#651: MALICK, Terrence: Badlands (1973)
MALICK, Terrence (United States)
Badlands [1973]
Spine #651
Blu-ray
Blu-ray
Badlands announced the arrival of a major talent: Terrence Malick. His impressionistic take on the notorious Charles Starkweather killing spree of the late 1950s uses a serial-killer narrative as a springboard for an oblique teenage romance, lovingly and idiosyncratically enacted by Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek. The film introduced many of the elements that would earn Malick his passionate following: the enigmatic approach to narrative and character, the unusual use of voice-over, the juxtaposition of human violence with natural beauty, the poetic investigation of American dreams and nightmares. This debut has spawned countless imitations, but none have equaled its strange sublimity.
94 minutes
Color
Color
Monaural
1:85:1 aspect ratio
Criterion Release 2013
Director/Writer
Terence Malick was 40 when he wrote and directed Badlands.
Other Malick films in the Collection:
#409: Days Of Heaven (1978)
#536: The Thin Red Line (1998)
#826: The New World (2005)
#942: The Tree Of Life (2011)
The Film
Other Malick films in the Collection:
#409: Days Of Heaven (1978)
#536: The Thin Red Line (1998)
#826: The New World (2005)
#942: The Tree Of Life (2011)
The Film
Film Rating (0-60):
The Booklet
Twenty-four page booklet featuring an essay by filmmaker Michael Almereyda.
Commentary
None.
Making Badlands
A documentary featuring actors Sheen and Spacek and art director Jack Fisk.
Interviews
With associate editor Billy Weber and executive producer Edward Pressman.
Charles Starkweather
60
The ExtrasThe Booklet
Twenty-four page booklet featuring an essay by filmmaker Michael Almereyda.
Commentary
None.
Making Badlands
A documentary featuring actors Sheen and Spacek and art director Jack Fisk.
Interviews
With associate editor Billy Weber and executive producer Edward Pressman.
Charles Starkweather
A 1993 episode of the television program American Justice, about the real-life story on which the film was loosely based.
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