Terrence Malick

Terrence Frederick Malick m l k born November 30, 1943 is an American film director, screenwriter and producer. In a career spanning over four decades he has directed eight feature films. Malick made his directorial debut with the drama Badlands 1973, about a young couple on a crime spree in the 1950s Midwest. His second film, Days of Heaven 1978, follows a farm laborer who becomes caught in a love triangle both films are often ranked among the best of the 1970s. After the latters release, Malick took a long hiatus from filmmaking. His third film, The Thin Red Line 1998, is set during World War II and received an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture. The New World 2005 is a romantic historical drama. The Tree of Life 2011 is an experimental drama that observes a 1950s Texas family through fragmented visual style and a nonlinear narrative. Although initial reviews were polarized, many critics and scholars now consider the film a masterpiece. Tree of Life won the Palme dOr at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival. To the Wonder 2012 is a romantic drama art film.

Terrence Malick was born in Ottawa, Illinois. He is the son of Irene ne Thompson 19122011 and Emil A. Malick 19172013, a geologist. His paternal grandparents were Assyrian Christian immigrants from Syria and Lebanon. Malick attended St. Stephens Episcopal School in Austin, Texas, while his family lived in Bartlesville, Oklahoma. Malick had two younger brothers Chris and Larry. Larry Malick was a guitarist who went to study in Spain with Andrs Segovia in the late 1960s. In 1968, Larry intentionally broke his own hands due to pressure over his musical studies. Their father Emil went to Spain to help Larry, but his son died shortly after, apparently committing suicide.Malick received a A.B. in philosophy from Harvard College, graduating summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa in 1965. He did graduate work at Magdalen College, Oxford, as a Rhodes Scholar. After a disagreement with his tutor, Gilbert Ryle, over his thesis on the concept of world in Kierkegaard, Heidegger, and Wittgenstein, Malick left Oxford without a degree. In 1969, Northwestern University Press published Malicks translation of Heideggers Vom Wesen des Grundes as The Essence of Reasons. ........

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