Terrence Malick

After an early stint teaching Heidegger at MIT, and publishing a respected translation of Heidegger's Von Wesen des Grundes, was hired as a writer for The New Yorker. Enrolled in the American Film Institute, and in 1973 wrote, directed, and produced his first feature-length film, Badlands, a retelling of the Starkweather/Fugate murder spree, which was immediately hailed a masterpiece. Next film, Days of Heaven (1978), was honored with Cannes Best Director award for its distinctive use of magic hour lighting, for pioneering the steadycam, and for use of voiceover as a contemporary form of soliloquy. After two decades of silence, returned with The Thin Red Line (1997), a controversial war film about ways of confronting death, and The New World (2005), a depiction of the tragic incomprehension of two cultures. 2011 saw the screening of courageous and groundbreaking film, Tree of Life, a journey from the creation of the universe to the end of time.