American Mythology in Terrence Malick’s ‘Days of Heaven’
Days of Heaven questions modernity and neoliberalism while simultaneously critiquing the Agrarian Myth, Manifest Destiny, and the Myth of the Noble Savage.
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Austin Film Festival 2019: (Trans)national Justice
New films by Terrence Malick, Miranda Nation, and Trey Edward Shults stand out amongst a diverse crop of films at Austin's annual "screenwriter's festival".
Disclosure, Dasein, and the Divine in Terrence Malick’s ‘The Tree of Life’
For Terrence Malick, “challenge” is a progressive verb. Tree of Life is a prayer that challenges us to see and think beyond all normative paradigms.
The Flipside #3: Knight of Cups
Knight of Cups gorgeously captures Los Angeles, but has famed director Terrence Malick fallen too far down the rabbit hole?
‘Song to Song’ Revels in the Chaos of the Austin Music Scene
With layered character development to accompany his typically arresting visuals, auteur Terrence Malick may have finally found a palatable balance between his visual and narrative poeticism.
Terrence Malick’s American Genesis: ‘The New World’
For Terrence Malick, film is uniquely able to wrestle with humankind’s great dilemmas, as his esoteric take on the Pocahontas legend, The New World shows.
Watch the Trailer for Terrence Malick’s ‘Knight of Cups’ (video)
Legendary auteur Terrence Malick is following up his 2012 picture To the Wonder with an equally philosophical followup, the Los Angeles tone poem Knight of Cups.
The 20 Most Anticipated Films of 2015
Over the next 12 months, we will be bombarded with all manner of proposed cinematic spectacle. Here are the 20 films we are most looking forward to.