Comment by wahnfrieden
13 hours ago
Not many directors able to produce fully avant-garde work with those budgets and that mainstream distribution. Closest I can think of is Harmony Korine around his commercial peak but that lasted a few years not decades.
David Lynch perhaps.
Korine and Lynch both had to retreat to independent distribution. It's amazing that Malick continues to have major studio support
Dino de Laurentis wants his money back