The Terrence Malick Handbook - Everything you need to know about Terrence Malick

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Terrence Frederick Malick (born November 30, 1943) is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. In a career spanning almost four decades, Malick has directed five feature films.

Malick has received consistent regard for his work, and several of his films are considered to be masterpieces. Malick was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Director for The Thin Red Line and The Tree of Life and Best Adapted Screenplay for The Thin Red Line, as well as winning the Golden Bear at the 49th Berlin International Film Festival for The Thin Red Line and the Palme d'Or at the 64th Cannes Film Festival for The Tree of Life.

This book is your ultimate resource for Terrence Malick. Here you will find the most up-to-date information, photos, and much more.

In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about his Early life, Career and Personal life right away. A quick look inside: Terrence Malick, Lanton Mills, Drive, He Said, Dirty Harry, Pocket Money, Badlands (film), Days of Heaven, The Thin Red Line (1998 film), Endurance (film), Happy Times, Bear's Kiss, The Beautiful Country, Undertow (2004 film), The New World (film), Amazing Grace (2006 film), The Tree of Life (film).

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• Date de parution: 24 octobre 2012
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Contents

Articles Terrence Malick Lanton Mills Drive, He Said Dirty Harry Pocket Money Badlands (film)

Days of Heaven

The Thin Red Line (1998 film) Endurance (film) Happy Times Bear's Kiss The Beautiful Country Undertow (2004 film) The New World (film) Amazing Grace (2006 film) The Tree of Life (film)

References Article Sources and Contributors Image Sources, Licenses and Contributors

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Terrence Malick

Born

Terrence Malick Terrence Frederick Malick November 30, 1943 Ottawa, Illinois or Waco, Texas

OccupationFilm director, screenwriter, producer

Spouse

Jill Jakes (1970–1976) Michele Morette (1985–98) Alexandra Wallace (1998–present)

Terrence Frederick Malick(born November 30, 1943) is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. In a career spanning almost four decades, Malick has directed five feature films. [1][2] Malick has received consistent regard for his work, and several of his films are considered to be masterpieces. Malick was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Director forThe Thin Red Line, and won the Golden Bear at the 49th Berlin International Film Festival forThe Thin Red Lineand the Palme d'Or at the 64th Cannes Film Festival forThe Tree of Life.

Early life [3][4][5] [6][7] Terrence Malick was born in Ottawa, Illinois or Waco, Texas to his father Emil Malick, a geologist and [8] [9] [10] son of an Assyrian Christian Lebanese immigrant, and his mother Irene Malick. Waco is one of the settings [11] of his filmThe Tree of Life. Malick attended St. Stephen's Episcopal School in Austin, Texas while his family [3] lived in Bartlesville, Oklahoma. Malick had two younger brothers: Chris and Larry. Larry Malick was a guitarist who went to study in Spain with Segovia in the late 1960s. In 1968, Larry intentionally broke his own hands due to pressure over his musical studies. Emil went to Spain to help Larry, but Larry died shortly after, apparently [12] commiting suicide. Malick studied philosophy under Stanley Cavell at Harvard University, graduatingsumma cum laudeand Phi Beta Kappa in 1965. He went on to Magdalen College, Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar but left without earning a doctorate. In 1969, Northwestern University Press published Malick's translation of Heidegger'sVom Wesen des Grundesas The Essence of Reasons. Moving back to the United States, Malick taught philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute [7] of Technology while freelancing as a journalist. He wrote articles forNewsweek,The New Yorker, andLife.

Film career Malick got his start in film after earning an MFA from the AFI Conservatory in 1969, directingLanton Mills. At the AFI he established contacts with people such as Jack Nicholson, longtime collaborator Jack Fisk, and agent Mike Medavoy, who procured for Malick freelance work revising scripts. He is credited with the screenplay forPocket [13] Money(1972), and he wrote early drafts ofGreat Balls of Fire!(1989) andDirty Harry(1971). After one of his screenplays,Deadhead Miles, was made into what Paramount Pictures felt to be an unreleasable [14] film, Malick decided to direct his own scripts. His first work wasBadlands(1973), an independent film starring Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek as a young couple on a crime spree in the 1950s. After a troubled production, Badlandsdrew raves at its premiere at the New York Film Festival, leading to Warner Bros. Pictures buying [14] distribution rights for three times its budget. Paramount Pictures produced Malick's second film,Days of Heaven(1978), about a love triangle that develops in the farm country of the Texas Panhandle in the early 20th century. The film spent two years in post-production, during [15] which Malick and his crew experimented with unconventional editing and voice-over techniques.Days of Heaven

