#terrance malick

[christianbalefanatic]

Christian Bale Behind the Scenes of Knight of Cups in Los Angeles, California (June 13, 2012)

Christian Bale as Rick in Knight of Cups (2015), dir. Terrence Malick

#Christian Bale #christianbalefanatic #knight of cups #behind the scenes #2012 #2010s #2010s movies #early 2010s #2010s films #2010s actors #2010s icons #2010s hollywood #terrance malick #2015 #los angeles california

[schlock-luster-video]

On March 29, 1974, Badlands debuted in Los Angeles, California.

#badlands #terrance malick #martin sheen #sissy spacek #70s movies #neo noir #crime thriller #movies #film #1970s #movie art #art #drawing #movie history

[magdaelen]

"there is something i know when i'm with you, that i forget when i'm away"

the new world (2006) dir. terrance malick

#the new world #terrance malick

[emopunkloser]

Days of Heaven (1978)

#Days of Heaven #film #cinema #Sight and Sound #cinemetography #aes #art #Terrance Malick #70s #american aesthetic #Texas #america on film #american cinema

[onekindredspirit]

Darkness from light Strife from love. Are they the workings of one mind? The features of the same face? Oh my soul Let me be in you now Look out through my eyes Look at the things you have made - All things shining.

Terrance Malick - The Thin Red Line

Silver Print

#silver gelatin #film photography #photographers on tumblr #darkroom #original photography #analog photography #oh my soul #monochrome #black and white

[myawesomemovielist]

my awesome movie list of 2011:

melancholia (dir. lars von trier)

the tree of life (dir. terrance malick)

take shelter (dir. jeff nichols)

another earth (dir. mike cahill)

drive (dir. nicolas winding refn)

shame (dir. steve mcqueen)

the ides of march (dir. george clooney)

the iron lady (dir. phyllida lloyd)

one day (dir. lone scherfig)

extremely loud & incredibly close (dir. stephen daldry)

warrior (dir. gavin o'connor)

the girl with the dragon tattoo (dir. david fincher)

tinker tailor soldier spy (dir.  tomas alfredson )

moneyball (dir.  bennett miller)

the help (dir. tate taylor)

bridesmaids (dir. paul feig)

#melancholia #the tree of life #take shelter #my awesome movie list #movie list #2011 movies #another earth #drive #shame #the ides of march #the iron lady #one day #extremely loud and incredibly close #warrior #the girl with the dragon tattoo #tinker tailor soldier spy #moneyball #the help #bridesmaids #kirsten dunst #ryan gosling #george clooney #anna hathaway #jessica chastain #brad pitt #michael shannon #viola davis #octavia spencer #joel edgerton #tom hardy

[sroczko]

Terrance Malicks’s Badlands (1973), a crime/noir, was the inspiration for some of Bruce Springsteen’s songs off his album ‘Nebraska’

TIL

#crime noir #film noir #terrence malick #badlands #sissy spacek #lana del rey #lizzy grant #tumblr grunge #bruce springsteen

[underratedvisages]

Q’ORIANKA KILCHER in Terrance Malick’s A NEW WORLD (2005)

#a new world (2005) #q’orianka kilcher #indigenous women #native faceclaims #poc faceclaim #indigenous people in film #indigenous women in film #women in film #pocwomen #poc women in film #people of colour in film #underrated movies #poc gif hunt #indigenous gif hunt #period drama #period drama films #period drama gifs #underrated faceclaims #zo ✬ #zo’s gifs #zoramones #my gifs #gifs

[77-fxes]

That Old Time Religion- An Appreciation of Eternals

I find myself taken by the Eternals because it’s exactly the kind of movie that I wanted: Something like a mix between The Big Chill and a Terrance Malick film with superheroes. I wanted to see a group of characters who’ve known each other too well and for too long and who find themselves adrift in various ways. The film delivered that with aplomb.

