Days of Heaven review – Malick’s early masterwork heralds a rarefied visionary
The director’s rereleased 1978 film revealed some of the authorial signatures that would underscore a film-making career punctuated by a two-decade disappearance
January 2024
Ranked
Terrence Malick films – ranked!
With the rerelease of Malick’s 1978 masterpiece Days of Heaven, we rate the 80-year-old director’s mystical movies and singular vision
January 2023
The Book of Vision review – dreamlike drama treads fine line between Terrence Malick homage and parody
Carlo Hintermann’s feature debut is a sometimes bizarre exploration of spirituality and obsession but it is hard not to succumb to its exquisitely rendered mysteries
November 2022
From Fellini to Spielberg: an enduring obsession with the memoir movie
Steven Spielberg is just the latest film-maker to look back on his childhood following in the footsteps of Terrence Malick and Federico Fellini
February 2022
Douglas Trumbull obituary
Visual effects artist and director known for his innovative work on 2001: A Space Odyssey, Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Blade Runner
December 2021
Voyage of Time review – Terrence Malick awestruck in the face of existence
Malick’s mood-footnote to The Tree of Life sets visions of the dawn of the universe and mankind against a ludicrously solemn Brad Pitt voiceover
January 2021
Ben Chaplin: ‘The last thing I wanted to be was the new Hugh Grant’
The Game On actor has had Hollywood success without becoming an A-lister. But working with Malick, Stone and Francis Ford Coppola has made for an interesting career
August 2020
Ranked
The top 10 long-awaited films – ranked!
Following substantial delays, anticipation is sky-high for Tenet and the new Bond, No Time to Die. But from Eraserhead to The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, plenty of movies have made their audiences wait
'I'm a tough little rebel': Linda Manz, Hollywood's anti-star remembered
The cult actor – who has died age 58 – made mesmerising turns in Terrence Malick and Dennis Hopper films, earning a reputation as a prodigy whose presence ‘burnt off the screen’
Linda Manz obituary
‘Instinctively brilliant’ actor whose otherworldly narration helped lift Terrence Malick’s film Days of Heaven into a class of its own
May 2020
Justice for directors! The $20m 'Snyder cut' should only be the start
Zack Snyder’s director’s cut of Justice League is going to see the light of day in 2021. Here are other films that should get the same treatment
April 2020
Further reading
Laughter in dark times: Geoff Dyer on funny books you may not have read
A comedic war novel, Eve Babitz’s tale of sex and drugs, and a dog who comes back from the dead ... humour can be found in the strangest places
January 2020
A Hidden Life review – Terrence Malick's homage to an Austrian conscientious objector
Malick’s poetic – and long – tale of the lonely trials of farmer Franz Jägerstätter
December 2019
Top US films 2019
The 50 best films of 2019 in the US: the full list
Our pick of the top films released in the US this year brings a shocking class war, tearjerking breakups, war, glamour, horror and everything in between. Tell us your favourites too
November 2019
Ranked
Natalie Portman's 20 best film performances – ranked!
With Lucy in the Sky out next week, we rate the actor’s greatest roles from V for Vendetta to Annihilation
September 2019
Best culture of the 21st century
The 100 best films of the 21st century
Mark Rylance to play four versions of Satan for Terrence Malick
May 2019
Cannes 2019: Peter Bradshaw's picks – and Palme d'Or predictions
A Hidden Life review – Terrence Malick's rhapsody to a conscientious objector
April 2019
Film blog
Wes Anderson gets a wallpaper collection – let the over-decorating begin!
Campy wallpapers inspired by his films are now on sale. Which other directors, from JJ Abrams to David Lynch, should get their own lines?
