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asterisk8
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18-Aug-2011, 1:05 AM

Saw The Tree of Life again. I may have to move it to my top 5 films of all time. Every second of that film is perfect to me. But I don't rearrange the top 5 lightly, so we'll have to see how I feel about it after I watch it at home.

In anticipation of this second viewing, I watched Badlands, Days of Heaven, and The Thin Red Line (I saw The New World when it came out). I think Days of Heaven was my favorite of the three, and The Thin Red Line my least. TTRL failed to really connect with me like Malick's other films. I'd rank them like this:

The Tree of Life - 10/10
Days of Heaven - 10/10
Badlands - 9/10
The New World - 8/10
The Thin Red Line - 7/10

This puts Terrence Malick easily in my top 5 favorite directors after Kurosawa, Kubrick, and Coen, and before Wilder.