942 The Tree of Life

[MyNameCriterionForum]

Okay, all the legal/distribution issues surrounding this film may prevent this, but let's start a campaign now to get this in the CC. Imagine a well-appointed set: several cuts of Tree of Life, as well as The Voyage of Time, three hours of Trumball's unedited effects experiments, commentaries by all the principal cast and crew, Zizek, Charles Mudede, Stephanie Zacharek and Stephen Hawking, etc. And of course, a truly awful photoshop cover.

[karmajuice]

I like my Criterion discs not costing eighty bucks a piece, thanks.

[aox]

several cuts of Tree of Life,

Fuck that! We should be given the 100+ hours of raw footage and all various takes and be allowed to assemble our own cut! Build Your Own Movie!

[John Cope]

We should be given the 100+ hours of raw footage and all various takes and be allowed to assemble our own cut! Build Your Own Movie!

To a more limited degree this would actually be a great idea for an extra. It would give a sense of how the effects of his associative editing come together. This could be especially applicable for a numeber of artists, people like Denis, Wong, Lynch, etc.

[mfunk9786]

Lynch

TAKE IT BACK

[telamonides]

Roger Ebert

[MichaelB]

We should be given the 100+ hours of raw footage and all various takes and be allowed to assemble our own cut! Build Your Own Movie!

To a more limited degree this would actually be a great idea for an extra. It would give a sense of how the effects of his associative editing come together. This could be especially applicable for a numeber of artists, people like Denis, Wong, Lynch, etc.

Or Nicolas Roeg - I interviewed his regular editor Tony Lawson a few years ago, and wasn't the least bit surprised to learn that he shoots one hell of a lot of footage.

And Krzysztof Kieślowski once seriously proposed delivering a different cut of The Double Life of Véronique to each of the seventeen French cinemas that booked it for its opening weekend. He was defeated by the technology of the time, but it's far more feasible now. In fact, presumably the Blu-ray spec would permit an arrangement whereby a film could branch out into multiple alternative versions, possibly without even alerting the viewer in advance?

[domino harvey]

The director of The Tracey Fragments put all of the raw footage into a massive series of torrents and encouraged fans to make their own cut of the film

[cocaine socialist]

It turns out Malick is a huge fan of "Zoolander," Stiller's 2001 send-up of fashion fabulousness — so much so that for Malick's birthday one year, Stiller dressed up as the character Derek Zoolander, made a personalized video card and sent it to the director. "I think 'Zoolander' is one of Terry's favorite movies ever," said Jack Fisk, Malick's longtime production designer, who has known him for nearly 40 years. "He watches it all the time, and he likes quoting it."

[Guido]

Gold. My other favorite bit from that profile is Ms. Chastain's description of the man's humor, which is apparently devoid of irony and sarcasm.

"That dog is like a clown".

[matrixschmatrix]

'"I would be in Paris, jogging in the park, and Terry would call and say 'I'm thinking of this music,'" recalled composer Alexandre Desplat, who worked on "Tree." "But he wouldn't say what he wanted; he would just say it's lovely but it should go more like Mozart and have more light. So I'd stop my jogging and go back to the studio to find more light," his voice suggesting that he wasn't always so sure what that meant.'

I love those slightly bemused little journalistic interpolations

[cdnchris]

It turns out Malick is a huge fan of "Zoolander," Stiller's 2001 send-up of fashion fabulousness — so much so that for Malick's birthday one year, Stiller dressed up as the character Derek Zoolander, made a personalized video card and sent it to the director. "I think 'Zoolander' is one of Terry's favorite movies ever," said Jack Fisk, Malick's longtime production designer, who has known him for nearly 40 years. "He watches it all the time, and he likes quoting it."

Seth Rogen mentioned this in an interview while promoting Pineapple Express (apparently Malicak was visiting David Gordon Green on the set). I took some pleasure in thinking that maybe Malick would scream out "I feel like I'm taking crazy pills!" or "so hot right now" but I really thought he was kidding. Of course, it's such a random film that I guess it had to be true.

To a more limited degree this would actually be a great idea for an extra. It would give a sense of how the effects of his associative editing come together. This could be especially applicable for a numeber of artists, people like Denis, Wong, Lynch, etc.

Though not quite the same the Die Hard DVD had a feature like this. It would give you multiple takes and angles of a scene, even with actors giving different responses, and you could put together your own short scene. It was rather clever and really showed had a minor difference can change the pacing, tension, or general feel of a scene

[aox]

Though not quite the same the Die Hard DVD had a feature like this. It would give you multiple takes and angles of a scene, even with actors giving different responses, and you could put together your own short scene. It was rather clever and really showed had a minor difference can change the pacing, tension, or general feel of a scene

Do you know if this carried over to the BD release? I just bought the Quadrilogy for $20 and didn't bother to look at the special features.

[cdnchris]

I haven't bought the Blu-rays yet but my understanding is that feature didn't make it over.

[Finch]

The French Blu-Ray has a revised release date for 12th of October.

[Forrest Taft]

Though not quite the same the Die Hard DVD had a feature like this. It would give you multiple takes and angles of a scene, even with actors giving different responses, and you could put together your own short scene. It was rather clever and really showed had a minor difference can change the pacing, tension, or general feel of a scene

Do you know if this carried over to the BD release? I just bought the Quadrilogy for $20 and didn't bother to look at the special features.

Not on the Blu-ray, I'm afraid. Which is a shame, as that was a very fun feature. Back on topic, I just realised Tree of Life won't come out till september here in Norway ](*,)

[Kellen]

I hope this wasn't posted already. It's a photo of Malick being applauded at the films premiere obviously he didn't stay around after...

[Adam]

Just returned from the U.S premiere at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The producers were there, 3 editors, Brad Pitt, the boys, Jessica Chastain, and Terrence Malick's wife, but not Malick (at least not introduced), nor Sean Penn. Lots of Fox Searchlight people. Werner Herzog & Curtis Hanson were both also there. Chastain was on crutches from some recent accident.

Anyway, more importantly, I liked it, although there is a sequence at the end that right now doesn't work for me. It didn't change my world on ths viewing the same way that Days of Heaven did n my first viewing of that.
Nice creation of the universe, earth, and evolution sequence. It fit exactly on the second reel - simplifies mixing, or perhaps teh option of just removing it from the film?
Very impressionistic, constructed I think as fragments of memory of the boys, mainly one but not only.

We'll see how it lives in my dreams and mind for a few days, then can discuss more. And more of you will have a chance to see it.

[Fierias]

Adam - or, really, anyone else who has seen the film: was it shown on celluloid or was it a digital projection? In Cannes, they showed it digitally, which I thought was very strange. I think I'd greatly prefer it on 35mm.

[Crab Society North]

it's cool that Malick likes Zoolander. Good example of a person just liking what they like.

[MyNameCriterionForum]

Adam - or, really, anyone else who has seen the film: was it shown on celluloid or was it a digital projection? In Cannes, they showed it digitally, which I thought was very strange. I think I'd greatly prefer it on 35mm.

I checked with my local small arthouse theater, which is apparently getting it a few weeks in advance of the wide release, and they claim they will be screening an actual film print, much to my relief. I'd call whatever place is showing the film near you.

[flyonthewall2983]

When is the wide release?

[domino harvey]

Mid July

[solaris72]

Release schedule

[JMULL222]

It may be that the prints are just getting made and sent out. I missed a digital press screening monday, but I'm seeing it today and they made it clear it was playing from 35 now.