: Autocinema The working method I described in my previous post is relevant to another question commonly asked …
: The Story So Far The greater World is called Cosmus from the beauty thereof. — J. Bulwer, Anthropometamorphosis …
: Three-Part Invention Returning to the theme of Malick as a contrapuntal filmmaker: We could say that To the Wonder, with …
: Frame and Cut In Whose Justice? Which Rationality? (1988) and Three Rival Versions of Moral Enquiry (1990), …
: Counterpoint I often think of one of Auden’s great early poems, titled in later collections “A Summer Night” but …
: Private Train's Life Verse Terrence Malick is a biblically literate man — to say the very least — but Holy Scripture in his …
: Delays Ahead Hello, dear readers — Posting will be slow here for a while. I am currently (a) trying to get my …
: Sphinxes In Malick’s first film, Badlands, a teenage girl named Holly – having run away with a charming …
: Patience and Attention Yes, I needed patience to watch that first cut of A Hidden Life, because it was well over four hours …
: Unqualified As I noted in an introduction to this site, I’m not a film studies professor. I have no formal …
: A Disposition A certain disposition to the world — possessed by some humans, though not many — leads to …
: Learning on the Job Malick — who later said that he decided to go to film school because it didn’t seem worse than any …