By Amy Renner Oct. 23, 2022
1 – 5 of 5 movies
Lincoln In The Bardo
Set against the backdrop of the Civil War, President Lincoln’s beloved eleven-year-old son, Willie, lies upstairs in the White House, gravely ill. In a matter of days, despite predictions of a recovery, Willie dies and is laid to rest in a Georgetown cemetery. Willie Lincoln finds himself in a strange purgatory where ghosts mingle, gripe, commiserate, quarrel, and enact bizarre acts of penance. Within this transitional state—called, in the Tibetan tradition, the bardo—a monumental struggle erupts over young Willie’s soul.
Larklight
Set in a Victorian-era alternate universe in which mankind has been exploring the solar system since the time of Isaac Newton, a brother and sister team with a band of renegade space pirates to save the world from destruction at the hands of a madman.
Lost In Shangri La
A World War II mission takes place to rescue Corporal Margaret Hastings, one of three U.S. military survivors of a plane crash in an isolated corner of the South Pacific The ancient indigenous tribe members help those stranded on the ground in this Shangri-La.
Late In Summer
Set against the end of WWII, a love affair ignites a dormant passion in a lonely farmer’s wife and an American GI.