[3] November 29, 2011
Produced in 1946 at the behest of the British government, Stairway to Heaven [4] from the writing-producing-directing team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger is one of the most satisfying film fantasies ever made.
[3] Produced in 1946 at the behest of the British government, Stairway to Heaven [4] from the writing-producing-directing team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger is one of the most satisfying film fantasies ever made.
[6] 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.
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?
[10] 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.
[12] Michael Apted's Thunderheart [13] (1992) is about civil unrest and a murder on a South Dakota Indian reservation.
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-stairway-heaven-1946
[4] http://kcaqua.kclibrary.org/?q=format:%22dvd%22+title:%22The+films+of+Michael+Powell%22
[5] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/film-blog/program-notes-stairway-heaven-1946#comments
[6] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/film-blog/film-series-beyond-vale-tears
[7] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/15254#comment-form
[8] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/film-blog/guess-movie-1
[9] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/film-blog/guess-movie-1#comments
[10] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/film-blog/program-notes-silent-tongue-1993
[11] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/15257#comment-form
[12] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/film-blog/program-notes-thunderheart-1992
[13] http://kcaqua.kclibrary.org/?q=format:%22dvd%22+title:%22Thunderheart%22
[14] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/15251#comment-form
[15] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14312
[16] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14312?page=48
[17] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14312?page=45
[18] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14312?page=46
[19] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14312?page=47
[20] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14312?page=50
[21] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14312?page=51
[22] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14312?page=52
[23] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14312?page=53
[24] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14312?page=61