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  • 2018
  • Dark Star Pictures
  • 1 h 30 m
  • 2018
  • Dark Star Pictures
  • 1 h 30 m

Summary Texan Jimmy Van Horn (David Zellner) arrives in China brimming with optimism, only to realize that acquiring a share of the country’s rapidly growing riches is not as easy as it appeared from back home. Armed with an absurd product pitch and short on the charisma or quick thinking needed to convince local businessmen of his sincerity, Ji...

Directed By: John Maringouin

Written By: Specialist, David Zellner, John Maringouin

  • 2018
  • Dark Star Pictures
  • 1 h 30 m
  • 2018
  • Dark Star Pictures
  • 1 h 30 m

Ghostbox Cowboy

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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Summary Texan Jimmy Van Horn (David Zellner) arrives in China brimming with optimism, only to realize that acquiring a share of the country’s rapidly growing riches is not as easy as it appeared from back home. Armed with an absurd product pitch and short on the charisma or quick thinking needed to convince local businessmen of his sincerity, Ji...

Directed By: John Maringouin

Written By: Specialist, David Zellner, John Maringouin

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100
Dec 13, 2018
Ghostbox Cowboy feels like a William Gibson adaptation directed by David Lynch and Jean-Luc Godard — while not directly lifting from or nodding to those artists. It’s rare that a release so late in the year is so noteworthy, but this is a genuine find.
By Glenn Kenny FULL REVIEW
90
Jan 22, 2019
Ghostbox Cowboy is a wonderful mishmash of mockumentary that lends comparisons to Ulrich Seidl’s work or Harmony Korine’s earlier films such as Julien Donkey Boy and Gummo, with the weirdness of Terry Gilliam and the idiosyncratic brutality of Werner Herzog, while also being a completely unique animal apart from these influences.
By Lorry Kikta FULL REVIEW
75
Apr 27, 2018
It’s unclassifiable.
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky FULL REVIEW
70
Nov 30, 2018
This original if sometimes befuddling vision blurs the line between fiction and documentary elements, conventional storytelling and improvisational collage, all to oft-bracing effect.
By Dennis Harvey FULL REVIEW
70
Nov 29, 2018
The film’s as eclectic as it is eccentric, and it stays true to its own twisted sense of poetry, all the way to an epilogue that’s somehow even odder than anything that came before.
By Noel Murray FULL REVIEW
70
Apr 27, 2018
It's certainly never boring, and Maringouin makes the madness feel queasily real.
By Harry Windsor FULL REVIEW
50
Nov 29, 2018
I was fascinated, but I can’t say I liked Ghostbox Cowboy as much as I enjoyed the films it seems inspired by.
By Roger Moore FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Lightshow Films, Big Horn Global, Sino-American Regional Trade Enterprise, 23rd Street Films, Grunkok Company, Scope Dog, Epic Match Media, Outpost Studios
Release Date Nov 30, 2018
Duration 1 h 30 m
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Awards

Denver International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Tribeca Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
American Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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