Terrence Malick

Four Movies to See at the L.A. Asian Pacific Film Festival

It's the Non-Famous Movies That Make TCM Fest Worth Attending

Terrence Malick's To the Wonder Is Gorgeous and Ridiculous

Everything You Need to Know About What Happened at Sundance

Bold, impassioned, ecstatically beautiful, Shane Carruth's Upstream Color -- a lyric reverie on loss, love, and various invasions of the body -- was in a class by itself at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. Well, let's say it was a class shared by a more conventional but no less heady consideration o ... More >>

Toronto Film Festival 2012 Report: The Master, Spring Breakers and More

Ben Affleck in Terrence Malick's To The Wonder at the Toronto Film Festival

See our other Toronto Film Fest posts, including: *Cloud Atlas, by the Wachowskis *Threesomes at the Fest, Including James Franco Vanessa Hudgens *Joaquin Phoenix in P.T. Anderson's The Master As the summer of self-plagiarism comes to a close, add Terrence Malick to the list of those accused of t ... More >>

LACMA Presents Abstract Animated Films by Oskar Fischinger and Others

Francesco Lupica: The Guy Who Scores Terrence Malick Films

Francesco Lupica is one cosmic dude. Note the weather-beaten skin like leather, his weird hat with a silk band, and the fact that he has more rings than a fortune-teller. It's the kind of look you see on guys hawking gem stones and alien posters on the Venice Boardwalk. But Francesco is a well-spoke ... More >>

L.A. Weekly's Top 10 Films of 2011

From Margaret to Moneyball

2011 Village Voice/L.A. Weekly Film Critics' Poll

Parsing the data

Amoeba Music's 10th Anniversary: When You're Broke and Need a Fix, This Legendary Hollywood Store Has Had Your Back

Ted SoquiAmoeba Records: 10 years on Sunset Boulevard​"I just needed to get well," explains Frank Humphries, a 36-year-old punkabilly musician-turned-junkie who, since kicking the habit, works as an archaeologist. "My story is sad, but it's true. I used to have to take CDs and records to Am ... More >>

M83's Anthony Gonzalez Makes Soundtracks, Without the Movie

The Best and Worst of the Summer Movie Season

Considering the middlebrow question, and assessing the year in film thus far

Charlotte Gainsbourg in The Tree

Measuring Terrence Malick

Five Movies Coming Out This Weekend, Including Super 8 and Steve Coogan

Super 8​ This week in our print edition, LA Weekly critics review five movies coming out this weekend. Also check out Sam Wasson's confrontation of Terrence Malick, as he writes, "Perhaps it's time to reach for the light, prop up against the headboard and give this relationship some fresh cons ... More >>

Terrence Malick, The Too-Quiet American

A skeptic confronts the elusive filmmaker of The Tree of Life

5 Movies Opening This Weekend, Including The Hangover Part II, Tree of Life and Magic!

​ While the rest of us waited in vain for the Rapture, Karina Longworth was busy writing about her own encounter with the end of days. She offers her thoughts on Lars Von Trier's "depression-as-apocalypse epic" Melancholia in her Cannes Film Festival Wrap-Up. Von Trier's movie hasn't made it ... More >>

The Tree of Life: Better Than a Masterpiece

Terrence Malick's big-budget experimental film

Cannes Wrap: Melancholia's Battle With The Tree of Life Overwhelms the Festival

Cannes 2011: The Winners

​ CANNES, FRANCE. The 64th Cannes Film Festival provided an exceptionally rich and varied slate and the jury--headed by Robert De Niro--proved both gracious and judicious in dividing their prizes among eight films.

