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Terrence Malick

Terrence Frederick Malick (/ˈmælɪk/; born November 30, 1943) is an American filmmaker.[1] His films include Badlands (1973), Days of Heaven (1978), The Thin Red Line (1998), for which he received Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay Academy Award nominations, The New World (2005), and The Tree of Life (2011), which garnered him another Best Director Oscar nomination and the Palme d'Or at the 64th Cannes Film Festival.

Terrence Malick
Malick in 1993
Born
Terrence Frederick Malick

(1943-11-30) November 30, 1943 (age 80)
EducationHarvard University (BA)
Magdalen College, Oxford
AFI Conservatory (MFA)
Occupations
  • Film director
  • screenwriter
  • producer
Years active1969–present
Spouses
Jill Jakes
(m. 1970; div. 1976)
Michèle Morette
(m. 1985; div. 1998)
Alexandra Wallace
(m. 1998)
AwardsFull list

Malick began his career as part of the New Hollywood generation of filmmakers with Badlands (1973), about a murderous couple on the run in 1950s American Midwest, and Days of Heaven (1978),[2] which detailed a love triangle between two laborers and a wealthy farmer during the First World War, before a lengthy hiatus.

Malick's films have explored themes such as transcendence, nature, and conflicts between reason and instinct. They are typically marked by broad philosophical and spiritual overtones, as well as the use of meditative voice-overs from individual characters. Stylistic elements of his work have polarized film scholars and audiences; while many praise his films for their lavish cinematography and aesthetics, others fault them for lacking in plot and character development. His work has nonetheless ranked highly in retrospective decade-end and all-time polls.

Early life and education edit

 
Martin Heidegger's Vom Wesen des Grundes (The Essence of Reasons) was translated into English by Malick and published in 1969.

Malick was born in Ottawa, Illinois.[3][4] He is the son of Irene (née Thompson; 1912–2011)[5] and Emil A. Malick (1917–2013),[6] a geologist.[7] His paternal grandparents were of Lebanese and Assyrian descent from Urmia,[7][8][9][10] while his mother was an Irish Catholic.[11] Malick attended St. Stephen's Episcopal School in Austin, Texas, while his family lived in Bartlesville, Oklahoma.[12]

Malick had two younger brothers: Chris and Larry. Larry Malick was a guitarist who went to study in Spain with Andrés Segovia in the late 1960s. In 1968, Larry intentionally broke his own hands due to pressure over his musical studies.[13] Their father Emil went to Spain to help Larry, but his son died shortly after, possibly by suicide.[14] The early death of Malick's younger brother has been explored and referenced in his films The Tree of Life (2011) and Knight of Cups (2015).[15][16]

Malick graduated from Harvard College in 1965 with a Bachelor of Arts, summa cum laude, and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He received a Rhodes Scholarship, which he used to study philosophy at Oxford University's Magdalen College. After a disagreement with his advisor, Gilbert Ryle, over Malick's thesis on the concept of world in Kierkegaard, Heidegger, and Wittgenstein, Malick left Oxford without a degree.[17] In 1969, Northwestern University Press published Malick's translation of Heidegger's Vom Wesen des Grundes as The Essence of Reasons.

After returning to the United States, Malick taught philosophy at Massachusetts Institute of Technology while freelancing as a journalist. He wrote articles for Newsweek, The New Yorker, and Life.[18]

Film career edit

Early career edit

Malick started his film career after earning an MFA from the brand-new AFI Conservatory in 1969, directing the short film Lanton Mills. At the AFI, he established contacts with people such as actor Jack Nicholson, longtime collaborator Jack Fisk, and agent Mike Medavoy, who procured for Malick freelance work revising scripts. He wrote early uncredited drafts of Dirty Harry (1971) and Drive, He Said (1971), and is credited with the screenplay for Pocket Money (1972).[19] Malick was also co-writer of The Gravy Train (1974), under the pseudonym David Whitney. After one of his screenplays, Deadhead Miles, was made into what Paramount Pictures believed was an unreleasable film, Malick decided to direct his own scripts.

1970s edit

Badlands edit

Malick's first feature-length work as a director was Badlands, an independent film starring Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek as a young couple on a crime spree in the 1950s Midwest. It was influenced by the crimes of convicted teenage spree killer Charles Starkweather.[20] Malick raised half of the budget by approaching people outside of the industry, including doctors and dentists, and by contributing $25,000 from his personal savings. The rest was raised by executive producer Edward R. Pressman.[21][22] After a troubled production that included many crew members leaving halfway through the shoot, Badlands drew raves upon its premiere at the New York Film Festival. As a result, Warner Bros. bought distribution rights for three times its budget.[23]

Days of Heaven edit

 
Malick during production of the 1978 film Days of Heaven

Malick's second film was the Paramount-produced Days of Heaven, about a love triangle that develops in the farm country of the Texas Panhandle in the early 20th century. Production began in the fall of 1976 in Alberta, Canada. The film was mostly shot during the golden hour, with primarily natural light. Much like Malick's first feature, Days of Heaven had a lengthy and troubled production, with several members of the production crew quitting before shooting was finished, mainly due to disagreements over Malick's idiosyncratic directorial style.[24] The film likewise had a troubled post-production phase, as Billy Weber and Malick spent two years editing, during which they experimented with unconventional editing and voice-over techniques once they realized the picture they had set out to make would not fully work.[25]

