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Terrence Malick

Terrence "Terry" Malick (born 30 November 1943, Ottawa, Illinois) is an Academy Award nominated American filmmaker, screenwriter and producer. In a career spanning decades, Malick has directed one short film and four feature-length films.Numerous critics consider Malick's films to be masterpieces, in particular Badlands and Days of Heaven.[2] Malick was nominated for an Academy Award for both Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Director for The Thin Red Line. His work is often characterized by naturalist cinematography and a meditative directorial and editing style; his films are full of rich, lingering, repetitive images of natural beauty. He makes extensive use of off-screen narration by his characters, as well as music, to illuminate, heighten and counterpoint the action on screen.Although not otherwise in public life, friends such as actor Martin Sheen have always remarked that he is a very warm and humble man who prefers to work without media intrusion. His contracts stipulate that no current photographs of him are to be taken, and he routinely declines requests for interviews.[4] His only known public appearance was in October 2007 for a conversation with film historians Antonio Monda and Mario Sesti as part of the Rome Film Festival.[5]