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First up, some good news for our British readers: the distribution wrangles surrounding “The Tree of Life” have been resolved, and Fox Searchlight will bring the film to UK screens on July 8. Not much longer until you can join the conversation. Given Terrence Malick’s usual work rate, it feels almost perverse to begin talking […]
Malick goes deeper underground
Posted by Guy Lodge · 11:57 am · June 10th, 2011
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Diving back into ‘The Tree of Life’ (SPOILERS)
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 1:51 pm · May 27th, 2011
If you’ve been fortunate enough to catch Terrence Malick’s “The Tree of Life” in its limited release already, don’t forget to tell us your thoughts in the reactions thread. I’ve written about the film at length once (during a lunch break at jury duty downtown after sleeping on it). Guy reviewed it in full out […]
REVIEW: “The Tree of Life” (***)
Posted by Guy Lodge · 4:51 am · May 16th, 2011
Cannes Film Festival Landscape has always been character in the films of Terrence Malick. The even, rolling fields of “Days of Heaven,” the sweatily green hill ladders of “The Thin Red Line,” even the dry-toast mesa of “Badlands”: all expansive, overwhelming environments that dictate the behavior of the films’ human occupants through sheer force of […]
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CANNES CHECK: ‘The Tree of Life’
Posted by Guy Lodge · 6:30 am · May 6th, 2011
The director: Terrence Malick (USA) The talent: Do you need reminding by this point? The Competition’s most high-profile film stars Brad Pitt, Sean Penn and the soon-to-be-ubiquitous Jessica Chastain; the name I’m most pleased to see in the supporting cast, meanwhile, is Irish stalwart Fiona Shaw. The technical crew is, obviously, first-class: DP Emmanuel Lubezki, […]
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Shedding more light on ‘Tree of Life’
Posted by Guy Lodge · 11:33 am · March 14th, 2011
Apologies for the radio silence last week — Kris is still enjoying his hiatus, while I had all manner of dull earthbound duties to take care of. As I kept one eye on Twitter and my regular blog roll, however, I didn’t feel I was missing matters of paramount importance: I have nothing to say […]
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Lubezki opens up on ‘Tree of Life’
Posted by Guy Lodge · 12:05 pm · January 14th, 2011
If, as is the accepted (if hardly certain) wisdom, the Academy makes up their debt to Roger Deakins next month, it’s tempting to speculate that 2011 could be the year for another shamefully unrewarded lenser: Emmanuel Lubezki. The ace Mexican DP, whom pretty much everyone but a majority of AMPAS voters agrees was robbed of […]
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TECH SUPPORT: Best Cinematography — Volume I
Posted by gerardkennedy · 10:58 am · July 23rd, 2010
Of the so-called “tech” categories, Best Cinematography is one of the most popular, certainly for me. The invention of the camera took us beyond radio and literature and set modern art on a path aimed toward the moving picture, and this field recognizes those behind the lens. Cinematography obviously has a massive impact on a […]
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Truer words
Posted by Guy Lodge · 4:53 am · December 9th, 2009
From Nick Davis’s appreciation of Terrence Malick’s “The New World,” tucked within his marvelous larger appreciation of 2006: Emmanuel Lubezki, a craftsman who needs no assistance from anybody, conducts his own jaw-dropping symphony of 100% natural-source lighting. I’d rank it up there with the three or four most impressive technical accomplishments I witnessed over the […]
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REVIEW: “Children of Men” (****)
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 6:16 pm · November 22nd, 2006
Alfonso Cuarón’s is one of the most singular voices in the filmmaking community. Along with longtime collaborator, cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki, the director has ushered forth textured visions of skewed fairytales for over a decade. With “A Little Princess,” he took audiences into the mind of a little girl and her trying tenure at a miserable […]
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