push to develop china’s west that kicked off near the turn of the century .
when the city was approved by beijing just months before xi’s presidency, authorities announced a series of staggering targets for their city in the sands .
whatever the real figure, pockets of life are now springing up across town as people trickle into the city in search of a better future .
“people are buying property and moving in, ” insists shepard, who has visited the city twice. “as improbable as it sounds, it’s kind of coming to life. the place is almost like a mirage out in the middle of the desert. you see it glimmer on the horizon. you see it but you don’t really believe it is there – and then all of a sudden you are in the middle of it. ”
the city’s inclusion in a major economic development drive unveiled by xi during his first year in office –the so - called silk road economic belt – has raised hopes that the local economy will, eventually, lift off .
affleck, coming off of a best actor win for “manchester by the sea” and an awards season marred by intense public scrutiny around a past civil sexual harassment lawsuit, is dipping his toes back in the spotlight to promote the film. he spoke to the associated press about his year and moving on .
a few blocks away, one of zhang’s few neighbours, zhou fei, said he also felt good about the city’s future. “it’s getting busier, ” said zhou, who was born and raised in dongshuitang, one of the rural communities that was destroyed to make way for the new city, and bought a flat here with the compensation handed to his family by the government .
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those numbers seem wildly inflated with huge swaths of the city still completely vacant .
liu yufeng, a 32 - year - old mother of one who moved to the community after her home was levelled, said the new city’s creation had transformed her family’s life. “it’s been half good, half bad. the living conditions have improved but the bad part is that there aren’t job opportunities for us here. ”
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zhou, the shopkeeper, said he believed his new home might even one day rival the provincial capital after which it is named. “in five to eight years the new area will be more developed. it will feel just like lanzhou, ” he predicted .
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children in rainbow town, the busiest part of lanzhou new area. photograph: tom phillips
ap: people have really latched on to that long take of rooney eating the pie .
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liu said she was relieved her daughter was no longer forced to use an outdoor toilet as she had done in their village. “during the winter it was terrible for the kids. the key thing now is: how can we earn our bread? that’s very important for us. ”
wade shepard, an american writer who has spent more than a decade chronicling the fortunes of these new areas, said the campaign sparked a construction frenzy across inland china that peaked after the 2008 financial crisis, as beijing hurled vast sums at infrastructure projects in a bid to shore up growth .
zhou’s wife, bao shan, said she was still unimpressed with the sluggish pace of life and of change. only about 20 families were currently living in the community of high - rises they now called home. “i don’t like the quietness, ” she said. “business isn’t great. ”
the project, which involved levelling hundreds of barren hills, was called “the greatest mountain - moving project on earth” and a hollywood - style trailer with a stirring soundtrack offered a dynamic, neon - lit glimpse of the city’s future. it was a place of economic prowess and leisure and hi - tech industry, where happy residents strolled through verdant parks or raced across the city’s lake in speedboats .
a report by state broadcaster cctv last year claimed the actual number of residents was closer to 40, 000, many of them local farmers who were relocated to tower blocks in the city after their homes were razed, or the employees of state - owned companies who had been ordered to relocate there. a more modest figure of 80, 000 permanents can now be found on the city’s website .
in ​five to eight years the new area will be more developed. it will feel just like lanzhou
publicizing a movie is, you know, something that i’m used to. that’s part of my job and i have no complaints talking about the work. the challenges of being spoken about personally in the media were very sobering and they really hurt, especially my family which is what i really cared about .
residents of lanzhou new area praise living conditions but worry about the lack of jobs. photograph: corinne rozotte
“i came here last august, ” said zhang yongshuai, a shopkeeper who moved here from the provincial capital, lanzhou, with his two young boys. zhang said he had been drawn to this urbanisation frontier by the lower rents and the prospect of a new life. he rented a ground - floor shop in a sprawling but still virtually empty residential complex of high - rises and luxury villas called the greenland intelligent financial town .
reality took a while to catch up with the dream. when i first visited in 2013, as villagers came to terms with the destruction of their once - remote rural homes, an eerie hush gripped the city’s almost completely empty streets. the relentless din of car horns – a trademark of urban china – was completely absent. dozens of tower blocks were under construction but, aside from builders, there was hardly a soul to be seen. both chinese and foreign journalists who flocked to the city came away convinced it was a flop .
it is located about 40 miles north of gansu’s gritty capital, lanzhou – a smog - choked industrial hub carved in two by the meandering yellow river. the old city has about 3. 6 million residents; 160, 000 of whom are are members of the hui muslim minority. the region has long been known for its contaminated air, water and soil, although recent years have seen authorities attempting to clean up, with some success .
