{"id":3546,"date":"2015-04-23T23:59:36","date_gmt":"2015-04-24T03:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/?p=3546"},"modified":"2023-03-25T10:42:04","modified_gmt":"2023-03-25T14:42:04","slug":"movienight-thursday-april-23rd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/?p=3546","title":{"rendered":"Days of Heaven. Evening of beauty."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/mantz.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3555\" src=\"http:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/mantz.jpg\" alt=\"mantz\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/mantz.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/mantz-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What a splendid way to introduce our new projector to MovieNight! Terence Mallick&#8217;s <em>Days of Heaven<\/em> was alive with cinematography so grand in scale that it seemed as though our screen might just burst. As Norris remarked some days later, &#8220;In magazines, newspapers, and film blogs. we&#8217;re used to seeing the same two or three magnificent stills from key landmarks in cinematography. In <em>Days of Heaven,<\/em> it feels like you see one every two minutes or so.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Still, Mallick struggled to weave all this stunning footage into a cohesive story until he fell back on the idea of using a narrator (as he had done with Sissy Spacek in his previous masterpiece of Americana, <em>Badlands<\/em>). 17 year old Linda Mantz (pictured above) just improvised the whole narration. &#8220;They took me into a voice recording studio.&#8221;, remembers Manz, in a 2011 Village Voice interview. &#8220;No script, nothing, I just watched the movie and rambled on . . . I dunno, they took whatever dialogue they liked.&#8221;\u00a0 Brilliant.<\/p>\n<p>Richard Gere and Sam Sheppard looked so fresh and young, then aged 28 and 35, respectively. Is that why there were so many ladies at MovieNight? Hey&#8230; I&#8217;m not complaining!<\/p>\n<p>More about this film on IMDb <a title=\"IMDb\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0077405\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-348\" title=\"imdb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/imdb.gif\" alt=\"imdb\" width=\"31\" height=\"15\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What a splendid way to introduce our new projector to MovieNight! Terence Mallick&#8217;s Days of Heaven was alive with cinematography so grand in scale that it seemed as though our screen might just burst. As Norris remarked some days later, &#8220;In magazines, newspapers, and film blogs. we&#8217;re used to seeing the same two or three &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.movienight.richardlohr.com\/stuff\/?p=3546\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Days of Heaven. 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