Absence of Malick, David Handelman (PDF). 

A lot of my journalism isn’t on the Internet, but when people write to ask me for a copy of an article, it’s never, say, when I took the Beastie Boys to Graceland. No, what they clamor for — still — is a piece I did 25 years ago, that by now has become my equivalent of a defining first hit single that a band never recovers from. But — as I often tell actors who bemoan being identified with one role — it’s better to have one of those than none, right? It’s a piece I’m proud of — the 24-year-old me spent six months reporting it, for pittance pay, for a magzine that few read. The reason for its legend is the subject: visionary, esoteric director Terrence Malick, who at the time hadn’t made a movie in the seven years since his previous movie, Days of Heaven, a gorgeous big-screen fable which itself was seven years after his peerless low-budget debut, Badlands, a fictionalized version of Charles Starkweather’s killing spree — and had stopped giving interviews even earlier. After being obsessed with Malick’s films from viewing them repeatedly at the Harvard Square Theater revival house, I painstakingly tracked him down only to have him reject me. But “Absence of Malick,” published in now-defunct California magazine in November 1985, was the first piece to try to make sense of his disappearance, and oddly none of the facts have changed that much since then. —David Handelman   

Malick & Me

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