Days of Heaven was finally released in 1978 to mostly positive responses from critics.[26][27] Its cinematography was widely praised, although some found its story lackluster.[28][29] In The New York Times, Harold C. Schonberg wrote that it "is full of elegant and striking photography; and it is an intolerably artsy, artificial film."[30] However, it later won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography and the prize for Best Director at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival. Days of Heaven has since grown in stature,[31] having been voted one of the 50 greatest American films ever made in a 2015 critics' poll published by BBC.[32]

Hiatus edit

Following the release of Days of Heaven, Malick began developing a project for Paramount, titled Q, that explored the origins of life on earth. During pre-production, he suddenly moved to Paris and disappeared from public view for years.[33] During this time, he wrote a number of screenplays, including The English Speaker, about Josef Breuer's analysis of Anna O.; adaptations of Walker Percy's novel The Moviegoer and Larry McMurtry's The Desert Rose;[33] a script about Jerry Lee Lewis; and a stage adaptation of the Japanese film Sansho the Bailiff which was to be directed by Polish filmmaker Andrzej Wajda, in addition to continuing work on the Q script.[34] Although Q has never been made, Malick's work for the project provided material for his later film The Tree of Life[35] and eventually became the basis for Voyage of Time. Jack Fisk, a longtime production designer on the director's films, said that Malick was shooting film during this time as well.[36]

Return to cinema edit

The Thin Red Line edit

Malick returned to directing in 1997 with The Thin Red Line, a work released two decades after his previous film. A loose adaptation of James Jones' World War II novel of the same name, it features a large ensemble cast including Sean Penn, Adrien Brody, Jim Caviezel, Nick Nolte, Ben Chaplin, Elias Koteas, Woody Harrelson, George Clooney and John Travolta. Filming took place predominantly in the Daintree Rainforest in Queensland, Australia and in the Solomon Islands.[37]

The film received critical acclaim,[38][39] was nominated for seven Academy Awards, and won the Golden Bear at the 49th Berlin International Film Festival.[40] The Thin Red Line has since been ranked among the best films of the 1990s in Complex,[41] The A.V. Club,[42] Slant,[43] Paste,[44] and Film Comment.[45]

The New World edit

After learning of Malick's work on an article about Che Guevara during the 1960s, Steven Soderbergh offered Malick the chance to write and direct a film about Guevara that he had been developing with Benicio del Toro. Malick accepted and produced a screenplay focused on Guevara's failed revolution in Bolivia.[46] After a year and a half, the financing had not come together entirely, and Malick was given the opportunity to direct The New World,[47] a script he had begun developing in the 1970s.[48] He left the Guevara project in March 2004,[47] and Soderbergh took over as director, leading to the film Che (2008). The New World, based on the story of John Smith and Pocahontas in the Virginia Colony, was released in 2005. Over one million feet of film were shot, and three different cuts of varying lengths were released.

While the film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Cinematography, critical reception was divided throughout its theatrical run; many praised its visuals and acting while finding its narrative unfocused.[49] However, The New World was later named by five critics as one of the best films of its decade,[50] and appeared in 39th place on a 2016 BBC poll of the greatest films since 2000.[51]

2010s edit

 
Malick at the Cannes Film Festival premiere of The Tree of Life

The Tree of Life edit

Malick's fifth feature, The Tree of Life, was filmed in Smithville, Texas, and elsewhere during 2008. Starring Brad Pitt, Jessica Chastain, and Sean Penn, it is a family drama spanning multiple time periods; it focuses on an individual's struggle to reconcile love, mercy and beauty with the existence of illness, suffering and death. It premiered at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival,[52] where it won the Palme d'Or. It later won the FIPRESCI Award for the Best Film of the Year. At the 84th Academy Awards, it was nominated for three awards, including the Academy Award for Best Picture,[53] Best Director for Malick, and Best Cinematography for Emmanuel Lubezki.[54] A limited theatrical release in the United States began on May 27, 2011.[55]

Malick scholars Christopher B. Barnett and Clark J. Elliston wrote that it became "arguably [Malick's] most acclaimed work".[56] It was voted the 79th greatest American film of all time in a 2015 BBC Culture poll of 62 international film critics.[57] The work was also ranked the seventh-greatest film since 2000 in a worldwide critics' poll by BBC.[51]

To the Wonder edit

Malick's sixth feature, To the Wonder,[58] was shot predominantly in Bartlesville, Oklahoma; a few scenes were filmed in Pawhuska, Oklahoma and at the Tulsa Port of Catoosa.[59] The film stars Ben Affleck, Rachel McAdams, Olga Kurylenko, and Javier Bardem.[60]

To the Wonder had its world premiere at the 69th Venice International Film Festival on September 2, 2012, and opened theatrically in the United States on April 12, 2013. Critical response to the film was markedly divided, and the work has been described as "arguably [Malick's] most derided".[56]

Knight of Cups and Song to Song edit

On November 1, 2011, Filmnation Entertainment announced international sales for Malick's next two projects: Lawless (now titled Song to Song) and Knight of Cups. Both films feature large ensemble casts, with many of the actors crossing over into both films. The films were shot back-to-back in 2012, with Song to Song primarily shot in Austin, Texas, and Knight of Cups in Los Angeles and Las Vegas.[61]

