Has Anybody Here Seen The Terrence Malick Short, "Lanton Mills?" Do You Know Where I Can Find A Copy? Thanks!

Answer 1

"When Terrence Malick donated a copy of his thesis film Lanton Mills to his alma mater, The American Film Institute, he stipulated that scholars be allowed to view the film in the AFI library in Los Angeles, but nowhere else. The film cannot be copied or checked out. The inaccessibility of this film subtracts one more piece from the puzzle of what people often call the “enigma” of Terrence Malick — a director who has only made three films, with a 20 year gap between the second and the third, who notoriously refuses to give interviews, and has it written into his contracts that he will do no publicity. In fact it has become almost a cliché to call him 'the J.D. Salinger of cinema.'"