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“even now we are looking at projects that are kind of in the halfway point and nobody should reasonably expect any country in the world to be able to build a completely new city in six years and populate it, right? it’s ridiculous .
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affleck: there was quite a bit of build up to that. what kind of pie is it going to be? where is the pie coming from? who is making the pie? rooney had strangely never eaten a pie which is the weirdest thing. there are lots of things i haven’t eaten, but you’d think a pie is something you’d have come across at some point .
and it was confusing because it was all so at odds with my core values. the more kindness and compassion we can find for all people, the better all our lives will be. and i believe harassment of any kind is completely unacceptable. bullying and mistreatment of anyone is totally abhorrent. everyone should be treated with respect in the workplace and anywhere else. that’s what i teach my kids and it’s how i try to live my life .
zhang admitted the city had not lived up to all of his expectations. “the biggest problem is there aren’t any people, ” he said with a chuckle. “but i think they will come. if there were no people here then it would all have been a big waste, wouldn’t it? ”
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affleck: i think he’s one of our most interesting directors. i would bet that he has a very long career marked by very different types of movies in the same vein as the coen brothers or stanley kubrick. and i bet, just like those guys, there will be a few masterpieces in there .
“it’s like a mini - disneyland, ” gushed xu haike, a local hotelier who recently moved to the city and is among those banking on its success .
ultimately, i am really glad that there’s a heightened cultural awareness around those issues. i took my kids to the women’s march in vancouver where i was working and there were a lot of people there. it was a family event and i got the sense that this generation of kids growing up, my own included, are going to be filled with a sense of activist empowerment and they’re going to be loud voices for social justice. i think that that might be the silver lining .
a free trade zone has been created, an artificial lake carved into the arid soil, and more than 400 miles of road and scores of high - rise towers built. english - language billboards sing the praises of one of china’s newest cities in a chorus of giant multi - coloured adjectives: “outstanding! bustling! new world! ”
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city officials declined to be interviewed by the guardian about their progress in luring humans to the region’s lunar landscape. but during a government propaganda tour last year, xu dawu, lanzhou new area’s deputy communist party secretary, claimed it had already attracted 150, 000 permanent residents as well as 40, 000 construction workers who were temporarily living there .
affleck: i can’t think of another single costume in another movie where so much of the movie depended on it working. the sheet looks simple but it wasn’t just a sheet and it was hard to get it to look that way. it was a perfect balance of not being exactly scary, but not seeming silly and also not seeming slapdash .
as well as building tens of thousands of miles of road and railway, plans were also unveiled for a series of new urban hubs scattered across the country’s south and north - west .
ap: finally, the year was coupled with both a professional high in your best actor win and intense public scrutiny of you personally. do you have any reflections on that experience ?
last but not least, they threw in the dinosaur kingdom, a sprawling triassic theme park where chinese tourists will soon be able to gaze at super - sized models of flesh - eating theropods .
affleck: just finished a first cut. it’s torture. you have to sit there with something you wrote, acted in, were there every day directing. you see the first (cut) and think, “wow, i’ve made one of the worst movies of all time. ” i’ve been reassured by directors who i really love who make great movies that that’s always their experience too .
t was a scheme as bold and eccentric as any to emerge from china’s 21st - century sprint towards urbanisation: to build and populate a dazzling metropolis of one million inhabitants deep in the country’s barren western hinterlands .
affleck: it’s been great how much people have responded to it. usually you have some sense of what a movie is going to be and this is probably the film that turned out most differently than what i expected .
affleck: there were very high moments and there were some difficult challenges. winning an oscar was such a high it was an out of body experience. i was genuinely honored by that and the other awards for “manchester. ”
the so - called “go west” initiative – a bid to bring a touch of china’s prosperous eastern coast to its underdeveloped interior – called for less - developed provinces such as qinghai, sichuan and gansu to be given a dramatic facelift .
