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I would probably have to say Terrence Malick if I had to choose one. It's a cowardly choice really since the guy's only done three feature films since 1973 (is filming his fourth now). But all three are masterpieces in my book. I think it is remarkable that the films all so distinctively bear his mark as a director even though it's 25 years between the first one, Badlands (1973), and the last one, The Thin Red Line (1998). I think that is a sign of that he early had developed not only a vision of how to make a film but also an ability to realize the vision, and then stick to the vision over time. A true auteur.
It will be very interesting to see how his next project as a director, The New World, will turn out. He's also written the script for Steven Soderbergh's next film, Che, with Benicio Del Toro as Che Guevara. Great stuff hopefully...
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The novelist does not long to see the lion eat grass. He realizes that one and the same God created the wolf and the lamb, then smiled, "seeing that his work was good".
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They had temporarily escaped the factories, the warehouses, the slaughterhouses, the car washes - they'd be back in captivity the next day but now they were out - they were wild with freedom. They weren't thinking about the slavery of poverty. Or the slavery of welfare and food stamps. The rest of us would be all right until the poor learned how to make atom bombs in their basements.
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