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Overview
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Director:
Writer:
Terrence Malick (written by)
Release Date:
13 September 1978 (USA)
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Tagline:
Your eyes... Your ears... Your senses... will be overwhelmed.
Plot:
A hot-tempered farm laborer convinces the woman he loves to marry their rich but dying boss so that they can have a claim to his fortune. full summary | full synopsis
Awards:
Won Oscar.
Another 10 wins
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8 nominations
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(13 articles)
Birthday Suits, Well Directed
(From FilmExperience. 30 November 2009, 6:05 AM, PST)
Terrence Malick: The Reluctant Auteur
(From t5m.com. 24 November 2009, 4:02 AM, PST)
(From FilmExperience. 30 November 2009, 6:05 AM, PST)
Terrence Malick: The Reluctant Auteur
(From t5m.com. 24 November 2009, 4:02 AM, PST)
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Full surprise within the American film universe.
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Richard Gere | ... | Bill | |
| Brooke Adams | ... | Abby | |
| Sam Shepard | ... | The Farmer | |
| Linda Manz | ... | Linda | |
| Robert J. Wilke | ... | The Farm Foreman (as Robert Wilke) | |
| Jackie Shultis | ... | Linda's Friend | |
| Stuart Margolin | ... | Mill Foreman | |
| Timothy Scott | ... | Harvest Hand (as Tim Scott) | |
| Gene Bell | ... | Dancer | |
| Doug Kershaw | ... | Fiddler | |
| Richard Libertini | ... | Vaudeville Leader | |
| Frenchie Lemond | ... | Vaudeville Wrestler | |
| Sahbra Markus | ... | Vaudeville Dancer | |
| Bob Wilson | ... | Accountant | |
| Muriel Jolliffe | ... | Headmistress |
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Runtime:
94 min
Country:
Color:
Color (Metrocolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby (35 mm prints) |
70 mm 6-Track (70 mm prints)
Certification:
Canada:PG (Ontario) |
Iceland:12 |
Netherlands:16 |
Australia:PG |
Brazil:12 |
Sweden:15 |
USA:PG (certificate #25199) |
Argentina:13 |
Finland:K-16 |
Spain:18 |
UK:PG |
West Germany:12 |
Portugal:M/12
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After filming for a short time, Terrence Malick threw out the script altogether and filmed for a close to a year allowing the actors to "find the story" for the film as they went along.
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Revealing mistakes: The Texas flag is displayed upside down.
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Enderlin
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This movie was a full and happy surprise for me. This man, Malick, stood twenty years out of business because he had to be, afterwards, after such a beautiful movie he couldn't and shouldn't return with any other thing shorter than this.
Days Of Heaven is absolutely perfect cinema, the plot is not important, Malick simply wants to fill your senses and he achieves it.
I haven't had the chance to watch it in a theatre, I was four years old at the time, I've watched it on television, and I understood immediately, this man is a hero for building up such a magnificent film in the United States, in Hollywood.
A true director builds a universe of his own, with its own "time flow" and dreams and that is what Malick achieved with this film, magic, sacral art. Some sequences are "almost" (a big almost) Tarkovskyand this is a big commendation.