CINEPHILE 8.1 on the Voice-Over in Cinema

Frame grab from Borom Sarret/The Wagoner (Ousmane Sembène,1963). Read Alexander Fisher's article on Sembène's use of voice-over in this film in the latest issue of Cinephile

While it is true that film has been historically considered an image-centred medium, the fact that hearing plays as much a role in perceiving the motion picture as seeing does, transcends it beyond a mere visual art. Furthermore, as noted sound theorist Michel Chion asserts in The Voice in Cinema, “the presence of a human voice structures the sonic space that contains it.” Therefore, studying parts of the cinema in which the voice gains particular significance is not only justified, but necessary. This issue of Cinephile revolves around diverse applications and functions of the voices in fiction films, whose sources are absent from the image frame.

Theoretical approaches to the filmic voice were only developed in the 1980s, and as the works cited in the articles here indicate, at least in the case of off-screen voices and voice-over, they have not been properly updated. One goal of this collection has been to explore various demonstrations of voice-over both in a more contemporary scope and on a more international scale. The main concern of each of the following five articles is the voice-over, showing how concentrating on this under-appreciated technique can lead to bigger conclusions about films and filmmakers. [Editorial Introduction, Cinephile, 8.1, 2013]

Today, Film Studies For Free hails the online publication (earlier this year) of volume 8.1 of Cinephile, the University of British Columbia's on and offline film journal. The special topic on this occasion is the cinematic voice-over and there are marvellous essays on it by Sarah Kozloff (author of the classic studies of VOs and film sound Invisible Storytellers: Voice-Over Narration in American Fiction Film [1988] and Overhearing Film Dialogue [2000]), Stephen Teo, Carl Laamanen, Laura Beadling and Alexander Fisher.

You can download a large PDF of this beautifully illustrated issue from this webpage. The featured contents are as follows

• 'About a Clueless Boy and Girl: Voice-Over in Romantic Comedy Today' by Sarah Kozloff
• 'What Does God Hear? Terrence Malick, Voice-Over, and The Tree of Life' by Carl Laamanen
• 'Native American Filmmakers Reclaiming Voices: Innovative Voice-Overs in Chris Eyre’s Skins' by Laura Beadling
• 'The Voice-Over as an Integrating Tool of Word and Image' by Stephen Teo
• 'Voice-Over, Narrative Agency, and Oral Culture: Ousmane Sembène’s Borom Sarret' by Alexander Fisher

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The Cine-Files' special issue on mise-en-scene: Laura Mulvey, Kristin Thompson, V.F. Perkins, Lesley Stern, Adrian Martin, Christian Keathley, Jean Ma, Girish Shambu, John Gibbs and Jesse Green

Scene from the Iranian film Zir-e poost-e shahr/Under the Skin of the City (Rakhshan Bani-E'temad, 2001). Read a study of this film by Laura Mulvey in the new issue of The Cine-Files. Professor Mulvey has recently launched the Birkbeck Institute for the Moving Image (BIMI) which organises London-based film studies events, many of them with free entry and recorded for global online access. Upcoming BIMI events include some excellent ones on 3D. 

Film Studies For Free was thrilled to learn of the publication of Issue 4 of The Cine-Files. It, in turn, is delighted to feature ten guest scholars (ranging from the top notch to the legendary!) who offer either analysis of a cinematic “moment” or responses to questions about mise-en-scène and the significance of “close reading.” There are two further excellent articles in the issue by Warwick Mules and Mark Balderston. Thank you to The Cine-Files!

Guest contributions: 

• John Gibbs: “Close Reading: The Cry of the Owl” and Interview
• Jesse Green: “Putting Film in its Place”
• Christian Keathley: “The Man in the Back Seat”
• Jean Ma: “Close Reading: The Mise-en-scène of Song Performance”
• Adrian Martin: “Hands Across the Table”
• Laura Mulvey: “Between Melodrama and Realism: Under the Skin of the City (2001)”
• V.F. Perkins: “Acting on Objects”
• Girish Shambu: Interview
• Lesley Stern: “Writing/Images”
• Kristin Thompson: Interview

Features:

• 'Mise-en-scène and the Figural: A Reading of Terrence Malick’s Tree of Life' by Warwick Mules
• “You’ll Get Your Big Trip”: Acousmatic Music, The Voice, and the Mirror Stage in Enter the Void by Mark Balderston

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Issue 35 of SCREENING THE PAST: Martin, Ruiz, Godard, Marker, Malick, Ophuls, and RIP Vikki Riley

Corrected edition! [Thanks AM!]