During the weekend of September 16, 2011, Malick and a small crew were seen filming Christian Bale and Haley Bennett at the Austin City Limits Music Festival as part of preliminary shooting for Song to Song.[62] Malick was also seen directing Ryan Gosling and Rooney Mara at the Fun Fun Fun Fest on November 4, 2011.[62][63]

Knight of Cups had its world premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival in February 2015, and was met with mixed reactions.[64][65][66] It was released in the United States on March 4, 2016, by Broad Green Pictures.[67]

Song to Song had its world premiere at South by Southwest on March 10, 2017, before being released theatrically in the United States on March 17, 2017, by Broad Green Pictures, and has been met with mixed reactions.[68][69]

Voyage of Time edit

Concurrent with these two features, Malick continued work on an IMAX documentary that examines the birth and death of the known universe, titled Voyage of Time. The Hollywood Reporter described it as "a celebration of the Earth, displaying the whole of time, from the birth of the universe to its final collapse." The film is the culmination of a project that Malick has been working on for over forty years, and has been described by Malick himself as "one of my greatest dreams".[70] The film features footage shot by Malick and collaborators over the years, and expands on the footage that special effects luminaries Douglas Trumbull (2001) and Dan Glass (The Matrix) created for The Tree of Life.

The film was released in two versions: a 40-minute IMAX version (Voyage of Time: The IMAX Experience) with narration by Brad Pitt, and a 90-minute feature-length version (Voyage of Time: Life's Journey) with narration by Cate Blanchett.[71] The feature-length version had its world premiere on September 7, 2016 at the 73rd Venice International Film Festival.[72] The IMAX version of the film was released in IMAX on October 7, 2016, by IMAX Corporation and Broad Green Pictures.[73]

A Hidden Life edit

Malick's next film, A Hidden Life, depicted the life of Austria's Franz Jägerstätter, a conscientious objector during World War II who was put to death at the age of 36 for undermining military actions, and was later declared a martyr and beatified by the Catholic Church. Starring in the film as Jägerstätter is August Diehl, with Valerie Pachner as his wife Franziska Jägerstätter. [74]

The film was shot in Studio Babelsberg in Potsdam, Germany, in the summer of 2016, and in parts of northern Italy, such as Brixen, South Tyrol, and the small mountain village of Sappada.[74][75]

A Hidden Life was released in 2019. Speaking about the film in a Q&A in Princeton, New Jersey, Malick said that, compared with his more recent films, with A Hidden Life he had "repented and gone back to working with a much tighter script."[76]

Notes of a Woman edit

In August[77] and/or September 2016, Malick directed a commercial, titled "Notes of a Woman" and released on February 26, 2017,[78] for the Mon Guerlain perfume.[79] Starring Angelina Jolie, it was shot at her and Brad Pitt's Château Miraval estate in Correns[80][81] and photographed by Austrian cinematographer Christian Berger.[82]

2020s edit

The Way of the Wind edit

On June 7, 2019, Malick reportedly started shooting his next film, code-named The Last Planet, near Rome, Italy.[83] The film will tell the story of Jesus' life through a series of parables. On September 8, the cast was revealed to include Géza Röhrig as Jesus, Matthias Schoenaerts as Saint Peter, and Mark Rylance as four versions of Satan.[84] On November 20, 2020 it was announced that the film's name would be The Way of the Wind.[85]

Themes and style edit

Malick's films have been noted by critics for their philosophical themes.[86] According to film scholar Lloyd Michaels, the director's primary themes include "the isolated individual's desire for transcendence amidst established social institutions, the grandeur and untouched beauty of nature, the competing claims of instinct and reason, and the lure of the open road".[86] He named Days of Heaven as one in a group of acclaimed films from the 1970s that were intended to revolutionize the American film epic. Like The Godfather films (1972, 1974), Nashville (1975), and The Deer Hunter (1978), Michaels argued that the movie delves into "certain national myths" as an idiosyncratic type of Western, "particularly the migration westward, the dream of personal success, and the clash of agrarian and industrial economies".[87] Roger Ebert considered Malick's body of work to have a unifying common theme: "Human lives diminish beneath the overarching majesty of the world."[88] In Ebert's opinion, Malick is among the few remaining directors who yearn "to make no less than a masterpiece".[89] While reviewing The Tree of Life, New York Times critic A. O. Scott compared the director to innovative "homegrown romantics" such as the writers Walt Whitman, Hart Crane, James Agee, and Herman Melville, in the sense that their "definitive writings" also "did not sit comfortably or find universal favor in their own time" but nonetheless "leaned perpetually into the future, pushing their readers forward toward a new horizon of understanding".[90]

