No Future: Terrence Malick's BADLANDS
The Royal Cinema
608 College St, Toronto, ON M6G 1B4, Canada
43.6553504
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Description
“Starring Martin Sheen as the Charles Starkweather figure Kit Carruthers, a genial psychopath with good manners, black-and-white cowboy boots and a carefully maintained movie star pompadour, and Sissy Spacek as the Caril Ann Fugate stand-in Holly Sargis, BADLANDS established a tone of calculated dissociation from the outset. While Holly's strangely poetic, teen-romantic narration...describes a world of swooning innocence and longing, the movie shows us something else: a place where untethered souls drift dangerously from one incident of spasmodic violence to the next, where the ravishing and indifferent vastness of the Colorado landscape stands in chilling contrast to the acts perpetrated by the puny figures that cross it in a dust-churning stolen Caddy.” —THE GLOBE AND MAIL
Terrence Malick debuted with an instant American classic in BADLANDS (1973), a darkly funny and ruggedly poetic riff on the infamous Starkweather-Fugate spree killings of the 1950s. Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek star as a James Dean-inspired garbageman and a dopey, baton-twirling teen diarist who go on a killing spree across the wide open spaces of the midwest.
Straightforward compared to his more narratively elliptical work since, BADLANDS remains Malick’s most accessible and beguiling film, a picaresque masterpiece about everything from the toxicity behind 1950s American mythologies to the origins of true crime. Malick’s images — composed by master cinematographer Tak Fujimoto — are indelible out of the gate, but the film’s secret weapon is Spacek’s swooning narration, a hilarious and frequently moving mashup of pulp novel sociopathy, matinee idol culture, and teen girl dreaminess.
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Start:
2019-07-23T20:00:00-04:00
End:
2019-07-23T23:00:00-04:00
Category
Film
Tickets
General Admission
12.0
CAD
350