What I didn’t expect was that the film would lean into the idea of Eternals as missionaries. Not the kind of missionaries that we see today, but something from a century or two ago. Small groups of fervent followers of some offshoot sect huddled in meeting in small rooms a la something out of The Master, or settling across the frontier spreading the gospel, bound by a common dogma and spiritual zeal. In that environment, the religious group becomes a sort of extended family, with generations, divisions of labor, relationships, and expectations, both of oneself and others. The Eternals present as one of these ‘missionary families’ and I think the movie does a good job of illustrating the sense of loss and disorientation that happens once that religious mission has no meaning.

Ajak is at the top of this family, the spiritual leader who holds the complete faith of her disciples and her directives hold the weight of God itself. Below here are the trusted older members, the devout Ikaris, the resolute Thena, the frustrated intellectual Phastos, and the lighthearted but steadfast Gilgamesh. Next would be the anxious but family-oriented Kingo, followed by the restless ‘teens’ Makkari, Druig, and Sprite who all chafe under the restrictions of their religious life in different ways but are bound by family ties. Finally, there is Sersi who, interestingly enough in this film is presented as the most innocent ‘youngest’ member of the team, with Chan’s performance playing up Sersi’s love of humanity and aversion to making choices as primary aspects of her character (Chan herself described Sersi’s story as a ‘coming of age’ story in interviews).

These dynamics come to ahead at Tenochtitlan where the Eternals' two missions meet an inflection point. The Eternals’ mission is described in two parts–a) killing the Deviants, and b) helping to foster humanity’s development. In Tenochtitlan, the Eternals seemingly kill the last of the Deviants, the Eternals are left with the state of the second mission. Druig calls out the failure of this lesson and in true teenager fashion, rebels against an order that has failed at the part of the mission that he is the most invested in. This in turn prompted Ajak to consider the religious mission concluded and release her children to their own fates. Here, the movie does something truly interesting in that it explores the question of self-identity and relationships outside of a hardcore religious context. All of the personality traits, relationship roles and expectations that the Eternals have ever known have been tightly connected to their faith in Arishem and the mission that he gave them through Ajak. Now that that’s over, who are these people? Who are they to each other? What are they supposed to be doing? Ajak gives the directive to ‘go out and live your lives (I’m paraphrasing)’ but would any of us know what that means if all we had known is one life, one faith, and one mission? The looks on the faces of the rest of the Eternals seems to betray this sense of dislocation and disassociation.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen a mainstream superhero movie take something like that on, particularly in a way that provides such murky answers. Three of the characters die in the process, one disappears before the big battle, and in the end the group splits into two different missions with three members possibly having their arcs erased with their memories. That’s heady stuff, and to me, it’s what makes Eternals such a fascinating movie.

#eternals #religion #family dysfunction #family dynamics

[floorman3]

All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt Review- A Minimalistic Low-Key Take On Motherhood and Nurturing Youth (Sundance 2023)

Minimalist films are something you don’t see that often but when they do come out they are usually celebrated. The Tree of Life from director Terrance Malick comes to mind. All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt is another such film. It depicts the lives of Black men, women, and children in rural Mississippi. There isn’t much dialogue but when there is it’s very little and muddled. The visuals and the…

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#All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt #Chris Chalk #Jayah Henry #Kaylee Nicole Johnson #Moses Ingram #Raven Johnson #Sheila Atim #Sundance 2023

[adambhalalough]

In memory of Edward R. Pressman, movie producer and patron of the arts

I was saddened to hear of the recent passing of Ed Pressman. Ed was a friend and a collaborator of mine for many years. I like to think of him as a patron of the arts because he supported a lot of young filmmakers like me as we were just coming into the industry, and he wanted nothing in return other than hard work and appreciation for the effort he put forth setting up pitches with execs and financiers and meetings with actors and actresses. During the most difficult spell of my career, when I needed it the most, he was there with support- both financially and otherwise. It’s not an exaggeration to say Ed kept me alive, kept my family fed, my bills paid and my mortgage paid with options on numerous scripts I had written on spec (Splatter Sisters, Cruisin’ for a Bruisin’) and with rewriting / ghost-writing jobs for big budget projects (Beijing Bullet- pictured above with director Rob Cohen at a meeting in Beverly Hills). 

