Days of Heaven
1978, PG, 94 min.
Directed by Terrence Malick, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Richard Gere, Brooke Adams, Sam Shepard, Linda Manz.

Two of the cinema’s greatest poets ever, director Terrence Malick and cinematographer Nestor Almendros, combined forces on Days of Heaven and created something so beautiful that it touches heaven itself. For this one-time-only, free screening, the Austin Film Society sponsors promise the presentation of a new 35mm print.

This article appears in February 18 • 1994 (Cover).

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Marjorie Baumgarten is a film critic and contributing writer at The Austin Chronicle, where she has worked in many capacities since the paper's founding in 1981. She served as the Chronicle's Film Reviews editor for 25 years.