Tuesday, May 15, 2012 12:48PM - By Damon Houx
Terrence Malick – cinema’s greatest mystery man – won last year’s Palme d’Or at Cannes for The Tree of Life, and with another film in the can it was wondered if his latest would play at the fest. That film (once titled The Burial) was not on the schedule, perhaps because back-to-back wins would be a very hard feat to pull off. But now we’ve got a new title for the film. It’s called To The Wonder, and it looks like it’s nearing release because it has an MPAA rating.
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Wednesday, February 8, 2012 12:35PM - By Damon Houx
Though Natalie Portman kept it busy last year with roles in No Strings Attached, Your Highness and Thor (all coming off of her Oscar win for Black Swan), she recently had a baby and took time off for motherhood. But today, Deadline announced that Portman is not only going back to work, she’ll be appearing in two movies: Knight of the Cups and Lawless. Both to be directed by Terrence Malick.
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Tuesday, November 1, 2011 2:18PM - By Damon Houx
Sometimes that gift horse should not have his mouth inspected. Today FilmNation has announced that Terrence Malick will be shooting two films next year, on top of the two films he supposedly shot this year (maybe one was footage for one of these), both starring Christian Bale and Cate Blanchett and 2011 poster boy Ryan Gosling. For a director who took nearly two decades to return to cinema, this is unprecedented.
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Thursday, May 26, 2011 5:00PM - By Damon Houx
In 2010, there was word that Cannes was holding up announcing their slate in hopes that Terrence Malick‘s Tree of Life would be ready in time. Cannes got Tree of Life- where it recieved some boos and won the Palme D’or – but a year later, as Malick and company were still deep in post-production. Most filmmakers have scant months (and sometimes weeks) to do their post-production, but such lengthy tinkering with the final cut is part of the legend of Terrence Malick, a mercurial talent who’s proved more productive over the last ten years than he had for the first thirty of his career. Tree is Malick’s fifth film, and easily his most personal. It goes out on limited release this weekend…
Wednesday, May 18, 2011 11:00PM - By Damon Houx
With the upcoming release of Tree of Life, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art is having a Terrence Malick retrospective. We’ve been attending, and up until the release of Tree of Life (review on May 26), we’ll be reviewing and talking about his movies LACMA recently showed Days of Heaven, Malick’s second film, and the end of his filmmaking career for twenty years.
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Monday, May 16, 2011 7:08PM - By Damon Houx
With the upcoming release of Tree of Life, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art is having a Terrence Malick retrospective. We’ve been attending, and up until the release of Tree of Life (review on May 26), we’ll be reviewing and talking about his movies, with comments from contributors who were at the LACMA screenings. Sissy Spacek was there for Badlands, and she noted that her casting was simple: “I met Terrence Malick, and shortly thereafter I was buying a baton.”
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Monday, March 28, 2011 2:02PM - By Damon Houx
In America, we’re less than two months away from the release of Terrence Malick’s long-in-gestation The Tree of Life, which is due May 27. Cannes is supposed to get it before that to show as one of their premieres, but it seems the U.K. release patten might dampen that as (according to Empire) it’s supposedly getting the film on May 4. This U.K. release date coincides with the film’s second poster, which was provided by the IMDb. Take a look…
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Wednesday, March 23, 2011 9:25PM - By Damon Houx
The speculation on when the world would see Tree of Life – Terrence Malick’s latest film, which stars Brad Pitt and Sean Penn – became a great sport of inside baseball until Fox Searchlight picked it up and announced a May release date. For Tree of Life there were likely to be two periods of release: Cannes or award season. With the May date, it seemed the film premiering at Cannes was inevitable, and now Variety has confirmed that it will be playing the festival – though it is unknown if it will play in or out of contention.
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Wednesday, February 23, 2011 2:01PM - By Krystal Clark
Terrence Malick is a serious mystery. The reclusive director is known for taking abnormally long breaks between films, but he’s decided to change his pattern. Malick has two recently shot films that have yet to hit theaters. The first one is The Tree of Life, which stars Sean Penn and Brad Pitt, and the other is an untitled drama that features Ben Affleck and Rachel McAdams. Over on THR, they debuted the first image from the latter film. Check out the full photo…
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