Malick's body of work has inspired polarized opinions. According to Michaels, "few American directors have inspired such adulation and rejection with each successive film" as Malick. Michaels said that in all of American cinema, Malick is the filmmaker most frequently "granted genius status after creating such a discontinuous and limited body of work".[87] Malick makes use of broad philosophical and spiritual overtones, such as in the form of meditative voice-overs from individual characters. Some critics felt these elements made the films engaging and unique while others found them pretentious and gratuitous, particularly in his post-hiatus work.[91] Michaels believed the opinions Days of Heaven continues to elicit among scholars and film enthusiasts is exemplary of this: "The debate continues to revolve around what to make of 'its extremeties of beauty', whether the exquisite lighting, painterly compositions, dreamy dissolves, and fluid camera movements, combined with the epic grandeur and elegiac tone, sufficiently compensate for the thinness of the tale, the two-dimensionality of the characters, and the resulting emotional detachment of the audience."[87] Reverse Shot journalist Chris Wisniewski regarded both Days of Heaven and The New World not as "literary nor theatrical" but "principally cinematic" in their aesthetic, intimating narrative, emotional, and conceptual themes through the use of "image and sound" instead of "foregrounding dialogue, events or characters". He highlighted Malick's use of "rambling philosophical voiceovers; the placid images of nature, offering quiet contrast to the evil deeds of men; the stunning cinematography, often achieved with natural light; the striking use of music".[92]

While the perception of Malick as a recluse is inaccurate,[93][94][95] he is nevertheless famously protective of his private life.[96] His contracts stipulate that his likeness may not be used for promotional purposes, and he routinely declines requests for interviews.[33][97]

From 1970 to 1976, Malick was married to Jill Jakes.[98] His companion afterward in the late 1970s was director and screenwriter Michie Gleason.[98] In 1985 in France, he married[98] Michèle Marie Morette,[99][100] whom he met in Paris in 1980; in 1996, Malick asked for a divorce, which was granted.[98][100] Afterward he married Alexandra "Ecky" Wallace, his high-school sweetheart.[101]

Malick's semi-autobiographic film To the Wonder was inspired by his relationships with Morette and Wallace.[15][102]

As of at least 2011, Malick lives in Austin, Texas.[103]

Filmography edit

Awards and nominations edit

Malick has received three Academy Award nominations;[104][105] two for Best Director, for The Thin Red Line[106] and The Tree of Life,[107] and a nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay for the former film.[108] He was awarded the Golden Bear at the 49th Berlin International Film Festival for The Thin Red Line, and the Palme d'Or at the 64th Cannes Film Festival for The Tree of Life.[109]

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Further reading edit

External links edit

  • Terrence Malick at AllMovie
  • Terrence Malick at IMDb
  • The Films of Terrence Malick on YouTube, movie clip compilation, 3 min.
  • McElhaney, Joe; Bergala, Alain; Losilla, Carlos; Ferrari, Jean-Cristophe; Cappabianca, Alessandro & others, D'Angela, Toni (ed.), , La furia umana (n°10 texts: English, Spanish, French, Italian), archived from the original on August 31, 2012

