| | Badlands DVD (4 Customer Reviews)
| Category | Action/Adventure DVDs, Suspense Movies, Dramas Videos, Recommended, Westerns, Essential Cinema, Cult, Killers, On-The-Road, Disturbing | | Starring | Martin Sheen, Sissy Spacek, Warren Oates, Ramon Bieri, Alan Vint | | Director | Terrence Malick | | Art Director | Jack Fisk | | Associate Producer | Louis A. Stroller | | Composer | James Taylor, George Tipton | | Director of Photography | Stevan Larner, Tak Fujimoto, Brian Probyn | | Editor | Robert Estrin | | Executive Producer | Edward R. Pressman | | Producer | Terrence Malick | | Screenwriter | Terrence Malick |
This 93 minute PG rated DVD features film stars Martin Shee n & Sissy Spacek. Director Terrence Malick's debut is based on the Charles Starkweather murder spree of the 1950s. A South Dakota garbage collector woos a high school naif away from her father--and kills him--and the two embark on a statewide killing binge. BADLANDS is a slice of demented Americana, made all the more disturbing by Malick's understated direction and Sheen's over-the-top James Dean posturing. Terrence Malick's startlingly accomplished debut feature was inspired by the Charles Starkweather and Caril-Ann Fugate murders of the late-1950s. Martin Sheen plays Kit, a 25-year-old garbageman who walks with a James Dean swagger. When he first meets the innocent 15-year-old Holly (Sissy Spacek), he falls head over heels in love with her. Her father (Warren Oates), an overprotective widower, will not allow the relationship to blossom, even after Kit informs him of his decent intentions. This refusal sparks Kit into action, triggering a brutal killing spree across the Midwest. All the while, Holly is there by Kit's side, to witness the senseless crimes and ponder her uncertain future.
BADLANDS is told from the point-of-view of the naive Holly, whose childish musings make the cold, detached killings seem all the more shocking. Malick's truly distinctive style, which combines lush photography and dreamy voiceover with bleak subject matter, has made him one of the world's most revered directors. His influence can be seen in works as wide-ranging as Quentin Tarantino's TRUE ROMANCE and David Gordon Green's GEORGE WASHINGTON. If there is such a thing as a perfect movie, BADLANDS certainly qualifies. Theatrical Release: October 15, 1973.
BADLANDS was added to the Library of Congress National Film Registry in 1993.
BADLANDS marked the feature-film debut for director Terrence Malick, who studied philosophy at Harvard and as a Rhodes Scholar in Oxford.
Malick appears briefly as a man who knocks on the front door of the house that Kit and Holly have occupied.
Bruce Springsteen's song "Nebraska" was based on the Starkweather murder spree and was influenced by the movie. (Springsteen also wrote a song called "Badlands," which is not about the same subject.) Badlands Reviews: "...A rich, dark and strange melding of fantasy, allegory and local detail..."
-- Richard Combs, Sight and Sound "...Startling....The lovers-on-the-lam movie to outpace them all..."
-- Total Film Staff, Total Film Badlands | List Price | $19.98 (You save $4.33) | | Studio | Warner Home Video | | Orig Year | 1973 | | DVD Encoding | Region 1 | | All Time Sales Rank |  5098  | | CD Universe Part number | 1262694 | | Catalog number | 16086 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Apr 27, 1999 | | Rating | PG (MPAA) | | Running Time | 95 Minutes | | Additional Info | Widescreen | | Movie Details | Color; Dolby Surround AC-3 Sound; Digitally Re-Mastered; Surround Sound; Digital Sound; Stereo Sound; Letter Boxed; Widescreen |
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