Perhaps this is why his films today are so divisive: Malick has been trying to forge a new way to express concepts other films don't dare approach. Sometimes these attempts come off as clichéd, but that may also be because he is, in effect, portraying a failed human attempt to give voice to something that cannot be named or spoken. Or, to turn around an even earlier statement of the filmmaker's: if Malick resorts to his own peculiar language, it is because ordinary cinema does not meet his purposes; and it does not because he has new and different purposes. -- Ebiri, Bilge. English Speakers: The prison of language in Terrence Malik's The New World.Lisa, here is a good opportunity for you to see The New World, film club's most agreed upon movie, at MOMI next week. If you have the free time, you could even catch up on all his films before the new one comes out.
Check out this retrospective of Malick's work edited by MZS.
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