Screen cap from Petulia (Richard Lester, 1968). Read Adrian Danks's new article on this film and its director. And read Roger Ebert's fascinating review of the film at the time of its release.

It was somewhat remiss of Film Studies For Free to tweet the link to a new, and excellent, issue of Screening the Past, and then not to follow up with an entry here. This little oversight is corrected today with the below list of contents and links.

There are a huge number of film studies topics covered in the issue (although a fair few of them, in a variety of great contributions, by Adrian Martin!). FSFF particularly liked Lorraine Sim on the ensemble film and Roger Hillman on Malick.

This blog especially recommends, also, the dossier (introduced by Martin) dedicated to the work and memory of Vikki Riley, a highly original writer on film and a tireless political activist who tragically died in a road accident in Darwin, Australia, last September.

Screening the Past, Issue 35, 2012

First Release

• Hanging Here and Groping There: On Raúl Ruiz’s “The Six Functions of the Shot”
  by Adrian Martin
• The Art of Falling Apart: Petulia and the Fate of Richard Lester
  by Adrian Danks
• Tending the Wounds of the Nation: Gender in Contemporary Iranian War Cinema
  by Michelle Langford
• Ensemble Film, Postmodernity and Moral Mapping
  by Lorraine Sim
• JLG/Jean Améry
  by Alan Wright
• Malick’s Music of the Spheres: The Tree of Life
  by Roger Hillman
• The Sydney and Melbourne Film Festivals, and the Liberalisation of Film Censorship in Australia
  by Cathy Hope and Adam Dickerson 

Vikki Riley (1962-2012): Early Writings

• VOLA X (Introduction)
  by Adrian Martin
• The Canonisation of Junk (1982)
  by Vikki Riley
• Poetics of Pop: The Titles of Things (1982)
  by Vikki Riley
• ‘This Magazine is for Airing Personal Complaints’ (1983)
  by Vikki Riley
• Caught … Sunless and The State of Things (1984)
  by Vikki Riley

Classics and Re-runs

• Which Hollywood? Which Ophuls?
  by Adrian Martin
• The Six Functions of the Shot
  by Raúl Ruiz 

Web-teque

• Adrian Martin interview about his book Last Day Every Day: Figural Thinking from Auerbach and Kracauer to Agamben and Brenez,
  interviewer Anna Dzenis

Reviews

• Ecce Homo: The Male-Body-In-Pain as Redemptive Figure
• by Jeremy V. Adolphson
• One Night on TV is Worth Weeks at the Paramount: Popular Music on Early Television
  by Lauren Anderson
• Ephemeral Media: Transitory Screen Culture from Television to YouTube
  by Rebecca Bell-Metereau
• A Post-May Adolescence: A letter to Alice Debord
  by Jan Bryant
• Sergio Leone Something To Do With Death (reprint edition)
  by Patrick Condliffe
• Moving Color: Early Film, Mass Culture, Modernism
  by Maura Edmond
• Fantasy Film: A Critical Introduction
  by Michael Grant
• Glimpses of Freedom: Independent Cinema in Southeast Asia.
  by David Hanan
• Science Fiction Film: A Critical Introduction
  by Adam Knee
• British Film Design: A History
  by Brian McFarlane
• New Philosophies of Film: Thinking Images
  by Sarinah Masukor
• David Lynch
  by Josh Nelson
• The Neorealist body in Postwar Italian cinema
  by Luca Peretti
• Olivier Assayas
  by Claire Perkins
• The Miracle Woman
  by Eloise Ross
• Jedda
  by Shane Smithers
• Fashion in Film
  by Sue Thomas
• Alfred Hitchcock’s Frenzy: The Last Masterpiece
  by Jay Daniel Thompson
• Cinema’s Alchemist: The Films of Péter Forgács
  by Jeni Thornley
• Film Trilogies: New Critical Approaches
  by John Vanderhoef
• Shadow Economies of Cinema: Mapping Informal Film Distribution
  by Mike Walsh
• Cinema and Experience: Siegfried Kracauer, Walter Benjamin, and Theodore Adorno
  by Tyson Wils
• South African Cinema 1896-2010
  by Suzanne Woodward

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New SENSES OF CINEMA: Malick, Godard, Weimar Cinema, Schepisi, Chaplin, Martel, Holland, Philibert, Pereira Dos Santos

Image from Film Socialisme (Jean-Luc Godard, 2010). You can read Samuel Bréan's SOC essay about this film here.

