How important is it today, on his 80th birthday, that the man once disappeared? An entire generation of moviegoers grew up knowing that Terrence Malick was a lost man. In 1978, after two groundbreaking films in Hollywood, he went into hiding and fell silent, possibly forever. But the works he left behind, “Badlands” and “Days of Heaven/In the Embers of the South,” became larger, more glowing, more mythical over the decades and with each new viewing.
Director Terrence Malick turns 80: The Phantom – Culture