terrence, malick, terrence, frederick, malick, born, november, 1943, american, filmmaker, films, include, badlands, 1973, days, heaven, 1978, thin, line, 1998, which, received, best, director, best, adapted, screenplay, academy, award, nominations, world, 2005. Terrence Frederick Malick ˈ m ae l ɪ k born November 30 1943 is an American filmmaker 1 His films include Badlands 1973 Days of Heaven 1978 The Thin Red Line 1998 for which he received Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay Academy Award nominations The New World 2005 and The Tree of Life 2011 which garnered him another Best Director Oscar nomination and the Palme d Or at the 64th Cannes Film Festival Terrence MalickMalick in 1993BornTerrence Frederick Malick 1943 11 30 November 30 1943 age 80 Ottawa Illinois U S EducationHarvard University BA Magdalen College OxfordAFI Conservatory MFA OccupationsFilm directorscreenwriterproducerYears active1969 presentSpousesJill Jakes m 1970 div 1976 wbr Michele Morette m 1985 div 1998 wbr Alexandra Wallace m 1998 wbr AwardsFull listMalick began his career as part of the New Hollywood generation of filmmakers with Badlands 1973 about a murderous couple on the run in 1950s American Midwest and Days of Heaven 1978 2 which detailed a love triangle between two laborers and a wealthy farmer during the First World War before a lengthy hiatus Malick s films have explored themes such as transcendence nature and conflicts between reason and instinct They are typically marked by broad philosophical and spiritual overtones as well as the use of meditative voice overs from individual characters Stylistic elements of his work have polarized film scholars and audiences while many praise his films for their lavish cinematography and aesthetics others fault them for lacking in plot and character development His work has nonetheless ranked highly in retrospective decade end and all time polls Contents 1 Early life and education 2 Film career 2 1 Early career 2 2 1970s 2 2 1 Badlands 2 2 2 Days of Heaven 2 3 Hiatus 2 4 Return to cinema 2 4 1 The Thin Red Line 2 4 2 The New World 2 5 2010s 2 5 1 The Tree of Life 2 5 2 To the Wonder 2 5 3 Knight of Cups and Song to Song 2 5 4 Voyage of Time 2 5 5 A Hidden Life 2 5 6 Notes of a Woman 2 6 2020s 2 6 1 The Way of the Wind 3 Themes and style 4 Filmography 5 Awards and nominations 6 References 6 1 Sources 7 Further reading 8 External linksEarly life and education edit nbsp Martin Heidegger s Vom Wesen des Grundes The Essence of Reasons was translated into English by Malick and published in 1969 Malick was born in Ottawa Illinois 3 4 He is the son of Irene nee Thompson 1912 2011 5 and Emil A Malick 1917 2013 6 a geologist 7 His paternal grandparents were of Lebanese and Assyrian descent from Urmia 7 8 9 10 while his mother was an Irish Catholic 11 Malick attended St Stephen s Episcopal School in Austin Texas while his family lived in Bartlesville Oklahoma 12 Malick had two younger brothers Chris and Larry Larry Malick was a guitarist who went to study in Spain with Andres Segovia in the late 1960s In 1968 Larry intentionally broke his own hands due to pressure over his musical studies 13 Their father Emil went to Spain to help Larry but his son died shortly after possibly by suicide 14 The early death of Malick s younger brother has been explored and referenced in his films The Tree of Life 2011 and Knight of Cups 2015 15 16 Malick graduated from Harvard College in 1965 with a Bachelor of Arts summa cum laude and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa He received a Rhodes Scholarship which he used to study philosophy at Oxford University s Magdalen College After a disagreement with his advisor Gilbert Ryle over Malick s thesis on the concept of world in Kierkegaard Heidegger and Wittgenstein Malick left Oxford without a degree 17 In 1969 Northwestern University Press published Malick s translation of Heidegger s Vom Wesen des Grundes as The Essence of Reasons After returning to the United States Malick taught philosophy at Massachusetts Institute of Technology while freelancing as a journalist He wrote articles for Newsweek The New Yorker and Life 18 Film career editEarly career edit Malick started his film career after earning an MFA from the brand new AFI Conservatory in 1969 directing the short film Lanton Mills At the AFI he established contacts with people such as actor Jack Nicholson longtime collaborator Jack Fisk and agent Mike Medavoy who procured for Malick freelance work revising scripts He wrote early uncredited drafts of Dirty Harry 1971 and Drive He Said 1971 and is credited with the screenplay for Pocket Money 1972 19 Malick was also co writer of The Gravy Train 1974 under the pseudonym David Whitney After one of his screenplays Deadhead Miles was made into what Paramount Pictures believed was an unreleasable film Malick decided to direct his own scripts 1970s edit Badlands edit Malick s first feature length work as a director was Badlands an independent film starring Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek as a young couple on a crime spree in the 1950s Midwest It was influenced by the crimes of convicted teenage spree killer Charles Starkweather 20 Malick raised half of the budget by approaching people outside of the industry including doctors and dentists and by contributing 25 000 from his personal savings The rest was raised by executive producer Edward R Pressman 21 22 After a troubled production that included many crew members leaving halfway through the shoot Badlands drew raves upon its premiere at the New York Film Festival As a result Warner Bros bought distribution rights for three times its budget 23 Days of Heaven edit nbsp Malick during production of the 1978 film Days of HeavenMalick s second film was the Paramount produced Days of Heaven about a love triangle that develops in the farm country of the Texas Panhandle in the early 20th century Production began in the fall of 1976 in Alberta Canada The film was mostly shot during the golden hour with primarily natural light Much like Malick s first feature Days of Heaven had a lengthy and troubled production with several members of the production crew quitting before shooting was finished mainly due to disagreements over Malick s idiosyncratic directorial style 24 The film likewise had a troubled post production phase as Billy Weber and Malick spent two years editing during which they experimented with unconventional editing and voice over techniques once they realized the picture they had set out to make would not fully work 25 Days of Heaven was finally released in 1978 