Film Studies For Free is delighted to convey to its readers that a great new issue of Senses of Cinema has just been published. It's a bumper issue with lots of interest.

It is a timely reminder of just what a valuable publication this online journal is. To which end, SOC launched a Support Senses campaign a little while ago. FSFF thinks that if you regularly visit this journal, if you value what it does, perhaps you might like to consider making a small (or large!) donation, perhaps the cost of a monthly commercial film magazine, as a guideline, for starters.

Senses of Cinema, Issue 60, 2011 

• “I have this special issue of Cahiers du cinéma in front of me”: Remembering Claudine Paquot (1951-2011) by Bérénice Reynaud
• Claudine Paquot, My Friend for Thirty Years by Serge Toubiana
• Gualtiero Jacopetti (1919-2011): The Carnivorous Eye  by Celluloid Liberation Front
• Either and Or: On Terrence Malick’s Tree of Life by Moritz Pfeifer
• godard english cannes: The Reception of Film Socialisme‘s “Navajo English” Subtitles by Samuel Bréan
• She Works Hard for the Money: Women and Fashion in Weimar Cinema by Alexandria Placido
• Cowboys and Aliens: The Exhaustion of History and the Re-Genesis of Illusions by Joseph Natoli
• Biting Back at the Machine: Charlie Chaplin’s Modern Times by Gregory Stephens
• Kansas: Towards a Rhetoric of the 1980s Farm Debt Crisis and the New Depression Film by Stephen Larson
• “Westalgie” in Leander Haußmann’s Herr Lehmann by Dorothea Otto
• Knife in the Head: German Social Realism Meets Cinema Verit by Robert M. Stowe
• Objects of Memory in Contemporary Catalan Documentaries: Materiality and Mortality by Abigail Loxham
• No Country for Old Men, Visual Regime, Mental Image and Narrative Slowness by Thierry Jutel 

Great Directors:

• Nelson Pereira dos Santos by Hudson Moura

CTEQ Annotations:

• La Niña santa by Carlota Larrea
• La Ciénaga  by Gwendolyn Audrey Foster
• Losing Your Head – Lucrecia Martel and The Headless Woman by David Melville
• Europa Europa by Pasquale Iannone
• Provincial Actors  by Pedro Blas Gonzalez
• Olivier Olivier by Tamara Tracz
• Fever by Michael Da Silva
• Être et avoir: The Medium and the Moment by Shari KizirianRetour en Normandie by Darragh O’Donoghue
• In the Land of the Deaf by Martyn Bamber
• “The Raw and the Cooked”: The Peculiar Poetics of Nicolas Philibert’s Un animal, des animaux by Adrian Danks
• Nénette by Louise Sheedy
• Acto de Primavera and the Uncompromising Vision of Manoel de Oliveira  by Wheeler Winston Dixon
• Karl May by Peter Hourigan

Fred Schepisi Dossier:

• The Filmmaker as Adaptor: Fred Schepisi Takes on Patrick White in The Eye of the Storm by Brian McFarlane
• Shooting Dialogue as Action: An Interview with Fred Schepisi  by Fincina Hopgood
• Schepisi’s Celluloid Australia by Daniel Eisenberg
• Across the Borderline by Adrian Danks
• It Runs in the Family: Sons, Sins and Structural Complexity in Fred Schepisi’s Six Degrees of Separation  by Rose Capp
• People Make Papers by Anna Daly
• ReViewing Jimmie: The Critical Reception of The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith  by Glen Donnar 

Book Reviews:

• Minding Movies: Observations on the Art, Craft, and Business of Filmmaking by David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson by Tony McKibbin
• Jacques Rivette by Douglas Morrey and Alison Smith by Daniel Fairfax
• Baz Luhrmann by Pam Cook by Ben Goldsmith
• Encyclopedia of Early Cinema edited by Richard Abel  by Michael Walsh
• Whose Lives Are They Anyway? The Biopic as Contemporary Film Genre by Dennis Bingham  by Frank P. Tomasulo
• Widescreen Worldwide edited by John Belton, Sheldon Hall and Steve Neale by Simon Howson

Film Festival Reports:

