Badlands [videorecording] / Warner Bros. ; Pressman Williams presents a Jill Jakes production ; written, produced and directed by Terrence Malick.
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FilmLanguage: English, French Original language: English Subtitle language: English, French Publication details: Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, c1973, c2010.Description: 1 videodisc (95 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inISBN: - 0780664914
- 9780780664913
- Photography, Brian Probyn, Tak Fujimoto, Stevan Larner ; editor, Robert Estrin ; original music, George Tipton.
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Dr. James Carlson Library | DVD | DRAMA Badlands | Available | 33111006553891 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
"He wanted to die with me and I dreamed of being lost forever in his arms." A young couple goes on a Midwest crime spree in Terrence Malick's hypnotically assured debut feature, 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, however, Holly gives herself up -- but Kit doesn't hold it against her, as he basks in his new status as a momentary folk hero. Inaugurating the use of voice-over narration that he would continue in Days of Heaven (1978) and The Thin Red Line (1998), Malick juxtaposes Holly's flat readings of her flowery romance-novel diary prose with the banal and surreal details of their journey. Singularly inarticulate with each other, Kit and Holly are more intrigued by mythic celebrity gestures, as Holly peruses her fan magazines and Kit commemorates key moments before orchestrating a properly dramatic capture for himself (complete with the right hat). The sublime visuals lend a dreamlike beauty to the couple's trip even as their actions are treated casually; Malick neither glamorizes Kit and Holly nor consigns them to the bloody end of their fame-fixated predecessors in Bonnie and Clyde (1967). With the couple's opaque dialogue and Holly's fanzine dream narration, Malick further denies an easy explanation for their crimes. Made for under 500,000 dollars, Badlands debuted at the 1973 New York Film Festival, along with Martin Scorsese's Mean Streets, and was released within months of two other outlaw-couple road movies, Steven Spielberg's The Sugarland Express and Robert Altman's Thieves Like Us. Although Badlands did not make an impression at the box office, its pictorial splendor and cool yet disquieting narrative established Malick as one of the most compelling artists to come out of early-'70s Hollywood. ~ Lucia Bozzola, Rovi
Based loosely on the '50s killing spree of Charles Starkweather and his girlfriend, Caril Ann Fugate.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1973.
Special features: soundtrack for the first time in stereo and remastered in Dolby digital 5.1; interactive menus; scene access; languages & subtitles: English & Français.
Photography, Brian Probyn, Tak Fujimoto, Stevan Larner ; editor, Robert Estrin ; original music, George Tipton.
Martin Sheen, Sissy Spacek, Warren Oates.
Set in South Dakota in 1959, this is the story of Kit and his girlfriend Holly, two people alienated from everyday life, who go on a killing spree.
Rated PG.
DVD; widescreen version on disc and container, but disc when played says : " ... changed from it's original display formatted to fit your screen" and displays full screen.
Closed captioned for the hearing impaired.
In English or French ; subtitled in English or French.