Terrence Malick - The Tree Of Life Countdown

Despite the bad critics and some booing from the Cannes premiere crowd two days ago this is the film I anticipate the most right now. It might also be the answer to all of Conor's questions asked two posts ago. This is also supposed to be the film why Malick disappeared for 20 years between Days of Heaven and The Thin Red Line, not being able to pull off this major achievement then. Another 13 years and The New World have passed, making it the Son of God's lifetime for this movie to be in production. Since you can't enlarge (or I don't seem to be able to enable that function) the YouTube window from here, click on it again after you hit the play button to get to the YouTube site to, because that's what this sentence is all about, enlarge the trailer to full size. You don't want to have it otherwise, trust me. Or just click on this link to get there directly. Just found another clip here.

5 films in 40 years and every one considered a masterpiece. Interesting enough that imdb lists yet another Malick film as being in post-production already. Spotting Ben Affleck in the cast, I really don't know what to think of that. Wikipedia lists it as The Burial and I do nothing but hope that Malick doesn't bury his talents and integrity for good with this one. In the meantime (The Tree of Life opens June 16 in Germany) I'm watching Malick's acknowledged masterpieces in chronological order. And you definitely should do that, too.

• Badlands, 1973
• Days of Heaven, 1978
• The Thin Red Line, 1998
• The New World, 2005

The German DVD of at least Badlands has shitty picture quality. Really shitty, that is. You should try to get hands on some HD and Criterion Collection editions of these films.