According to John Travolta (who was originally cast and probably wasn’t just making it up–as it was pre–Battlefield Earth and he was still somewhat legitimate), when ABC wouldn’t let him out of his “Welcome Back, Kotter” contract, Malick was forced to cast Richard Gere and shredded the majority of Days of Heaven’s screenplay, instead going […]
Entries Tagged as 'Terrence Malick'
Days of Heaven (1978, Terrence Malick)
May 13th, 2009 · No Comments
Tagged: Paramount Pictures· Sam Shepard· Terrence Malick· ★½
Badlands (1973, Terrence Malick)
February 4th, 2009 · No Comments
I was in high school the first time I saw Badlands. I’d seen a lot of movies–I think by that time, I’d even made a top one hundred list. I know I’d seen True Romance, so I must have been at least fifteen. There’s nothing else like Badlands in cinema, which is a bit of […]
Tagged: Terrence Malick· Warner Bros.· ★★★★
Pocket Money (1972, Stuart Rosenberg)
July 2nd, 2006 · No Comments
Pocket Money is, in addition to being an excellent film, an example of a couple interesting things. First, it’s a 1970s character study, which is a different genre than what currently passes for a character study (if there are character studies at all anymore, since Michael Mann and Wes Anderson stopped doing them). The 1970s […]
Tagged: J.P.S. Brown· John Gay· Lee Marvin· National General Pictures· Paul Newman· Stuart Rosenberg· Terrence Malick· Wayne Rogers· ★★★½



