To the Wonder -- Terrence Malick's eventually forthcoming romantic film with Ben Affleck, Rachel McAdams, and Javier Bardem

i guess i dont really mean that. i do find it interesting how easy it is for commercial/music video directors like hillcoat and snyder to passably imitate malick, and also how amusingly suited to trailers malicks work is. tree of life's trailer gets my blood pumping, but then i watch the movie and im asleep lol

I wonder if this isn't because of a similarity of intent! i.e., short-circuiting critical faculties or self-consciousness in service of straight "feeling." (tho the very weirdness of the movies saves them from being big long commercials for me. He's as direct about fear as evil too.)

Fear AND evil.

I think if i had a different sense of Malick as someone intent on impressing or trying to con or manipulate his audience by appealing to lizard-brain "aw pretty" reflexes then maybe I'd be more cynical about his movies. But he strikes me as an intellectually distant, even kind of angry, dude in search of Emersonian moments of grace and firmly believing in the most direct path to get there.

i think he's just a chill dude who wants to show an audience what he sees when he feels so happy he can cry

cf "thin red line" chilling on the beach scenes

sometimes anyway

‎"Christ Almighty, faith no more. The problematic elements in The Tree of Life go forth and multiply in Terrence Malick’s latest opus dei, which transposes Tree’s five-editors-and-a-Lubezki flowing Steadicam/tilt-pan to the heavens, wall-to-wall orchestral style—and according to the credits, some of the footage—onto the most unconvincing depiction of a romantic relationship I’ve seen in a long, long time."

Oh nooooooo

"ravishingly beautiful doodle"

http://www.slantmagazine.com/house/2012/09/venice-film-festival-2012-to-the-wonder/

ravibeaudiedoodle

Seems like maybe Malick should just release these as Imax movies, where audiences expect visual wonder and scant story, rather than in venues where audiences expect story. I mean Beavers is a great Imax movie, but mostly you're watching beavers build a dam.

"story" in the eye of the beholder, by same standard where would Hou Hsiao-Hsien be?

(Malick wd be a good bet to make his last films abroad, cept he keeps geting enough name casting and Oscar attention to stay on the radar)

lol at jeff wells:

It's basically The Tree of Life 2: Oklahoma Depression. It's Malick sitting next to you and gently whispering in your ear, "You wanna leave? Go ahead. Go on, it's okay, I don't care...do what you want. But you can also stay."

Ha that almost makes it sound pretty awesome. I have a lot of affection for movies that don't make a lot of demands on your attention.

he also quotes Affleck saying it makes Tree of Life look like Transformers.

"To The Wonder doesn't precisely fart in your face."

Loving Tree of Life apparently a predictive factor for not liking this.

http://insidemovies.ew.com/2012/09/11/malicks-to-the-wonder-the-twee-of-life/

http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/val-kilmer-wields-chainsaw-uses-walker-is-val-kilmer-in-set-pics-from-terrence-malicks-latest-20121104

what the christ

http://workawesome.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Head-in-Hands-e1298825206674.jpg

maybe he should go back to making films about farmers at the turn-of-the-century

If the Black Lips end up in a Malick movie I will be *pissed*.

If Jim Morrison were alive today...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=QSa9PoKFVG8

So much weirdness.

Fassbender and Portman at UT football game. Ryan Gosling wandering around in front of the Alamo Drafthouse. I just hope they don't end up at the Stevie ray Vaughn statue.

Is this the one with Rooney Mara? I can't keep them straight.

I don't know either, actually. He may be shooting two at once. Apparently using digital too?

http://pitchfork.com/news/48262-terrence-malicks-mysterious-music-centered-movie-set-in-austin-what-we-know/

"The musicians who may or may not appear in the film: "

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MGyHS8jwY0

At the Broken Spoke!

Without the beard he looks like Peter Boyle.

new Man Of Steel trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csstykAOQKI

*runs out, buys levis*

Backlit shots of clouds, trees or people: take a drink.
Fields of grass or grain: take a drink.
Voiceover: take a drink.

Looks lovely.

Are there dinosaurs in this one, too? Should be.

Adagio movement from large symphonic work composed between 1870 and 1920: take a drink

(just guessing, haven't watched)

stoked 4 buffaloes

Looks lovely.

Bah. Looks like he's continuing his evolution into an art-film Thomas Kinkade.

I do have a hunch other people do a lot of the shooting and editing for him, at least to an extent.

I like the idea of a Malick assembly line. Departments include Beautiful Sunsets, Animal Close-Ups, Lyrical Strings, Portentous Narration, Furrowed Brows.

Also, Trees and Grass.

Looking Up into Lots of Leaves Dept.

I do have a hunch other people do a lot of the shooting and editing for him, at least to an extent.

― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, December 19, 2012 11:37 AM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

uhh this is true of basically all movie directors...

"i have a hunch he doesn't do all the acting himself..."

s1ocki w/ the inside scoop on how movies get made

looks good. im looking forward to a relatively short and compressed malicky tone poem.

Olga Kurylenko + Malick? there.

xpost I mean I get the hunch he totally delegates. "Go shoot some nature footage, edit it together, then let me know when you're done. I'll be off watching birds."

i can watch malick's trailers all day, i'll say that

i think i can rationalize why i like his movies all day but perhaps it just comes down to the fact that his movies always seem interested in their surroundings. i always liked the idea of a camera that loses interest in what the characters are saying and doing and sorta looking away and day-dreaming to itself while the incidents happen off screen. TTRL is really special in that regard because it feels like the the movie is only happening to catch bits and pieces of the stories going on around it while it's off looking for butterflies.

xpost I mean I get the hunch he totally delegates. "Go shoot some nature footage, edit it together, then let me know when you're done. I'll be off watching birds listening to Green Day.

i think i can rationalize why i like his movies all day but perhaps it just comes down to the fact that his movies always seem interested in their surroundings. i always liked the idea of a camera that loses interest in what the characters are saying and doing and sorta looking away and day-dreaming to itself while the incidents happen off screen. TTRL is really special in that regard because it feels like the the movie is only happening to catch bits and pieces of the stories going on around it while it's off looking for butterflies.

― ryan, Wednesday, December 19, 2012 12:22 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark

i like the effect he gets with that in TTRL, where its contrasted with the perilous war stuff. these guys are in mortal danger, but this random monitor lizard doesn't give a fuck about that