Badlands

1973, 94 minutes, Digital, PG
USA

Presented by: Johns Hopkins Film Society

Director: Terrence Malick

Cast: Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek

Distributor: Warner Bros.

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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.


Selected for inclusion on the National Film Registry


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