https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrence_Malick
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrence_Malick_filmography
Filmography
| Year | Title | Distributor |
|---|---|---|
| 1973 | Badlands | Warner Bros. |
| 1978 | Days of Heaven | Paramount Pictures |
| 1998 | The Thin Red Line | 20th Century Fox |
| 2005 | The New World | New Line Cinema |
| 2011 | The Tree of Life | Fox Searchlight Pictures |
| 2012 | To the Wonder | Magnolia Pictures |
| 2015 | Knight of Cups | Broad Green Pictures |
| 2016 | Voyage of Time | Broad Green Pictures / IMAX Corporation |
| 2017 | Song to Song | Broad Green Pictures |
| 2019 | A Hidden Life | Fox Searchlight Pictures |
| TBA | The Way of the Wind |
Themes and style
Critics have noted the philosophical themes of Malick's films.[87] According to film scholar Lloyd Michaels, Malick's main themes include "the isolated individual's desire for transcendence amidst established social institutions, the grandeur and untouched beauty of nature, the competing claims of instinct and reason, and the lure of the open road".[87] He named Days of Heaven as one in a group of acclaimed films from the 1970s that were intended to revolutionize the American film epic. Like The Godfather films (1972, 1974), Nashville (1975), and The Deer Hunter (1978), Michaels argued that the movie delves into "certain national myths" as an idiosyncratic type of Western, "particularly the migration westward, the dream of personal success, and the clash of agrarian and industrial economies".[88] Roger Ebert considered Malick's body of work to have a unifying common theme: "Human lives diminish beneath the overarching majesty of the world."[89] In Ebert's opinion, Malick was among the few remaining directors who yearned "to make no less than a masterpiece".[90] While reviewing The Tree of Life, The New York Times critic A. O. Scott compared Malick to innovative "homegrown romantics" such as the writers Walt Whitman, Hart Crane, James Agee, and Herman Melville, in the sense that their "definitive writings" also "did not sit comfortably or find universal favor in their own time" but nonetheless "leaned perpetually into the future, pushing their readers forward toward a new horizon of understanding".[91]
