I wonder if Malick is stalling the inevitable: getting reviewed.
― the disappearance of apollo creed (s1ocki), Friday, 20 August 2010 14:43 (thirteen years ago) link
that whole aspect kills me. because Malick is normally so quick and forthcoming with his work.
― a cankle of rads (Gukbe), Friday, 20 August 2010 14:50 (thirteen years ago) link
and so publicly engaged with his critics
― the disappearance of apollo creed (s1ocki), Friday, 20 August 2010 14:54 (thirteen years ago) link
Back at the University of Texas at Austin, he lets film students take a crack at editing various scenes.
if this is true, it's kinda amazing. it's funny how someone's media persona (or lack thereof) can create such false impressions. can't seen stanley kubrick allowing this sorta thing!
― ryan, Friday, 20 August 2010 14:57 (thirteen years ago) link
based on all the breathless descriptions, im looking forward to some sort of general "WTF" response to this movie.
― ryan, Friday, 20 August 2010 14:59 (thirteen years ago) link
tbf, i have yet to see a blog post about this film that isn't dumb
― caek, Friday, 20 August 2010 15:07 (thirteen years ago) link
kindof hard to write that many *smart* words about a movie that you havent seen i am looking at u zizek btw
― plax (ico), Friday, 20 August 2010 15:08 (thirteen years ago) link
wait zizek hasn't written about this has he?
― a cankle of rads (Gukbe), Friday, 20 August 2010 15:17 (thirteen years ago) link
lol no i just mean
― plax (ico), Friday, 20 August 2010 15:19 (thirteen years ago) link
or has he
― just sayin, Friday, 20 August 2010 15:27 (thirteen years ago) link
hes prolly letting his students edit it right now
― plax (ico), Friday, 20 August 2010 15:31 (thirteen years ago) link
i'm editing it for my doctorate actually
― caek, Friday, 20 August 2010 15:36 (thirteen years ago) link
tell zizek i think hes totally hot for me plz
― plax (ico), Friday, 20 August 2010 15:37 (thirteen years ago) link
Acquired by Fox Searchlight, 2011 release
― a cankle of rads (Gukbe), Thursday, 9 September 2010 21:57 (thirteen years ago) link
May 27, 2011 is the release date.
― No Good, Scrunty-Looking, Narf Herder (Gukbe), Friday, 22 October 2010 18:13 (thirteen years ago) link
going up against transformers 3, no doubt. the choice is yours, america.
― tylerw, Friday, 22 October 2010 18:14 (thirteen years ago) link
seems way to far away but great news. i remember hearing that a lot of shooting was done around central texas in April/May which is an extremely gorgeous time of year here with the wildflowers.
― ryan, Friday, 22 October 2010 18:52 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.collider.com/wp-content/uploads/The-Tree-Of-Life-movie-poster-Terrence-Malick-434x600.jpg
― No Good, Scrunty-Looking, Narf Herder (Gukbe), Wednesday, 3 November 2010 20:35 (thirteen years ago) link
looks like a poster for a planetarium show or a christian dvd
― candid gamera (s1ocki), Wednesday, 3 November 2010 20:37 (thirteen years ago) link
title sounds like one as well
― No Good, Scrunty-Looking, Narf Herder (Gukbe), Wednesday, 3 November 2010 20:38 (thirteen years ago) link
u sound like one
― candid gamera (s1ocki), Wednesday, 3 November 2010 20:39 (thirteen years ago) link
isn't that basically the premise?
― caek, Wednesday, 3 November 2010 20:40 (thirteen years ago) link
aren't U basically the premise
― candid gamera (s1ocki), Wednesday, 3 November 2010 20:40 (thirteen years ago) link
sorry
you're sorry
― caek, Wednesday, 3 November 2010 20:42 (thirteen years ago) link
we're trying to have a serious thread here about this imaginary film made by a green day fan. you need to be cool.
