comment #1

Dean says ...

Wow. That is odd.

Anyone know what this is for?

comment #2

moviesquad says ...

This was filmed at the ACL Festival this weekend in Zilker park right outside of downtown Austin. Over 70,000 people attend each day.

comment #3

Dss says ...

Obviously there's a pattern here -- I predict Bale's role will follow the fate of Penn's, which followed Adrien Brody's -- good looking guy filled with angst because all his lines got cut.

comment #4

Bilge Ebiri says ...

Malick is about 68 years old, so he may have gotten shorter in his senior years.

Also, Jeff, interesting item: Back when THE THIN RED LINE came out, I recorded some kind of Making-of Special that aired on some channel at the time (can't remember if it was HBO or E or whatever) and it actually had some honest-to-goodness footage of Malick directing, albeit shot from a distance. I have a VHS copy sitting on my shelf but my old VCR is broken, so I haven't bothered to try and watch it recently.

comment #5

djiggs says ...

Wow, this footage just reminds me how excellent Bale was in "The New World". His character of John Rolfe has always stuck with me more so than Powhatan, Pochontas, John Smith, or Captain Newport. I am not surprised to see him working again with Malick again just as I would not be surprised to see him working with Russell, Herzog, Nolan, Mary Harron, Mann or Spielberg again. One of the things that I love in film is when you see an actor/director/writer/cinematographer get into a sweet spot in their career-when everything that they are attempting is interesting, original, surprising, somewhat unexpected, and often times very commercial. My favorite film making hot streak is Oliver Stone's 10 years of greatness from Salvador to Nixon. Another one is HItchcock from Vertigo to The Birds. Or Kubrick from Lolita to Barry Lyndon. Or Bergman from Summer with Monica to Scenes from a Marriage.

For actors, it is harder to identify but I have admired when Tom Hanks was the #1 star on the planet working from Philadelphia to Road to Perdition-where he was working with Demme, Zemeckis (twice at his peak), Mendes, Speilberg, Pixar, Ron Howard (his only great film-Apollo 13), and Frank Darabont with the unfortunate Nora Ephron project to mar his streak. Or look at Tom Cruise who from 1985 to 2005 worked with Ridley & Tony Scott, Scorsese, Speilberg (twice), John Woo, DePalma, Crowe (twice), Kubrick, P.T. Anderson, Reiner, Neil Jordan, Sydney Pollack, Michael Mann, and unfortunately Ed Zwick.

Leonardo Dicaprio has also started to gain his own list of impressive directorial collaborators: of course Scorsese, now Eastwood, unfortunately Ed Zwick, Cameron, Luhrmann, Lasse Hallstrom, Mendes, Ridley Scott, hopefully Todd Field, and Danny Boyle's least work. Hopefully, Bale gets to continue to add to his experiences of good collaborators avoiding the unfortunate incident of hooking up with McG.

comment #6

djiggs says ...

Here is a question for Mr. Wells. Why is there a tendency for film buffs to get so perturbed about if a professional artist ala Kubrick or Malick do not want to be seen in the public limelight? In previous posts, you have stated that Kubrick's supposedly "hermetic" lifestyle calcified his film making style rendering "Eyes Wide Shut" as inert for you as a viewer. From my perspective and his brother-in-law Jan Harlan's "A Life in Pictures", I always thought that view was b.s. for a number of different reasons.

"Eyes Wide Shut" should be viewed as the work of an older man who does not get as lathered up by sex and violence than he did when he was younger. It comes from a more mature perspective that is interested the consequences/aftereffects of the sex/violence. Lately, I have been thinking how Eyes Wide Shut is as much a companion piece to Clockwork Orange as Gran Torino is to Dirty Harry. The artist has a different perspective now that he is older...but audience expectations/perceptions have not changed.

For myself and artists like Kubrick/Malick/Eastwood, the work is the utmost importance not how many bullshit Hollywood parties, schmoozing, or star antics that they can get into. Whenever I hear people complain/wonder about how hermetic Kubrick/Malick are, I always think back to this Thomas Jefferson quote.

"I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post, which any human power can give."

I wish more people would follow that advice.

comment #7

Rashad says ...

The Wolfe section brought the film to a halt and had none of the energy Farrell's did.

with the unfortunate Nora Ephron project to mar his streak.

You've Got Mail is a delightful film.

comment #8

djiggs says ...

"You've Got Mail is a delightful film."

To each their own...but the original work "The Shop Around the Corner" directed by Ernst Lubitsch kicks "You've Got Mail" ass.

comment #9

reverent and free says ...

