[3] December 26, 2011
Robert Wise [4] was never an auteur in the sense that Hitchcock, Fellini and Bergman were auteurs. Instead, Wise was a Hollywood director-for-hire who could tackle just about any subject. Some of his movies are classics.
[3] Robert Wise [4] was never an auteur in the sense that Hitchcock, Fellini and Bergman were auteurs. Instead, Wise was a Hollywood director-for-hire who could tackle just about any subject. Some of his movies are classics.
[6] Hollywood depictions of the afterlife range from the pious to the ludicrous. Weirdly enough, Albert Brooks’ [7] comedy Defending Your Life [8] rings truer than most.
[10] Warren Beatty's directorial debut, Heaven Can Wait [11], was one of the biggest comedy hits of 1978, thanks to a great cast, fine performances and witty dialogue that helped make the clunky plot go down a whole lot easier.
[13] It’s not difficult to see why Alice Sebold’s novel The Lovely Bones [14] – 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 [15].
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.
Links:
[1] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/Film+Blog/feed
[2] http://drupal.org/node/11816
[3] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/film-blog/robert-wise-film-series-introduction
[4] http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0936404/
[5] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/15724#comment-form
[6] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/film-blog/program-notes-defending-your-life-1991
[7] http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000983/
[8] http://kcaqua.kclibrary.org/?q=format:%22dvd%22+title:%22Defending+Your+Life%22
[9] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/15590#comment-form
[10] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/film-blog/program-notes-heaven-can-wait-1978
[11] http://kcaqua.kclibrary.org/?q=author:%22Warren+Beatty%22+title:%22Heaven+Can+Wait%22
[12] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/15545#comment-form
[13] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/film-blog/program-notes-lovely-bones-2009
[14] http://kcaqua.kclibrary.org/?q=format:%22book%22+title:%22The+Lovely+Bones%22
[15] http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001392/
[16] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/15443#comment-form
[17] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/film-blog/butler-talks-about-beyond-vale-tears
[18] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/15383#comment-form
[19] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14314
[20] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14314?page=32
[21] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14314?page=29
[22] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14314?page=30
[23] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14314?page=31
[24] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14314?page=34
[25] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14314?page=35
[26] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14314?page=36
[27] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14314?page=37
[28] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14314?page=42