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The Magic Hours: The Films and Hidden Life of Terrence Malick

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Re: The Magic Hours: The Films and Hidden Life of Terrence Malick

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I still remember seeing The Tree of Life in theaters. What an incredible experience that was.

Oh I remember that movie, very relaxing, put me right to sleep zzz

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Re: The Magic Hours: The Films and Hidden Life of Terrence Malick

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Like the first line says, he is probably the least known famous director. That is, he is not an activist and not flashy, doesn't make a lot of movies, and the general public simply doesn't know about him. But all the other movie directors and famous actors know him and kind of idolize him. When Thin Red Line came out in 1998 he hadn't done a movie since 1978 (Days of Heaven) and yet he snagged all the famous actors t…

Kind of like a "musician's musician"—ones whose names come up often in interviews with famous musicians, and often have covers of their songs by more-famous artists become very popular, but are largely out of the limelight, at least relative to their fame and influence in certain circles.

Re: The Magic Hours: The Films and Hidden Life of Terrence Malick

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Like the first line says, he is probably the least known famous director. That is, he is not an activist and not flashy, doesn't make a lot of movies, and the general public simply doesn't know about him. But all the other movie directors and famous actors know him and kind of idolize him. When Thin Red Line came out in 1998 he hadn't done a movie since 1978 (Days of Heaven) and yet he snagged all the famous actors t…

If you haven't seen it, A Hidden Life has the most Tarkovsky feel to it for me. It felt very inspired by Mirror, specifically. I say that as a person who loves both films, too.

I can't believe the author of the article so blithely dismissed To The Wonder, Knight of Cups, and The New World. The New World is probably my favorite of all Malick's films so far.

Re: The Magic Hours: The Films and Hidden Life of Terrence Malick

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Like the first line says, he is probably the least known famous director. That is, he is not an activist and not flashy, doesn't make a lot of movies, and the general public simply doesn't know about him. But all the other movie directors and famous actors know him and kind of idolize him. When Thin Red Line came out in 1998 he hadn't done a movie since 1978 (Days of Heaven) and yet he snagged all the famous actors t…

IIRC Travolta was a furious that his role was brutally cut to almost nothing after shooting a decent amount of footage, and at least a couple of well known actors were fully out of the final cut.

They were indeed tripping to be in the film, that's one thing I remember clearly, rumours of some actors begging to be in the movie for free.

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Days of Heaven and The Thin Red Line are simply the most beautiful films ever made.

I don't know if I would call The Thin Red Line "beautiful" but I think it's a great (anti-)war movie.

I wouldn't call it anti-war per se. It's a deeply spiritual movie, against the backdrop of war.

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Like the first line says, he is probably the least known famous director. That is, he is not an activist and not flashy, doesn't make a lot of movies, and the general public simply doesn't know about him. But all the other movie directors and famous actors know him and kind of idolize him. When Thin Red Line came out in 1998 he hadn't done a movie since 1978 (Days of Heaven) and yet he snagged all the famous actors t…

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Like the first line says, he is probably the least known famous director. That is, he is not an activist and not flashy, doesn't make a lot of movies, and the general public simply doesn't know about him. But all the other movie directors and famous actors know him and kind of idolize him. When Thin Red Line came out in 1998 he hadn't done a movie since 1978 (Days of Heaven) and yet he snagged all the famous actors t…

They were falling over themselves to make *a* movie with him. Not so much *another* movie with him. I just happened to watch a video about that this morning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqoQoN-Pb5I

Re: The Magic Hours: The Films and Hidden Life of Terrence Malick

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I still remember seeing The Tree of Life in theaters. What an incredible experience that was.

Oh I remember that movie, very relaxing, put me right to sleep zzz

I remember being so bored during this movie in the theater. My expectations of any plot whatsoever were unreasonably high.
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