From the Film Vault
Film Series: Beyond This Vale of Tears
Throughout December the Kansas City Public Library’s free film series Beyond This Vale of Tears: Hollywood Visits the Afterlife looks at the many ways in which filmmakers have sought to depict the after-death experience.
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Program Notes: Silent Tongue (1993)
Sam Shepard always has been obsessed with families in crisis, so no one should be surprised that he wrote a drama about family and collective guilt. What is surprising about Silent Tongue (1993) is the flat-out weirdness of this Western.
Program Notes: Thunderheart (1992)
Michael Apted's Thunderheart (1992) is about civil unrest and a murder on a South Dakota Indian reservation.
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