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

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.

i think he filled the cat in the hat w/ a deep sense of transience

lol

y tu mama tambien + children of men = ALL-TIMER

y tu gato tambien

stoked to see this in a double feature w/true grit

that slate article is bananas

2001: A Space Odyssey...a warmer, pagan 2001: A Space Odyssey?

― Davek (davek_00), Saturday, 4 December 2010 23:36 (Yesterday)

not really

if i didn't trust malick i'd assume this was more ~soulful hwood bro~ shit

sean penn is vile

what is "~soulful hwood bro~ shit"

princess tuomtuom

the assassination of jesse james
babel

brad pitt is #1 SHB

the curious case, obv

nb i don't h8 all these films (tho i h8 that one).....but there is some similarity...recurring tropes may include a sort of pantheistic awe, portent, voiceover, humourlessness, aching string music

dont tuomas me for not knowing what your weird madeup shorthand means

This is actually finished and just about to go into theatres, right? Because Terrence Malick, like Kubrick before him, wasn't exactly made for anticipation threads. (7 months pass...1 year passes...3 months pass...6 months pass...5 years pass...)

i like malick a lot and obv this is going to be far better than any of them

i'm just kinda cynical about it appearing to resemble those vanity projects, they don't seem to make a lot of cash but i dunno how else they market 'tree of life'

shot of trees in trailer straight out of the coda of 'the new world', which might be the best few minutes malick has shot

i like malick a lot and obv this is going to be far better than any of them

jesse james was better than the new world, hth

hollywood bro terry malick.

'jesse james' was really quite good until the final minutes

this looks a good laugh.

i'm just kinda cynical about it appearing to resemble those vanity projects, they don't seem to make a lot of cash but i dunno how else they market 'tree of life'

Can't see how it will make money in the States, and I'm kind of amazed that Malick continues to get funding for his movies.

But come on, this is nothing like Jesse James or Babel. I mean have you read about some of the shit they shot for this? The "beginning of the universe" footage? It's a Malick movie, not an awards season circle jerk.

jesse james was better than the new world, hth

― Princess TamTam, Sunday, December 5, 2010 1:53 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark

well... maybe if you cut out the final 15 minutes. But the final 15 minutes of TNW>>>>>Jesse James.

'appearing to resemble'

trailer just seems too meek....obv there is the chance this will sink at the box office and they want to be cautious, but maybe they'd be better selling it as an event movie, 'enter the void' for the npr set rather than some generic mystical nonsense

I imagine Malick's funding situation is somewhat similar to Woody Allen's--there are enough investors out there who are just happy to be associated with a project of his, even if they know there's no real chance at making money. His films are obviously more involved than the ones Allen churns out, but there may be (just guessing) a comparable situation where you end up breaking even after secondary markets. (Note to self: make that the last time you ever type the words "secondary markets.")

don't allen's films do alright, generally? combination of relatively low budgets and 'long tail', still a lot of residual love for him in france etc

maybe it IS generic mystical nonsense and they're just advertising it honestly

well... maybe if you cut out the final 15 minutes. But the final 15 minutes of TNW>>>>>Jesse James.

― Matt Armstrong, Sunday, December 5, 2010 9:02 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

maybe, but i'd argue TNW doesn't have much going on for it outside of those final 15 mins