Days of Heaven – 4K Restoration

One-of-a-kind filmmaker-philosopher Terrence Malick has created some of the most visually arresting films of the last century, and his glorious period tragedy Days of Heaven, featuring Oscar-winning cinematography by Néstor Almendros, stands out among them. In the mid-1910s, a Chicago steelworker (Richard Gere) accidentally kills his supervisor, and flees with his girlfriend (Brooke Adams) and his little sister (Linda Manz) to the Texas panhandle, where they find work harvesting wheat in the fields of a stoic farmer (Sam Shepard). A love triangle, a swarm of locusts, a hellish fire – Malick captures it all with dreamlike authenticity, creating a timeless American idyll that is also a gritty evocation of turn-of-the-century labor.

Academy Awards 1979 – 1 Academy Award
Cannes Film Festival 1979 – Best Director

Terrence Malick is an American filmmaker and screenwriter whose work has continually explored the singular relationship between landscape, human presence, and time. His first two features, Badlands (1973) and Days of Heaven (1978), established an early cinematic language in which nature and human stories become almost equal protagonists, securing his place as one of the defining figures of New Hollywood. After a long absence, he returned to filmmaking in the 1990s, going on to radically rethink the conventional forms of narrative, montage, and sound in American cinema.

Badlands (1973)
The Thin Red Line (1998)
The Tree of Life (2011)
To the Wonder (2012)

Original title: Days of Heaven
Director: Terrence Malick
Cast: Richard Gere, Brooke Adams, Sam Shepard, Linda Manz, Robert J. Wilke, Jackie Shultis, Stuart Margolin, Timothy Scott, Gene Bell, Doug Kershaw, Richard Libertini, Frenchie Lemond, Sahbra Markus, Bob Wilson, Muriel Jolliffe, John Wilkinson, King Cole
Cinematography: Néstor Almendros, Haskell Wexler
Screenwriter: Terrence Malick
Producers: Bert Schneider, Harold Schneider
Executive Producer: Jacob Brackman
Editor: Billy Weber
Music: Ennio Morricone, Leo Kottke
Art Director: Jack Fisk
Set Decorator: Robert Gould
Costume Design: Patricia Norris, Jerry R. Allen
Hungarian Distributor: -
Colour: colour
Run Time: 94 mins