If you haven’t seen the trailer for Terence Malick’s forthcoming film The Tree of Life, you’re just not a real cineaste, are you?
What’s better than burrowing analytically into the Heideggerian ecophilosophical themes of Malick’s films (Badlands, Days of Heaven, The Thin Red Line, The New World — before making any of them he was a Heideggerian philosopher)? Analyzing the trailers, of course, which is what Eric Kohn does in a shot-by-shot breakdown of its full 96-cuts-in-two-minutes length. Water, fire, nature, innocence, grace (sounds like a Tarkovsky film so far, or something Lars von Trier is about to twist inside out), baseball, Brad Pitt, Sean Penn (so much for Tarkovsky)…
H/t to Drifting’s David Lowery.
I love The Thin Red Line (that shot of the dawn)–can’t wait to see this. BTW a copy of The Ecological Thought should now be in your work mailbox.
The book arrived today, Tim. Thanks very much – so kind of you to send it, and I’m looking forward to reading it. I’ll send you a copy of Claiming Sacred Ground – it’s old now, but I take it our interests overlap in that subject area…
its so fantastic thank you very much