• Korean Independent Films (and Youth) in Jeonju: The 12th Jeonju International Film Festival by Nikki J. Y. Lee
• Eclectic and Open to the World: The 9th Annual Paris Cinema Festival  by Kath Dooley
• Hawksian Girls Meet Weimar Cinema at 25th Cinema Ritrovato  by Federico Passi
• A Soul Nourishing Pilgrimage: The 35th Frameline San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival by Stuart Richards
• I was a Captive Audience at the 57th Flaherty Seminar by Sergey Levchin
• The Tree of Cinema: The 46th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival by Bill Mousoulis
• Naked Ambition: The 14th Shanghai International Film Festival 2011 by Brandon Wee
• Generational Syncretisation and MIFF’s Diamond Jubilee: The 60th Melbourne International Film Festival by Alice G. Burgin

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New BRIGHT LIGHTS FILM JOURNAL

"Your body is a microcosm of all existence." – On Michelle LeBrun's Death: A Love Story: Bodies Politic/Body Politics: The Political and the Personal in Contemporary Film Essays by Matt Brennan

Film Studies For Free continues to catch up with August's bumper crop of new online journal issues. Over the weekend, it has been thoroughly enjoying the lively and eclectic brilliance of Bright Lights Film Journal's latest offering of very savvy, and sometimes sassy, articles.

They may not be 'peer reviewed' in the strict scholarly sense, but film studies academics and cinephiles will miss these at their peril.

The entire table of contents for Issue 73 is thus reproduced below. And don't miss Bright Lights After Dark, BLFJ's fabulous film blog for further, essential, movie musings. 

Bright Lights Film Journal, August 2011 | Issue 73

From the Editor

• "You can't have your cinema and eat it too" - or can you? 


• Gary Morris

Features

• Bodies Politic/Body Politics: The Political and the Personal in Contemporary Film Essays


• Matt Brennan 

• Boris Barnet: The Lyric Voice in Soviet Cinema by Giuliano Vivaldi

Articles

• Cylons, Avatars, and Barack Obama: Science Fiction and Hybridity After 9/11 by Natalie Bograd

• The Envelope of Time: Wrapping Up the Past in Chris Marker, Alexander Sokurov, and Josè Luis Guerìn


• Lesley Chow

• Eating Cinema: The Frozen Dessert as Audiovisual Synaesthesia


• Andrew Grossman

• Darkening the Image of American Wealth and Power: Unstoppable and The Lincoln Lawyer 


• Joseph Natoli

• Carnivorous Lunar Activities: The Origins of 1980s Metamorphosis Cinema by Alex Kirschenbaum

• Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys: Revisiting Frank Borzage's No Greater Glory and the 1930s Boy Soldier Genre by Peter Lee  

• Young Ones and Swan Songs: Luis Bunuel in Mexico, Bela Tarr in Edinburgh  


• D. J. M. Saunders

Movies

• Misery Loves Fantasy: Kim Ki-duk's Arirang (2011) by Jonathan McCalmont

• Between Silence and Sound: Children of a Lesser God  by Ian Murphy

• The Green Hornet Makes America Bossy Bottom: Who's Topping Who? by L. Andrew Cooper

• Green Lantern: The Allegory of Fear and Will Unfolded 


• Joseph Natoli

• Still Hungover: Todd Phillips and Rape Culture by Terri Carney

• You Say Goodbye, and I Say Hello: The Long Goodbye and the End of the Crime (and Competition) in American Detective Films by Allen H. Redmon

• Desert Solitaire: On Kelly Reichardt's Meek's Cutoff (2010) 


• Jacob Mikanowski

• Space Dust: On Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life 


• Jacob Mikanowski

Television

• Talk Is Cheap: On Aaron Sorkin's Moral Compass 


• Matt Brennan

• Concocting Character in Television: The Case of Star Trek's Annoying Old Men – and the Beautiful Young Women Who Love Them 


• Mervyn Nicholson

Short Features

• Short Takes: Cinematography "But It Did Happen" – Paul Thomas Anderson's Magnolia by Matthew Sewell

Stars

• Greer Garson and the Good War: How We All Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Great Lady by Meredith Hicks

Directors

• A Dream That Was Not All a Dream: The Films of André Delvaux by Santiago Rubín de Celis

