Terrence Malick and the Great Thing

by Dan Hitchens

 Like a number of poets, Terrence Malick fumbles to express a common experience: the inexplicable longing that elevates the soul and fills it with an agonizing hope. Continue Reading »

21 Dec 2018

Malick's Masterpiece

by Matthew Schmitz

Knight of Cups is a masterpiece, Malick’s greatest and most moving film. Continue Reading »

21 Mar 2016

Terrence Malick's Openness to Life

by William Randolph Brafford

Terrence Malick has baffled many of the film critics who once championed him. His detractors call his latest film, Knight of Cups, an “indecipherable mess” or “hard to parse.” A.O. Scott of the New York Times admired Malick’s Tree of Life, but now sounds as if he feels betrayed: “The deployment of beauty strikes me as more evasive than evocative.” Continue Reading »

17 Mar 2016

Terrence Malick and the Fecundity of Commitment

by Dawn LaValle

To the Wonder follows the relationship of Frenchwoman Marina (Olga Kurylenko) and American Neil (Ben Affleck), who fall in love in Paris and then return to Neil’s American home along with Marina’s young daughter. Their relationship stalls, and another woman, Jane (Rachel McAdams), enters Neil’s life… . Continue Reading »

9 Apr 2013