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Film Club: The Thin Red Line (1998)

Film Club: The Thin Red Line (1998)

Update: 2025-07-22
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This month’s film club is the Terrence Malick 1998 masterpiece The Thin Red Line starring Sean Penn, Nick Nolte, Jim Caviezel, John Cusack, John Travolta and Woody Harrelson, among many others. We talk the Adrien Brody cut, the military elements, comparisons with Saving Private Ryan and much more. It’s me, historian Roger Moorhouse and filmmaker Tim Hewitt talking The Thin Red Line.


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Adrien Brody on his being cut from The Thin Red Line.


Christopher Plummer & George Clooney on Terrence Malick.


Ollie on X


Tim on X


Roger on X


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Film Club: The Thin Red Line (1998)

Film Club: The Thin Red Line (1998)

Oliver Webb-Carter