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Toward an ecophilosophical cinema

Posted in Cinema, Eco-culture, Eco-theory, Visual culture, tagged , , , on February 17, 2012 | 13 Comments »

My paper for this year’s Society for Cinema and Media Studies conference, coming up next month in Boston, will focus on the two films that got a lot of side-by-side attention at last year’s Cannes festival, Lars von Trier’s Melancholia and Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life. Since a few of my favorite bloggers have […]

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Nature vs. Grace?

Posted in Cinema, Philosophy, tagged , , , , , on July 11, 2011 | 2 Comments »

The latest issue of Precipitate: Journal of the New Environmental Imagination — which looks like an excellent issue — includes a review of Terrence Malick’s “The Tree of Life” that reminds me how important it is to pay attention to the dialogical and heteroglossic texture of Malick’s films, and how easy it is to lose […]

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Malick’s tangled bank

Posted in Cinema, Process-relational thought, tagged , , , , on June 27, 2011 | 3 Comments »

  It will take some time before I can say anything very intelligible about Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life. But here are some initial thoughts, for what they’re worth. (1) This is the film in which Malick just lets it go, and lets it flow…

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Malick vs. von Trier @ Cannes

Posted in Cinema, Visual culture, tagged , , on May 18, 2011 | 1 Comment »

The artist of sublime faith (of the pantheistic, immanent kind) versus the artist of sublime cynicism. “Earth is heaven (and purgatory)” versus “Earth is evil.” With catastrophe and Kubrick’s 2001 lurking in the background of both…

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The tree of life, in pieces

Posted in Cinema, tagged , on December 21, 2010 | 3 Comments »

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 […]

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