The New World
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Berlinale 2014: A.J. Edwards on The Better Angels and Terrence Malick
Watch any sequence of A.J. Edwards’ poetic The Better Angels and the influence of executive producer Terrence Malick is abundantly clear. Edwards’ relationship with the Days of Heaven director started in 2005 when he worked as co-cinematographer on the documentary The Making of The New World as well as co-editor on The New World. Subsequently, he was second unit director and co-director on The Tree of Life, To the Wonder and the upcoming Knight of Cups, starring Cate Blanchett, Christian Bale and Natalie Portman, which Edwards reveals is definitely coming out this year. Thierry Frémaux must be doing cartwheels. The Better Angels, about the early life of Abraham Lincoln, started life as a Malick […]
by Kaleem Aftab on Feb 18, 2014 -
Michael Almereyda, Paradise
A STILL FROM DIRECTOR MICHAEL ALMEREYDA’S PARADISE. COURTESY POST FACTORY FILMS. As he himself puts it, writer-director Michael Almereyda loves to make movies like a fighter likes to brawl, and over the course of his directorial career he has sought out an intriguing variety of creative challenges. Born in 1959 in Overland Park, Kansas, Almereyda spent his formative years in the Los Angeles area, where he discovered cinema and became a voracious moviegoer. Almereyda attended Harvard as an art history student, but dropped out in order to pursue his film career. He made his debut with the short film A […]
by Nick Dawson on Sep 24, 2009 -
THE NEW WORLD’S THREE-PART HARMONY
A poster who calls himself Fuckles over at Ain’t It Cool sends world from a The New World Q&A screening with producer Sarah Green that there will be three cuts of Terrence Malick’s new film. The cut that’s in the theaters now, a likely “trimmed” version that will consist of the same scenes but shorter, and then an extended cut that’s longer than the 155-minute current cut. Green apparently said the current cut will “always exist,” but the poster hypothesizes that it’s soon to fall by the wayside, stranded between the more audience-friendly cut and Malick’s full-blown epic version.
by Scott Macaulay on Jan 4, 2006 -
THE LONG AND SHORT OF IT
Via GreenCine, which was unanimously hailed at the Indiewire blogger panel I sat on last Friday at the Apple store in Soho as the best film blog, comes this link to Tim R’s Mainly Movies blog in which he relays the not-so-surprising news out of today’s Variety that Terrence Malick is still editing The New World just days before it’s release in theaters. Malick is reportedly making 15 to 20 minutes of trims to the picture, although no sections are said to be being taken out. What is surprising, however, is that Malick plans to deliver this cut after the […]
by Scott Macaulay on Dec 21, 2005 -
CHRISTMAS PRESENT
For months I’ve been hoping that the self-consciously heroic trailer for Terrence Malick’s upcoming The New World has been a colossal red herring. Now, I’m thrilled that that seems to the be the case. First, Fox’s Roger Friedman called the film “Pocahontas on acid,” and now comes Robbie Freeling at the Reverse Shot blog: “Then again, this is still a Malick film, as challenging as ever in its ambitions, even while perhaps functioning as his most accessible narrative. Less historical revisionism than resolutely personal, transcendentalist tone poem (not much of a surprise there), Malick’s fourth picture is adorned with almost […]
by Scott Macaulay on Dec 4, 2005
