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Terrence Malick
Terrence Frederick Malick (born November 30, 1943) is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. Malick began his career as part of the New Hollywood film-making wave with the films Badlands (1973), about a murderous couple on the run in 1950s American Midwest, and Days of Heaven (1978), which detailed the love-triangle between two labourers and a wealthy farmer in the First World War, before a lengthy hiatus. He returned to directing with films such as The Thin Red Line (1998), The New World (2005), and The Tree of Life (2011), being awarded the Golden Bear at the 49th Berlin International Film Festival and the Palme d'Or at the 64th Cannes Film Festival, respectively. Malick's films have been noted for exploring themes such as individual 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. The stylistic elements of the director's work have inspired divided opinions among film scholars and audiences; some praised his films for their cinematography and aesthetics, while others found them lacking in plot and character development. His first five films have nonetheless ranked highly in retrospective decade-end and all-time polls.
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Born
1943-11-30
Birth Place
Ottawa, Illinois, U.S.
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Film director, screenwriter, producer
Residence
Austin,_Texas
Education
Magdalen_College,_Oxford
Spouse(s)
Jill Jakes ​ ​ ( m.  1970; div.  1976) ​ Michèle Morette ​ ​ ( m.  1985; div.  1998) ​ Alexandra Wallace ​ ​ ( m.  1998) ​
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Why Do Terrence Malick's Movies Look Like That?

Terrence Malick has developed one of the most unique and distinctive visual styles in contemporary American cinema. In this video, Thomas Flight investigates the elements of this style and what the motivation behind it might be. Chapters:. 0:00 A Hidden Director. 1:26 Showing life in context. 2:21 A polarizing approach.
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In his 1966 “Memorial Address”, German philosopher Martin Heidegger stated “man today is in flight from thinking.” By “thinking” he did not mean computation or what he calls “calculative thought” but “meditative thinking” which is an “openness to the mystery.” Identifying the special nature of man as a meditative being, Heidegger believed our greatest task in this thoughtless age is “keeping meditative thinking alive.” No one does this better through film than former Heideggerean scholar, now filmmaker, Terrence Malick.
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Christopher Plummer Penned Letter to Terrence Malick After ‘New World’: ‘Get Yourself a Writer’

Director Terrence Malick is famous for snipping actors out of his theatrical cuts. For one, Adrien Brody reportedly showed up to the premiere of “The Thin Red Line” to find his role, which he thought was the lead, was significantly downsized. Many others followed. In the aftermath of Malick’s 2005 historical drama about the founding of Jamestown, Christopher Plummer was having none of it. The late actor, who passed away this week at the age of 91, revealed in a 2012 roundtable with Newsweek that he went to the lengths of writing Malick a letter after his experience. (In the film, he plays Captain Christopher Newport, though his role, too, turned out to be much less than he thought.)