Terrence Malick

I would

certainly come to the defence of something like American psycho Mary Harron's 2000 film starring Christian Bale as a serial killer, Patrick Bateman, or the 1973 Terence Malick film Badlands, which is based on the real case of Charles Starkweather.

These films, which I think are important and beautiful works of art, but have also been criticised for glamorising serial killers.

So what's the difference, I guess?

These are not the ones I picked.

Terrence Malick.

Oh, okay.

Days of Heaven.

Oh, I think I saw that on the list, but I've never seen it.

It is so pretty and so sad.

And it's it's probably Richard Gere's snobbiest movie because it's Terrence Malick, of course.

And it's just and it doesn't feel like, you know, Terrence Malick started using a bunch of wide angle lenses later.

And I think it applies here to this film as well, to Ari Aster and to Hereditary.

It's like Terrence Malick in Badlands or Francois Truffaut in The 400 Blows or Spike Jonze in Being John Malkovich.

We'd seen surreal comedy before.

but never like that.

We never found a way inside the mind of an actual actor via this awkward puppeteer like Spike Jonze did in Being John Malkovich.

We'd never seen adolescence with total rawness and zero sentimentality like we did with Truffaut and the 400 Blows.

Terrence Malick infused the crime drama with this sense of poetry, right? I find Ari Aster to be on the level with these other dudes, just like his film is on the level with new Hollywood horror classics like The Exorcist and Rosemary's Baby.

And I say this, and I praise this as my platonic ideal of, for a horror film fully recognizing that I have a troubled history with the horror genre.

You will never be alone.

It feels like if Terrence Malick directed a folk horror movie, and for those of you who don't know who Terrence Malick is, he did The Thin Red Line and The Tree of Life and kind of visually stunning movies that are... not an awful lot of dialogue the kind of the visuals tell most of the stories um it relies heavily on whispery voiceovers sensory editing and nature shots rather than traditional jump scares yes

is the thin red line the film that you watched you kept putting on to fall asleep in canada yes when we lived there and i saw the same like monologue

yeah i've kind of grown out of falling asleep to movies now i did that for about 20 years and now i'm just watching falling asleep listening to warhammer videos on youtube Yeah, well, which would you prefer, listening to World War II or Warhammer?

no, oh, no, oh, no. Yeah.

So what's really good about the movie is its hypnotic visual style as well and its atmosphere.

It's shot with dynamic natural lighting and tight close ups, giving it an intimate documentary style feel reminiscent of Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life.

The film captures the raw texture of 19th-century rural Macedonia, dirt, sun, water and flesh, making Novena's discovery of the physical world feel visceral and immediate to the audience.

I'm going to do it.

A Hidden Life by Terrence Malick.

Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah.

Let's freaking go,

dude.

A Hidden Life, Terrence Malick.

What a movie, man.

since we're talking movies, I do a movie podcast called The Director's Chair Network.

I've got some other hosts that cover films, but each season is a different director that is focused, and right now I'm doing Terrence Malick.

Andy and you, Husey, have been on every season I've done so far, and you guys are amazing, of course, on that.

Lemmy, I would like to have you come on because it looks like you like movies and like talking about movies, and I would love to hear your thoughts on...

Yeah.

Yeah, and I suppose if we want to tip our cap to the possibility of lyricism, in film and television, I guess Terrence Malick has been a pretty important figure out there.

And as quirky as he might be for some viewers, I've been quite impressed by the number of productions that have come out that really seem influenced by him and have kind of pushed in that lyrical you know, not to downplay narrative, but just to say that, you know, the medium contains both dimensions and you can change the ratios between these.

Like you can actually turn up lyricism.

I offered to pay for him to go to the Beverly Hills Film Festival Gala because I said, you need to be there.

Because after I saw his short film, I thought this guy's the next Terrence Malick.

Okay.

this kid is just unbelievable in every way, as a writer, as a cinematographer, and he's a musicologist, and he did his own sound and his own music.