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Counterpoint
I often think of one of Auden’s great early poems, titled in later collections “A Summer Night” but …
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Private Train's Life Verse
Terrence Malick is a biblically literate man — to say the very least — but Holy Scripture in his …
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Delays Ahead
Hello, dear readers — Posting will be slow here for a while. I am currently (a) trying to get my …
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Sphinxes
In Malick’s first film, Badlands, a teenage girl named Holly – having run away with a charming …
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Patience and Attention
Yes, I needed patience to watch that first cut of A Hidden Life, because it was well over four hours …
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Unqualified
As I noted in an introduction to this site, I’m not a film studies professor. I have no formal …
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A Disposition
A certain disposition to the world — possessed by some humans, though not many — leads to …
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Learning on the Job
Malick — who later said that he decided to go to film school because it didn’t seem worse than …
