Terrence Malick
Terrence Malick (born 1943) is an American director and screenwriter who has produced one of the most idiosyncratic bodies of work in modern American cinema. A former Rhodes Scholar in philosophy who taught at MIT before turning to screenwriting, he made two features in the 1970s, then withdrew from filmmaking for twenty years before returning with a steady run of voice-over-driven, philosophically inflected features about war, settlement, family, and the natural world. His acclaimed films include Badlands, Days of Heaven, The Thin Red Line, The New World, The Tree of Life (which won the Palme d'Or at Cannes), To the Wonder, and A Hidden Life.