Terrence Malick
Movie Review: Knight of Cups
Knight of Cups tells the story of a Hollywood screenwriter (Christian Bale) who laments his purpose in life. Strippers, parties, money, family dysfunction, the works. Each interaction he shares comes and goes with ghostly ease, stepping up to drop their two cents of disgruntlement before receding back into the evening’s debauchery. Vice and vulgarity become a source of addiction, a cocktail that g...[Read More]
Movie Review: To the Wonder
One would never accuse famed press-shy, prodigal film genius Terrence Malick of being hurried in either his storytelling or his carefully chosen, infrequent projects. Known in shorthand as the young 1970s turk who followed that decade’s downbeat, existential turn in American cinema to its lowest pulse rate in the meticulous classics Badlands and Days of Heaven – films without a specific cause to r...[Read More]
Detroit Film Critics Society Announces the Best of 2011 Nominations
The Detroit Film Critics Society is pleased to announce the Best of 2011 nominees in ten categories. The society was founded in spring 2007 and consists of a group of twenty-two film critics who write or broadcast in the Detroit area as well as other major cities within a 150-mile radius of the city including Ann Arbor, Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo, Lansing, and Flint, Michigan. Each critic submitted t...[Read More]
Movie Review: The Tree of Life
Terrence Malick’s new drama, The Tree of Life, is reminiscent of his previous work, such as The Thin Red Line (1998), in that it is a film that focuses largely on ideas brought to life through cinematography. Although The Tree of Life does revolve around the story of a family, the movie is structured more through concept than plot. For example, the story isn’t told in a familiar, linear fashion, b...[Read More]