With Terrence Malick‘s long-awaited Voyage of Time arriving in just over a week to IMAX screens, having seen it on that format, we wouldn’t recommend viewing any footage beforehand on your computer screens — or, dare I say, mobile device. However, if you’re on the fence about whether or not this 45-minute journey is worth taking (we’d say so), a batch of clips amounting to over five minutes should help to convince you.
We said in our review of the Life’s Journey version, “Many viewers may feel they’ve seen familiar things in the work of David Attenborough, or even in films such as Koyaanisqatsi or Samsara. However, Malick might be singular in his earnest search for the sublime. Voyage of Time resembles much of the director’s recent work in how it may be a Rorschach test for anyone choosing to see it. The audience is simply asked to take whatever resonates with them and, maybe, not worry so much about the sections they have discarded. A cut from a corn stalk to the absurd Burj Khalifa in Dubai, no doubt a Kubrick homage, reminds us that cinema itself can be sublime. If that is indeed the case, perhaps Malick’s completed the staggering task he set out to accomplish.”
See the clips below in the playlist.
Voyage of Time: The IMAX Experience is a one-of-a-kind celebration of life and the grand history of the cosmos, transporting audiences into a vast yet up-close-and personal journey that spans the eons from the Big Bang to the dinosaur age to our present human world … and beyond. A labor of love from one of American cinema’s most acclaimed and visually exciting filmmakers, Terrence Malick (The Thin Red Line, The Tree of Life), Voyage of Time has been nearly four decades in the making and represents the filmmaker’s first foray into documentary storytelling. The film’s panorama of awe-inspiring images will take you into the heart of monumental events never witnessed — from the birth of the stars and galaxies to the explosion of diverse life-forms on planet earth, including humankind — in immersive new ways that only IMAX can deliver. This is a cosmic experience — a hymn to the glories of nature, life and scientific discovery — in which all the elements come together to form Malick’s most original film to date.
Voyage of Time: The IMAX Experience, a 40-minute, giant-screen adventure narrated by Brad Pitt, which immerses audiences directly into the story of the universe and life itself, will be shown exclusively in IMAX® theatres.
Voyage of Time: The IMAX Experience will be released October 7th.