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Badlands / USA / 1973
Blissful.
by Jenny Jediny | Source: 35MM Theatrical Print
01 Feb 2006 10:02 PM | Comments (6)
Stu / 7 February 2006 / 12:14 PM
Screw Days of Heaven. This is the greatest movie Terence Malick has ever released, and probably the only truly great one he has in him (I’m especially convinced of this after seeing the disastrous The New World, coming after the good, but disappointing The Thin Red Line). Martin Sheen still has yet to top his performance in this.
goofbutton / 8 February 2006 / 8:57 AM
That’s crazy talk, Stu.
Rumsey / 8 February 2006 / 9:08 AM / URL
“Screw Days of Heaven.”?
That’s whack, dude.
leo / 8 February 2006 / 9:47 AM / URL
And furthermore …
Hurts Conor Dunphy / 13 February 2006 / 10:51 AM
CGI? Something doesn’t compute? Malick is far from Lynch—it’s true. But both have a thing for agrarian indenturees. Summing up, I think that we ought to land a new place for the Malick effervescence and multiply the cronyism of Hollywood Reconstruction…Detroit?
Evan Harvey / 14 February 2006 / 12:15 PM
I’ve found a fellow traveler in you, Stu. Badlands is Malick writ with lightning; a typically somber meditation posing (and actually working) as a loose tale of star-crossed lovers on the run. I think it’s the observation of violence in this picture that sticks with us: shocking without being graphic, gratuitous without being obscene. The visceral thrills are genuine. Genre films fom the American 70s tended toward the downbeat, but Badlands transcends an unavoidable spiral into tragedy. It becomes mythic. Now, I must also confess: The New World absolutely mesmerized me. Where Days of Heaven felt stillborn and Red Line muddled, the grandiosity of the historical framework and the gentle irony of Malick’s storytelling in The Mew World seemed perfect. And he is telling a story, one that transcends plot and character and envelops the entirety of lived existence. Maybe that’s a bit over the top, but the film feels like the work of a master at the top of his form.