Hi all,

Back from sabbatical, parenthood, PhD etc.

Response to my Malick thesis was pretty good, and a few pieces are at
various stages of preparation for publication: I'll post some of the
material soon.

I've read the Michaels, and it's so-so. For a seasoned Malick fan,
there's not much new and it respresents largely a concise
introduction to Malick. Nothing wrong in that, except that's where
Malick seems to be at the moment: still in the 'introductory' phase
in terms of book-length studies.

There are a few annoying technical faults which are small, but betray
a carelessness in the proofing and fact-checking, never a good sign
for a serious book. John Toll is credited with being DP and Oscar-
winner on Dances with Wolves; Dean Semler shot that film and,
instead, Toll won back-to-back victories for Lengends of the Fall and
Braveheart. Also, Michaels gets all tangled up when discussing
Malick's adaptation of Jones's novel in The Thin Red Line.

The 2nd editon of the Wallflower Press book on Malick (edited by
hannah Patterson) is nice, with good new essays on The New World.

Also, this may have been discussed a while back, but I saw The
Beautiful Country over the weekend which had a strong Malick imprint.
The opening shots of a black screen with bird sound felt like he was
directing not just producing. A few interesting comments by Sabina
Murray on the DVD extras about 'Terry' as well.

best wishes
Ian



--- In terrencemalick@yahoogroups.com, Oscar Houck <oscarhouck@...>
wrote:
>
>  
> Was looking through a recent issue of the New York Review of Books
and saw an ad for what for me anyway was a new book on Malick. Titled
simply Terrence Malick, it's by Lloyd Michaels and put out by the
University of Illinois Press. You can get a paperback copy on Amazon
for $13.57. If the book has already been mentioned here I apologize
but I coudn't remember such an entry. There were no customer reviews
posted yet on Amazon, so if anyone knows anything about the book or
its author, please chime in. I think Adrian Martin, whose fine essay
graces the Criterion edition of the Days of Heaven DVD was to have a
Malick book coming out too? Any word on that Adrian?
>  
> Has anyone been lucky enough to see "Silent Light"? It came up on a
couple critic's lists for the past year, Manohla Dargis, my favorite,
being one of them. The film sounds very Malickian and I can't wait to
see it. Apparently it's not available on DVD yet. Netflix doesn't
have it anyway.
>  
> Thanks, Oscar
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>