Fox Searchlight has finally made available a previous clip from The Tree of Life that was originally not available to share. The clip features Jessica Chastain as Mrs. O’Brien, mother to several young boys and wife to Brad Pitt’s character who was featured in the clip I posted earlier today. The clip works hand-in-hand with the previous one, which featured Pitt as a rather domineering father. Here his character is away on a trip sending the children into fits of joy.

This clip also gives you a little preview of Alexandre Desplat’s score from the film, which is already available for preorder and will be released on May 23. I’m sure some of you will also want to note the camerawork of Emmanuel Lubezki and Jack Fisk’s production design.

The Tree of Life will screen here in Cannes at 8:30 AM on Monday, May 16. For now check out this following clip from the film and if you missed the earlier one you can watch that here.

A clip for the film “Tree of Life” has been released and Entertainment Weekly has posted it on their website. You can watch it here. Looks like its going to be great!

Lakeshore Records have revealed the cover and tracklist for Fox Searchlight’s The Tree of Life.

Directed by Terrence Malick, The Tree of Life stars Brad Pitt, Jessica Chastain and Sean Penn. It will be released in the UK on May 4, before competing for the coveted Palme d’Or at the 64th annual Cannes Film Festival.

The Tree of Life is a period film centered around three boys in the 1950?s. The eldest son of two characters witnesses the loss of innocence.

The soundtrack, composed by Alexandre Desplat (The King’s Speech), will be released on May 24.

The full tracklist is detailed below:

1. Childhood
2. Circles
3. Clouds
4. River
5. Awakening
6. Emergence of Life
7. Light & Darkness
8. Good & Evil
9. Motherhood
10. City of Glass
11. Fatherhood
12. Temptation
13. Skies

Source: Lakeshore Records

There are two ways through life. Whoa. Fox Searchlight has launched a website in promotion of Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life – it’s called Two Ways Through Life and is described as an “experience” and it definitely is. Starring Brad Pitt, Sean Penn and Jessica Chastain, and written and directed by Terrence Malick, this impressionistic story follows the life journey of a young boy (watch the trailer). This is one of those websites to just stop and stare at while watching some of the odd/beautiful clips filled within. Just visit: twowaysthroughlife.com and choose a path. The background score also very… interesting. Enjoy!

source:  firstshowing.net

All of us here at the soot-and-grime encrusted enclave of cinephilia that is Indie Movies HQ have been on tenterhooks for weeks now, just dying to find out which movies will be featuring at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. Well, the tension has just been released, as we now know which flicks will be sunning themselves in the south of France from the middle of next month.

More details to follow on the films, the directors, what looks particularly exciting, what looks a bit ho-hum, and all things Cannes (uh, just the Film Festival we mean. Not the actual town so much). But for now let”s just unfurl that big list of titles. Ready? ’cause here we go…

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TREE OF LIFE is another one of those films that everyone is waiting on.

Well, news comes about the film, but it isn’t much.

At the Indie Spirit awards, Apparition’s Bob Berney talks about his excitement for the next film from director, Terrence Malick. If you remember back in October, Berney said he had no clue when TREE was coming out.

Now he’s saying that the film will be released worldwide in early November. It’s also very likely that it will show at Cannes this year. Pete Hammond from the LA Times reports Berney saying that TREE is like a dream and that Malick fans will be very happy. He also compares Brad Pitt’s performance to Robert De Niro’s in THIS BOYS LIFE, saying that people are going to see a side of Pitt they’ve never seen before. Another performance that made some waves was from Jessica Chastain, who plays Pitt’s wife.

For those of you who may have already forgotten what TREE OF LIFE was about, here’s our synopsis:

We trace the evolution of an eleven-year-old boy in the Midwest, Jack, one of three brothers. At first all seems marvelous to the child. He sees as his mother does, with the eyes of his soul. She represents the way of love and mercy, where the father tries to teach his son the world’s way, of putting oneself first. Each parent contends for his allegiance, and Jack must reconcile their claims. The picture darkens as he has his first glimpses of sickness, suffering and death. The world, once a thing of glory, becomes a labyrinth. Framing this story is that of adult Jack (Sean Penn), a lost soul in a modern world, seeking to discover amid the changing scenes of time that which does not change: the eternal scheme of which we are a part. When he sees all that has gone into our world’s preparation, each thing appears a miracle precious, incomparable. Jack, with his new understanding, is able to forgive his father and take his first steps on the path of life.

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