― caek, Wednesday, 3 November 2010 20:43 (thirteen years ago) link
haah
― candid gamera (s1ocki), Wednesday, 3 November 2010 20:43 (thirteen years ago) link
Good time to repost this piece on Malick from '99?
http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/classic/features/runaway-genius-199812
He sounds crazier than I even imagined, but there's some interesting stuff in there on the genesis of what I assume is now The Tree of Life:
Exhausted and bruised by Days of Heaven,Malick spent considerable time with his girlfriend, Michie Gleason, in Paris. While she directed a film called Broken English, he labored in their Rue Jacob apartment on his new script, tentatively entitled Q. Its prologue, which dramatized the origins of life, became increasingly elaborate and would ultimately take over the rest of the story.Malick shuttled between Paris and Los Angeles, where he hired a small crew, including cameraman Ryan and special-effects consultant Richard Taylor, who worked intensely for a year or so to realize Malick’s vision. “He wanted to do something different, get images nobody had ever seen before,” recalls Ryan. In one version, the story began with a sleeping god, underwater, dreaming of the origins of the universe, starting with the big bang and moving forward, as fluorescent fish swam into the deity’s nostrils and out again.“Terry was one of the coolest guys I ever worked with,” says Taylor. “He had a passion for trying to do things from the heart. The amount of work we produced was phenomenal.” Malick dispatched cameramen all over the world—to the Great Barrier Reef to shoot micro jellyfish, to Mount Etna to shoot volcanic action, to Antarctica to shoot ice shelves breaking off. “He was writing pages of poetry, with no dialogue, glorious visual descriptions,” Ryan continues. “Every few months, Paramount would say, ‘What are you doing?’ He’d give them 30 pages that would keep them happy for a while. But eventually they said, ‘Send us a script that starts with page one and at the end says, “The End.” We don’t care what it is, but do something.’ Terry’s somebody who always functioned very well from the underground position. Suddenly, everybody was looking at him.… He did not work well under those conditions. He didn’t want to be on the spot.”Taylor adds: “Then one Monday, Terry never showed up. He didn’t call anybody, we couldn’t find him—we got worried that maybe something had happened to him. Finally, after about two weeks, we got a phone call. He was in Paris, and he said, ‘I’m not sure if I’m going to make this picture. Maybe you should just pack all that stuff up.’ He just stopped. It was disappointing. I had never put my heart into a project as much as I did that one.”
Malick shuttled between Paris and Los Angeles, where he hired a small crew, including cameraman Ryan and special-effects consultant Richard Taylor, who worked intensely for a year or so to realize Malick’s vision. “He wanted to do something different, get images nobody had ever seen before,” recalls Ryan. In one version, the story began with a sleeping god, underwater, dreaming of the origins of the universe, starting with the big bang and moving forward, as fluorescent fish swam into the deity’s nostrils and out again.
“Terry was one of the coolest guys I ever worked with,” says Taylor. “He had a passion for trying to do things from the heart. The amount of work we produced was phenomenal.” Malick dispatched cameramen all over the world—to the Great Barrier Reef to shoot micro jellyfish, to Mount Etna to shoot volcanic action, to Antarctica to shoot ice shelves breaking off. “He was writing pages of poetry, with no dialogue, glorious visual descriptions,” Ryan continues. “Every few months, Paramount would say, ‘What are you doing?’ He’d give them 30 pages that would keep them happy for a while. But eventually they said, ‘Send us a script that starts with page one and at the end says, “The End.” We don’t care what it is, but do something.’ Terry’s somebody who always functioned very well from the underground position. Suddenly, everybody was looking at him.… He did not work well under those conditions. He didn’t want to be on the spot.”
Taylor adds: “Then one Monday, Terry never showed up. He didn’t call anybody, we couldn’t find him—we got worried that maybe something had happened to him. Finally, after about two weeks, we got a phone call. He was in Paris, and he said, ‘I’m not sure if I’m going to make this picture. Maybe you should just pack all that stuff up.’ He just stopped. It was disappointing. I had never put my heart into a project as much as I did that one.”
― Princess TamTam, Wednesday, 3 November 2010 20:53 (thirteen years ago) link
cool thanks
― caek, Wednesday, 3 November 2010 21:01 (thirteen years ago) link
Also, he beefs with Andrzej Wajda.
