Terrence Malick

Producer | Writer | Director

Terrence Malick was born in Ottawa, Illinois. His family subsequently lived in Oklahoma and he went...

Born: November 30, 1943

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A Guide to the Films of Terrence Malick

Throughout his career, visionary director Terrence Malick has challenged audiences with epic, poetic, and humanitarian films like Badlands, The Thin Red Line, and The Tree of Life.

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Filmography

Known For

Badlands Producer (1973)
Days of Heaven Writer (1978)
The Tree of Life Writer (2011)
Known For

The Thin Red Line Writer (1998)
Producer

The Book of Vision (2020)
Everybody's Everything (2019)
Soldier (2018)
Awaken (2018)
The Spearhead Effect (2017)
The Vessel (2016)
Look & See: A Portrait of Wendell Berry (2016)
Almost Holy (2015)
The Seventh Fire (2015)
The Better Angels (2014)
Red Wing (2013)
The Unforeseen (2007)
Amazing Grace (2006)
Undertow (2004)
The Beautiful Country (2004)
Happy Times (2000)
The Endurance (2000)
Endurance (1998)
Producer

Badlands (1973)
Writer

A Hidden Life (2019)
Song to Song (2017)
Voyage of Time: An IMAX Documentary (2016)
Voyage of Time: Life's Journey (2016)
Knight of Cups (2015)
To the Wonder (2012)
The Tree of Life (2011)
The New World (2005)
Bear's Kiss (2002)
The Thin Red Line (1998)
Days of Heaven (1978)
The Dion Brothers (1974)
Badlands (1973)
Pocket Money (1972)
Deadhead Miles (1972)
Dirty Harry (1971)
Drive, He Said (1971)
Writer

Lanton Mills (1969)
Director

Factory (2021)
A Hidden Life (2019)
Filmed on Pixel 3 (2018)
Together (2018)
Song to Song (2017)
Mon Guerlain: Notes of a Woman (2017)
Voyage of Time: An IMAX Documentary (2016)
Voyage of Time: Life's Journey (2016)
Knight of Cups (2015)
To the Wonder (2012)
The Tree of Life (2011)
The New World (2005)
The Thin Red Line (1998)
Days of Heaven (1978)
Badlands (1973)
Director

Lanton Mills (1969)
Actor

Days of Heaven Mill Worker (1978)
Badlands Caller at Rich Man's House (1973)
Pocket Money Worksman (1972)
Actor

Lanton Mills Tilman (1969)
Archive footage

Patrick Willems Video Essays (2019)
Behind the Scenes (2017)
Seleccion TCM: Terrence Malick (2016)
1st AACTA Awards (2012)
Archive footage

HBO First Look (1998-2006)
Rosy-Fingered Dawn: a Film on Terrence Malick (2002)
Additional Crew

The Seventh Fire (2015)
The Beautiful Country (2004)
Composer

Lanton Mills (1969)

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Biography in: John Wakeman, editor. "World Film Directors, Volume Two, 1945-1985". Pages 636-639. New York: The H.W. Wilson Company, 1988.

[on the cinematography of Days of Heaven (1978)] With Néstor Almendros, we decided to film without any artificial light. It wasn't possible in the houses at night, but outside, we shot with natural light or with the fire. When the American team was ...