to mostly positive responses from critics 26 27 Its cinematography was widely praised although some found its story lackluster 28 29 In The New York Times Harold C Schonberg wrote that it is full of elegant and striking photography and it is an intolerably artsy artificial film 30 However it later won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography and the prize for Best Director at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival Days of Heaven has since grown in stature 31 having been voted one of the 50 greatest American films ever made in a 2015 critics poll published by BBC 32 Hiatus edit Following the release of Days of Heaven Malick began developing a project for Paramount titled Q that explored the origins of life on earth During pre production he suddenly moved to Paris and disappeared from public view for years 33 During this time he wrote a number of screenplays including The English Speaker about Josef Breuer s analysis of Anna O adaptations of Walker Percy s novel The Moviegoer and Larry McMurtry s The Desert Rose 33 a script about Jerry Lee Lewis and a stage adaptation of the Japanese film Sansho the Bailiff which was to be directed by Polish filmmaker Andrzej Wajda in addition to continuing work on the Q script 34 Although Q has never been made Malick s work for the project provided material for his later film The Tree of Life 35 and eventually became the basis for Voyage of Time Jack Fisk a longtime production designer on the director s films said that Malick was shooting film during this time as well 36 Return to cinema edit The Thin Red Line edit Malick returned to directing in 1997 with The Thin Red Line a work released two decades after his previous film A loose adaptation of James Jones World War II novel of the same name it features a large ensemble cast including Sean Penn Adrien Brody Jim Caviezel Nick Nolte Ben Chaplin Elias Koteas Woody Harrelson George Clooney and John Travolta Filming took place predominantly in the Daintree Rainforest in Queensland Australia and in the Solomon Islands 37 The film received critical acclaim 38 39 was nominated for seven Academy Awards and won the Golden Bear at the 49th Berlin International Film Festival 40 The Thin Red Line has since been ranked among the best films of the 1990s in Complex 41 The A V Club 42 Slant 43 Paste 44 and Film Comment 45 The New World edit After learning of Malick s work on an article about Che Guevara during the 1960s Steven Soderbergh offered Malick the chance to write and direct a film about Guevara that he had been developing with Benicio del Toro Malick accepted and produced a screenplay focused on Guevara s failed revolution in Bolivia 46 After a year and a half the financing had not come together entirely and Malick was given the opportunity to direct The New World 47 a script he had begun developing in the 1970s 48 He left the Guevara project in March 2004 47 and Soderbergh took over as director leading to the film Che 2008 The New World based on the story of John Smith and Pocahontas in the Virginia Colony was released in 2005 Over one million feet of film were shot and three different cuts of varying lengths were released While the film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Cinematography critical reception was divided throughout its theatrical run many praised its visuals and acting while finding its narrative unfocused 49 However The New World was later named by five critics as one of the best films of its decade 50 and appeared in 39th place on a 2016 BBC poll of the greatest films since 2000 51 2010s edit nbsp Malick at the Cannes Film Festival premiere of The Tree of LifeThe Tree of Life edit Malick s fifth feature The Tree of Life was filmed in Smithville Texas and elsewhere during 2008 Starring Brad Pitt Jessica Chastain and Sean Penn it is a family drama spanning multiple time periods it focuses on an individual s struggle to reconcile love mercy and beauty with the existence of illness suffering and death It premiered at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival 52 where it won the Palme d Or It later won the FIPRESCI Award for the Best Film of the Year At the 84th Academy Awards it was nominated for three awards including the Academy Award for Best Picture 53 Best Director for Malick and Best Cinematography for Emmanuel Lubezki 54 A limited theatrical release in the United States began on May 27 2011 55 Malick scholars Christopher B Barnett and Clark J Elliston wrote that it became arguably Malick s most acclaimed work 56 It was voted the 79th greatest American film of all time in a 2015 BBC Culture poll of 62 international film critics 57 The work was also ranked the seventh greatest film since 2000 in a worldwide critics poll by BBC 51 To the Wonder edit Malick s sixth feature To the Wonder 58 was shot predominantly in Bartlesville Oklahoma a few scenes were filmed in Pawhuska Oklahoma and at the Tulsa Port of Catoosa 59 The film stars Ben Affleck Rachel McAdams Olga Kurylenko and Javier Bardem 60 To the Wonder had its world premiere at the 69th Venice International Film Festival on September 2 2012 and opened theatrically in the United States on April 12 2013 Critical response to the film was markedly divided and the work has been described as arguably Malick s most derided 56 Knight of Cups and Song to Song edit On November 1 2011 Filmnation Entertainment announced international sales for Malick s next two projects Lawless now titled Song to Song and Knight of Cups Both films feature large ensemble casts with many of the actors crossing over into both films The films were shot back to back in 2012 with Song to Song primarily shot in Austin Texas and Knight of Cups in Los Angeles and Las Vegas 61 During the weekend of September 16 2011 Malick and a small crew were seen filming Christian Bale and Haley Bennett at the Austin City Limits Music Festival as part of preliminary shooting for Song to Song 62 Malick was also seen directing Ryan Gosling and Rooney Mara at the Fun Fun Fun Fest on November 4 2011 62 63 Knight of Cups had its world premiere at the Berlin International Film Festival in February 2015 and was met with mixed reactions 64 65 66 It was released in the United States on March 4 2016 by Broad Green Pictures 67 Song to Song had its world premiere at South by Southwest on March 10 2017 before being released theatrically in the United States on March 17 2017 by Broad Green Pictures and has been met with mixed reactions 68 69 Voyage of Time edit Concurrent with these two features Malick continued work on an IMAX documentary that examines the birth