Days of Heaven, which stars a young Richard Gere, is by far Terrence Malick’s best film. It’s also his second feature, was shot in the mid-1970s, and released in 1978. The film’s story is not worth mentioning, but its cinematography (Néstor Almendros Cuyás and Haskell Wexler) is just out of this world. After completing his masterpiece, which followed his first and second-best work, Badlands by five years, Malick did not make another film for two decades. His point of return was The Thin Red Line (1998), which is unwatchable. Malick has since made eight more films, none of which are any good. The art/scam of this director/philosopher is to make a puddle of water appear deep by stirring its mud.