[3] It’s not difficult to see why Alice Sebold’s novel The Lovely Bones [4] – about a murdered 14-year-old girl who from the hereafter observes the activities of both her family members and her killer – attracted visionary director Peter Jackson [5].
Bob Butler discusses the films in the Beyond This Vale of Tears series, showing on Mondays and Saturdays all through December at the Kansas City Public Library.
[9] Director Clint Eastwood [10] and writer Peter Morgan knew they couldn't prove or disprove life after death. So their film Hereafter [11] became a meditation on the human desire to understand what happens when we die.
Movies posters are iconic images that frequently make their way into popular consciousness right along with the movie itself. Can you guess the movie from the poster?
[15] What Dreams May Come [16] centers on the afterlife experience of Christy Nielsen (Robin Williams [17]), a pediatrician who descends to the underworld to retrieve his beloved.
Links:
[1] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/Film+Blog/feed
[2] http://drupal.org/node/11816
[3] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/film-blog/program-notes-lovely-bones-2009
[4] http://kcaqua.kclibrary.org/?q=format:%22book%22+title:%22The+Lovely+Bones%22
[5] http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001392/
[6] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/15443#comment-form
[7] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/film-blog/butler-talks-about-beyond-vale-tears
[8] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/15383#comment-form
[9] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/film-blog/program-notes-hereafter-2010
[10] http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000142/
[11] http://kcaqua.kclibrary.org/?q=format:%22dvd%22+author:%22Clint+Eastwood%22+title:%22Hereafter%22
[12] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/15377#comment-form
[13] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/film-blog/guess-movie-3
[14] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/15361#comment-form
[15] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/film-blog/program-notes-what-dreams-may-come-1998
[16] http://kcaqua.kclibrary.org/?q=format:%22dvd%22+title:%22What+Dreams+May+Come%22
[17] http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000245/
[18] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/15324#comment-form
[19] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14312
[20] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14312?page=46
[21] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14312?page=43
[22] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14312?page=44
[23] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14312?page=45
[24] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14312?page=48
[25] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14312?page=49
[26] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14312?page=50
[27] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14312?page=51
[28] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14312?page=61
