Terrence Malick is, perhaps, unique: a film director who is well-trained in philosophy and who has published an English translation of a book by the great German philosopher Martin Heidegger. But should we see his movies as philosophical statements? In particular, what are we to make of his latest, The Tree of Life, which is set in Texas in the fifties but also takes us back to the creation of the world and the age of the dinosaurs? Metaphysics or pretension? This week, a philosophical investigation of Malick’s work.
Guests
Robert Sinnerbrink
Lecturer, Department of Philosophy, Macquarie University, Australia
Chair
Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy
Further Information
Robert Sinnerbrink - university homepage (http://www.phil.mq.edu.au/staff/sinnerbrink.htm)
A Heideggerian Cinema?: On Terrence Malick’s The Thin Red Line (http://www.film-philosophy.com/2006v10n3/sinnerbrink.pdf)
By Robert Sinnerbrink Film-Philosophy 10.3 (December 2006)
From Mythic History to Cinematic Poetry: Terrence Malick’s The New World Viewed (http://www.latrobe.edu.au/screeningthepast/26/early-europe/the-new-world.html)
By Robert Sinnerbrink - from Screening the Past Issue 26 (2009)
Things to look into - The cinema of Terrence Malick (http://www.rouge.com.au/10/malick.html)
By Adrian Martin Rouge magazine (2007)
Publications
Title: New Philosophies of Film: Thinking Images
Author: Robert Sinnerbrink
Publisher: Continuum (2011) upcoming
(Focuses on Terrence Malick, David Lynch and Lars von Trier)
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/philosopherszone/stories/2011/3272741.htm