: The home of The Victorian Society was well chosen. 

: New Worlds and Old The Criterion edition of Malick’s The New World is on 3 discs, and the 3 discs are What’s called …

: Naming Rightly Dorothy Wordsworth, in her Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland 1803, tells a story: We sat …

: The Girl's Story Pauline Kael is right about one element of Days of Heaven: Though the irregularly handsome, …

: Doubling Terrence Malick and Thomas Pynchon are two of the greatest living American artists. Both are in …

: 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 …

: Coming soon…