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Wheat fields at magic hour, locusts and fire; the most beautifully photographed film of its decade.

Thirty years of a mother and daughter, from comedy to a hospital corridor.

Sissy Spacek narrates a killing spree across the Dakota plains; Malick's debut.

Shot with the same cast over twelve years, so the boy actually grows up on screen.

Harry Dean Stanton walks out of the desert; the peep-show conversation with Nastassja Kinski.

Max Fischer, the worst student at the best school, and Bill Murray as his rival in love.

Matthew McConaughey as a Texan smuggling AIDS drugs in 1985; he and Jared Leto both won Oscars.

The PC clone wars and the birth of the web across the 1980s; the series that found itself in season two.