Badlandses
This Thursday at 10pm at the Bluish Barn Microcinema: “Badlands” (1973, dir. Terence Malick) and excerpts from “Bad Lands” (1939, dir. Lew Landers)
Tomorrow night we will be showing two films that have almost nothing to do with each other. But for starters, they do have the same title.
The 1973 “Badlands,” starring a young Martin Sheen and an even younger Sissy Spacek, is a classic film chronicling the incredible and murderous road trip of two lovers on the fringes of society. The 1939 “Bad Lands,” on the other hand, is a mediocre (and probably hilariously racist) cowboys-and-Indians affair from RKO studios. Guns and beautiful scenery play a major role in both films, and perhaps together we can joyously elaborate on other, more tenuous connections between the two.
It’s summer. It’s bloody hot. It’s time to take a trip out West and feel the sandy breeze caress our faces. You’ll join us, won’t you?
