Terence Malick's forthcoming films, 2015-2017

Song to Song sounds promising, can't be worse than Knight of Cups.

i've been talking about a french philosophy named Michel Henry on the rolling philosophy thread.

i think his work could be a great resource for understanding malick's technique and general sensibility. particularly in that Henry represents a fusion of the phenomenological tradition (which has obvious cinematic relevance) and a really radical understanding of christianity. malick's entire editing style becomes lucid in Henry's description of "world" (not to be mistaken for reality).

philosopher

this does violence to the context of the post upthread but

weed from the grave of david hume

would smoke

Reverse Shot repping for Knight of Cups on its end of year list. Even I can't go that far.

http://reverseshot.org/features/2292/best_of_2016

Top 5 of last year for me.

https://thefilmstage.com/news/terrence-malick-returns-to-wwii-in-first-look-at-radegund/

Sales agent desperate to note it has a script.

haha yes. though combined with a new cinematographer and malick himself saying at a public appearance that he was interested in moving back to more structured work...this could be his most "conventional film" since, uh, let's just say The New World is conventional for him. but very excited for this, apart from my own interest in the story it just seems like an ideal combo of director and material.

Who's the cinematographer?

Jörg Widmer. dont know much about him but apparently he was a camera operator and second unit cinematographer for the last few Malicks.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002152/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cr12#cinematographer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9t4SKWryWM

Song to Song roundup (limited opening Friday)

https://www.fandor.com/keyframe/terrence-malicks-song-song

He's doing a discussion following screenings of Voyage of Time at the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum in DC tonight.

aaaand i will be attending that. thanks for the heads up.

Which screening? 6:30?

at this point, it's hard to imagine cinematic entreaty less enticing than terence malick + lovely young lovers in the fading daylight + winsome indie rock

i haven't seen song to song yet but knight of cups was definitely worse

at this point, it's hard to imagine cinematic entreaty less enticing than terence malick + lovely young lovers in the fading daylight + winsome indie rock

― Not raving but drooling (contenderizer), Wednesday, March 15, 2017 5:21 PM (forty-two minutes ago)

wrong!!!!!!!!!!!

i'm getting a little tired of defending malick (knight of cups was, in fairness, as self-indulgent as the critics said), but when he nails a movie he's in a class of his own. sounds like another try at the "to the wonder" magic

Was at the 6:30 showing. 40 minute IMAX cut w/out narration was good, but feel like post-Tree of Life, post-Planet Earth, post-Ron Fricke or whatever it's nice, but maybe less awe-inspiring than one would hope.

Really a treat getting to see Malick in the flesh though. Came out with a physicist and had a good 20-30 minute discussion and took a few questions from the crowd. When asked about working without a script he stressed that that was only a recent thing and his new film will be a return to the scripted. The tone seemed to be that he knew his latest few were not totally successful.

A group of people shuffled in right next to me and an older lady asked if the seats were saved. Realized after eavesdropping on their conversation that I was sitting next to his wife.

Interesting! Could you say a bit more about his tone and knowing the last films were unsuccessful?

I wonder why he did this after 30 years of not talking to anyone in public.

I would take that with a huge grain of salt. He just kinda chuckled and grinned wryly when he started talking about those films, so whatever that meant.

Wish I could give a more detailed rundown about the conversation, but there wasn't a lot that was soundbite-y. Talk of entropy, Bertrand Russell, string theory, multiverses. Malick said he saw time as being filled with "new beginnings" and seemed to espouse a less bleak view of the future.

Someone asked him about how he's changed as a person through the years (referencing how his films have evolved) and he said it was impossible to know, more or less. Said that his "early pictures" felt someone foreign to him now, like they were made several lifetimes ago.

I went to the 9:30 screening and the Q & A afterward was particularly science heavy, e.g. much talk of the expansion of the universe accelerating, now slowing down. One thing he talked about which I wasn't aware of was the creation of some of the "liquid" cosmic lighting effects in Tree of Life and Voyage of Time, some of which were done simply by dumping various dyes in a big tank of water (he referred to it as "skunkworks").

He also mentioned the narration in the previous cuts of VOT was added mainly as an "educational" prerequisite to secure IMAX funding, as a big part of their revenue comes from school-sponsored screenings.

(the 8:00 screening, I mean; there were two).

While briefly discussing the process of finishing and releasing his films, he compared it to a bowler watching the ball roll away while unconsciously trying to steer it the right way with body language.

