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The Thin Red Line

A little too portentous for my taste. Of all Malick's films (excluding To the Wonder, which I have yet to see), this one feels most like he was trying to make a Terrence Malick film. The hushed voiceover, for one, is the most vaguely nonsensical in his whole oeuvre. Don't get me wrong; there's a lot of great stuff here (most of it involving Nick Nolte), but Malick's best? Scoff.

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His Girl Friday

The Thin Blue Line

Do the Right Thing

Rushmore

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Style

Auteur-driven
Inspired collaboration
Melancholy
Zip, whiz, and energetic!
Wildly romantic
Fashionable alienation
Deliriously surreal
Rebellion!
Of-the-moment
Other-worldly

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kbmichaluk

Scottie Ferguson

Effendi Ben Smith-Malick

David Huxley

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Scottie Ferguson

30Apr13

Thanks for the follow! You have awesome taste, glad to see another Altman fan around here. He is absolutely the most badass filmmaker ever :)

James

9May13

Gun to my head he's my favorite filmmaker, and you're apparently 15 and have seen more of his films than I have, which is also pretty badass.
Scottie Ferguson

11May13

He made so many movies, it's great to know that there's a whole wealth of them I have yet to see :) And thanks for fanning my Top 30! Much appreciated

James

27Feb13

He just died. I hear that's his masterpiece, but am still a long way from diving head-on into movie musicals.
jeffreyreeser

27Feb13

who died? ya i have trouble with musicals too. luckily this is not a musical. it has like 3 or 4 numbers.. i dont think it qualifies

Mark Garrett

23Jan13

Thank you for the follow. Mama sucked. Good to see love for Margaret in your favorite films. It's such a triumph of multi-faceted thinking.

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James

27Feb13

Well, you seem like a man of mostly good and always interesting taste, though I'm pretty sure the reason I clicked 'follow' had everything to do with your appreciation of House of Tolerance/Pleasures. Word on Mama and Margaret.