about Cosmos Malick

The late great cultural critic and novelist Albert Murray used to speak of the intellectual world he had created — through decades of reading and listening and viewing and talking and arguing — as Cosmos Murray. Murray was one of the great American originals, a well-educated man but also one who made his own way in the world, never content merely to redeploy what he had learned from others but rather always seeking a new synthesis of his own.

Much the same can be said of Terrence Malick, who, though he was educated as a philosopher and worked for a while as a journalist, ended up as a filmmaker — largely self-taught and always self-driven. He is one of the greatest artists that this country has yet produced, and this site will explore his achievement. So stay tuned.

I’m your host, Alan Jacobs. I’ve written a bit about Malick: here, here, and here. On this site I’ll be writing a lot more.

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