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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.

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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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 :)

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    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.

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    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

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Effendi Ben Smith-Malick

28Apr13

I'm following you now. http://i.imgur.com/pH2EZP2.gif

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jeffreyreeser

15Feb13

Random movie recommendation: All That Jazz (1979).

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    James

    27Feb13

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

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    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

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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.

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