In the Thy Kingdom Come trailer, Javier Bardem plays his character from Terrence Malick's To The Wonder as he speaks to real-life Americans in the town of Bartlesville, in northeastern Oklahoma.
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In the twenty years between Days of Heaven and The Thin Red Line, Terrence Malick was elevated from director who salvaged Days of Heaven only after years of editing, to cinematic messiah. His aesthetic approach was canonized, and actors flocked to work with him, no matter how small the part. Now, with two movies in less…
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"Prolific" isn't a word you would've associated with Terrence Malick for the first forty years of his career, which yielded just five films. But it's coming to define the next stage of it. Since 2011's Tree of Life he's been on a roll, with some four films due out in the next few years. The…
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Terrence Malick has traditionally been one of the most reclusive American filmmakers. He does few interviews, and makes his films shrouded in as much secrecy as possible. But it's very difficult to make a movie in a vacuum of late, and so we see occasional behind the scenes glimpses. For To the Wonder, his most recent…
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Superheroes aren't the only ones showing off their goods today. A batch of new photos have dropped for a trio of highly anticipated releases that don't involve flowing capes or secret powers (at least, that we know of): Ti West's The Sacrament, Joel and Ethan Coen's Inside Llewyn Davis, and Terrence Malick's To the Wonder. Check…
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It took Terrence Malick three decades to release his first four features, but since 2011's Tree of Life he's been on a roll. He has four more films due out in the next few years, the first of which will be April's To the Wonder. We've already seen a couple of images from the film,…
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As 2012 comes to an end, it's time to look ahead to the cool stuff in store for 2013. A few new release dates have just been announced, promising a new year just as exciting on the cinematic front as the old one was. Hit the jump to read more about scheduling for George Clooney's…
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Terrence Malick's new film To the Wonder played Venice and TIFF this month, to middling reviews that occasionally seemed uninterested in viewing the film as anything other than a minor "in-between" film from the director. Featuring Ben Affleck, Rachel McAdams, Olga Kurylenko, and Javier Bardem, the movie is a small romantic drama; not the sort…
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We've got a lot of new images today, and the first two are new looks at characters in Paramount's pair of upcoming Jack movies -- Jack Ryan and Jack Reacher. (Which tough guy will blink and allow a title change first?) Both images show new looks at supporting characters, but in the case of Jack…
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With Labor Day weekend marking the end of the summer movie season -- actually, make that the traditional end of summer, period -- it's time to look ahead at the fall and winter offerings on the horizon. We've got early buzz on two very different entertainments coming up, Terrence Malick's To the Wonder and Sam…
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An almost ridiculous amount of information about Terrence Malick's latest film, To The Wonder, has made its way online and if it was for almost any other film, I'd advise you to look away. Why would you want to spoil yourself? But this is Terrence Malick, and even if you know the entire plot, musical…
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Every film director does some of the most important work of creating a movie in the editing room, but Terrence Malick is more famous for his editing process than most. Malick is known for re-writing films during the editing stage, and for being fearless when it comes to cutting scenes, and even whole characters. The…
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After he finished The Tree of Life, director Terrence Malick shot a film that was referred to for quite some time as The Burial. The romance features Ben Affleck, Rachel McAdams, Olga Kurylenko, Javier Bardem, Rachel Weisz, Barry Pepper, Michael Sheen, Amanda Peet, and Jessica Chastain, and has been the subject of much speculation, as…
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