The Magic Hours (Paperback)
The Films and Hidden Life of Terrence Malick
Series: Screen Classics
Pages: 352
Illustrations: 19 b&w illustrations
ISBN: 9781985901193
Published: 3rd December 2024
Casemate UK Academic
(click here for international delivery rates)
Order within the next 3 hours, 45 minutes to get your order processed the next working day!
Need a currency converter? Check XE.com for live rates
Terrence Malick is the most enigmatic film director currently working. Since the early seventies, his work has won top prizes at film festivals worldwide and brought him wide recognition as the cinematic equivalent of a poet. His life is shrouded in mystery, leaving audiences with rumors, few established facts, and virtual silence from the filmmaker himself following his last published interview in 1979. This has done nothing to dim the luminous quality of his films, from Badlands (1973) and Days of Heaven (1978), to later works such as The Thin Red Line (1998), The Tree of Life (2011), and A Hidden Life (2019).
The Magic Hours: The Life and Films of Terrence Malick is the first true biography of this visionary filmmaker. Through interviews and in-depth research, John Bleasdale reveals the autobiographical grounding of many of Malick's greatest films as well as the development of an experimental form of filmmaking that constantly expands the language of cinema. It is the essential account for anyone wishing to understand Malick and his work.