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Is SONG TO SONG the first movie to have a pro/con dual village voice review since Hoberman and Sarris on DRESSED TO KILL?

http://www.villagevoice.com/film/song-to-song-malicks-latest-matches-formal-abandon-with-moral-resolve-9769321

http://www.villagevoice.com/film/song-to-song-is-chastely-childish-9769343

Song to Song is opening here this Friday, just found out it's 145 minutes, obligated to see it, luckily there's a revival of The Thin Red Line next week...

it's not actually that long, i saw that it was 145 minutes too but then when i went to see it, it was just a little over two hours

It's already out in Chicago. Who knew?

oh good. iirc Knight of Cups was just about 2 hours and that was plenty. the people i went with hated it so much they left 20 minutes before it was over

I liked song to song, not a masterpiece or anything but i kind of feel like all the knives out on this one have more to do with "lol indie rock" and "he's old and therefore must be 'out of touch'" than anything I saw on screen

I enjoyed Song to Song - much more compelling than Knight of Cups, and warmer. Spending 2 hours with Christian Bale was such a drag. At least Gosling, Mara, Fassbender, and Portman are fun and have a sense of humor about the whole thing (especially Gosling). I liked Mara a lot more as the lead. Musician cameos were cool. Definitely had a minor psychedelic effect on me, walking out of the theater a storm was brewing and I felt like I was walking in slow motion. But I'm glad he's moving onto more structured and scripted work after this.

Song to Song belongs on the Architectural Digest pile with KoC

also demonstrates TM's 'woman problem' depite Mara's best efforts

Patti Smith as annoying as ever

otm but imo patti smith was the best part of that boring, boring, boring movie

I am shocked at my own transition from "Malick is one of my favorite directors, too bad he will never make another movie again" to "wow, his new movies are among my favorites of all time, thank goodness he came back" to "huh, I have zero interest in seeing his last three films, I hope he goes away again."

https://pagesix.com/2018/10/31/terrence-malick-helping-make-lil-peep-documentary

The acclaimed filmmaker behind “Badlands” and the “Thin Red Line,” who is a friend of Peep’s mother, is executive producing a documentary about the late rapper’s life

This dope beat.
This sick beat.
Where did it come from?
What was the point of origin?
The hi-hat. The trembling bass.

lmfao

xxp Josh otmfm, although I will forever be glad he came back to give us THE NEW WORLD because damnnn

Badlands and Days of Heaven were so special and sui generis. Remarkably strange and haunting. They’re perfect. Diamonds.

The Thin Red Line, The New World, and The Tree of Life are imperfect and messy but have stretches of real transcendence. I think his highest highs are in these films.

I... talk myself into appreciating elements of the films after that. But really I think they diminish the magic of what came before.

late period malick is like season 25 simpsons

“to the wonder” is maybe my favorite film ever

A Hidden Life, about a Nazi conscientious objector, premiered at Cannes last night. Apparently it "will have a more structured narrative than his previous works", which can only be a good thing. Also, it was Bruno Ganz's final film.

what was the reception like?

idk I wasn't there

Fox Searchlight bought it

Terrence Malick’s ‘A Hidden Life’ Snapped Up By Fox Searchlight In 8-Figure Deal After Late Night Bidding War — Cannes https://t.co/xupu1cD4rz pic.twitter.com/DIzMMRCm5R

— Deadline Hollywood (@DEADLINE) May 20, 2019

they distributed Tree of Life, expect an Oscar campaign

it got panned in sight and sound. this piece of information is particularly bizarre:

Most peculiar is the use of languages. Whenever anyone shouts or has bad things to say it’s always in German, whereas the voiceovers and anything gentle or kind are in English. This problem is particularly pronounced in the trial scenes where the Nazi prosecutors scream in German while the more reasonable Judge Lueben (Bruno Ganz, who got a sigh of sad appreciation when he came on screen) speaks English to Jägerstätter. (To be clear: both are meant to represent Germans and Austrians speaking their native language.) Obviously, to Malick, good and evil speak different languages.

and then:

If anything A Hidden Life is more God-adoring than Malick’s run of films since Tree of Life. But I don’t sense any attempt to convince or convert. Malick is just vaunting an ordinary farmer from the wrong side of the war who’s been beatified by the Catholic church. It’s almost as if Jägerstätter’s then-unsung death holds more import than the millions being slaughtered in cities and at the front, not to mention the death camps. A Hidden Life is above the clouds in the worst possible way.

https://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/sight-sound-magazine/reviews-recommendations/hidden-life-terrence-malick-franz-jagerst%C3%A4tter-anschluss-story