Famed and enigmatic filmmaker Terrence Malick’s remarkable filmography turned fifty recently. It begins with Badlands, that is, which appeared on October 15, 1973, followed five years later by Days of Heaven (1978). He returns after a twenty-five year hiatus with a triptych of literary and historical adaptations, including The Thin Red Line (1998), The New World (2005), and The Tree of Life (2011). He follows this with two overlapping triptychs, a more thoroughly impressionistic one, including To the Wonder (2012), Knight of Cups (2015), and Song to Song (2017), and one that returns him to literary and historical adaptations, including Voyage of Time(2016), A Hidden Life (2019), and the long awaited The Way of the Wind, which fans look forward to appearing finally in 2025. Malick’s filmography at fifty plus is occasion for an exploration of the various dimensions not only of its individual entries, but of its longer arcs as well.

All disciplines, methods, and perspectives welcome.

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