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Discuss: Is Terrence Malick's 'To The Wonder' Another Profound Masterpiece Or A Parody Of His Worst Tendencies?

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  • April 15, 2013 11:57 AM
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Ben Affleck, Olga Kurylenko, To The Wonder
Features
The last movie that Roger Ebert reviewed was Terrence Malick's "To The Wonder," which seems appropriately fitting. "To the Wonder" is a movie of quiet contemplation, one where an Oscar-winning movie star like Ben Affleck is mostly found in stoic silence and conventional plot mechanics are either eschewed or completely ignored. It doesn't take on the cosmic dimension of his equally divisive "The Tree of Life," but "To the Wonder" does contemplate similarly big questions about humanity, the world and our place in it.
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More: To the Wonder, Terrence Malick, Review, Olga Kurylenko, Ben Affleck, Reviews

Watch: Oscar Acceptance Speeches From Ben Affleck, Ang Lee, Daniel Day-Lewis, Jennifer Lawrence, Michael Haneke & More

  • By Oliver Lyttelton
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  • February 25, 2013 9:16 AM
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  • 3 Comments
Awards
Despite what whoever was pressing the "Jaws" theme button last night believes, the highlights of the annual Academy Awards tend not to be the montages and dance numbers, but the speeches. It's the moment where an actor or artist is rewarded by their peers, and thanks the Academy with wit, graciousness, charm, enormous egotism, or perhaps a bit of all the above.
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More: Features, Awards, Academy Awards, Oscars, Ben Affleck, Ang Lee, Michael Haneke, Daniel Day-Lewis, Jennifer Lawrence, Quentin Tarantino, Christoph Waltz, Anne Hathaway, Adele

Oscars: Can Anything Beat Ben Affleck's 'Argo' To Best Picture?

  • By Oliver Lyttelton
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  • February 4, 2013 12:05 PM
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  • 13 Comments
Awards
After one of the most unprecditable Oscar seasons in memory, we're less than two weeks out, and things are finally starting to look more like an anointment than a contest; Ben Affleck's "Argo," counted out by many after the director missed out on an Oscar nomination, has won the top prizes from the Directors Guild, the Producers Guild and the Screen Actors Guild, all reliable Oscar precursors, as well as the Best Drama prize from the Critics Choice and Golden Globe awards, on top of many other critics' prizes.
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More: Awards, Academy Awards, Oscars, The Amazing Race, Ben Affleck, Argo, DGA

'Argo' Continues Its Guild Award Sweep As Ben Affleck Wins The DGA Prize, Rian Johnson & Lena Dunham Also Take Awards

  • By Oliver Lyttelton
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  • February 3, 2013 5:49 AM
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  • 6 Comments
News
It's been one of the most exciting and unpredictable award seasons in memory; a rich, diverse field of contenders, almost all of which are very good, and for the longest time it seemed like almost any of them could have taken the Best Picture award at the Oscars. But in the last couple of weeks, the narrative's starting to become a little narrower, with one film dominating the guild awards, which are traditionally the best precursors to the Academy Awards – Ben Affleck's terrific "Argo."
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More: Ben Affleck, Argo, DGA, Awards, Searching For Sugar Man, Lena Dunham, Rian Johnson

Oscars: 5 Things Learned From The SAG & PGA Results This Weekend

  • By Oliver Lyttelton
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  • January 28, 2013 12:44 PM
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  • 14 Comments
Awards
We're now less than a month until Oscar night, and the next few weeks will feature a steady drip of guild awards and other precursors, leading up to big shindig on February 24th. And the crystal ball is staring to get a bit more clear on who will walk away with some statues on Oscar night.
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More: Screen Actors Guild, Producers Guild Of America, Ben Affleck, Argo, Jennifer Lawrence, Daniel Day-Lewis, Emmanuelle Riva, Tommy Lee Jones, Awards, Academy Awards, Oscars, The Amazing Race

Is The Oscar Best Picture Next? Ben Affleck's 'Argo' Takes Top Prize At Producers' Guild Awards

  • By Oliver Lyttelton
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  • January 27, 2013 8:05 AM
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Awards
After a bit of a breather from awards season due to the Sundance Film Festival (in recent years, Oscar noms are announced during the festival, but the Academy moved it up this year), barely minutes elapsed between the Sundance awards ceremony and the first of a coming wave of precursors awards ceremonies.
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More: Awards, Producers Guild Of America, Argo, Ben Affleck, Grant Heslov, George Clooney, Wreck-It Ralph, Searching For Sugar Man

Over A Dozen New Images Of Ben Affleck, Rachel McAdams, Olga Kurylenko & Javier Bardem In Terrence Malick's 'To The Wonder'

  • By Oliver Lyttelton
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  • January 18, 2013 1:34 PM
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  • 6 Comments
News
It might have been a far shorter wait than we're used from Terrence Malick -- less than two years have passed since the premiere of "The Tree Of Life" -- but given that it shot over three years ago, and premiered at Venice six months back, those who weren't lucky enough to see "To The Wonder" on the festival circuit in 2012 must be getting impatient to see the latest film from the reclusive auteur.
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More: To the Wonder, Terrence Malick, Ben Affleck, Rachel McAdams, Olga Kurylenko

Watch: Soaring Trailer For Terrence Malick's 'To The Wonder' With Ben Affleck, Olga Kurylenko & Javier Bardem

  • By Oliver Lyttelton
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  • December 19, 2012 8:02 AM
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  • 20 Comments
News
If you weren't one of those who saw the film in Venice or Toronto this year, you've likely seen very little of Terrence Malick's "To The Wonder," the director's uncharacteristically fast-in-arriving follow-up to his wildly acclaimed "The Tree Of Life." Two images from the film have been released, but those who've been avoiding the reviews might not yet have much of an idea of what to expect.
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More: To the Wonder, Terrence Malick, Ben Affleck, Olga Kurylenko, Rachel McAdams, Javier Bardem, Film Trailers

New Image Of Ben Affleck & Olga Kurylenko In Terrence Malick's 'To The Wonder'

  • By Oliver Lyttelton
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  • September 10, 2012 9:55 AM
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News
Even though the film actually premiered a week ago, and is unveiled in Toronto today, most of the world has only seen a single glimpse of Terrence Malick's latest "To The Wonder." An image, released soon after the start of filming in early 2011, of Ben Affleck and Rachel McAdams. And despite our attempts to convince some, after seeing, and liking very much, the film in Venice, that the film was actually made up of nothing but a two hour freeze-frame of that still over some classical music, it's actually a rather misrepresentative image.
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More: To the Wonder, Ben Affleck, Olga Kurylenko, Terrence Malick

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