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Terrence Malick
Terrence Malick in 2011 in Austin, Texas
Born
Terrence Frederick Malick

(1943-11-30) November 30, 1943 (age 81)
Ottawa, Illinois or Waco, Texas
Occupation(s)Film director, screenwriter, producer
Years active1969-present
Spouse(s)Jill Jakes (1970–1976)
Michele Morette (1985–98)
Alexandra Wallace (1998–present)

Terrence Frederick Malick (born November 30, 1943)[1] is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. In a career spanning over four decades he has directed seven feature films. He made his directorial debut with the drama Badlands in 1973. After the release of his second film, the 1978 drama Days of Heaven, Malick released no film work for twenty years, until the 1998 war drama The Thin Red Line. He is known for maintaining a low-key lifestyle.

Malick has received consistent praise for his work and has been regarded as one of the greatest living filmmakers.[2] He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director for The Thin Red Line and The Tree of Life, and the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Thin Red Line, as well as winning the Golden Bear at the 49th Berlin International Film Festival for The Thin Red Line, the Palme d'Or at the 64th Cannes Film Festival for The Tree of Life, and the SIGNIS Award at the 69th Venice International Film Festival for To the Wonder.

Early life

Terrence Malick was born in Ottawa, Illinois,[3][4][5] or Waco, Texas.[1][6] He is the son of Irene (née Thompson) and Emil A. Malick, a geologist.[7][8] His paternal grandparents were Assyrian Christian immigrants.[9][10] Waco is one of the settings of his film The Tree of Life.[11] Malick attended St. Stephen's Episcopal School in Austin, Texas, while his family lived in Bartlesville, Oklahoma.[3] Malick had two younger brothers: Chris and Larry. Larry Malick was a guitarist who went to study in Spain with Segovia in the late 1960s. In 1968, Larry intentionally broke his own hands due to pressure over his musical studies. Emil went to Spain to help Larry, but Larry died shortly after, apparently committing suicide.[12]

Malick studied philosophy under Stanley Cavell at Harvard University, graduating summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa in 1965. He went on to 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 doctorate.[13] In 1969, Northwestern University Press published Malick's translation of Heidegger's Vom Wesen des Grundes as The Essence of Reasons. Returning to the United States, Malick taught philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology while freelancing as a journalist. He wrote articles for Newsweek, The New Yorker, and Life.[6]

Film career

Malick started his film career after earning an MFA from the AFI Conservatory in 1969, directing the short film "Lanton Mills". At the AFI, he established contacts with people such as Jack Nicholson, longtime collaborator Jack Fisk, and agent Mike Medavoy, who procured for Malick freelance work revising scripts. He is credited with the screenplay for Pocket Money (1972), and he wrote an early draft of Dirty Harry (1971).[14]

After one of his screenplays, Deadhead Miles, was made into what Paramount Pictures felt to be an unreleasable film, Malick decided to direct his own scripts. His first work was Badlands (1973), an independent film starring Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek as a young couple on a crime spree in the 1950s. After a troubled production, Badlands drew raves at its premiere at the New York Film Festival, leading to Warner Bros. Pictures buying distribution rights for three times its budget.[15]

Paramount Pictures produced Malick's second film, Days of Heaven (1978), about a love triangle that develops in the farm country of the Texas Panhandle in the early 20th century. The film spent two years in post-production, during which Malick and his crew experimented with unconventional editing and voice-over techniques.[16] Days of Heaven went on to win the Academy Award for Best Cinematography, as well as the prize for Best Director at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival.

Those rambling philosophical voiceovers; the placid images of nature, offering quiet contrast to the evil deeds of men; the stunning cinematography, often achieved with natural light; the striking use of music – here is a filmmaker with a clear sensibility and aesthetic who makes narrative films that are neither literary nor theatrical, in the sense of foregrounding dialogue, event, or character, but are instead principally cinematic, movies that suggest narrative, emotion, and idea through image and sound.

Chris Wisniewski about Days of Heaven and The New World[17]

Following the release of Days of Heaven, Malick began developing a project for Paramount, titled Q, that explored the origins of life on earth. During pre-production, he suddenly moved to Paris and disappeared from public view.[18] During this time, he wrote a number of screenplays, including The English Speaker, about Josef Breuer's analysis of Anna O.; adaptations of Walker Percy's The Moviegoer and Larry McMurtry's The Desert Rose;[18] a script about Jerry Lee Lewis; and a stage adaptation of Sansho the Bailiff that was to be directed by Andrzej Wajda, in addition to continuing work on the Q script.[19] Malick's work on Q eventually became the basis for his 2011 film The Tree of Life.[20]

Twenty years after Days of Heaven, Malick returned to film directing in 1998 with The Thin Red Line, a loose adaptation of the James Jones World War II novel of the same name, for which he gathered a large ensemble of famous stars. The film was nominated for seven Academy Awards, won the Golden Bear at the 49th Berlin International Film Festival,[21] and received critical acclaim.[22]

After learning of Malick's work on an article about Che Guevara during the 1960s, Steven Soderbergh offered Malick the chance to write and direct a film about Guevara that he had been developing with Benicio del Toro. Malick accepted and produced a screenplay focused on Guevara's failed revolution in Bolivia.[23] After a year and a half, the financing had not come together entirely, and Malick was given the opportunity to direct The New World,[24] a script he had begun developing in the 1970s.[25] Consequently, he left the Guevara project in March 2004.[24] Soderbergh went on to direct Che.

