Badlands
First screening date unrecorded / Most recently screened in July 2014
Director: Terrence Malick. Cast: Martin Sheen, Sissy Spacek, Warren Oates, Ramon Bieri, Howard Ragsdale, John Carter, Dona Baldwin, Gary Littlejohn, Alan Vint, John Womack Jr., Bryan Montgomery, Gail Threlkeld, Ben Bravo, Charles Fitzpatrick, Terrence Malick. Screenplay: Terrence Malick.

Twitter Capsule: Double-barrels Night of the Hunter and Bonnie and Clyde. Bullets fly, koans float, minds boggle in glistering landscapes.

VOR:   As most American movies brood on urban rottenness, Malick finds ghost stories and unrestful iconographies amid rivers, forests, and amber waves of grain. Its fingerprints fall on countless films.



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Not yet reviewed in full. Grade: A–


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