“Brother. Mother. It was they who led me to your door.”
Good luck to anyone who wants me to do something that doesn’t involve sitting on this sofa for the next two hours.
He needed me now more than ever, but something had come between us. I’d stopped even paying attention to him. Instead I sat in the car and read a map and spelled out entire sentences with my tongue on the roof of mouth where nobody could read them.
The 31 Best Films Of 2011 - No. 4
The Tree of Life
Terrence Malick doesn’t do films, he does masterpieces.
Reading Terrence Malick is to work with Ryan Gosling and Rooney Mara on an upcoming project was one of those rare moments where reality transcends your dreams.
Wasn’t no harm in him. You’d give him a flower, he’d keep it forever
Empire have put together an interesting time line comparing the number of films Terrence Malick (black dots) has churned out to that of a few of his fellow film makers (blue dots). When put next to Woody Allen’s, it could answer why Allen isn’t as highly regarded as his genius probably deserves these days. Too much of a good thing…
What I want to do, I can’t do. I do what I hate.
I’m never comfortable in claiming recently viewed films to be in my all time favourites but I have no arguments in that The Tree of Life is one of the greatest and most important of all time. Having someones profound experiences portrayed in such a beautiful, compelling and thought provoking way was an experience that no other film has given me. Shear magic.