Terrence Malick

Terrence Malick was born in 1943 in Ottawa, Illinois, and grew up in Texas and Oklahoma, the son of a petroleum geologist. He graduated from Harvard with a degree in philosophy in 1965 and went to Oxford on a scholarship, but did not finish his thesis there, following a dispute with his supervisor. He taught philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, translated a text by Heidegger, wrote for magazines, then in 1969 entered the first class of the American Film Institute's film school. His first feature film was presented in 1973, and he gives almost no interviews.

In the catalogue 2

• CinemaDays of HeavenTerrence Malick · 1978Cinema
• CinemaThe Thin Red LineTerrence Malick · 1998Cinema