Festivals

• Crafting Community: The 2011 QDoc International Film Festival 


• Gary Morris

Columns

• Bright Sights: Recent DVDs 


• Gordon Thomas

Books

• The Celluloid Closet, by Vito Russo. Reviewed by Mark Adnum

• Nightmare Movies: Horror on Screen Since the 1960s, by Kim Newman. Reviewed by Joseph Aisenberg

• Shock Value: How A Few Eccentric Outsiders Gave Us Nightmares, Conquered Hollywood, And Invented Modern Horror, by Jason Zinoman. Reviewed by Cynthia C. Scott

• They Live, by Jonathan Lethem. Reviewed by Chad Trevitte

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The Tree of Links: Terrence Malick Studies

Frame grab from The New World (Terrence Malick, 2004)

For me the most powerful films are, and always will be, those of a singular gaze where the human eye can be felt, where it is allowed to go uninhibited, without question and without anyone second guessing its accuracy.

[Filmmaker Brad McGann on Malick's Days of Heaven in ‘Southern Superstition’, Take, Issue 27, Winter 2004/5, p. 19. cited by Duncan Petrie]

Film Studies For Free is off to the beach and won't be posting for a few weeks. But, dry those tears! FSFF always likes to leave its readers with something to remember it by. And this year's pre-vacation posting will hopefully do the trick. 

Below, you will find a sublime, transcendent, rare, totally indulgent, and almost religiously good list of links to online and openly accessible studies of the work of American filmmaker Terrence Malick, together with some reviews of his 2011 Palme D'Or winning opus The Tree of Life which are of scholarly interest. Scroll right down to the end for five of Matt Zoller Seitz's great video essays on Malick's work.

Don't say that FSFF doesn't love you, because, despite its occasional confusion with double-negatives, it does! Ciao!

