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10 unusual facts about Terrence Malick


Asghar Farhadi

In June 2011, A Separation won the Sydney Film Prize in competition with Cannes Festival's winner The Tree of Life, directed by Terrence Malick.

Ben Chaplin

After departing the series, he co-starred in several films including The Truth About Cats and Dogs, Terrence Malick's The Thin Red Line, Murder By Numbers, The Touch with Michelle Yeoh, Birthday Girl and Dorian Gray (2009) as society artist Basil Hallward.

Burnt Lips

Burnt Lips includes two selections from the soundtrack of Terrence Malick's film Days of Heaven.

Daniel Southworth

He also helped develop action sequences for Terrence Malick's The New World, took part in James Cameron's early visualizations of Avatar, and developed some of action scenes for Neill Blomkamp's Halo 3: Landfall web sequences.

German Shorthaired Pointer

The 1978 film "Days of Heaven," written and directed by Terrence Malick, features a brief scene of dogs hunting the prairie.

I Won't Give Up

Jason Lipshutz from Billboard found some similarities to Terrence Malick's film The Tree of Life, "with its lingering shots of wholesome Americana, sun-stroked imagery, non-linear structure and contrast between out-of-focus landscape shots and striking close-ups."

Riverburn

The 20 minute film—inspired by Andrei Tarkovsky and Terrence Malick—is about a city girl (Magda Apanowicz) who while briefly left alone on a camping trip, meets a city boy, sparking a mutual interest.

Sansho the Bailiff

In 1990 producers Robert Michael Geisler and John Roberdeau (Streamers, The Thin Red Line) commissioned director Terrence Malick to write a stage play based on Sansho the Bailiff.

Thomas Wilfred

In 2011 an image of the Lumia work "Opus 161" was featured at several important points in the Terrence Malick film The Tree of Life.

Whiskey Gap, Alberta

In 1976 hundreds of people came to Whiskey Gap for the production of Terrence Malick's period film Days of Heaven.


Dave Kehr

At the same time, he is known for being an early supporter of many filmmakers who went on to achieve an international reputation, including Terrence Malick, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Raul Ruiz, Jonathan Demme, John Carpenter, Walter Hill, Paul Brickman, Clint Eastwood, Albert Brooks, George Romero and Alan Rudolph.