Tag: Terrence Malick

  • Days of Heaven review – Malick’s early masterwork heralds a rarefied visionary

    The director’s rereleased 1978 film revealed some of the authorial signatures that would underscore a film-making career punctuated by a two-decade disappearanceTerrence Malick’s richly achieved early film from 1978 is now rereleased; it is a tragic romance and slo-mo melodrama which appeared five years after his debut, and after which Malick mysteriously vanished from public…

  • Harmony Korine Reveals Terrence Malick Wrote a Script He Wants Him to Direct

    Harmony Korine Reveals Terrence Malick Wrote a Script He Wants Him to Direct

    Harmony Korine is done with “normal films,” except possibly a Terrence Malick movie.The “Spring Breakers” and “Kids” auteur told GQ that he is stepping away from Hollywood as a whole, following the more muted reception to 2019’s “The Beach Bum.”“I just lost interest in normal films,” Korine said. “I was like, There’s something else. That…

  • Harmony Korine Says Terrence Malick Wrote A Script For Him To Direct

    Harmony Korine Says Terrence Malick Wrote A Script For Him To Direct

    Harmony Korine has never made “normal” films. Even his most straightforward feature, probably 2019’s “The Beach Bum,” is pretty subversive by traditional standards. But then you look at things like “Gummo,” “Spring Breakers,” and “Trash Humpers,” and you realize Korine just clearly doesn’t have any interest in making anything the general public would embrace. So,…

  • This Was the Final Film Roger Ebert Reviewed

    This Was the Final Film Roger Ebert Reviewed

    Roger Ebert, who was for several decades the face of film criticism, died on April 4, 2013. For several years he had been managing life with a particularly destabilizing cancer, which had altered his appearance, and taken away his ability to eat, drink, and speak. Many public figures would have withdrawn, but Ebert remained visible…

  • Terrence Malick May Release A Longer ‘To The Wonder’ Cut,’ & New ‘Way Of The Wind’ Film May Not Arrive Anytime Soon

    Terrence Malick May Release A Longer ‘To The Wonder’ Cut,’ & New ‘Way Of The Wind’ Film May Not Arrive Anytime Soon

    One of the most reclusive filmmakers of all time—at least where the press and publicity is concerned, he hasn’t done an interview since the 1970s and hasn’t posed for an official photograph since before then— Terrence Malick marches to the beat of his own eccentric drum. Literally, the filmmaker works on his own timetable and…

  • 2023 Venice Classics Lineup Includes The Exorcist, Andrei Rublev, Days of Heaven and More

    2023 Venice Classics Lineup Includes The Exorcist, Andrei Rublev, Days of Heaven and More

    With the full Venice Immersive slate announced yesterday, the Venice Classics lineup has now been revealed ahead of the 80th edition of the Venice International Film Festival. Curated by Alberto Barbera in collaboration with Federico Gironi, this year’s Venice Classics slate features newly restored versions of William Friedkin’s The Exorcist, Terrence Malick’s Days of Heaven,…