― Princess TamTam, Wednesday, 3 November 2010 21:04 (thirteen years ago) link
doug trumbull is crackers these days too apparently, so this has that too.
― caek, Wednesday, 3 November 2010 21:09 (thirteen years ago) link
there's no dinosaurs on that poster wtf
― ryan, Thursday, 4 November 2010 18:13 (thirteen years ago) link
not sure if anyone has seen this or not: http://osagenews.org/2010/10/untitled-film-starring-ben-affleck-shot-in-downtown-pawhuska/
lots of pictures of him in mid-directing! and he's wearing those shirts everyone says he wears.
― ryan, Thursday, 4 November 2010 18:18 (thirteen years ago) link
that vf article was great btw
― caek, Thursday, 4 November 2010 18:20 (thirteen years ago) link
http://incontention.com/2010/12/01/tree-of-life-trailer-attached-to-black-swan/
― caek, Thursday, 2 December 2010 10:48 (thirteen years ago) link
Didn't see this linked here, but this blog is full of interesting deets.
― Just More Jammy (Eazy), Thursday, 2 December 2010 20:57 (thirteen years ago) link
this article is hilarious http://www.slate.com/id/2269262/
― tylerw, Thursday, 2 December 2010 21:09 (thirteen years ago) link
From that blog:Actor Will Wallace told me this:
Terry has a very unique style of directing. It was Martin Sheen who first told me (before I was leaving for Australia to shoot TTRL) to just trust in Terry and his direction even though you may wonder what he is trying to get out of you. Martin says that to this day, he is most proud of his work in Badlands, and he told me that he attributes that to the direction he got from Terry. You may ask for an example of such: A line might be as simple as "Where is everyone in Charlie Company?"...Terry may ask that you say it again as if you are staring at a strange canoe. Upon trying to visualize a strange canoe, the actor says the line again. Terry then says "no...that wasn't it....say it again, but this time say it as if you are staring at a strange totem pole". Upon commencing the lines, your eyes might tend to veer upwards in applying this direction, in which case Terry might shout "BUT DON"T LOOK UP!" This actually happened to Adrian Brody.
― Just More Jammy (Eazy), Thursday, 2 December 2010 21:17 (thirteen years ago) link
From that Slate article:Malick edited by watching one reel at a time, with the sound off, while listening to a Green Day CD.
― Just More Jammy (Eazy), Thursday, 2 December 2010 21:22 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah, that is incredible.
― tylerw, Thursday, 2 December 2010 21:23 (thirteen years ago) link
someone should make a video of "time of your life" set to images from malick's films. i wouldn't watch it, but it should probably exist.
― tylerw, Thursday, 2 December 2010 21:25 (thirteen years ago) link
Looks good from the trailer before Black Swan. Main thing that stands out is that the trailer has a good amount of handheld-camera shots.
― A Toast to the Horshacks/Dvořáks (Eazy), Saturday, 4 December 2010 16:10 (thirteen years ago) link
Malick doesn't exhibit much interest in shooting action sequences, even when directing a war film (he joked about hiring Die Hard 2 auteur Renny Harlin to handle the combat scenes).
i wish this happened
― Princess TamTam, Saturday, 4 December 2010 16:22 (thirteen years ago) link
wow, so beautiful
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fi8o329-CwY
― Here we are in a sticky situation/ (Tape Store), Saturday, 4 December 2010 22:28 (thirteen years ago) link
yep.
― A happenstance discovery of asynchronous lesbians (Capitaine Jay Vee), Saturday, 4 December 2010 23:14 (thirteen years ago) link
whoa
― iatee, Saturday, 4 December 2010 23:22 (thirteen years ago) link
ugh does this mean I have to go see Black Swan
― Matt Armstrong, Saturday, 4 December 2010 23:32 (thirteen years ago) link
This is like one of those pay-the-entire-admission-just-for-a-trailer dealies. But my, doesn't it look stunning? The first thing that came to mind was 2001: A Space Odyssey...a warmer, pagan 2001: A Space Odyssey?
