THE THIN RED LINE PDF, EPUB, EBOOK James Jones | 510 pages | 01 Mar 1998 | Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc | 9780385324083 | English | New York, United States The Thin Red Line () | The Criterion Collection War was hell, and they lost. Roger Ebert was the film critic of the Chicago Sun-Times from until his death in In , he won the Pulitzer Prize for distinguished criticism. George Clooney as Capt. Woody Harrelson as Sgt. Elias Koteas as Capt. John Cusack as Capt. Adrien Brody as Cpl. Nick Nolte as Lt. Ben Chaplin as Pvt. Jim Caviezel as Pvt. Reviews The Thin Red Line. Roger Ebert January 08, Now streaming on:. Powered by JustWatch. Now playing. Ava Matt Zoller Seitz. The Lie Nick Allen. The Sounding Tomris Laffly. Shithouse Tomris Laffly. Don't Look Back Brian Tallerico. Cuties Monica Castillo. Film Credits. Cast George Clooney as Capt. Bosche Woody Harrelson as Sgt. Keck Elias Koteas as Capt. Doll Tim Blake Nelson Pvt. Tillis Nick Nolte Lt. Gordon Tall John C. Reilly Sgt. 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Honorable Mention [46]. British Society of Cinematographers. Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards. Critics Choice Award for Best Picture [47]. Chicago Film Critics Association Awards. Best Cinematography [46]. Best Director [46]. Best Picture [46]. Best Supporting Actor [46]. Most Promising Actor [46]. Directors Guild of America. Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures [48]. Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards. Best Foreign Film [49]. The Thin Red Line movie review () | Roger Ebert By Hillary Weston. The award-winning British author Geoff Dyer has published four novels, three essay collections, and seven works of nonfiction on various topics. So I programmed Criterion double features, which is what I tend to do on Sunday nights anyway. Edward Welsh Adrien Brody Cpl. Fife Jim Caviezel Pvt. Witt Ben Chaplin Pvt. Bell George Clooney Capt. Charles Bosche John Cusack Capt. John Gaff Woody Harrelson Sgt. Keck Elias Koteas Capt. Whyte Dash Mihok Pfc. Doll Tim Blake Nelson Pvt. Tillis Nick Nolte Lt. Gordon Tall John C. Reilly Sgt. It is a marvel that it ever got made as an expensive American picture, with a star-studded cast. But unlike Fred Zinnemann's epic From Here to Eternity, which starred Deborah Kerr and Donna Reed, there are no women as characters — even if we glimpse them as dream figures in the minds of the soldiers. It's a deeply mysterious movie, interested in so many things above and beyond war, and so beautiful that the sudden sight of bodies and damage come as a surprise. Malick wrote the film himself and he shot and edited it according to his own timetable. But the standout performance comes from Nick Nolte as a ranting colonel whose authority has been questioned, and who is the clearest proof of the army that James Jones loved and hated. Topics Action and adventure films The 25 best action and war films of all time. Reuse this content. The Thin Red Line: No 10 best action and war film of all time | Film | The Guardian Pre-production went slowly. Weeks before filming began, Malick told Geisler and Roberdeau not to show up in Australia where the film was being made, ostensibly because George Stevens Jr. He did not tell them, however, that in he had a clause inserted in his contract barring the producers from the set. Malick and Toll shot for days in Australia using Panavision cameras and lenses, 24 days in the Solomon Islands and three days in the United States. They scouted the historic battlefields on Guadalcanal and shot footage, but health concerns over malaria limited filming to daylight hours only. Logistics were also difficult to shoot the entire film there: [11] As director of photography John Toll put it, "It's still a bit difficult to get on and off the island, and we had some scenes that involved or extras. We would have had to bring everybody to Guadalcanal, and financially it just didn't make sense". A base camp was set up and roads carved out of the mountain. Transporting actors and crew members up the hill took two hours. Malick's unconventional filming techniques included shooting part of a scene during a bright, sunny morning only to finish it weeks later at sunset. He made a habit of pointing the camera away during an action sequence and focus on a parrot , a tree branch or other fauna. Billy Bob Thornton recorded narration that was scrapped. Martin Sheen and Viggo Mortensen participated in readthroughs of the script and are thanked in the end credits. According to Jones, "Malick removed scenes with dialogue whenever possible, with the final film varying greatly from the original concept". The editing resulted in many of the well-known cast members being on screen for only a brief period. John Travolta and George Clooney's appearances are little more than cameos , yet Clooney's name appears prominently in the marketing of the movie. The unfinished film was screened for the New York press in December and Adrien Brody attended a screening to find that his originally significant role, "to carry the movie", [17] as he put it, had been reduced to two lines and approximately five minutes of screen time. On April 15, , an interview with Brody revealed that he was still upset over the removal of his work. He expressed his opinions in an interview with the London newspaper The Independent. Malick was upset that the studio screened his unfinished version for critics and Penn ended up helping him in the editing room, shaping the final version. The director refused to subject his film to test screenings before delivering his final cut. The film score was composed by Hans Zimmer , with additional music from John Powell. Zimmer wrote several hours of music, and an abundance of different themes, before Malick started to shoot the film. The director played the music on the set, while filming, to get himself, and the rest of the crew and actors in the right frame of mind. The official soundtrack features tracks that were not used on the film and some tracks from the film are not found on the CD. The film features several pieces of Melanesian choral music sung by the Choir of All Saints in Honiara and the Melanesian Brotherhood in Tabalia , only one of which is featured on the soundtrack. Gene Siskel described it as the "finest contemporary war film I've seen, supplanting Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan from earlier this year, or even Oliver Stone 's Platoon from He wrote, "The movie's schizophrenia keeps it from greatness this film has no firm idea of what it is about , but doesn't make it bad. It is, in fact, sort of fascinating The battle scenes themselves are masterful, in creating a sense of the geography of a particular hill, the way it is defended by Japanese bunkers, the ways in which the American soldiers attempt to take it Actors like Sean Penn, John Cusack, Jim Caviezel and Ben Chaplin find the perfect tone for scenes of a few seconds or a minute, and then are dropped before a rhythm can be established". In his review for Time , Richard Corliss wrote, "Some films deal in plot truth; this one expresses emotional truth, the heart's search for saving wisdom, in some of the most luscious imagery since Malick's last film, the Days of Heaven ". However, the atmosphere created by John Toll's breathtaking cinematography and Hans Zimmer's powerful score is occasionally compromised. The parade of cameos John Travolta, George Clooney, Woody Harrelson and John Cusack briefly appear is somewhat distracting, and the fact that Bell and Witt both have Appalachian accents sometimes makes the characters hard to differentiate. Yet, even though it's confusing at times and perhaps a little long , Line is still a film of rare substance and power. Owen Gleiberman gave the film a "B-" in his review for Entertainment Weekly and wrote, " The Thin Red Line could, I think, turn out to be this season's Beloved , a movie too paralyzingly high-minded to connect with audiences".