The second, legendary film by recent octogenarian Terrence Malick (upon completion of which this most secretive director disappeared for twenty years) has frequently been called one of the best of the 1970s and rightfully won an Academy Award for Best Cinematography.
Chicago, 1916. After a foreman is mortally wounded in a fight, young steelworker Billy (Richard Gere) flees the bustle of the big city in the company of his girlfriend Abby and his sister Linda. Pretending to be siblings, the trio joins a group of seasonal workers on a Texas ranch whose owner (Sam Shepard) slowly succumbs to the charms of Billy’s girlfriend. The second, legendary film by recent octogenarian Terrence Malick (upon completion of which this most secretive director disappeared for twenty years) has frequently been called one of the best films from that legendary decade in the history in American cinema, the 1970s. This stunningly beautiful cinematic elegy rightfully won an Academy Award for Best Cinematography.
