Brother, you don't know how happy I am to find this kind of content, I'm a great lover of Mallick's cinema and Emmanuel Lubezki's, for me together they are giants.
Without a doubt, philosophizing from poetry within the cinema is something that Terrence achieves very naturally all his films I like, (I think Badlans is the only one I haven't seen).
Not to mention Bergman with "Persona", strange things are the best things that cinema conceives, to find what transgresses reality.
RE: Can a philosopher become a great filmmaker? The case of Terrence Malick