According to the Criterion Forum website, there is a chance that “Badlands” will be getting the Criterion treatment at some point. I don’t know how reliable this is, but at least there is hope.
i hope they give to it soon,
warner s dvd is way dated, such a wonderful film, such beauty…can not be appreciate on that tiny disc, its deserves a 50 gigabytes disc
will the blu ray edition of ’days of heavens" have the same content as the two disc dvd edition?
Juan Jose Namnun: I believe Criterion only issued a single-disc edition originally.
Yes, the extras are scheduled to be the same. (The Blu-ray edition will obviously feature a superior audio-track.)
Moderated
I hope he gets a Blu-Ray Criterion for all his films!
malick films the stuff dreams are made of…
How about Criterion releases the full six-hour cut of The Thin Red Line? That would be a dream come true!
^^ +! on that. I hope they kept the master footage of Thin Red Line cause I’d kill to see Billy Bob Thorton and Micky Rourke in it.
I also think they should release his early short films which can’t be seen anywhere right now.
anyone see the great film Endurance (1999)
Malick produced it.
the whole movie is on youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rF3EA3Ygy2U&feature=related
“the endurance, the legendary Shackleton adventure” its one of the best movies i ve seen…
i dont believe there s really a director cut of “the thin red line” and if fox still retains the unused footage, we have to wait until Mr "oddman"leaves the company to see it…he seen determined to never let a good movie comes out from fox while he is in charge of production and distribution there
any word yet about “badlands” blu ray?
“How about Criterion releases the full six-hour cut of The Thin Red Line? That would be a dream come true!”
I remember hearing there was six hours of footage and that he either did or could have made another, completely different film out of that footage, but I don’t think there is any six-hour cut. If he wanted it that way I’m sure it would be around somewhere.
@Mike
I don’t know if you about the other thread that discusses The Thin Red Line and the extra footage, but, from what I remember, Malick seemed to have wanted to make a longer film, but couldn’t (because of the studios). This is just based on some of the poster’s comments.
Did you see the other Malick thread that was recently pulled up? It mentions a rumor that Malick is working with Criterion to do another version of The Thin Red Line. That’s one I’d purchase.
No, I don’t think I saw that thread, i’m just remembering rumors I heard at the time so I could be mistaken.
malick is working on : “the tree of life” so any new criterion releases had to be of his completed films: “badlands” only, since neither warner or fox would trade their recently released blu ray, (’the new world") or their old but potential best seller(“the thin red line”)
malick is working on : “the tree of life” so any new criterion releases had to be of his completed films: “badlands” only, since neither warner or fox would trade their recently released blu ray, (’the new world") or their old but potential best seller(“the thin red line”)
Malick – an undeniable genius, but he kind of sounds like a dick. I’m a big fan of his entire body of work, but he definitely comes off as another director who refuses to see things from anyone else’s terms but his own. I’m not sure where that fits in to his less than prolific career or his reclusive life-style, but I’m sure they all relate.
-I remember hearing there was six hours of footage and that he either did or could have made another, completely different film out of that footage, but I don’t think there is any six-hour cut. If he wanted it that way I’m sure it would be around somewhere-
There was a workprint (I believe it was five hours, not six) that was prepared by the editors that may have been screened for a few marketing people, but this was not a version that was ever intended to be released. There have long been rumors that Malick was unhappy with the theatrical cut, but that appears to be something of an urban legend. Considering the existing version is now considered one of the great films of its era, I should think there would be a reluctance to tinker.
i dont think he was unhappy with the final cut of “the thin red line” (i didnt think fox would past “the thin red line” blu ray neither so….)
after all he make another movie soon(for malick standard) and then another sooner( and its rumored there s going to be another one) so he really likes “the thin red line” and maybe he likes it even more now that people keep loving the film and its endurance (anybody saw “the pacific” trailer and felt a deja vu like myself)
From Tim Blake Nelson
AVC: I remember reading that the original cut of The Thin Red Line was something like six hours long. In a six hour cut I imagine everyone would have a lot more screen time.
TBN: Right, I wish I could see that movie.
AVC: Do you think that it will be released in any form?
TBN: You know, [Malick] had talked about doing a Japanese version that was six hours long but I’m not sure, actually. Terry and I are friends and I happen to know that he never did that. And Terry and my friendship, or his loose mentorship of me, is one of the great gifts of having done that part, even though I am not so much in that film.
a six hour Japanese version sounds amazing.
well i dodnt believe there’s really a six hour version…
The five hour cut was assembled by Billy Weber and Leslie Jones. Malick had no desire to look at the five hour cut, knowing full well that he had no intention of releasing a film that was so close to the script. if you ever get your hands on the script floating around the Internet, basically that full script is the five hour cut. Weber insisted that Malick watch the full cut or he would stop working on the post-editing. Malick did and after ward he would sit and watch the the footage, one reel at a time with the sound off and nothing but a Green Day CD blasting. If he saw a clip that interested him per dialogue, he chose to leave it in. From there the dialogue was dropped off entirely and ultimately replaced by music, pure ambient sound, a voice-over or all three. Malick was building a pastiche process which found utter fruition in the Extended cut of The New World.
John Dee Smith remembers a very long cut that Malick wanted to put out, a “Malick Experience” until he received a phone call from the higher-ups that told him to cut the film to three hours or less. This accounts for the feverish round the clock editing that occurred to get the film out for Oscar season. Malick also wanted to use more footage of the Melenesians the second unit was shooting, but the studio balked wanting more combat footage in its stead.
The sequence that opens the film would have occurred AFTER the first Penn/Caviezel scene in the brig. In the Criterion edition of TTRL, there is an outtake with Caviezel and John C. Reilly. This scene would have been Witt returning to the squad after being AWOL (you will see what I mean after you view it. Private Storm is happy to see Witt come back and often to serve him some food before lighting into him for being “played like a fiddle in the band.” .
I wrote this before, but the 5+ hour cut was never six hours, one of the editors assured me of that. The footage was a rough cut much like the circulating “5 hour version” of Apocalypse Now. It is simply assembled footage from all the dailies to create a rough likeness to the script. TTRL was done just that to align with Malick’s very long 200 page script. The thing to bear in mind is all that footage hadn’t even seen any second unit additions as of yet. The scenes with Witt and the Melenesians was filmed AFTER principal shooting had ended when Malick knew he wanted Witt to carry the soul of the film, and not Fife. The five hour cut would have had longer battle sequences and many coexisting character story-lines, both major and minor. It is a testament to Malick’s genius as an auteur that he for example could reduce all the exposition that would have went into explaining Tall and his conflicts, by using very sparse voice-overs “shut up in a tomb, can’t lift the lid”; I played a role I never conceived"; “All i could have given for love’s sake, spilled out like water on the ground.” Each of these tells more about Tall than all the numerous pages of script originally allocated to Nick Nolte to learn and discard at will.
thanks for the confirmation!
there will be more at my blog: http://terrencemalicksdream.blogspot.com/
ALL THINGS SHINING: The Terrence Malick Blog
very nice!
whoaa, what a great blog paul !
Thanks !
juan jose namnun
now that criterion is planning to release a blu ray edition of : “days of heaven”
its time to ask for " badlands" a movie that deserves the criterion treatment, and that probably going to sell well
with brad pitt and the imax publicity that “the tree of life” me get in 2010