94 mins |
Rated
PG
Directed by Terrence Malick
Starring Sam Shepard, Stuart Margolin, Brooke Adams, Linda Manz, Richard Gere
Sat June 3, 4:00 pm
Tue June 6, 7:00 pm
In 1916, Chicagoans Richard Gere, kid sister Linda Manz, and lover Brooke Adams head to the Texas Panhandle to work the wheat fields of prosperous farmer Sam Shepard. Love triangles, locust plagues, and some of cinema’s most unforgettable imagery ensue. But Terrance Malick’s legendary Days of Heaven may never have hit the screen without an unheralded assist from teen actress Manz. Eighteen months into the edit, Malick was still struggling to find the shape of the film and invited Manz to improvise a voice-over. Her fantastic, apocalyptic imagery and deadpan storytelling, delivered in her trademark streetwise voice, proved an essential counterpoint to Malick’s magic-hour reveries.
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Sat June 3, 4:00 pm
Tue June 6, 7:00 pm
In 1916, Chicagoans Richard Gere, kid sister Linda Manz, and lover Brooke Adams head to the Texas Panhandle to work the wheat fields of prosperous farmer Sam Shepard. Love triangles, locust plagues, and some of cinema’s most unforgettable imagery ensue. But Terrance Malick’s legendary Days of Heaven may never have hit the screen without an unheralded assist from teen actress Manz. Eighteen months into the edit, Malick was still struggling to find the shape of the film and invited Manz to improvise a voice-over. Her fantastic, apocalyptic imagery and deadpan storytelling, delivered in her trademark streetwise voice, proved an essential counterpoint to Malick’s magic-hour reveries.
