TERRENCE MALICK: PARADISE LOST
Enigmatic, transcendent and wholly singular, no one directs like Terrence Malick. In the 1970s, when his New Hollywood colleagues leaned into the urban and the gritty, Malick went full pastoral, invoking the paintings of Andrew Wyeth and examining humankind’s place within nature. His unparalleled success in the 1970s, which garnered him a veritable carte blanche, as well as a blank cheque, resulted in a notorious two-decades long abdication, only to have him re-emerge in the late 1990s in top form. PARADISE LOST focuses on four Malick masterworks, each set within the hinterlands of rapture and melancholy, the profound and the profane, Heaven and Hell.
“Simply one of the most ravishing films ever made, luminous in a way that no other movie has been” (David Sexton, The London Evening Standard)
“Almost incontestably the most gorgeously photographed film ever made” (Michael Atkinson, The Village Voice)
Few films can claim such accolades, such universal praise as Terrence Malick’s DAYS OF HEAVEN. Ushering in a 20-year hiatus from filmmaking for Malick—who made his directorial debut BADLANDS only a few years prior—DAYS OF HEAVEN is a singular, perplexing masterpiece. Beguiling, entrancing, and commanding, this is your chance to see it on the big screen in a stunning restoration drawn from the original camera negative.
While filmed in Alberta, DAYS OF HEAVEN is set in the Texas panhandle, where newly arrived grifters Bill (Richard Gere) and Abby (Brooke Adams) set about claiming a dying farmer’s (Sam Shepard) inheritance. Seen through the eyes of Bill’s little sister (astounding newcomer Linda Manz), intimate relationships play out with intricacies, confusion, and pathos.
Featuring Academy-Award winning cinematography from Néster Almendros and Haskell Wexler that evokes the American landscapes of Andrew Wyeth, the drifter loneliness of Edward Hopper, and the impossible lighting of Johannes Vermeer, DAYS OF HEAVEN is, still to this day, one of the finest achievements in visual culture. (ALICIA FLETCHER)
Format: 4K Restoration courtesy of Paramount
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