Walking After Midnight (1988)

Directed by

Jonathon Kay

Genre

documentary

Country

Canada

Runtime

1h 32m

Rating

9.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary has celebrities and the Dalai Lama talk about reincarnation and what their past lives might have been. It uses re-enactments and music to tell their stories including Martin Sheen describing a near-death experience.

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What happens

Walking After Midnight is a 1988 Canadian documentary film directed by Jonathan Kay. It screened in the Perspectives Canada section of the Toronto Festival of Festivals in late 1988. The film features celebrities from film and music, as well as the Dalai Lama, discussing reincarnation and speculating on their past lives. Narrated by Ringo Starr, it includes appearances by Martin Sheen, James Coburn, k.d. lang, Willie Nelson, Donovan, Catherine Oxenberg, Rae Dawn Chong and Helen Shaver. The stories are supported by musical accompaniment and partly told through re-enactments. Sheen recalls a near-death experience he had while filming Apocalypse Now in the 1970s, and Lang asserts that in a past life she was country singer Patsy Cline. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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