Program Notes
Program Notes: Hereafter (2010)
Director Clint Eastwood and writer Peter Morgan knew they couldn't prove or disprove life after death. So their film Hereafter became a meditation on the human desire to understand what happens when we die.
Program Notes: What Dreams May Come (1998)
What Dreams May Come centers on the afterlife experience of Christy Nielsen (Robin Williams), a pediatrician who descends to the underworld to retrieve his beloved.
Program Notes: Between Two Worlds (1944)
Meet Sutton Vane, great-granddaddy of the afterlife drama. His play, Outward Bound, set the template for many of the films featured in the Library’s current film series, "Beyond this Vale of Tears: Hollywood visits the Afterlife."
Program Notes: A Guy Named Joe (1943)
In A Guy Named Joe (1943), a dead man’s spirit returns to Earth to watch over the woman he left behind and, eventually, to help guide her to a new love.
Program Notes: Stairway to Heaven (1946)
Produced in 1946 at the behest of the British government, Stairway to Heaven from the writing-producing-directing team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger is one of the most satisfying film fantasies ever made.
