my name's Terrence Malick and i'm so good at making movies i can ignore basic continuity rules and still make good thingsPanapaok wrote:
that first clip seems cropped weird, but i like what i'm seeing
my name's Terrence Malick and i'm so good at making movies i can ignore basic continuity rules and still make good thingsPanapaok wrote:
Christian Bale, Benicio del Toro, Haley Bennett All Cut From Terrence Malick’s ‘Song to Song’Last night, the film’s producer Nicolas Gonda announced the director “may show” at the film’s world premiere at SXSW, and indeed he did, sharing his thoughts on filmmaking in general and his latest film in particular: Song to Song, the star-packed project with Michael Fassbender, Ryan Gosling, Natalie Portman, Rooney Mara, Cate Blanchett and Val Kilmer.
Soft spoken with a shyness that silenced the room when he spoke, Malick talked up his filmmaking process, working with his actors on Song To Song and simple observations of life.
“We shot the film on a 40-day schedule,” he said about his latest feature which opens next week via Broad Green. “We had an 8-hour first cut of the film and it took a long time to cut it to a manageable length.” Continuing he said he asked at the time rhetorically, “Is this going to be a miniseries? We have enough to make a different movie.”
Making reference to the length of time to complete Song To Song, Malick said that he’s had to go “more than once” to the “financiers and studios.”
Malick revealed that he’s often referred to by his close associates as the “Apuntador,” a term meaning “prompter” and used in Italian theater and, he said, Mexican soap operas to refer to a person who directs an actor from the side when the actor doesn’t know his lines or where to go. Whether that was in fact the case here or not, Song to Song has a spontaneity that is very apparent – and that’s just fine with Malick.
“You don’t want something to look too staged in movies or they look overly presented,” he said. “You don’t know what comes out [and] you don’t know what you have at the end of the day.”
Christian Bale was absent from the nearly two-hour film when it screened at opening night at the South by Southwest Film Festival. Benicio del Toro and Haley Bennett, who were reported as part of the cast six years ago, were also nowhere to be found.
Six years ago Bale shot on location for nearly four weeks, one individual familiar with the project said, but soon broke away to ramp up promotion for his final Batman film “The Dark Knight Rises.”
Fassbender’s character, a toxic music executive, was said to be so similar to Bale that no one was sure if he would be included at all, the insider added. The press-shy director, who lives in Austin, does not share details of his movies with the public in advance.