Thursday, February 23 2012
In Defense of Terrence Malick
Five Reasons The Tree of Life Should Win Best Picture...
Friday, August 19 2011
The 100 Essential Directors Part 6: Ernst Lubitsch to Vincente Minnelli
Today runs the gamut. Hollywood to indie art house, female perspective to male, screwball comedy to chamber drama. The odyssey from Ernst Lubitsch to Vincente Minnelli will provide illumination on how film's first special effects were used, how two brothers presciently preceded reality TV in the Hamptons, and why some directors prefer to work about once a decade on average...
Thursday, May 26 2011
“Where Will We Live?”: Terrence Malick’s Fugitive Edens
Again and again, Terrence Malick’s films rehearse, in ways both literal and figurative, one of the oldest and most abiding stories in myth and literature.
Friday, October 1 2010
Pacific Hell Amid Days of Heaven: Terrence Malick’s ‘The Thin Red Line’
PopMatters' Paul Maher speaks with cast and crew about what went into Terrence Malick's million-and-a-half feet of film (250 hours) that would become The Thin Red Line (re-released on DVD by Criterion, 28 September).
Thursday, December 20 2007
Days of Heaven
Malick puts the visual and aural emphasis on a vast, natural world that would be nothing more than a backdrop to the human story for most filmmakers, creating a breathtaking visual experience.
Tuesday, April 18 2006
Days of Heaven (1978)
Terrence Malick's 1978 film leaves you with the ache of paradise briefly felt and then remembered.
Friday, December 23 2005
The New World (2005)
The New World is ambitious and gorgeous, the landscape serving as a kind of objective correlative for characters' cravings and astonishments.