It's getting harder to remember the 90s Tom Hanks when he was one of the best character actors. It's almost impossible to imagine him in a role like Philadelphia or Gump today. It was around the time of You Got Mail and Saving Private Ryan that he started becoming Tom Hanks(TM). I'm hoping that he like Redford, he'll start to resume character acting as he gets older.

comment #10

K. Bowen says ...

There was a rediscovered Malick interview from the Badlands era circulating last week. IT was with a filmmakers newsletter, talking about the financing of Badlands. Two things are clear. He was/is scary smart, and sheez, that man never had hair.

comment #11

K. Bowen says ...

And yes, Bale was quietly terrific in The New World.

comment #12

Michael Strangeways says ...

Isn't the new Dark Night filming?

Bale must have gotten the weekend off.

comment #13

actionman says ...

between Drive and this footage of Malick, I have no more underpants to wear for the rest of the week.

comment #14

actionman says ...

but seriously, holy shit, beyond cool, totally amazing, was in the grips watching it. but now some of the aura is gone. and yeah, it's definitely akin to seeing a live bigfoot.

comment #15

Breedlove says ...

That is really cool. Wow.

comment #16

Storm Serge says ...

My sister got some pics of him lurking backstage, we couldn't figure what he was up to.

ACL is a little more than an outdoor concert. It's epic. Ask Jett about it, he should know.

comment #17

The Criterion Guy says ...

God, how many times do you need to understand this. The man is HARDLY a recluse. When he shot his latest in Oklahoma, he ate at a place owned by family several times a week with members of cast and crew. He was courteous, nice and unassuming and not a freak at all. He even welcomed a handshake fro ma fan or two. He's a nice guy and not the hermit film critics want to make him out to be.

comment #18

VoiceOfReason says ...

Very cool. Was Lubezki anywhere in there? I didn't see him. Was that an hd cam? Looks kind of small for film.

comment #19

actionman says ...

TCG -- it is DEFINITELY AMAZING to see video footage of Mr. Malick. What other video sources are out there?

comment #20

corey3rd says ...

His soul is stolen!!!!

I remember seeing Austin Lynch's behind the scenes of New World in which his camera had to figure out how to get coverage of the production and avoid getting Malick in the shot

comment #21

The Criterion Guy says ...

@actionman: But meeting him in person was a bigger thrill.

comment #22

actionman says ...

most people will never, ever get a chance to meet him. you must realize this. no? but yeah, that's fucking astonishing that you met him. how did this happen/when did this happen?

comment #23

Baron Munchausen-by-Proxy says ...

"When he shot his latest in Oklahoma, he ate at a place owned by family several times a week with members of cast and crew. He was courteous, nice and unassuming and not a freak at all. He even welcomed a handshake fro ma fan or two."

God, what an incredible extrovert!! Such a REVELATION!

CritGuy - No one, not even Jeff (except when employing obvious exaggeration) actually imagines or characterizes Malick as a hill-dwelling, matted-hair HERMIT, for crissakes. He DOES make movies, I mean.

He simply eschews press, publicity, interviews, plugs, and all the other latter-century detritus that most directors happily endure because, well, they have to do it - its in their interest and in their contract. That Malick doesn't, and has never done so, makes him quite the anomaly. Capiche?

comment #24

Baron Munchausen-by-Proxy says ...

And, naturally, the moment I stick up for the collective intelligence of HE's readership, I notice that...

....In a post dedicated to the thrill of capturing the previously uncaptured...

...an auteur caught in the act of directing a heralded actor in his next film....

...we have Rashad chiming in to inform us all that:

"You've Got Mail is a delightful film."

Jesusfuckingchristonacrutch. And then he's informed its a remake. Shoot me.

comment #25

K. Bowen says ...

His step-daughter actually has a blog on the topic of breast cancer and writes a little about him here and there.

comment #26

Sam Cleveland says ...

hey waitaminute... he shows up quite a bit in the BTS stuff for The New World.

he only mumbles to the crew, no real audio, but he's definitely there.

there's one particular bit i remember where they're shooting the burning (of Jamestown??) and the operator is shooting a burning hut interior through a window.
Malick really quite forcefully grabs the magazine from behind and pushes the camera THROUGH the window.

guess he mustn't have wanted the windowframe in his actual frame.

lubezki comes off as a VERY sharp fellow in all that footage by the way.

comment #27

Ray says ...

That's why we never see Terrence Malick in public.

HE'S BILL MURRAY!

comment #28

actionman says ...

i've watched the bhs on the new world and i dont remember seeing any footage whatsoever of malick

comment #29

Eloi Wrath says ...

In general, it seems Malick is slowly coming out of his shell. He's done speaking appearances recently, there are far more new photos of him than in years before (walking around LA with Brad Pitt is not the action of a recluse) and he's ramped up his film output by a considerable amount. We'll likely have three new Malick films within the space of half a decade. I guess he just did what he wanted to do in his time out, and now he's enjoying working again.

comment #30

Sam Cleveland says ...

don't want to sound like i'm giving you homework, but check again AM.

pretty sure he's also in that waist-deep fight scene w/ CF and the indians, wearing a blue and black wetsuit and holding a monitor.

at least i thiiiink it's him???

comment #31

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