Another beautifully photographed film, this 1978 movie also features a plague – of locusts. It’s set on a Texas farm shortly before WWI, and is the second feature film directed by Terrence Malick, who had made the impeccably paced Badlands five years before. Days Of Heaven also marks the first major starring role by Richard Gere, and features a beautiful score by the late Ennio Morricone, who died Monday at age 91. The beautiful images were captured by the great cinematographer Nestor Almendros.

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Leila L'Abate

"Days of Heaven" continued. The director seemed as taken by the beauty of Richard Gere's face as he is with the beauty of large landscapes, and nature, and preferred him silent, as do we...His innocent vulnerability is captured for perhaps the only time in film, as is Sam Shepherd's....Malick aims for visceral effects in all his films, seizing our senses with cinematography that witnesses textures and contrasts, open spaces and cramped ones, shifting points of view. He underpins the visceral visuals with textures of sound, silence, and music to bring us to our senses, and move us beyond head chatter. Like all the greatest art, the deep-breathed quietness and spaciousness of soul underneath all the goings on awakens a deeper more spacious state of being in us.

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Leila L'Abate

I finally saw "Days of Heaven" yesterday, having heard and seen so many rapturous reviews...Harry Potter's music theme seems stolen from it, but this music is even more magical, as are its images....The outdoor shots are almost all shot in the light just before sunset, as the sky starts to turn colors, or before it does, and possibilities and magic might happen, and everything is expanded in the majesty and nobility of its simple beauty, and golden light. We see large vistas, as outdoor shots are often from a great distance, and that somehow opens vistas within us, and we see the same beauty God must always see, despite the smallness and pettiness of some of the actions here. Almost all the characters seem moved by their passionate compulsions, so seeing "the big picture," from a distance, oddly inspires us to try to do better than they. I loved that someone female, poor, even-visioned, compassionate and young, with an accent not often represented in media, was given voice as narrator.

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