Tagged Terrence Malick

There’s a stereotype of a Terrence Malick film, if you’re feeling mean. Beautiful, sure; but also a glorified perfume ad, full of twirling girls and little substance. His most recent efforts – To the...

True Romance turns 25 today. A quarter-century after that love letter to sex, violence, and Elvis Presley hit screens (and bombed), we have to ask ourselves: we’re all pretty much over Quentin Tarantino,...

After the success of Ain’t Them Bodies Saints (2013), David Lowery reunites Casey Affleck and Rooney Mara in a time-travelling, existential yarn about the dislocation of grief. Questioning why we become...

Cinema plus Psychoanalysis equals the Science of Ghosts – Jacques Derrida Cinema has always seemed the ideal bedfellow for explorations of grief and loss. It’s ingrained in the very origins of the...

Song to Song is both very similar and very different to Terrence Malick’s small but precious early filmography. Touring musicians BV (Ryan Gosling) and Faye (Rooney Mara) are identifiable as Bill and...

British cinephile par excellence, Mark Cousins, returns with another of his ambitious and high-minded cine-essays (although this is technically fictional) centred on a specific geographical location. The...

Is Akira Kurosawa the greatest filmmaker of all time? There have certainly been crazier claims than that. Such unimpeachable masterpieces as Drunken Angel, Rashômon, Ikiru, Seven Samurai, Throne of Blood,...

30 years in the making makes a decent marketing line for Terrence Malick’s latest film Voyage of Time. With such a line and a pedigree name attached, it can’t help but underwhelm even if it does indeed...

The directorial debut is an interesting phenomenon: for every illustrious filmmaker who nailed their craft at the first time of asking, other estimable auteurs needed a number of cracks to hit their...

Malick poses questions about purpose and life whilst running on an empty tank. As expected, Emmanuel Lubezki (DP for Gravity and Birdman) achieves wonders for Malick, transforming urban landscapes and GoPro...

May 6 may not immediately mean a great deal to a lot of film fans, but for certain cinephiles it’s the day for making a pilgrimage to the nearest cinema screen to pay homage to a certain Terrence Malick and...

If there’s one label that would never fit Terrence Malick as a director, it’s ‘conventional’. From a 20-year wait for a new film between 1978’s Days of Heaven and 1998’s The Thin Red Line, to not...

New Hollywood isn’t actually that new at all; in fact, the name demarcates a period of intense creativity, crisis, and change that occurred between the late 1960s and the early 1980s within the Hollywood...

As 2013 draws to a close, it’s time to reel off One Room With A View’s Top Ten Films of 2013. Each writer will list their top ten and we’ll reach an ultimate list at the end. To achieve this, we’ll be...