“the project is ongoing, ” li zhenjiang, an estate agent, explained sheepishly as he took a break inside an otherwise completely derelict, dust - covered shopping mall that appeared to have been abandoned for months, if not years .
“but the thing is these new cities are built on roughly 20 - year timelines. so they say, ‘oh, it’s 2003. by 2023 we will have 300, 000 people living here or we’ll have one million people living here. ’
however, i couldn’t and can’t talk about it as it related to me because everyone involved signed something saying we wouldn’t talk about it and that it has been settled to the mutual satisfaction of all parties. that’s all we can say. so i am just trying to move on. period .
“it was kind of a free for all. government officials were basically told to go out and increase gdp to comply with this national urbanisation movement, and pretty much every level of government had the authority to build new cities. so they went out and they built and they built and they built, ” he said .
“it’s all these huge, massive buildings and everything that you would attribute to a city: malls, banks and government offices. but there are no people. it’s kind of like you are in a dream or this twilight zone episode where you suddenly wake up and everyone else is gone and you are the last man on earth. ”
affleck: i may be unusual, i can’t say for sure in this regard, but when i heard that i was like, “i’m totally in. ” the idea of being hidden somehow was so appealing to me. and david doesn’t have to persuade me. i have so much fun working with him and rooney and his producers. it was a three - second conversation .
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in their bid to make this fitzcarraldo - esque dream a reality there is little chinese authorities have not tried. hundreds of mountains and village after village have been bulldozed since construction of gansu province’s lanzhou new area began in 2012 .
people are buying property and moving in. as improbable as it sounds, it’s kind of coming to life
and this is how it will look … a development advertised in lanzhou new area. photograph: corinne rozotte
by 2020, lanzhou new area was to have five hospitals, 75 schools and creches, and a gdp of 100bn yuan (£11. 8bn). by 2030 it would be home to one million full - time residents and its gdp would have almost tripled, to 270bn yuan .
an english - language website promised potential investors that lanzhou new area would witness “massive economic build - up” .
returning four years later, however, i found this sleeping western giant appears to be slowly awakening as housing projects begin to fill up and pioneers start to move in .
but zhou was convinced a less ghostly future lay ahead – and in any case there was now no turning back. “there’s nothing left [ of our village ]. it’s all demolished, ” he explained .
on a recent afternoon dozens of children could be seen racing past a multicoloured government creche towards a bustling main square .
“now it is a national - level project so that means it will be successful, ” said shepard. “there is no other option. it’s too big to fail. ”
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affleck: i don’t really consider myself a cinephile. i have pretty mainstream tastes. i have an appetite for some difficult movies like tarkovsky movies or bela tarr movies. but i also kind of really just love “world war z” too. and i love this movie. i think it’s really, really moving and romantic and sweet and full of ideas that i wasn’t really aware of .
a good movie tends to bring out all of these ideas from other things that you read and this movie does that in a way that’s really accessible. i don’t think it’s a weird, esoteric, experimental art house movie at all. it’s very touching, just not dumbed down .
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the ghost goes wild is a 1947 american comedy film directed by george blair and written by randall faye . the film stars james ellison , anne gwynne , edward everett horton , ruth donnelly , stephanie bachelor and grant withers . the film was released on march 8 , 1947 , by republic pictures . 
the ghost goes wild is a 1947 american comedy film directed by george blair and written by randall faye. the film stars james ellison, anne gwynne, edward everett horton, ruth donnelly, stephanie bachelor and grant withers. the film was released on march 8, 1947, by republic pictures.
the ghost goes wild is a 1947 american comedy film directed by george blair and written by randall faye. the film stars james ellison, anne gwynne, edward everett horton, ruth donnelly, stephanie bachelor and grant withers. the film was released on march 8, 1947, by republic pictures.