The Weekender: Christmas Edition 2021
On Movies & Media,On Songs & Albums,Journal,The Weekender
December 25, 2021
This week: Malick's rollercoaster ride through the eons of history. Mia Hansen-Løve's film Bergman Island. All hail U2's The Edge!
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Overstreet Archives: Days of Heaven (1978)
On Movies & Media,Film Reviews
August 5, 2020
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A Hidden Life (2019)
January 21, 2020
A Hidden Life is a movie that I wish every moviegoer in the world would experience on the big screen while they have the chance. But I'm also holding back from what feels to me like excessive praise.
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Song to Song (2017)
On Movies & Media,Film Reviews
April 6, 2017
The latest Terrence Malick pageant of glamorous lovers and their interior-monologues meanders into monotony.
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Knight of Cups (or, All My Favorite Critics Disagree)
March 4, 2016
Terrence Malick's films tend to divide film critics, even those who usually agree. This time, his work has sent them careening in all directions.
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Do you ever dream a movie?
June 4, 2015
This morning, my friend Bob Denst — a gifted poet who is studying in Seattle Pacific University's MFA in Creative Writing program — sent me this note: "Had a dream that I was watching a new Terrence Malick movie this morning." But as Malick movies go... this one gets pretty weird.
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Looking Closer at Terrence Malick’s Knight of Cups
February 8, 2015
Terrence Malick's Knight of Cups screened at Berlinale today. Here come the reviews...
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