and death of the known universe titled Voyage of Time The Hollywood Reporter described it as a celebration of the Earth displaying the whole of time from the birth of the universe to its final collapse The film is the culmination of a project that Malick has been working on for over forty years and has been described by Malick himself as one of my greatest dreams 70 The film features footage shot by Malick and collaborators over the years and expands on the footage that special effects luminaries Douglas Trumbull 2001 and Dan Glass The Matrix created for The Tree of Life The film was released in two versions a 40 minute IMAX version Voyage of Time The IMAX Experience with narration by Brad Pitt and a 90 minute feature length version Voyage of Time Life s Journey with narration by Cate Blanchett 71 The feature length version had its world premiere on September 7 2016 at the 73rd Venice International Film Festival 72 The IMAX version of the film was released in IMAX on October 7 2016 by IMAX Corporation and Broad Green Pictures 73 A Hidden Life edit Malick s next film A Hidden Life depicted the life of Austria s Franz Jagerstatter a conscientious objector during World War II who was put to death at the age of 36 for undermining military actions and was later declared a martyr and beatified by the Catholic Church Starring in the film as Jagerstatter is August Diehl with Valerie Pachner as his wife Franziska Jagerstatter 74 The film was shot in Studio Babelsberg in Potsdam Germany in the summer of 2016 and in parts of northern Italy such as Brixen South Tyrol and the small mountain village of Sappada 74 75 A Hidden Life was released in 2019 Speaking about the film in a Q amp A in Princeton New Jersey Malick said that compared with his more recent films with A Hidden Life he had repented and gone back to working with a much tighter script 76 Notes of a Woman edit In August 77 and or September 2016 Malick directed a commercial titled Notes of a Woman and released on February 26 2017 78 for the Mon Guerlain perfume 79 Starring Angelina Jolie it was shot at her and Brad Pitt s Chateau Miraval estate in Correns 80 81 and photographed by Austrian cinematographer Christian Berger 82 2020s edit The Way of the Wind edit On June 7 2019 Malick reportedly started shooting his next film code named The Last Planet near Rome Italy 83 The film will tell the story of Jesus life through a series of parables On September 8 the cast was revealed to include Geza Rohrig as Jesus Matthias Schoenaerts as Saint Peter and Mark Rylance as four versions of Satan 84 On November 20 2020 it was announced that the film s name would be The Way of the Wind 85 Themes and style editMalick s films have been noted by critics for their philosophical themes 86 According to film scholar Lloyd Michaels the director s primary themes include the isolated individual s desire for transcendence amidst established social institutions the grandeur and untouched beauty of nature the competing claims of instinct and reason and the lure of the open road 86 He named Days of Heaven as one in a group of acclaimed films from the 1970s that were intended to revolutionize the American film epic Like The Godfather films 1972 1974 Nashville 1975 and The Deer Hunter 1978 Michaels argued that the movie delves into certain national myths as an idiosyncratic type of Western particularly the migration westward the dream of personal success and the clash of agrarian and industrial economies 87 Roger Ebert considered Malick s body of work to have a unifying common theme Human lives diminish beneath the overarching majesty of the world 88 In Ebert s opinion Malick is among the few remaining directors who yearn to make no less than a masterpiece 89 While reviewing The Tree of Life New York Times critic A O Scott compared the director to innovative homegrown romantics such as the writers Walt Whitman Hart Crane James Agee and Herman Melville in the sense that their definitive writings also did not sit comfortably or find universal favor in their own time but nonetheless leaned perpetually into the future pushing their readers forward toward a new horizon of understanding 90 Malick s body of work has inspired polarized opinions According to Michaels few American directors have inspired such adulation and rejection with each successive film as Malick Michaels said that in all of American cinema Malick is the filmmaker most frequently granted genius status after creating such a discontinuous and limited body of work 87 Malick makes use of broad philosophical and spiritual overtones such as in the form of meditative voice overs from individual characters Some critics felt these elements made the films engaging and unique while others found them pretentious and gratuitous particularly in his post hiatus work 91 Michaels believed the opinions Days of Heaven continues to elicit among scholars and film enthusiasts is exemplary of this The debate continues to revolve around what to make of its extremeties of beauty whether the exquisite lighting painterly compositions dreamy dissolves and fluid camera movements combined with the epic grandeur and elegiac tone sufficiently compensate for the thinness of the tale the two dimensionality of the characters and the resulting emotional detachment of the audience 87 Reverse Shot journalist Chris Wisniewski regarded both Days of Heaven and The New World not as literary nor theatrical but principally cinematic in their aesthetic intimating narrative emotional and conceptual themes through the use of image and sound instead of foregrounding dialogue events or characters He highlighted Malick s use of rambling philosophical voiceovers the placid images of nature offering quiet contrast to the evil deeds of men the stunning cinematography often achieved with natural light the striking use of music 92 While the perception of Malick as a recluse is inaccurate 93 94 95 he is nevertheless famously protective of his private life 96 His contracts stipulate that his likeness may not be used for promotional purposes and he routinely declines requests for interviews 33 97 From 1970 to 1976 Malick was married to Jill Jakes 98 His companion afterward in the late 1970s was director and screenwriter Michie Gleason 98 In 1985 in France he married 98 Michele Marie Morette 99 100 whom he met in Paris in 1980 in 1996 Malick asked for a divorce which was granted 98 100 Afterward he married Alexandra Ecky Wallace his high school sweetheart 101 Malick s semi autobiographic film To the Wonder was inspired by his relationships with Morette and Wallace 15 102 As of at least 