[3] November 28, 2011
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.
[3] 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.
[5] 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.
[7] Michael Apted's Thunderheart [8] (1992) is about civil unrest and a murder on a South Dakota Indian reservation.
[10] Resurrection [11] (1980) is a great example of Woo Woo Cinema, offering a degree of psychological realism rarely seen in enterprises of this sort, and Ellen Burstyn's [12] performance is arguably the greatest of her career.
[14] Diane Keaton's [15] greatest performance? I'd like to make the case that the role that most perfectly dovetails with her actorish sensibilities is that of J.C. Wiatt in 1987's Baby Boom [16].
Links:
[1] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/Film+Blog/feed
[2] http://drupal.org/node/11816
[3] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/film-blog/film-series-beyond-vale-tears
[4] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/15254#comment-form
[5] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/film-blog/program-notes-silent-tongue-1993
[6] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/15257#comment-form
[7] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/film-blog/program-notes-thunderheart-1992
[8] http://kcaqua.kclibrary.org/?q=format:%22dvd%22+title:%22Thunderheart%22
[9] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/15251#comment-form
[10] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/film-blog/program-notes-resurrection-1980
[11] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081414/
[12] http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000995/
[13] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/15212#comment-form
[14] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/film-blog/program-notes-baby-boom-1987
[15] http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000473/
[16] http://kcaqua.kclibrary.org/?q=format:%22video%22+author:%22Diane+Keaton%22+title:%22Baby+Boom%22
[17] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/15192#comment-form
[18] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14314
[19] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14314?page=34
[20] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14314?page=31
[21] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14314?page=32
[22] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14314?page=33
[23] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14314?page=36
[24] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14314?page=37
[25] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14314?page=38
[26] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14314?page=39
[27] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/14314?page=42