Terrence Malick’s 1978 film Days of Heaven will be screened in ICA Cinema 2 on Thursday 19th April at 2pm.

It is hoped the screening and following discussion will lead to the creation of a London Consortium reading/viewing group on the poetry of Wallace Stevens and the cinema of Terrence Malick.

The screening and the reading group will be open to Consortium and Birkbeck postgrad students.

A skim through Stevens’ Harmonium would be good preparation for the screening, especially the poems “O, Florida, Venereal Soil”, “The Comedian as the Letter C” and “Of Heaven Considered as a Tomb”.

Further reading: Simon Critchley, Things Merely Are (2005).