The Cinema of Terrence Malick: Poetic Visions of America (Directors' Cuts)
Pajiba (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
"What difference do you think you can make, one single man in all this madness? If you die, it's gonna be for nothing. There's not some other world out there where everything's gonna be okay. There's just this world. Just...
Hollywood Elsewhere (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Movie City News had this first and then The Playlist, etc. On top of which the video was posted two days ago. But I'm copy-pasting this 11.15 video of Tree of Life composer Alexandre Desplat talking about Terrence Malick's film at the Thessaloniki International Film Festival for a reason. I'm running it in order to address a quote from Desplat about the film, which deals with families and anguish and...
Movie City Indie (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
At a masterclass at the 50th Thessaloniki International Film Festival, Alexandre Desplat talks about working with Terrence Malick on 2010's Tree of Life . "The most important thing for me, for music to express," the composer, who's worked on nine features in 2009, says, "is the invisible, to show what is not in the film, whether outside the frame, or in the depth of field." He...
RopeofSilicon: Latest Headlines (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
This week I'm on time and have more than just one movie to discuss as I finally finished watching both Terrence Malick and Paul Weitz's filmography, caught another Christmas film I had not seen and refreshed my memory on a Spielberg sci-fi. As always, remember you can keep tabs on my personal Netflix queue right here. [...]
The One-Line Review Presents (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
L'Atalante (1934) .. Jean Vigo The Spirit of the Beehive (1973) .. Victor Erice Au Hasard Balthazar (1966) .. Robert Bresson Tokyo Story (1953) .. Yasujiro Ozu Man with a Movie Camera (1929) .. Dziga Vertov La Règle du Jeu (1939) .. Jean Renoir Playtime (1967) .. Jacques Tati L'Avventura (1960) .. Michelangelo Antonioni Sunrise (1927) .. F.W. Murnau The Conformist (1970) .. Bernardo Bertolucci...
The Sheila Variations (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
Terrence Malick's Days of Heaven is one of the most beautiful films ever made. There is something grandiose, epic, even melodramatic, about some of the vistas we see of the Texas panhandle in this film. Every corner of the...
The Beard Trio (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
from the Daily Telegraph 10 The Bridge on the River Kwai The lavish production that launched Lean into the big league is grand, grown-up and full of eye-popping set pieces and moral complexity. 9 The Dirty Dozen Robert Aldrich, 1967 Real-life former marine Lee Marvin has to mould 12 convicted murderers into a crack unit to assassinate a slew of SS officers. Entertaining sparring leads to a dark climax....
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
There's no denying it's been a strange year for movies. I've yet to see anything that felt like an obvious Academy favorite, and with the stunning announcement that there will be 10 Best Picture nominations instead of the usual five, speculation has been fierce as to who will make the cut. With Public ...
Cinema Blend (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009
Are you ready to see him go all Serious Actor?
Just Jared (Free subscription) | 20/10/2009
A scruffy-looking Brad Pitt grabs some Italian grub at Madeo in West Hollywood before heading over to his office on Monday (October 19). The 45-year-old actor and Sean Penn next star in the Terrence Malick-directed The Tree of Life but it won’t be ready for release this year. Bob Berney, the boss of distribution company Apparition, says [...]
Emdashes (Free subscription) | 19/10/2009
This will be the final column in a series we have been enchanted by since Jon Michaud and Erin Overbey, The New Yorker 's head librarians, agreed to answer readers' questions about the magazine's past and present. Their daily investigations into the magazine's mysteries, and their preservation of its treasures, take all their time; that they so generously gave more of it to us, and that our association...
Five Branch Tree (Free subscription) | 17/10/2009
If I had to choose a movie to recommend to display Sam Shepard’s acting, it would be Days of Heaven , simply because it was written and directed by one of America’s great filmmakers, Terrence Malick. Shepard plays a wealthy landowner just prior to World War I and in this scene-- involving a young couple who have found themselves down on their luck-- the story is laid out pretty clear (I...
Movie-Moron (Free subscription) | 17/10/2009
Director Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life was set to be released in December of this year, but has been pushed back to sometime in 2010. The chief of the film’s distributor, Bob Burney, said that the original release date was - Wishful.…
Film School Rejects (Free subscription) | 17/10/2009
It's the end of the week, and we've got a bunch of news stories in the bin here at Reject HQ that we'd like to share with you...
Get the Big Picture (Free subscription) | 16/10/2009
It almost had to happen this way, but Anne Thompson at Indiwire made it official yesterday: The new Terrence Malick film, The Tree of Life has been scrapped from this year's list of Oscar hopefuls, Instead, the project that has literally been brewing for 30 years might be headed to Cannes next May. Malick walks to the beat of his own drum, and it's a painfully slow beat. The Thin Red Line was his...
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