2011 Malick lives in Austin Texas 103 Filmography editMain article Terrence Malick filmography Year Title Distributor1973 Badlands Warner Bros 1978 Days of Heaven Paramount Pictures1998 The Thin Red Line 20th Century Fox2005 The New World New Line Cinema2011 The Tree of Life Fox Searchlight Pictures2012 To the Wonder Magnolia Pictures2015 Knight of Cups Broad Green Pictures2016 Voyage of Time Broad Green Pictures IMAX Corporation2017 Song to Song Broad Green Pictures2019 A Hidden Life Fox Searchlight PicturesTBA The Way of the WindAwards and nominations editFor a more comprehensive list see List of awards and nominations received by Terrence Malick Malick has received three Academy Award nominations 104 105 two for Best Director for The Thin Red Line 106 and The Tree of Life 107 and a nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay for the former film 108 He was awarded the Golden Bear at the 49th Berlin International Film Festival for The Thin Red Line and the Palme d Or at the 64th Cannes Film Festival for The Tree of Life 109 References edit Ankeny Jason 2008 Terrence Malick Biography Movies amp TV Movies amp TV Dept The New York Times Archived from the original on June 16 2008 Retrieved May 25 2010 Hill Derek 2008 The Movie Brats Hollywood Regeneration Charlie Kaufman and Hollywood s Merry Band of Pranksters Fabulists and Dreamers An Excursion Into the American New Wave Oldcastle Books ISBN 978 1842433928 Solomons Jason July 2 2011 Terrence Malick The return of cinema s invisible man The Observer The Guardian Retrieved July 6 2014 Walsh David January 23 1999 A horrible state of war www wsws org World Socialist Website Retrieved July 6 2014 Bartlesville resident Irene Malick mother of filmmaker dead at 99 services today Examiner Enterprise Bartlesville December 21 2011 Retrieved February 27 2012 Emil A Malick Obituary View Emil Malick s Obituary by Examiner Enterprise Legacy com Retrieved May 22 2014 a b Michaels Lloyd 2009 Terrence Malick revised ed University of Illinois Press p 14 ISBN 978 0 252 07575 9 Tucker Thomas Deane Kendall Stuart eds 2011 Terrence Malick Film and Philosophy Bloomsbury ISBN 978 1 4411 4895 7 Maher Paul Jr February 7 2015 One Big Soul An Oral History of Terrence Malick Lulu Press Inc ISBN 978 1 312 88744 2 Eric Benson March 10 2017 The Not So Secret Life of Terrence Malick Texas Monthly Retrieved March 15 2017 Biskind Peter April 23 2010 The Runaway Genius Vanity Fair Retrieved August 6 2023 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Film Comment s Best of the Nineties Poll Part Two Film Comment 2000 Retrieved June 28 2017 Taubin Amy September October 2008 Guerrilla Filmmaking on an Epic Scale Film Comment Retrieved May 17 2011 a b Tartaglione Nancy March 10 2004 Malick s Che decision deals morale denting blow to indie sector Screen Daily Retrieved October 20 2010 Sterritt David July 2006 Film Philosophy and Terrence Malick Undercurrents FIPRESCI Archived from the original on October 29 2010 Retrieved October 20 2010 The New World Movie Reviews Pictures Rotten Tomatoes January 20 2005 Retrieved January 2 2011 Film Critics Pick the Best Movies of the Decade Metacritic January 3 2010 Retrieved October 22 2016 a b The 21st century s 100 greatest films BBC August 23 2016 Retrieved October 9 2016 Festival de Cannes Official Selection Cannes Retrieved April 14 2011 The Artist Wins Best Picture 2012 Oscars via www youtube com Hugo Wins Cinematography 2012 Oscars via www youtube com October 26 Kate Ward Updated EDT 2010 at 08 52 PM Excess Hollywood Tree of Life nabs release date EW com a href Template Cite web html title Template Cite web cite web a CS1 maint numeric names authors list link a b Barnett Christopher B Elliston Clark J eds 2016 Preface Theology and the Films of Terrence Malick Routledge ISBN 978 1317588276 Retrieved January 30 2017 The New World encountered a split reception upon its release in 2005 And yet as will be mentioned later the film has grown in stature with time Malick followed The Tree of Life arguably his most acclaimed film with To the Wonder arguably his most derided one It is too early then to analyze the reception of Knights of Cups though early indications are that like To the Wonder critical response will be wildly inconsistent The 100 greatest American films BBC July 20 2015 To The Wonder rating Filmratings com Archived from the original on March 3 2017 Wells Jeffrey August 19 2012 Wonder Based on Malick s Romantic Past hollywood elsewhere com Archived from the original 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Announces Next Film Radegund Based on the Life of Franz Jagerstatter The Film Stage June 22 2016 Retrieved June 23 2016 Trailer For The Thin Red Line Restoration Arrives as Terrence Malick Commences Radegund Shoot The Film Stage August 11 2016 Retrieved March 25 2017 Bruno Christopher October 27 2016 Terrence Malick talks filmmaking at a rare public speaking event Little White Lies Retrieved December 5 2016 Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine Vienna Sound Vienna Light Gerhard Gutscher GmbH March 6 2017 Mon Guerlain Angelina Jolie in Notes of a Woman Long Version Guerlain via YouTube Guerlain February 26 2017 Mon Guerlain Angelina Jolie in Notes of a Woman Long Version Guerlain Archived from the original on February 28 2017 via YouTube Nordine Michael February 26 2017 Terrence Malick Directed a Perfume Ad Starring Angelina Jolie Because of Course He Did Watch IndieWire Retrieved March 8 2018 Rodriguez Cecilia August 21 2017 Brad Pitt Angelina Jolie Lose Court Case Over Their French Miraval Castle Forbes Retrieved March 8 2018 Fansten Emmanuel August 16 2017 Brad Pitt a coule ma boite et s est approprie mon travail Liberation Retrieved March 8 2018 Spot Mon Guerlain Alex Brambilla Camera Operator January 1 2018 Raup Jordan June 7 2019 Terrence Malick Begins Shooting New Film The Last Planet The Film Stage Retrieved September 9 2019 Shoard Catherine September 9 2019 Mark Rylance to play four versions of Satan for Terrence Malick The Guardian Retrieved September 9 2019 Newman Nick November 20 2020 Terrence Malick s The Last Planet Gets New Title The Film Stage Retrieved November 20 2020 a b Rybin Steven 2012 Introduction Terrence Malick and the Thought of Film Rowman amp Littlefield p xiv ISBN 978 0739166758 a b c Michaels Lloyd 2009 Terrence Malick University of Illinois Press pp 1 40 41 ISBN 978 0252075759 Retrieved February 20 2017 Ebert Roger June 24 2011 Badlands Movie Review amp Film Summary 1973 RogerEbert com Ebert Digital LLC Retrieved July 11 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