Comments on: The Lost Projects And Unproduced Screenplays Of Terrence Malick

By: Paul Maher Jr.

Paul Maher Jr. — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:13:31 +0000

1. Malick\’s last interview was in 1979.

2. Most of this information was already published in Peter Biskind\’s article, \”The Runaway Genius\” in Vanity Fair and David Handelman\’s \”Absence of Malick\” published in California magazine in 1985. The rest is from Criterion commentaries. A great pastiche piece, but nothing original.

http://www.terrencemalick.org

By: BuntyHoven

BuntyHoven — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:13:31 +0000

Good stuff, guys. These Malick articles have been great over the past few weeks. Nice distillation of all the random facts scattered across the internets.

By: stuffy

stuffy — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:13:31 +0000

The Linklater/TM project was shot… Well partly.
Back when Linklater was attached to FNL the movie.
He shot an entire season of Bay City, Texas high school football.
He was going to go back the next year and shoot a dramatization of the kids lives… it was super 16mm… So cheap. Rights issues arose and some other duchebag directed FNL and the project collapsed as he wasnt interested in two football movies going head to head

By: Virgílio Souza

Virgílio Souza — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:13:31 +0000

Superb.

By: hecarell

hecarell — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:13:31 +0000

fantastic job on this article. you guys produce high-quality work that surpasses your average blog.

By: jon

jon — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:13:31 +0000

Great work, dudes.

By: Misanthrope

Misanthrope — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:13:31 +0000

Just need to echo the sentiments of the other commenters. This blog has become a daily stop for me not just for movie news, but the impeccable reviews and essays. I don\’t know why the people who write for this site aren\’t getting paid money to do this professionally (or maybe they are?).

By: Kevin Jagernauth

Kevin Jagernauth — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:13:31 +0000

Hey Paul, we make no secret of the projects mentioned in Vanity Fair article. It\’s linked throughout.

The rest are from a number of different places and we cite each source — you might want to try actually reading this thing instead of bitterly dismissing it. (There are only two Criterion quotes in the entire piece).

By: Edward Davis

Edward Davis — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:13:31 +0000

Good ol’ Paul Maher Jr — the guy who shut down his Malick blog in a huge tantrum because everyone was \”stealing from it,\” meanwhile he was copy and pasting every Malick article online on his blog and never sourcing or crediting. Writing a similar article in PopMatters that also didn\’t even properly source.

As the guy who thinks he owns Malick online,I was wondering when you would finally show up and shit on something like this. Gotta say since this article outdoes anything you’ve done, one must question your motivation other than trying to place a link to your own blog.

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:13:31 +0000

This is the only place I\’ve seen ANY info about the \”lost 20 years.\”

By: Theoc

Theoc — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:13:31 +0000

Excellent an education for me, thank you.

By: Bobby Geisler

Bobby Geisler — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:13:31 +0000

I\’m compelled to correct a couple of typographical mistakes in my earlier simple (but sincere) comment:

Best account I have read, and I was there — great work. Thank you. / — Bobby Geisler

By: Bobby Geisler

Bobby Geisler — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:13:31 +0000

Best account I have read, and I as there. — great work. Thank you. / — Bobby Geisler

By: juan

juan — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:13:31 +0000

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By: phil p.

phil p. — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:13:31 +0000

Great article, with a lot of information on unproduced screenplays that I hadn\’t picked up over the years.

However, you neglected to mention Malick\’s involvement in the writing of DIRTY HARRY, Jack Nicholson\’s DRIVE, HE SAID, and POCKET MONEY (for which Malick receives sole screenwriting credit, though his script is an adaptation).

Btw, DEADHEAD MILES is excellent — an unsung gem of the 1970s — with an incredible comic performance from Alan Arkin, who (it has been speculated) was actually imitating Malick. The film used to air regularly on the Arts & Entertainment (A&E) network, though the print on Netflix Streaming is uncut and well worth catching.

By: Edward Davis

Edward Davis — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:13:31 +0000

Phil we actually mentioned most of the pre-Badlands stuff in our Badlands piece.

http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/archives/11_things_you_need_to_know_about_terrence_malicks_badlands/

Great read, hats off to these guys.

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:13:31 +0000

Thank you.

By: Damian

Damian — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:13:31 +0000

Nice article. Very informative.
But thank goodness the majority of his screenplays haven\’t been made. And the ones that have been produced have sunk into near-oblivion. Malick, for me is one of those very rare directors: each of his succeeding films was worse than his previous one. I\’m serious about this: if it wasn\’t for \”Zookeeper,\” \”The Tree of Life\” would be the worst film I\’ve seen this year.
Oh, one thing about the article. The part about, \”…after \”Badlands\” and \”Days of Heaven\” Malick was possibly the most important American filmmaker alive.\” He wouldn\’t have been, even if Coppola, Lumet, Allen and Fosse were dead.

By: CC

CC — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:13:31 +0000

Wow, Damian. You are a moron….

By: Orchid

Orchid — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:13:31 +0000

STORY STRUCTURE, STORY STRUCTURE, STORY STRUCTURE – go see Kal\’s excellent work at http://www.clickok.co.uk/index4.html

By: Chris P.

Chris P. — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:13:31 +0000

It was Martin Scorsese who was supposed to direct THE GRAVY TRAIN but was replaced by Starrett. If Malick was considered for the job, it was before Roger Gimbel and Jonathan Taplin were involved.

By: IWM

IWM — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:13:31 +0000

Great reporting, very informative.

By: Jean Erica Moniker

Jean Erica Moniker — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:13:30 +0000

I saw "Deadhad Miles" with my father at a WGA screening in 1971(?) except that it didn't yet have a title and as I recall no title sequence. For years I've wondered about it but didn't even have a name to search for although I did recall Alan Arkin being the star. The one scene that stands out in my mind was when a car (a hearse or ?) pulls up next to Alan Arkin's truck and there's a prostitute splayed out in the back soliciting truck drivers for sex. I assume her pimp was driving. It was quite surreal as was the film in general. The film definitely made an impression though it seemed rather random to me as a 15-year old at the time.

By: Michael Chase Walker

Michael Chase Walker — Fri, 13 May 2016 14:13:30 +0000

Wow, this is a giant get –exceptional article — ought to launch Oliver Lytellton into film journalism stratosphere. Kudos all around to Indiewire et al! Congrats guys! Superb! âItâs as if he had ripped open his heart and bled his true feelings onto the page,â he said at that time. The Vanity Fair article author Peter Biskind said, âit is indeed a remarkable script,â describing it as ââThe Exorcistâ as written by Dostoyevsky.â

By: r

Fri, 13 May 2016 14:13:30 +0000

John Travolta was obviously joking when he said Malick stopped working because he couldn't do Days of Heaven.