― Davek (davek_00), Saturday, 4 December 2010 23:36 (thirteen years ago) link
ya very wide-angley
― shirley summistake (s1ocki), Sunday, 5 December 2010 03:22 (thirteen years ago) link
Hmm...if I hadn't known it was Malick I don't know if it would have won me over based on the subject matter as shown. (Though yeah, looks good.)
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 5 December 2010 03:34 (thirteen years ago) link
OTM.
Tho I think the aesthetic experience is the primary driver, so if someone's not responding to that, I'm not even going to try to convince them otherwise.
― Eric H., Tuesday, 13 January 2015 17:50 (nine years ago) link
Well, I did respond to it, but by feeling nauseous, I doubt that was what the movie was supposed to do...
the next thing you know everyone is dead, including you, and even as you juggle a jumble of memories, loves, experiences, mistakes and regrets, you're not one step closer to understanding the way the universe works or why.
Yeah, like I said, I was fine this when the movie was depicting memories, of childhood thoughts and images and experiences meshing with each other... But what I didn't get why the same technique was used with the cosmic/spiritual stuff. Like, in the beach scene in the end of the movie Malick keeps cutting within the same "Heaven" (or whatever it's supposed to be) imagery, he doesn't juxtapose it with memories or stuff from other parts of the movie, it's just jump-cuts within the same scene on the beach, and I seriously don't get what was the point of there. From what was actually happening in the scene, it felt like we were supposed to witness the state of grace mentioned earlier in the movie, of sins forgiven (hence the mother being all cuddly with the father again) and losses regained... But the way it was presented felt stressful and chaotic, closer to music video than anything solemn. And if that was intentional, I just don't get what the intention was.
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 13 January 2015 18:07 (nine years ago) link
The new Blu-ray/DVD release features two versions of the picture — the 139-minute, Oscar-nominated 2011 theatrical cut and a new, 188-minute extended edition. This longer edit, however, is not a “director’s cut,” although Malick himself prepared it.
― Pesto Mindset (Eazy), Tuesday, 11 September 2018 21:59 (five years ago) link
http://www.vulture.com/2018/09/will-terrence-malick-ever-really-finish-the-tree-of-life.html
Same as it ever was. https://t.co/V4PiwEryqb— Michael Oman-Reagan (@OmanReagan) October 30, 2019
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 30 October 2019 13:37 (four years ago) link
Er, not sure what happened
Shout out to my friend who once tried to torrent Malick’s The Tree of Life, downloaded 3h 8m of the trailer on a loop, and watched that for thirty minutes thinking it was “experimental” before he caught on. I have thought about this approximately twice a week for ten years 🙏— Megan (@mmegannnolan) October 30, 2019
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 30 October 2019 13:39 (four years ago) link
I suppose you're also going to shatter my illusions by claiming that the film isn't actually scored to an extended mix of 'Yackety Sax'.
― Feed Me Wheat Thins (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 30 October 2019 13:57 (four years ago) link
prayers up for this poor bastard mentioned in the comments
another s/o to @SomeNiceFun who inadvertently watched it thinking it would be a calming film to take the buzz off an acid trip, and who was also - unbeknownst to him - was simultaneously coming down with norovirus— Stan The Golden Boy (@tristandross) October 30, 2019
― non-euclidean lenin (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 30 October 2019 14:00 (four years ago) link
grrr
Thank u for recreating the experience of watching bootleg Tree of Life
― Feed Me Wheat Thins (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 30 October 2019 14:08 (four years ago) link
Lol
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 30 October 2019 14:08 (four years ago) link
I had totally forgotten Jack shouting at his father "SHE ONLY LOVES ME!"
Extended version throws in too much that truly is too much/not enough (Ben Chaplin as abusive dad in the neighborhood). Also Chastain's mother (Fiona Shaw) explicitly diagnosing Pitt's resentments, which we can see for ourselves.
Alex Ross's Criterion supplement on the musical selections is excellent.
― brooklyn suicide cult (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 16 February 2020 15:52 (four years ago) link