This weekend during the Berlin Film Festival, Terrence Malick’s latest and long-anticipated impressionistic movie about memory, existential voids, and loves past and present, “Knight Of Cups,” was finally unveiled (here’s our review). Starring Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett, and Natalie Portman, with appearances by Imogen Poots, Jason Clarke, Joel Kinnaman, Teresa Palmer, and more, the movie centers on a Hollywood screenwriter (Bale) who has it all, but still feels a deep existential emptiness in his life. The movie is essentially, from what we can gather from reviews anyhow, the writer's reflective and introspective journey through his own past in hopes of making sense of his purpose in life.
Although the press conference for “Knight Of Cups” did not feature the perennially press-reclusive director (Malick hasn’t done a lick of press or shown up for any media event in over 40 years), the international media didn’t seem to get the memo: at least two questions were...
