Comments on: Too Much Of A Good Thing? Terrence Malick Apparently Preparing 6 Hour Cut Of ‘The Tree Of Life’ https://staging2.theplaylist.net/too-much-of-a-good-thing-terrence-malick-apparently-preparing-6-hour-cut-of-the-tree-of-life-20110617/ Fri, 13 May 2016 14:21:40 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.5 By: John https://staging2.theplaylist.net/too-much-of-a-good-thing-terrence-malick-apparently-preparing-6-hour-cut-of-the-tree-of-life-20110617/#comment-94973 Fri, 13 May 2016 14:21:40 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2011/more/uncategorized/too-much-of-a-good-thing-terrence-malick-apparently-preparing-6-hour-cut-of-the-tree-of-life-117994/#comment-94973 I saw Malick\’s The Tree of Life many times through the eyes of grace. But when you see it through the eyes of nature, one time is just enough to get the kind of joke his film is.

http://reviewingtreeoflife.blogspot.com/

A six hour version? Give me a break, Malick…

]]> By: Eric https://staging2.theplaylist.net/too-much-of-a-good-thing-terrence-malick-apparently-preparing-6-hour-cut-of-the-tree-of-life-20110617/#comment-94974 Fri, 13 May 2016 14:21:40 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2011/more/uncategorized/too-much-of-a-good-thing-terrence-malick-apparently-preparing-6-hour-cut-of-the-tree-of-life-117994/#comment-94974 @Xian

Gerry is my favorite of those Gus Van Sant films you mentioned. I can easily get lost in the quiet beauty of that film. Paranoid Park is similar to that style too for Gus Van Sant.

]]> By: Xian https://staging2.theplaylist.net/too-much-of-a-good-thing-terrence-malick-apparently-preparing-6-hour-cut-of-the-tree-of-life-20110617/#comment-94975 Fri, 13 May 2016 14:21:40 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2011/more/uncategorized/too-much-of-a-good-thing-terrence-malick-apparently-preparing-6-hour-cut-of-the-tree-of-life-117994/#comment-94975 I\’m looking forward to seeing the current theatrical cut (even in L.A. it\’s only playing in chi-chi-frou-frou art house theaters at the moment, not the chains), but at 6 hours… Well, let\’s put it this way, entertainment does NOT have to be dumb, but it doesn\’t have to be an endurance test either. I recently sat through two of Gus Van Sant\’s esoteric experimental films (\”Elephant\”, and \”Last Days\”… but not \”Gerry\”, yet), and though they were at time beautiful to look at and lyrical at best… often, it felt like a slog to get through them for lack of narrative coherence (and I love a cinematic challenge)… and those only last about an hour-and-a-half each. I love Malick, but don\’t see how one could sit through six hours of him trying to work out his childhood issues no matter how beautiful the images or insanely great the lyrical aspects of his filmmaking and overall philosophies. You\’d need one helluva intermission somewhere in there, at least… and even then, I think by the end most folks would be aching to get out and, y\’know, see the sun or something, y\’know? Sometimes, too much of a good thing can be bad for us… and one man\’s over-indulgence can be the equivalent of showing endless vacation slides to guests at a party.

]]> By: ryan https://staging2.theplaylist.net/too-much-of-a-good-thing-terrence-malick-apparently-preparing-6-hour-cut-of-the-tree-of-life-20110617/#comment-94976 Fri, 13 May 2016 14:21:40 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2011/more/uncategorized/too-much-of-a-good-thing-terrence-malick-apparently-preparing-6-hour-cut-of-the-tree-of-life-117994/#comment-94976 you\’re welcome for the tip 😉

]]> By: Pg13myass https://staging2.theplaylist.net/too-much-of-a-good-thing-terrence-malick-apparently-preparing-6-hour-cut-of-the-tree-of-life-20110617/#comment-94977 Fri, 13 May 2016 14:21:40 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2011/more/uncategorized/too-much-of-a-good-thing-terrence-malick-apparently-preparing-6-hour-cut-of-the-tree-of-life-117994/#comment-94977 If this is true, I hope it\’ll be a criterion release! Definite buy for me then!

