> Thats not a voluntary "PR" photo of Malick, he was very perturbed about
> the leak of it.
>
>


That may well be, but that does appear to be the photo included in the
official studio presskit for TTRL:

http://www.moviegoods.com/movie_product_static.asp?master_movie_id=10762&sku=156\
987

Look man, as I said, I'm not doubting this dude's veracity at all. (My
confusion over the press photo is inconsequential, though hopefully Malick
realized that the world did not collapse on itself after his photo was
leaked to the world.) I see nothing in his account that doesn't sound like
Malick. It is, if anything, an incredibly valuable glimpse of the man at
work -- way more valuable than the 800 puff pieces that ran in magazines
around the time of the film's release. (Though some of that of course is
Malick's doing as well -- I doubt he'd have been so outgoing if he thought
this guy was going to twitter about his experiences.)

My only complaint is that the rumors of a 6-hour cut of TTRL have a
frustrating tendency to confirm some people's complaints about the film that
currently exists. And it's a film I love dearly, and I'd hate for people to
start seeing it as some kind of studio hatchet job.


-Bilge