[3] Meet Sutton Vane [4], great-granddaddy of the afterlife drama. His play, Outward Bound [5], 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."
[7] In A Guy Named Joe [8] (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.
[10] Produced in 1946 at the behest of the British government, Stairway to Heaven [11] from the writing-producing-directing team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger is one of the most satisfying film fantasies ever made.
[13] 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.
[15] 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.
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-between-two-worlds-1944
[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sutton_Vane
[5] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outward_Bound_%28play%29
[6] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/15305#comment-form
[7] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/film-blog/program-notes-guy-named-joe-1943
[8] http://kcaqua.kclibrary.org/?q=format:%22video%22+author:%22Victor+Fleming%22+title:%22A+Guy+Named+Joe%22
[9] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/15276#comment-form
[10] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/film-blog/program-notes-stairway-heaven-1946
[11] http://kcaqua.kclibrary.org/?q=format:%22dvd%22+title:%22The+films+of+Michael+Powell%22
[12] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/film-blog/program-notes-stairway-heaven-1946#comments
[13] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/film-blog/film-series-beyond-vale-tears
[14] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/15254#comment-form
[15] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/film-blog/program-notes-silent-tongue-1993
[16] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/15257#comment-form
[17] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14314
[18] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14314?page=32
[19] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14314?page=29
[20] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14314?page=30
[21] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14314?page=31
[22] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14314?page=34
[23] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14314?page=35
[24] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14314?page=36
[25] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14314?page=37
[26] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14314?page=41