]]> By: Edward Davis https://staging2.theplaylist.net/too-much-of-a-good-thing-terrence-malick-apparently-preparing-6-hour-cut-of-the-tree-of-life-20110617/#comment-94978 Fri, 13 May 2016 14:21:40 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2011/more/uncategorized/too-much-of-a-good-thing-terrence-malick-apparently-preparing-6-hour-cut-of-the-tree-of-life-117994/#comment-94978 Right, Lubezki, my bad. And right, he worked on the Burial too. Forgot that. Malick usually puts his music peep through the ringer and they never work with him twice. Desplat is not working on that again, is he?

]]> By: Spelling bee https://staging2.theplaylist.net/too-much-of-a-good-thing-terrence-malick-apparently-preparing-6-hour-cut-of-the-tree-of-life-20110617/#comment-94979 Fri, 13 May 2016 14:21:40 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2011/more/uncategorized/too-much-of-a-good-thing-terrence-malick-apparently-preparing-6-hour-cut-of-the-tree-of-life-117994/#comment-94979 It\’s Lubezki, with a \”Z.\”

Also, he has worked on 3 Malick films, including \”The Burial\” or whatever it\’s going to be called.

]]> By: Edward Davis https://staging2.theplaylist.net/too-much-of-a-good-thing-terrence-malick-apparently-preparing-6-hour-cut-of-the-tree-of-life-20110617/#comment-94980 Fri, 13 May 2016 14:21:40 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2011/more/uncategorized/too-much-of-a-good-thing-terrence-malick-apparently-preparing-6-hour-cut-of-the-tree-of-life-117994/#comment-94980 sorry, \”this is what [they, the editing team with Malick] watched.\”

]]> By: Edward Davis https://staging2.theplaylist.net/too-much-of-a-good-thing-terrence-malick-apparently-preparing-6-hour-cut-of-the-tree-of-life-20110617/#comment-94981 Fri, 13 May 2016 14:21:40 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2011/more/uncategorized/too-much-of-a-good-thing-terrence-malick-apparently-preparing-6-hour-cut-of-the-tree-of-life-117994/#comment-94981 @Fanny

If we take Chivo Lubeski\’s comments at face value — and let\’s say we do for now — this is totally different.

There is no 5 hr cut of the Thin Red Line. That was the assembly cut. I.e. they patched all the raw footage together of what they wanted to include to malick and said, \”ok, here\’s what we\’ve got.\” This is what we watched.

like that 8 hr cut of Tree of LIfe. That\’s an assembly cut of all the footage they want to use and they show it and start whittling down.

BUT Malick wanting to go back and make a 6hr cut of \”Tree Of Life\” is completely different from the 5 hr \”Thin Red Line\” assembly cut. People assume a 5 hr cut exists somewhere — it does certainly not.

Again, that\’s just how much the total of footage they had. It was not mixed, had no music, wasn\’t color corrected or even really edited. Just basically stitched together in raw form and then they go, \”ok, we start from here, right?\”

So yeah, just had to make that clear.

If his is true and considering it comes from the cinematographer who worked on two Malick films now (the only cinematographer who has worked with him on two film back to back), it seems likely to be true unless the translation is all wrong, they are two totally separate and different things. Don\’t confuse the two.

]]> By: Peter Labuza https://staging2.theplaylist.net/too-much-of-a-good-thing-terrence-malick-apparently-preparing-6-hour-cut-of-the-tree-of-life-20110617/#comment-94982 Fri, 13 May 2016 14:21:40 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2011/more/uncategorized/too-much-of-a-good-thing-terrence-malick-apparently-preparing-6-hour-cut-of-the-tree-of-life-117994/#comment-94982 What\’s interesting is that it\’s not the choldhood stuff that needs more elucidation, but all that Sean Penn junk that feels unnecessary at the moment and could use some grounding.

]]> By: fanny bunz https://staging2.theplaylist.net/too-much-of-a-good-thing-terrence-malick-apparently-preparing-6-hour-cut-of-the-tree-of-life-20110617/#comment-94983 Fri, 13 May 2016 14:21:40 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2011/more/uncategorized/too-much-of-a-good-thing-terrence-malick-apparently-preparing-6-hour-cut-of-the-tree-of-life-117994/#comment-94983 never gonna happen. just like the 5 hour cut of thin red line. no one will ever see this except the editors.

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