Features
Monday, January 23 2012
The 40 Best Films of 2011
2011 was a year of good, not necessarily great, films, though the amazing choices by our staff might argue against such a overall cinematic classification.
Tuesday, January 17 2012
The Best Female Film Performances of 2011
It was a monumental year for women in film as our selections for 2011's best female performances indicate... over and over and over again.
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.
Thursday, January 6 2011
The Best DVDs of 2010
As the medium continues to struggle with significance in the steady "streaming" of the 21st Century, here are PopMatters' picks for the best the format(s) have to offer.
Columns
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).
Reviews
Monday, October 31 2011
Most Movies Have Acts. 'The Tree of Live' Has Overtures, Movements, Symphonies
Terrence Malick's visualization of the world's life cycle makes grand leaps of ambition, and usually lands gracefully.
Friday, May 27 2011
'The Tree of Life': When Did You First Touch My Heart?
Winner of this year's Palme d'Or at Cannes, Terrence Malick's movie offers up moments that imagine beginnings, not as if they're new, but rather, familiar and cyclical, creations as repetitions.
Thursday, May 13 2010
Days of Heaven Should Be Viewed As a Collection of Moments, of Still Images
Days of Heaven is a film that pushed the boundaries of film forward as an American art form. Watching it with the right kind of eyes reveals an ecstatic vision of an America that no longer exists.
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.
Blogs
Friday, June 24 2011
Small in the Family: 'The Tree of Life'
The Tree of Life a tour de force and an experiment in insularity, a chance for a famed filmmaker to create a grand personal proclamation and then sit back to see how people respond.
News
Monday, May 16 2011
What Terrence Malick's 'The Tree of Life' is actually about
CANNES, France — After several years of filmgoer anticipation — and nearly 40 years of gestation in Terrence Malick's mind — "The Tree of Life"…
