New Terrence Malick flick

[Magical Realist]

The emergence of a new Terrence Malick film is always a much awaited event in cinema history. His genius is well-known in Hollywood. Of his 7 films, I've seen 4 and consider them masterpieces of cinematography and poetic monologue. Using non-linear narrative, poetry-reciting voice-overs, and lush orchestrally rich soundtracks, he aims at expressing the inner soul of a story. Almost as if you are dreaming the movie after you have seen it. Here's a review Malick's latest work. Enjoy the pretty pictures!

http://www.wweek.com/2016/03/09/knight-o...-film-yet/

"Few directors are labeled geniuses as consistently as Terrence Malick, whose newest film, Knight of Cups, is perhaps his most Malick-iest work to date. The Rhodes Scholar-turned-filmmaker has a very distinctive style, frustratingly so. When you know someone is universally acclaimed, it's hard to watch scene after scene of a woman dancing under a tree with poetry dubbed over it and not wonder what you're missing..."

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Going way back, Leo Kottke certainly got some exposure with the soundtrack of DoH (as if he wasn't already the fad Tommy Emmanuel of the 1970s).

When Siskel and Ebert [may they RIP] had that show together on PBS and wherever else afterwards (but actually watching this old review of it years later than that)...

I vaguely recollect Siskel dissing the background narrative of "Days Of Heaven", spoken by the character Linda. Veering off into something along the line of he just didn't buy what had become a trope in a lot of movies over the decades: Where either an uneducated or backwoods youth or older individual could dole out prose touted as eloquent in its own rustic, homespun way as academic literature (the "noble hick" or the "bluecollar sage" so to speak).

Apparently he never read some of the stuff written in the 19th century by just such autodidatic grunt workers who were heavy in life experiences. Even Samuel Clemens never got past the fifth grade, though he's of course ridiculously better known than the obscure writers I chanced upon hither and thither. The most incredible item I ever came across was a very lengthy school report (on the original papers) written by an eleven year old farm girl circa the 1860s or '70s. It described a trip her family made across a few states and back. She would have made my 20th century classmates and I (at the same age) look like a band of inarticulate savages restricted to superficial concerns.

At any rate, I guess Siskel still gave DoH a thumbs-up at the end. I've actually got missing-memory in regard to that part of his / their TV review, but historical mentions of his review in the Chicago Tribune seem to indicate a praise for the rest of it. I don't remember Ebert whining about anything in regard to the film, so he's a given.