Rapture at Cannes: The Twisted Poetry of Lars von Trier's "I am a Nazi" Scandal

​ After a week at the Cannes Film Festival, I left the south of France on Thursday morning fully aware that I would likely miss something major. The world's premiere showcase of top-shelf auteur cinema would go on without me for another few days, with many highly anticipated Competition title ... More >>

Cannes 2011: We the Jury

The Artist​ CANNES, FRANCE -- The fun is winding down and the sad thing is, there could have been even more. Cannes's programmers had carefully contrived a Palme d'Or celebrity death match between two wildly polarizing contenders with Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life in the white trunks an ... More >>

Cannes Dispatch: Dysfunction Junction

Halfway through, and it's clear: Cannes 2011 has issues

Cannes 2011: Lars Von Trier's Melancholia. Wow.

Lars von Trier's Melancholia​ The second shoe dropped -- or rather exploded -- this morning in Cannes. A combination of luck and programming genius contrived to have Lars von Trier's Melancholia screened for the press a mere 48 hours after the first showing of Terrence Malick's Tree of Life. O ... More >>

Cannes 2011: White People Fucking and Team Tree of Life

​ I saw Tree of Life on Monday morning when everyone else saw Tree of Life, but instead of writing about it right away, I went straight into a screening of Bruno Dumont's Hors Satan. By the time I emerged two hours later, many of my colleagues had already posted their Tree of Life reviews, w ... More >>

Cannes 2011: Terrence Malick and Brad Pitt's The Tree of Life Gets Irate Boos Followed by Thin Applause

Brad Pitt in The Tree of Life​ CANNES, FRANCE -- Much improved since I last posted, the Cannes Film Festival celebrated its midpoint in train-wreck fashion, its wagon to hitched to The Tree of Life. The first screening of Terrence Malick's long-awaited new movie, three years in the editing, ... More >>

10 Movies Coming Out This Weekend, Including Bridesmaids, George Lucas' Star Wars Fan Enemies, Sexploitation and Terrence Malick

Love Exposure, this week at Cinefamily​ Whether you're looking for beautiful photography or depraved horror, hyperbolic satire or rare experimentation, this week's theatrical releases and repertory series have a little bit for everyone. Here are the Weekly's critics on ten of them: 10. It se ... More >>

Terrence Malick at LACMA

Filmmaker gets retrospective in advance of upcoming Tree of Life

Cannes 2011: The Quest to Avoid Lady Gaga Begins!

​ CANNES, FRANCE -- That faint noise wafting in mid-afternoon from across the Atlantic will not be the cacophony of bravos raising the Grand Palais roof in appreciation of the 65th Cannes Film Festival's opening attraction -- rather it will be the sound of the prolonged smooch that the fest's ... More >>

Movies This Weekend: Prom, Lin, Turner, Werner, Rosenthal and Ruffalo

Montgomery Clift and Elizabeth Taylor find A Place in the Sun at TCM Festival. ​ A busy weekend around Los Angeles with the TCM Classic Film Festival, Asian Pacific Film Festival, UCLA Film and Television Archive's Patricio Guzmán retrospective and a slew of new theatrical releases, includin ... More >>

Stake Land Review

Even the Rain

10 2011 Films We're Psyched About

Terrence Malick, Tintin and a killer psychokinetic tire

Movie Reviews: Trash Humpers, A Nightmare in Las Cruces, Letters to Juliet

Also, The Thorn in the Heart, Princess Kaiulani and more

The Weekly Goes to the Movies

When writing about them really mattered

Movie Reviews: Beaufort, Horton Hears a Who!, The Unforeseen

Also Doomsday and All In This Tea

Death, Landscape and Raymond Carver

Ray Lawrence maps the human heart

Film Reviews

For the week of May 12 - 18

The New New World

Terrence Malick prunes his garden, leaves grass intact

Hollywood’s Newest Age of Liberal Cinema

Histories of Violence

In the best films of 2005, the past came back to haunt

Back to the Garden

The suffocating beauty of Terrence Malick’s earthy New World

See Dubya Read

Never mind, he chose TV over the Texas book festival

Les Misérables

Lynne Ramsay’s Ratcatcher

Letters

From DIY to Disney

Human, All Too Human

In defense of The Thin Red Line

Days of Hell

Terrence Malick’s The Thin Red Line