come anticipate the masterpiece that will be terrence malick's TREE OF LIFE.

tbf, i have yet to see a blog post about this film that isn't dumb

kindof hard to write that many *smart* words about a movie that you havent seen i am looking at u zizek btw

wait zizek hasn't written about this has he?

lol no i just mean

or has he

hes prolly letting his students edit it right now

i'm editing it for my doctorate actually

tell zizek i think hes totally hot for me plz

Acquired by Fox Searchlight, 2011 release

May 27, 2011 is the release date.

going up against transformers 3, no doubt. the choice is yours, america.

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.

http://www.collider.com/wp-content/uploads/The-Tree-Of-Life-movie-poster-Terrence-Malick-434x600.jpg

looks like a poster for a planetarium show or a christian dvd

title sounds like one as well

u sound like one

looks like a poster for a planetarium show or a christian dvd

isn't that basically the premise?

aren't U basically the premise

sorry

you're sorry

we're trying to have a serious thread here about this imaginary film made by a green day fan. you need to be cool.

haah

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.”

cool thanks

Also, he beefs with Andrzej Wajda.

doug trumbull is crackers these days too apparently, so this has that too.

there's no dinosaurs on that poster wtf

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.

that vf article was great btw

http://incontention.com/2010/12/01/tree-of-life-trailer-attached-to-black-swan/

Didn't see this linked here, but this blog is full of interesting deets.

this article is hilarious http://www.slate.com/id/2269262/

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.

From that Slate article:
Malick edited by watching one reel at a time, with the sound off, while listening to a Green Day CD.

yeah, that is incredible.

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.

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.

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

wow, so beautiful

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fi8o329-CwY

yep.

whoa

ugh does this mean I have to go see Black Swan

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?

ya very wide-angley

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.)

Emmanuel Lubezki > any director currently working

i'm just gonna go on pretending like grant hill the basketball player is the grant hill listed as a producer

had no fear of being disappointed but that looks beautiful

from the cinematographer of meet joe black and the cat in the hat

Damn straight. He's on some next level shit.

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

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'.

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

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

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

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

grrr

Thank u for recreating the experience of watching bootleg Tree of Life

Lol

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.