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went on to win the Academy Award for Best Cinematography, as well as the prize for Best Director at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival. Those rambling philosophical voiceovers; the placid images of nature, offering quiet contrast to the evil deeds of men; the stunning cinematography, often achieved with natural light; the striking use of music—here is a filmmaker with a clear sensibility and aesthetic who makes narrative films that are neither literary nor theatrical, in the sense of foregrounding dialogue, event, or character, but are instead principally cinematic, movies that suggest narrative, emotion, and idea through image and sound. [16] Chris Wisniewski

Following the release ofDays of Heaven, Malick began developing a project for Paramount, titledQ, that explored [17] the origins of life on earth. During pre-production, he suddenly moved to Paris and disappeared from public view. During this time, he wrote a number of screenplays, includingThe English Speaker, about Josef Breuer's analysis of [17] Anna O.; adaptations of Walker Percy'sThe Moviegoerand Larry McMurtry'sThe Desert Rose; a script about Jerry Lee Lewis; and a stage adaptation ofSansho the Bailiffthat was to be directed by Andrzej Wajda, in addition to [18] continuing work on theQwork onscript. Malick's Qeventually became the basis for his 2011 filmThe Tree of [19] Life.

Twenty years afterDays of Heaven, Malick returned to film directing in 1998 withThe Thin Red Line, a loose adaptation of the James Jones World War II novel of the same name, for which he gathered a large ensemble of famous stars. The movie was nominated for seven Academy Awards, won the Golden Bear at the 1999 Berlin Film [20] Festival, and received critical acclaim.

After learning of Malick's work on an article about Che Guevara during the 1960s, Steven Soderbergh offered Malick the chance to write and direct a film about Guevara that he had been developing with Benicio del Toro. [21] Malick accepted and produced a screenplay focused on Guevara's failed revolution in Bolivia. After a year and a half, the financing had not come together entirely, and Malick was given the opportunity to directThe New [22] [23] Worldscript he had begun developing in the 1970s. , a Consequently, he left the Guevara project in March [22] 2004. Soderbergh went on to directChe. The New World, which featured a romantic interpretation of the story of John Smith and Pocahontas, was released in 2005. Over one million feet of film was shot for the film, and three different cuts of varying length were released. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Cinematography, but received generally mixed reviews during its [24] [25][26][27] theatrical run, though it has since been hailed as one of the best films of the decade. Malick's fifth feature,The Tree of Life, was filmed in Smithville, Texas, and elsewhere during 2008. Starring Brad Pitt and Sean Penn, it is a family drama spanning multiple time periods and focuses on an individual's reconciling love, mercy and beauty with the existence of sickness, suffering and death. It premiered at the 2011 Cannes Film [28] Festival where it won the Palme d'Or. It has also been awarded FIPRESCI's Big Prize for the Best Film of the Year. A limited theatrical release in the United States began on May 27, 2011.

Malick recently finished shooting his sixth feature in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, and Pawhuska, Oklahoma. Filming in Pawhuska took place in two locations, a Catholic church and the Triangle Building, a three-sided, three-story building. Other details about the film are being closely guarded, with no title or plot information as yet announced. [29] The film will star Ben Affleck, Rachel McAdams, Olga Kurylenko, Javier Bardem and Rachel Weisz.

On November 1, 2011, Filmnation Entertainment announced international sales for Malick's next two projects: LawlessandKnight of Cups.Lawlesswill star Ryan Gosling, with a supporting cast including Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara and Haley Bennett.Knight of Cupswill star Bale, and will also feature Blanchett, along [30] with Isabel Lucas. The films will be shot back-to-back in 2012. Production designer Jack Fisk has indicated a [31] June start date.

