Tag Archives: Malick

Terrence Malick’s Song of Himself

Posted on September 19, 2011 by Niles Schwartz

With the rumblings and portents of world’s end and apocalyptic speculation, The Tree of Life could not have arrived at a more opportune moment. Granted, it does not dwell on the End as much as it does the Beginning…

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The Perspective of Terrence Malick

Posted on April 4, 2010 by Jon Baskin

The director of four films beginning with Badlands in 1973, Terrence Malick studied philosophy with Stanley Cavell at Harvard before abandoning a doctorate on Heidegger, Kierkegaard and Wittgenstein. A promising journalist and academic—as well as an outstanding high school football player—in …

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