Twenty years have passed between Days of Heaven, Terrence Malick’s second feature film, and The Thin
Twenty years have passed between Days of Heaven, Terrence Malick’s second feature film, and The Thin Red Line, his great 1998 comeback, the third film in a rich, influential and thoroughly unique career of one of the most interesting, inspirational and poetic filmmakers of our time. Twenty years is a very long time, but as The Thin Red Line proves, genuine talent and a true filmmaker’s heart isn’t something that withers and dies easily. Always careful about making bold statements and generalizations on the subject of filmmaking, ever so restrained in stating judgments about the unprecedented or unmatched qualities of certain films, we somehow feel safe to say The Thin Red Line is the greatest anti-war film we’ve ever seen.Terrence Malick’s ‘The Thin Red Line’: The Traumatic and Poetic Journey into the Heart of Man -- source link