The New World, which featured a romantic interpretation of the story of John Smith and Pocahontas, was released in 2005. Over one million feet of film was shot for the film, and three different cuts of varying length were released. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Cinematography, but received generally mixed reviews during its theatrical run,[26] though it has since been hailed as one of the best films of the decade.[27][28][29]

Malick's fifth feature, The Tree of Life, was filmed in Smithville, Texas, and elsewhere during 2008. Starring Brad Pitt, Jessica Chastain, and Sean Penn, it is a family drama spanning multiple time periods and focuses on an individual's reconciling love, mercy and beauty with the existence of sickness, suffering and death. It premiered at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival[30] where it won the Palme d'Or. It also won the FIPRESCI Award for the Best Film of the Year. At the 84th Academy Awards, it was nominated for three awards including the Academy Award for Best Picture, Best Director for Malick, and Best Cinematography for Emmanuel Lubezki. A limited theatrical release in the United States began on May 27, 2011.

Malick's sixth feature, titled To the Wonder,[31] was shot predominately in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, and a few scenes were filmed in Pawhuska, Oklahoma. The film premiered at the 69th Venice International Film Festival. It is described in the program notes as "an exploration of love in its many forms".[32] The film stars Ben Affleck, Rachel McAdams, Olga Kurylenko, and Javier Bardem.[33]

On November 1, 2011, Filmnation Entertainment announced international sales for Malick's next two projects: Lawless and Knight of Cups. Lawless will star Ryan Gosling, with a supporting cast including Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara and Haley Bennett. Knight of Cups will star Bale, and will also feature Blanchett, along with Isabel Lucas. The films will be shot back-to-back in 2012.[34] Production designer Jack Fisk has indicated a June start date.[35]

During the weekend of September 16, 2011, Malick was photographed and caught on film while on set for one of the first times ever, while he and a small crew were following Christian Bale and Haley Bennett around the Austin City Limits Music Festival as part of preliminary shooting for Lawless.[36][37] He was also seen directing Ryan Gosling and Rooney Mara at the Fun Fun Fun Fest on the weekend on November 4, 2011.[37][38] In early 2012, the title "Lawless" was given to The Weinstein Company's The Wettest County, leaving Malick's Lawless untitled.[36]

Personal life

Malick is famously protective of his private life.[39] His contracts stipulate that his likeness may not be used for promotional purposes, and he routinely declines requests for interviews.[18][40]

From 1970 to 1976, Malick was married to Jill Jakes.[41] His companion afterward in the late 1970s was director and screenwriter Michie Gleason.[41] In 1985 he married a Frenchwoman,[41] Michele Morette,[42] whom he met in Paris in 1980; in 1996, Malick asked for a divorce, which was granted.[41] They were married 13 years; she later died.[42] Afterward he married Alexandra "Ecky" Wallace, his high-school sweetheart.[43]

As of at least 2011, Malick resides in Austin, Texas.[44]

Filmography

Year Film Functioned as Notes
Director Producer Writer Composer Actor
1969 Lanton Mills Yes Yes Yes Yes Short film. Role: Tilman
1971 Drive, He Said Yes Uncredited draft[45]
Dirty Harry Yes Uncredited early draft[45]
1972 Deadhead Miles Yes
Pocket Money Yes Yes Role: Workman (uncredited)[citation needed]
1973 Badlands Yes Yes Yes Yes Role: Caller at Rich Man's House (uncredited)[citation needed]
1974 The Gravy Train Yes
1978 Days of Heaven Yes Yes Yes Awarded the Best Director Award at the 1979 Cannes Film Festival
Role: Worker (uncredited)[citation needed]
1998 The Thin Red Line Yes Yes Awarded the Golden Bear at the 1999 Berlin Film Festival
1999 Endurance Yes
2000 Happy Times Yes
2002 Bear's Kiss Yes Uncredited re-write[citation needed]
2004 The Beautiful Country Yes
Undertow Yes
2005 The New World Yes Yes
2006 Amazing Grace Yes
2011 The Tree of Life Yes Yes Awarded the Palme d'Or at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival
Awarded the FIPRESCI Award for the Best Film of the Year
2012 To the Wonder Yes Yes [31]
Awarded the SIGNIS Award at the 2012 Venice Film Festival
2013 The Green Blade Rises Yes
2013 Knight of Cups Yes Yes Post-production'
2014 Untitled Terrence Malick Project Yes Yes Shooting back to back with Knight of Cups in 2012[46]
Post-production
2014 Voyage of Time Yes Yes Post-production

Awards and nominations

Award Year Project Category Result
Academy Awards 1998 The Thin Red Line Best Director Nominated
Best Adapted Screenplay Nominated
2011 The Tree of Life Best Director Nominated
Cannes Film Festival 1978 Days of Heaven Best Director Award Won
Palme d'Or Nominated
2011 The Tree of Life Palme d'Or Won
César Awards 1999 The Thin Red Line Best Foreign Film Nominated
Chicago Film Critics Association 1998 The Thin Red Line Best Director Won
2011 The Tree of Life Best Director Won
Best Original Screenplay Nominated
Golden Globe Awards 1978 Days of Heaven Best Director Nominated

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