Event

BADLANDS

Terrence Malick's BADLANDS

Sunday, September 18 Bagel Brunch at 10am Film at 11am
Followed by Discussion with Fred Craden & David Sibek
$9 Members $13 Public No Refunds

No one makes films like Terrence Malick, and this is clear even in his astonishing
1973 debut, Badlands. Although far less stylized than his later works like The Tree
of Life, Days of Heaven, and The Thin Red Line, Malick's lyrical vision is immediately felt in this haunting tale of a young couple who
go on a Midwest crime spree loosely based on the 1950s Starkweather-Fugate murders. Fancying himself a rebel like James Dean,
twentysomething Kit (Martin Sheen) takes off with teen baton-twirler Holly (Sissy Spacek) after shooting her father (Warren Oates)
when he tries to split the pair up. Once bounty hunters discover their riverside hiding place, Kit and Holly head toward Saskatchewan,
leaving dead bodies in their wake. As the law closes in, Kit basks in his new status as a momentary folk hero. Made for under $500,000
dollars, Badlands debuted at the 1973 New York Film Festival, along with Martin Scorsese's Mean Streets. Badlands' pictorial
splendor and cool yet disquieting narrative established Malick as one of the most compelling artists to come out of early-'70s
Hollywood. USA, 1973, 95 min., color, 35mm