I enjoyed spending time with Ed and hearing him tell stories about filmmakers I idolized - like Oliver Stone. Once before a meeting at a private club in Manhattan (jackets required) he told me how he discovered Arnold Schwarzenegger and gave him his first big break in Conan. He knew I loved hip hop and would tell me hilarious stories of smoking weed with DMX- apparently DMX said Ed was the only person he’d ever met who could smoke him under the table. And of course I picked Ed’s brain almost constantly about Terrance Malick and what it was like to work with a living legend. 

Ed Pressman was absolutely a one of a kind. No film producer has ever come before quite like him, nor will ever come after. He deserves to be celebrated. If there were more producers like Ed out there today, independent film in general would be better off. He was unselfish, generous with his time and money and an old fashioned fan of movies who was in it for all the right reasons. He will be missed. My condolences to his wife Annie and son Sam Pressman. With love - ABL.

#ed pressman #edward r pressman #in memorium #film producer #how to produce a film

[ysabeauwilce]

OFMD movie call-backs SPOILERS

--Black Pete’s tall tale about Blackbeard was a total call-back to Douglas Fairbanks (somersault) and all the MGM pirate movies of the 1930s (Black Pete’s pirate headgear)

--Of course, the famous three way gun-fight in the Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Olivia: good; Jack: bad: Buttons: ugly)

--Blackbeard greeting the Revenge crew for the first time: John Cleese’s Robin Hood in Time Bandits

--French party boat: drunk Mozart in Amadeus

--Jim alone in the field: Every Terrance Malick movie ever made

--Outlaws crossing the field towards Jim’s house--ditto Terrance Malick, plus also possibly the outlaws coming for the family in Once Upon a Time in the West

--Stede tippy-toeing on the stool--Harmonica Man in Once a Time in the West

(above is a long shot, but I’m convinced that someone involved in this show is a huge Sergio Leone fan, so maybe it’s not such a long shot)

--Alfeo de La Vaca is dressed like the Man with No Name

--Geraldo & Jim confession scene reminds me of the confessional scene in The Last of Sheila, but that movie is so obscure surely that is just a coincidence...

And of, course, Blackbeard’s outfit is a direct Mad Mad Lift

What did I miss?

#ofmd

[schlock-luster-video]

#badlands #terrance malick #sissy spacek #true crime film #crime drama #road movies #new york city #movie art #art #drawing #movie history #pop art #modern art #pop surrealism #cult movies #portrait #cult film

[ambientsoundtrackfan]

how can I write my novel to feel like terrance malick's tree of life😩

[artbookdap]

Spike Lee fans, take note! @officialspikelee has a signed copies: As A Part Of The Historic 2021 Opening Of The Academy Museum Of Motion Pictures In Los Angeles I Was Honored With An Exhibition Of Some Of My Biggest Inspirations, Artifacts, And Art From My Personal Collection. This Included Items Such As The Suit I Wore When I Accepted My Oscar For Best Adapted Screenplay For BLACKKKLANSMAN, A Guitar Gifted To Me By THE Late Prince Rogers Nelson, Wynton Marsalis’ And Terence Blanchard’s Trumpets Signed To Me, Brandford Marsalis’ Saxophone Signed To Me, Movie Posters Of Films By Coppola, Spielberg, Lucas, Scorsese, Fellini, Billy Wilder, Kirk Douglas, Paul Newman, Ryan Coogler, Melvin Van Peebles, Sidney Poitier, Terrance Malick, And Akira Kurosawa Signed to Me Also And Much More. If You Didn't Get A Chance To Make It There All Of The Items Of This Unique Exhibition Have Been Consolidated Into This Beautiful Book Which Comes Signed By Me. Available Now At @spikesjointofficial Click The Product Link On IG Story Or Click The Link In The Bio To Purchase This And Many More https://www.instagram.com/p/CnzfNlSOCyL/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[hmzawy]

Cell & Church.

A Hidden Life (2019)

#a hidden life #A Hidden Life 2019 #Terrance Malick