Terrence Malick
Oscar scouting report, best director: Hazanavicius, Payne, Scorsese, Allen, Malick
Hugo works beautifully on the technical level, providing us with genuinely fantastic landscapes and sets, but it also digs deep into the emotions of the characters. It is about people who love to fix things. Scorsese's work in film preservation is well known and will be one of his most important legacies. Hugo, with its declaration of love for those geniuses of the earliest days of movies, is a huge part of that legacy. It is a masterpiece. More
(1)'Tree of Life': Terrence Malick tells the story of everything, in tiny little pieces
Terrence Malick's Palme d'Or winning Tree of Life is the story of three young brothers growing up in 1950s Texas, told in flashback from the perspective of one of the grown sons looking back on his childhood from the present day. It is also the story of the beginning of the Universe and the development of our cosmos. More
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