During the weekend of September 16th, 2011, Malick was photographed and caught on film while on set for one of the first times ever, while he and a small crew were following Christian Bale and Haley Bennett around the Austin [32][33] City Limits Music Festival as part of preliminary shooting forLawlesswas also seen directing Ryan. He

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Deadhead Miles

Dirty Harry

Yes

Yes

Role:Worksman (Uncredited)

Yes

Untitled Terrence Malick Project

Uncredited Re-Write

First directorial effort of Jack Nicholson

Short Film Role Unspecified

Knight of Cups

Unknown

2011

2006

2012

Amazing Grace

The Tree of Life

UnknownLawless

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

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Yes

2004

2000

2002

Personal life [35] Malick is famously protective of his private life. His contracts stipulate that his likeness may not be used for [17][36] promotional purposes, and he routinely declines requests for interviews. [37] From 1970 to 1976 Malick was married to Jill Jakes. He is currently married to Alexandra W.B. Malick, who [38] starred as Queen Anne inThe New World.

Undertow

The Beautiful Country

Happy Times

Bear's Kiss

Yes

1972

The Gravy Train

1978

1974

Functioned as

1998

Days of Heaven

Director

Producer

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Writer Composer

Yes

Awarded the Palme d'Or at the 2011 Cannes International Film Festival. Awarded The Big Prize for the Best Film Of the Year, FIPRESCI, the International Federation of Film Critics

[39] Shooting back to back with 'Knight of Cups in 2012

Drive, He Said

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1971

Pocket Money

Yes

Awarded the prize for Best Director at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival Worker (uncredited)

Awarded the Golden Bear at the 1999 Berlin Film Festival

Film

Year

Badlands

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Filmography

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Lanton Mills

Yes

Yes

The Thin Red Line

1973

1999

Endurance

1969

Yes

2005

The New World

Uncredited Re-Write

Yes

Role:Caller at Rich Man's House (Uncredited)

Yes

Yes

Yes

Notes

Actor

Yes

[33][34] Gosling and Rooney Mara at the Fun Fun Fun Fest on the weekend on November 4, 2011.

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[41] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/g-roger-denson/terrence-malicks-tree-of-_b_868895.html [42] http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F19971207%2FREVIEWS08%2F401010327%2F1023

External links  Terrence Malick (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm517/) at the Internet Movie Database  Terrence Malick (http://www.allrovi.com/name/p100893) at AllRovi  Works by or about Terrence Malick (http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n86-41335) in libraries (WorldCat catalog)  (http://www.lafuriaumana.it/index.php/archive/59-la-furia-umana-nd-10-autumn-2011) Dossier about Terrence Malick,La furia umana, nb10, texts: English, Spanish, French, Italian by Joe McElhaney, Alain Bergala, Carlos Losilla, Jean-Cristophe Ferrari, Alessandro Cappabianca, and others; edited by Toni D'Angela

Lanton Mills

Lanton Millsis a rarely seen seventeen-minute comedy written and directed by Terrence Malick and starring Warren Oates, Harry Dean Stanton, Paula Mandel and Terrence Malick. It was completed in 1969, while he was a student at the American Film Institute. The story concerns two cowboys (Harry Dean Stanton and Terrence Malick) plotting to rob a bank in Texas. Paula Mandel (who plays a hysterical customer) is rumoured to have starred in an even more scarce Malick short entitledOld Ageat around the same time. The film was distributed nontheatrically (i.e., to collegiate film societies) in the 1970s but today reportedly can only be viewed in person at the A.F.I. by researchers.

Reference  Theresa Schwartzman:Can Terry Malick tell a joke? The serious and the absurd in Terrence Malick's Lanton Mills. IN:COP: Why you did it? I don't know. I always wanted to be a criminal, I guess.*Edited by Dietmar Schwcrzler & Sylvia Szely. Vienna: Sonderzahl, December 2005 (Rohstoff: Eine filmhistorische Recherche nach [1] der kleinen Form: Fanzine#2), pp.a21–23, online here

References [1] http://www.rohstoff-filmmagazin.org/contributions/Terence_Malick_Schwartzman.html

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