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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Directed and Written by TERRENCE MALICK...
...difficult problem to work a narrative out of numbness, but Terrence Malick, a former screenwriter making a fine start as a director, has solved it smoothly. Badlands is narrated by Holly in a swoony, slicked-up prose that rings with a sort of distorted familiarity. Her reveries are shaped and peopled by popular legend. Kit, to her, looks just like James Dean. Her reminiscences sound like a diary read to a blank wall. She recalls that her father kept his wedding cake in the freezer for ten years, and that after her mother's funeral he presented...
...lyrics of some Hit Parade ballad-but remain remote from each other. Talking about their eventual capture, Kit is most concerned about whether he will still be alive enough, after the shootout, to hear the doctor pronounce him dead. They are both living out parallel fantasies of glory, and Malick tells their story in the language of their secondhand dreams. He thus leaves himself open to accusations of condescension to his characters, but Badlands, which can cut sharply, also has a sort of reluctant compassion for Holly and Kit. The poverty of their desensitized lives not only propels them...
...interesting or chic on the Continent, and provided a temporary home for the outcasts. Best received were Truffaut's Day for Night (TIME, Oct. 15) and an American movie, Martin Scorsese's Mean Streets. The home team, indeed, was well represented this year by Mean Streets, Terrence Malick's Badlands (both to be reviewed separately when they are generally released) and James Frawley's Kid Blue, a funny, anarchic western released unsuccessfully last spring (TIME, May 14). Some notes on the other selections...
Directed by STUART ROSENBERG Screenplay by TERRY MALICK...