• Michael Atkinson, 'The Shadow Army: Ruminations on a phantom version of Terrence Malick's The Thin Red Line', Moving Image Source, October 27, 2008
• Michael Atkinson, 'The Tree of Life', Sight and Sound, August 2011
• Adam Batty, 'Unless you love, your life will flash by. Terrence Malick’s The Tree Of Life', Hope Lies at 24 Frames Per Second, July 9, 2011 
• John Bleasdale, 'The Tree of Life', Alternate Takes, May 21, 2011
• John Bleasdale, 'Please Make More Films: On The Cinema of Terrence Malick [ed. by Hannah Patterson]', Film-Philosophy, 9.33, 2005
• J.E.J. Cain, 'Writing in his musical key": Terrence Malick's vision of The Thin Red Line', Film Criticism v. 25 no. 1 (Fall 2000) p. 2-24
• Hubert I. Cohen, 'The Genesis of Days of Heaven', Cinema Journal - 42, Number 4, Summer 2003, pp. 46-62
• Simon Critchley, 'Calm: On Terrence Malick's The Thin Red Line', Film-Philosophy, 6.38, 2002
• Charlotte Crofts, 'From the" Hegemony of the Eye" to the" Hierarchy of Perception": The Reconfiguration of Sound and Image In Terrence Malick's Days of Heaven', Peer-reviewed draft prior to corrections / typographical setting, published in Journal of Media Practice, 2:1, 19-29
• Adrian Danks, 'Death Comes as an End: Temporality, Domesticity and Photography in Terrence Malick's Badlands', Senses of Cinema, Issue 8, 2000
• Bilge Ebiri, 'English Speakers: The prison of language in Terrence Malick's The New World', Moving Image Source, October 27, 2008
• Michael Filippidis, 'On Malick's Subjects', Senses of Cinema, Issue 8, 2000
• Patrick ffrench, 'Potential Not To Be: Bersani and Dutoit's Forms of Being', Film-Philosophy, 9.3, 2005
• Kenji Fujishima, 'The Cleveland Orchestra: Bruckner: (R)evolution', Slant Magazine , July 13, 2011
• Marc Furstenau and Leslie MacAvoy, 'Terrence Malick’s Heideggerian Cinema: War and the Question of Being in The Thin Red Line', Vertigo, Vol. 2, Issue 5, 2003
• Daniel Garrett, 'The American Sublime, the Sublime American: The New World by Terrence Malick', Cinetext, July 8, 2006
• Janine Gericke, 'The Tree of Life (2011)', Film International, June 15, 2011
• Angela Havel and Aaron Snyder and T. Oates, 'The Similarities in Terrence Malick's Films: An Iconography [Part 1]', Terrence Malick Page, 2001 And Part 2 
• Stuart Kendall and Robert Deane Tucker, 'Introduction', in eds. Thomas Deane Tucker and Stuart Kendall, Terrence Malick: Film and Philosophy (London: Continuum, 2011)
• Michael King, ''Badlands: shoot first from Jump Cut, no. 1, 1974, pp. 5-6
• Michael Koresky, 'Design for Living: The Tree of Life', Reverse Shot, Issue 29, 2011 
• Dimitrios Latsis, 'Rosy-Fingered Dawn: The Natural Sublime in the work of Terrence Malick', Refractory, vol. 17, July 2010
• Hwanhee Lee, 'Terrence Malick', Senses of Cinema, Issue 23, 2002
• Hwanhee Lee, 'On the Objects in Days of Heaven', Offscreen, December 31, 2007 
• Rose Lucas, 'Theatres of Extremity: War and Subjectivity in The Thin Red Line', Xchanges, vol. 4, no. 2, February 2005
• Oliver Lyttleton, 'The Lost Projects And Unproduced Screenplays Of Terrence Malick', The Playlist at indieWire, July 12, 2011 
• James MacDowell, 'The New World', Alternate Takes, February 21, 2006
• James MacLeod, 'Narrative Vistas: Subversive Voice‐over in Terrence Malick', Philament SENSE & SENSATION – August 2009
• Adrian Martin, 'Things to Look Into: The Cinema of Terrence Malick', Rouge, 10, December 2006 
• Richard Neer, 'Terrence Malick’s New World ', Nonsite.org, Issue 2, 2011
• S. Brent Plate, 'Terrence Malick and an imaginary history of the universe', Visualizing the Buddha, July 11, 2011
• Dana Polan, 'Auteurism and War-teurism: Terrence Malick’s War Movie', in Elsaesser, Thomas, Noel King, Alexander Horwath (eds), The Last Great American Picture Show: New Hollywood Cinema in the 1970s (Amsterdam University Press, 2004)
• Jeff Reichert, 'Children of the Evolution: The Tree of Life', Reverse Shot, Issue 29, 2011
• Ian-Malcolm Rijsdijk, 'Apprehending Beauty [on Chion on The Thin Red Line]', Film-Philosophy, 10.1, 2006
• Peter Rist, 'The Tree of Life', Offscreen, June 7, 2011
• Bill Schaffer, 'The Shape of Fear: Thoughts after The Thin Red Line', Senses of Cinema, Issue 8, 2000
• Nathan Scheider, 'Mobilize and Contemplate: What’s spiritually at stake in The Tree of Life?', Visualizing the Buddha, June 6, 2011
• Robert Sinnerbrink, 'A Heideggerian Cinema?: On Terrence Malick's The Thin Red Line', Film-Philosophy, 10.3, December 2006
• Robert Sinnerbrink, 'From Mythic History to Cinematic Poetry: Terrence Malick’s The New World Viewed', Screening the Past, Issue 26, 2009
• David Sterritt (July 2006). 'Film, Philosophy and Terrence Malick', Undercurrents. FIPRESCI, Issue 2, July 2006
• Eric Syngle, 'The Earth Trembles [on The Thin red Line]', Reverse Shot Online, July/August 2003
• Eleftheria Thanouli, 'The Thin Red Line and the World War II Hollywood Tradition', Kinema, May 6, 2005
• Keith Uhlich, 'The Space Between Spaces: The Tree of Life', Reverse Shot, Issue 29, 2011 
• Beverley Walker, 'Malick on Badlands', Sight and Sound, 44:2:82-83, Spring 1975
• Chris Wisniewski, 'A Stitch in Time: Terrence Malick’s Days of Heaven and The New World', Reverse Shot, Issue 22 
• Chris Wisniewski, 'Known Unknowns: The Tree of Life', Reverse Shot, Issue 29, 2011
• Genevieve Yue, 'Garden of the World: The Tree of Life', Reverse Shot, Issue 29, 2011
• Robert Zaller, 'Adam without Eve: Terrence Malick returns to Eden [on The Tree of Life]', Broad Street, June 28, 2011
• Matt Zoller Seitz, 'All things shining', Complete Terrence Malick video essay, Salon, June 1, 2011 
• Matt Zoller Seitz, 'The Whispering Wind: The New World', Reverse Shot, Issue 27
  

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