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Amongst astute film lovers, a Terrence Malick film ignites about the same amount of interest as a rare solar eclipse. Widely hailed as the J. D. Salinger of the American film world (and rightly so), this reclusive, visual genius has concocted some of the most mythic and resonant films about love and death with a mastery for framing indelible, precise images where landscapes, never people, dominate the screen. By those accounts, The New World is at once both a quintessential Malick film and a rare cinematic episode. It is as unique an experience as his The Thin Red Line or […]
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![Alfonso Cuaron’s Children of Men is a rare film; it is almost perfect. Grim, critical of the present and yet somehow hopeful, it is a meditation on the implications and consequences of scientific advances that feels like a cross breed of 12 Monkeys and Brazil. It is easy to classify the film as science fiction – it is set in 2027 after all – but the chronology of the film becomes less relevant as it progresses. This could be the state of our Earth a year from now. The visceral, almost virtuoso filmmaking style of Mexican Cuaron gives the film […]](http://filmphoria.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Children-of-Men-115x115.jpg "Children of Men")
![Amongst astute film lovers, a Terrence Malick film ignites about the same amount of interest as a rare solar eclipse. Widely hailed as the J. D. Salinger of the American film world (and rightly so), this reclusive, visual genius has concocted some of the most mythic and resonant films about love and death with a mastery for framing indelible, precise images where landscapes, never people, dominate the screen. By those accounts, The New World is at once both a quintessential Malick film and a rare cinematic episode. It is as unique an experience as his The Thin Red Line or […]](http://filmphoria.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/The-New-World-115x115.jpg "The New World")
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