Pushing the Boundaries: Badlands (1974) 4K Restoration – 50th Anniversary
Director: Terrence Malick Run Time: 94 min. Rating: PG Release Year: 1974
Starring: Alan Vint, Martin Sheen, Ramon Bieri, Sissy Spacek, Warren Oates
Country: United States
Language: English, Spanish
The 1970s: Pushing the Boundaries
A Film Center retrospective on the most groundbreaking films to come out of the 1970s.
See more Pushing the BoundariesAbout the film:
Inspired by real-life killers Charles Starkweather and Caril-Ann Fugate, this tale of crime and love begins in a dead-end town. Teenage girl Holly angers her father when she begins dating an older and rebellious boy. After a conflict between Holly and her father erupts in murder, the young lovers are forced to flee. In the ensuing crime spree, they journey through the Midwest to the Badlands of Montana, eluding authorities along the way.
“Achingly evocative of a time when Hollywood had the courage to invest in complex and morally ambiguous films and an indisputable masterpiece of American cinema.”
—Rob Fraser, Empire Magazine
About the filmmaker:
Terrence Malick is a celebrated American filmmaker whose poetic films explore themes of morality, empathy, nature, and existence. His work has been recognized at major film festivals, including Cannes, Berlin, and Venice, and he has garnered numerous accolades. In 1999, his film The Thin Red Line (1998) was awarded the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival and received Academy Award nominations for Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay. He later achieved another Best Director nomination for The Tree of Life (2011), as well as the Palme d’Or at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival. Malick’s other films include Badlands (1973), Days of Heaven (1978), The New World (2005), To the Wonder (2012), and the IMAX documentary Voyage of Time (2016).
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