Word: malickã
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Since his graduation day forty years ago, Malick??s genius and idiosyncratic personality have given him a completely unique place in modern film. The 62-year-old Malick does not agree to interviews with the press and his contract stipulates that no current photos of him can be released for publicity. The timeline of his life, or what the public knows of it, is mainly a series of basic facts, interrupted about once every decade by the release of a revolutionary movie...
Born the son of an oil executive in Texas in 1943, Malick entered Harvard as a first-year in 1961, living in Matthews. He moved into Adams the following year, and concentrated in Philosophy under Professor Emeritus and respected film theorist Stanley Cavell, who provoked Malick??s interest in German philosopher Martin Heidegger...
...Badlands” came “Days of Heaven,” which film critic Roger Ebert has placed in the “Great Movies” section of his website, commenting calling it “above all one of the most beautiful films ever made. Malick??s purpose is not to tell a story of melodrama, but one of loss...
...unique style Malick developed in those three films draws heavily on the philosophic training he received at Harvard. Like Heidegger’s archetype of the human as a being who simply “exists,” with no direction or motivation, Malick??s American everymen and everywomen drift from scene to scene, through non-linear plots and rich landscapes...
...with all of Malick??s films, questions abound, and as always the director provides the answer he has stood by for four decades: “No comment...