Terrence Malick

Lee Hernandez

'Firelight' Star On Juvenile Delinquents

HuffingtonPost.com | Lee Hernandez | Posted 04.23.2012

A lot of people know actress Q'Orianka Kilcher from her scene-stealing turn in director Terrence Malick's "The New World" (2005), but what a lot of pe...

WATCH: 2011's Best Movies Weren't Made By Studios

John Lopez | Posted 02.28.2012

John Lopez

Let's just be honest: 2011 hasn't been the best year for film. However, it did have some bright spots, found in the tiniest theater of the multiplex, like stray quarters in the couch cushions.

Newt, The Planet

Thomas de Zengotita | Posted 02.17.2012

Thomas de Zengotita

The night after I saw Melancholia I had an awful dream. The dream, like the movie, featured a hitherto unknown planet, called Melancholia. Except, in my dream, the planet was Newt.

Jessica Chastain's Painstaking, Unusual Method

Posted 02.13.2012

Jessica Chastain has come into the cinema world like a house on fire in 2011, storming screens with five different -- and critically acclaimed -- film...

French Director Bruno Dumont on Outside Satan: "No God but Cinema"

Karin Badt | Posted 01.21.2012

Karin Badt

It is not an easy film to understand, nor does one ever grasp the complete story, if there is one. But it is remarkably hypnotizing and rests in one's visual memory for a long time afterwards.

Gosling, Bale Lead AMAZING Casts For Acclaimed Director

Posted 01.01.2012

Terrence Malick waited six years between his last film and this summer's "The Tree of Life," but there will no such delay for his next film. Or the tw...

Jordan Zakarin

Jessica Chastain Is In Bloom

HuffingtonPost.com | Jordan Zakarin | Posted 12.12.2011

When the calendar turns to January, she'll have starred in seven major films in 2011, which is more than three times her previous career output. And a...

Does Terrence Malick Have A Type?

Posted 11.08.2011

Terrence Malick really knows how to pick his ladies. He brought the Jessica Chastain's beauty to otherworldly heights in his most recent "The Tree of ...

Go Big or Go Home: Why the Mainstream Successes of The Debt and Our Idiot Brother Matter

Scott Mendelson | Posted 11.07.2011

Scott Mendelson

While there are many reasons to praise the $14 million six-day opening of The Debt, the most surprising thing about it is that Focus Features debuted the film wide enough to achieve that kind of opening in the first place.

Big Ryan Gosling News Slip Out

Posted 10.25.2011

When he's not breaking up fights on the streets of New York, Ryan Gosling acts in movies. Lots and lots of movies. The constantly-in-motion star e...

Sean Penn Wasn't Impressed By 'The Tree Of Life'

The Huffington Post | Gazelle Emami | Posted 10.21.2011

Sean Penn is taking a page from Katherine Heigl's book and slamming his own film. He told French newspaper Le Figaro that "The Tree of Life" didn't me...

The Invisible Filmmaker Hiding Behind A Tree

Posted 09.06.2011

Terrence Malick is the invisible filmmaker. He never gives interviews and refuses to have his picture taken. Inevitably, this has created an air of my...

The Music That Roots 'Tree Of Life'

latimes.com | Posted 09.04.2011

In an early scene in "The Tree of Life," the new movie by Terrence Malick, an authoritarian patriarch played by Brad Pitt disrupts a family dinner to ...

Terrence Malick Directs the Latest Sarah Palin Documentary

Spencer Green | Posted 08.31.2011

Spencer Green

According to inside sources, the three-hour Thin Rogue Line does not consist of any actual footage of Palin, relying instead on a series of shots of caribou, glaciers, and migrating salmon.

Lucas Kavner

How Malick Built A Family In 'Tree Of Life'

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucas Kavner | Posted 08.10.2011

While a great deal of attention has been paid to the asteroids, opera, dinosaurs, and lava-spewing volcanoes that pepper long stretches of Terrence Ma...

The Tree of Life: Your Summer Popcorn Flick It Ain't

Avital Binshtock | Posted 08.09.2011

Avital Binshtock

The Tree of Life isn't exactly what its trailer suggests. Watch its marketing tool, and you get the idea that it's a poignant story about a young fam...

Spiritual Reflections On 'The Tree Of Life'

Rev. James Martin, S.J. | Posted 08.06.2011

Rev. James Martin, S.J.

I'm pretty religious and knew that "The Tree of Life" tackled what are sometimes ominously called "Big Questions" about religion. But I was unprepared for the power of the film, which is like living inside a prayer.

Even When a Great Film Comes Out, You Can't See It (Except Maybe in New York)

John Farr | Posted 08.06.2011

John Farr

Mindless kiddie fare opens at around four thousand screens across the country. When at last a brilliant, provocative film for grown-ups gets produced, it merited four screens. Doesn't this strike you as just a trifle lopsided?

Terrence Malick's 'The Tree Of Life': A Contemporary Garden Of Eden?

G. Roger Denson | Posted 08.05.2011

G. Roger Denson

Eminently lyrical and rapturous in the cinematic manifold that it kaleidoscopically brings into and out of focus onscreen with each turn of the Terrence Malick lens, Tree of Life is one of those singular cinematic milestones.

The Religious Meaning Of Malick's 'Tree of Life'

Rabbi David Wolpe | Posted 07.31.2011

Rabbi David Wolpe

Why does God not simply say to Job "This is why you suffer?" What is the larger point God is making? There are endless, powerful and provocative speculations about this question.

God At The Root Of 'Tree Of Life'

Cathleen Falsani | Posted 07.28.2011

Cathleen Falsani

When making a film that is, essentially, the chronicling of God's relationship with humankind, even the most eloquent narrative would seem anemic.

Annals of the Overrated: Lady Gaga and The Tree of Life

Marshall Fine | Posted 07.27.2011

Marshall Fine

Last week I saw Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life. Then I saw Lady Gaga on SNL. And I had the same reaction to both: Why are there so many people out there willing to declare this stuff great art?

Jessica Chastain Talks Spontaneous Fight With Brad Pitt

Posted 07.25.2011

Life is good for Jessica Chastain. She had three films presented at Cannes, two of which, "The Tree of Life," and "Take Shelter" won prizes at the fes...

Don't Wait to See Tree of Life -- It May Be Too Good to Stick Around

Jesse Kornbluth | Posted 07.24.2011

Jesse Kornbluth

Why, a week after seeing it, am I still haunted by this movie? Why do the images float through my dreams? Why can't I look at our daughter without thinking of the children in Malick's film?

Brad Pitt's New Movie, Kirsten Dunst Win HUGE Awards!

AP | By DAVID GERMAIN | Posted 07.23.2011

CANNES, France -- American director Terrence Malick's expansive drama "The Tree of Life" won the top honor at the Cannes Film Festival on Sunday, whil...