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.
“…a movie about creation growing out of destruction, about love where you'd least expect to find it and about angels – especially the fallen kind – who just happen to be men” Michael O’Sullivan (The Washington Post)
One of its decade’s most anticipated films, after a 20-year hiatus Terrence Malick returned to the director’s chair in 1998 with THE THIN RED LINE—a philosophical portray of Paradise Lost set within the Pacific theatre of the Second World War. Largely hailed as one of the finest war films ever made, THE THIN RED LINE was also one of the most complex when it came to its laborious, treacherous production and post-production.
Adapted from James Jones’ semi-autobiographic novel of the same name, Malick first considered the project upon the release of DAYS OF HEAVEN. Not until the mid-90s did production finally kickstart, catalyzing the hottest casting call, with A-list actors bombarding the casting director with offers to work for under scale, or in Sean Penn’s case, for $1.
The cast when it finally assembled, was a cavalcade of 90s powerhouses like Nick Nolte, John Travolta, George Clooney, Woody Harrelson, John C. Reilly, and Sean Penn combined with breakthrough performances from newcomers like Jim Caviezel, Adrien Brody and Ben Chaplin. The result was a war film that engaged as much with heaven as it did with hell—all scored by Hans Zimmer in some of his most celebrated work. (ALICIA FLETCHER)
Format: 4K Restoration courtesy of Disney
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