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One difficult thing for a film critic to do can be captured in a two-part question: How do you review a film that, 1, is more of a mood piece than an example of narrative storytelling and, 2, resists your every effort to describe it without giving too much away? Faced with that challenge, I came up with the following for my review of Terrence ... (more)

After the Shakespearean conflict of Shotgun Stories and the apocalyptic rumblings of Take Shelter, the modest scale of Jeff Nichols's Mud comes as a surprise.

Workers roll out the red carpet before the 66th Annual Cannes Film Festival at Palais des Festivals on May 15, 2013, in Cannes, France When the Corlisses first visited this Riviera resort in 1973 - we were practically infants then - the Cannes Film Festival was a comely 26.

If the response to Terrence Malick 's The Tree of Life was mixed, the reviews for his follow-up To the Wonder were absolutely brutal.

Actress Angelina Jolie arrives on the red carpet for the screening of the film "The Tree of Life", by director Terrence Malick, in competition at the 64th Cannes Film Festival, May 16, 2011.

IN JUNE OF LAST YEAR, celebrity gossip website TMZ uploaded a video of Benicio del Toro on a sidewalk in Los Angeles.

Terrence Malick is a human wormhole: once you start to try and understand the complex philosopher behind such devastating works of storytelling art as Badlands , Days of Heaven and The Tree of Life , it's nearly impossible not to get sucked into a vortex of fascinating research and innuendo.

Douglas Trumbull is one of the most famed special-effects experts in Hollywood history.

Shane Carruth is the writer, director, cinematographer, co-editor and co-star of the strange "Upstream Color." He also wrote the original score.

Released less than two years after his The Tree of Life , an epic that began with the dinosaurs and peered into an uncertain future, Terrence Malick's To the Wonder is a film that contains only a handful of important characters and a few crucial moments in their lives.

Watching a filmmaker's personal struggles play out in their work can be fascinating, vicariously cathartic, or frustrating.

Terrence Malick has often been considered a genius, but never a prolific filmmaker.

Parenthood is scary. To have absolute and sole responsibility for the life of another for years before they're minimally self-sufficient is a very daunting a task.

It's impossible to talk about "To the Wonder" without bringing up Terrence Malick's previous film, "The Tree of Life." The ever-reclusive Malick has with each film he's both written and directed, six in total over the last 40 years, further refined his unique style of emphasizing soft-spoken and introspective overhead narration and stationary shots ... (more)

If you've read or heard anything about Mud , writer/director Jeff Nichols' tale about two boys who encounter a fugitive hiding on an island in the Mississippi River, it's most likely been about Matthew McConaughey, who gives an electric performance as a handsome rogue named Mud who's wanted by the authorities after a crime of passion.

After their recent experience at "The Tree of Life," many moviegoers now know that director-screenwriter Terrence Malick is not your typical cinematic storyteller.

The summer blockbuster season begins for real today, with Robert Downey Jr. and a red-and-gold suit leading the charge.

New Mexico Film Office director Nick Maniatis said production will be centered in early May in and around Albuquerque and Rio Rancho, employing at least 25 New Mexico crew members and 100 New Mexico principals and background talent.

Neil and Marina drift through "To the Wonder" pondering questions such as "Where are we when we're there?" and "What is this love that loves us?" He might be the most sought-after, high-budget art-house filmmaker on the planet, a director whose talent for cinematic poetry and free-form improvisation gives him virtually the pick of Hollywood's ... (more)

His delightful blend of dot-eyed stickmen and dizzying existentialism - showcased in 2012's It's Such a Beautiful Day - makes Hertzfeldt an unstoppable force in stop-motion cinema We take Gromit's eyebrows for granted.