| Description |
1 videodisc (DVD) (90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in |
| Summary |
"As in Badlands, it is the manner of the telling rather than the tale that is paramount. The simple storyline involves a young couple and a girl on the run from the city. The couple form a fatal triangle with a young Texan landowner living in a Gothic mansion on the Panhandle (shades of Giant). Just as he invoked the fifties teenage pic to intersect with the setting of Badlands in the 1950s, so, in Days of Heaven, Malick invokes silent cinema (verbal sparseness) in line with the film's setting, circa 1916. The matter-of-fact narration by the girl does not provide her perspective so much as tell us about her 'piecemeal accumulation of knowledge and experience'. The oblique accumulation of detail tends to displace characterisation and storyline opening a gap between character and action, motive and feeling in what has been described as 'a profound chilling of the romantic style.' The effect is to widen the subject into the realm of the metaphysical." bib. record from DVD |
| Notes |
Off-air recording of Showcase Channel broadcast April 10, 2008. Copied under Part Va of the Copyright Act |
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Off-air recording of Showtime Greats broadcast December 26, 2008. Copied under Part Va of the Copyright Act |
| Credits |
Producer, Bert Schneider, Harold Schneider ; script, director, Terrence Malick ; photography, Nestor Almendros ; music, Ennio Morricone ; editor, Billy Weber |
| Cast |
Richard Gere, Brooke Adams, Sam Shephard, Linda Manz |
| Notes |
Rated: PG |
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DVD. Region unspecified |
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Available for Deakin University staff and students only |
| Genre/Form |
Feature films
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| Author |
Shepard, Sam, 1943-2017.
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Morricone, Ennio
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Schneider, Harold.
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Almendros, Nestor
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Gere, Richard, 1949-
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Malick, Terrence, 1943-
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Schneider, Bert.
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Adams, Brooke.
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Showcase Channel
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Showtime Greats Channel
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