Badlands (Malick, 1973): Prince Charles Cinema, 3.45pm
This 35mm presentation (also screening on May 25th) is part of the Terrence Malick season (details here).
Chicago Reader review of Badlands:
Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek as an aw-shucks madman killer and his
fudge-brained girlfriend. Loosely based on the Starkweather-Fugate
horror show of the late 50s, writer-director Terrence Malick's 1973
first feature is a film so rich in ideas it hardly knows where to turn.
Transcendent themes of love and death are fused with a pop-culture
sensibility and played out against a midwestern background, which is
breathtaking both in its sweep and in its banality. Days of Heaven put
Malick's intuitions into cogent form, but this is where his art begins.
Dave Kehr
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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