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Post by Cartman on Jul 20, 2021 16:22:10 GMT
This was recently on one of the film channels so I've recorded it and rewatched it for about the 10th time.
It's one of my all time favourite films, I think it's absolutely brilliant, Martin Sheen, Sissy Spacek and Warren Oates are in it and the photography and music are superb. It is based on a real life event in Nebraska in 1958 where Charles Starkweather and his 14 year old girlfriend, Caril Ann Fugate went on a killing spree.
Sheen is outstandingly good and the locations, the desolate plains of the American mid West are very evocative.
If you've not seen it, I recommend it.
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Post by Charles Bronson on Jul 20, 2021 20:27:55 GMT
Thanks for the reccomendation Carter. I will look out for it.
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Post by Vienna on Jul 21, 2021 12:20:44 GMT
Yes Cartman, I thought it was a good watch when I saw it a few months ago on Blu-ray. Some critics regard it as one of the greatest films of all time and Martin Sheen has apparently said it is the best script he has ever read. Sissy Spacek is perhaps best known for her role as Carrie White in the 1976 horror film Carrie directed by Brian De Palma.
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Post by Sparky on Jul 21, 2021 13:09:18 GMT
This was recently on one of the film channels so I've recorded it and rewatched it for about the 10th time. It's one of my all time favourite films, I think it's absolutely brilliant, Martin Sheen, Sissy Spacek and Warren Oates are in it and the photography and music are superb. It is based on a real life event in Nebraska in 1958 where Charles Starkweather and his 14 year old girlfriend, Caril Ann Fugate went on a killing spree. Sheen is outstandingly good and the locations, the desolate plains of the American mid West are very evocative. If you've not seen it, I recommend it. Never seen this. Always wanted to.
The first I heard of it was in an interview with Quentin Tarantino, who also highly rated the film.
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Post by Cartman on Jul 21, 2021 15:25:07 GMT
It's really good. The director was Terrence Malik.
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Jul 21, 2021 20:28:41 GMT
Very good film, been a while since I watched it, BBC2 would show it every so often.
I thought it was shown during one of the Moviedrome seasons of cult films presented by Alex Cox but according to the list of films featured it wasn't.
Another excellent low budget American film on a similar theme is 'The Honeymoon Killers'.
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Post by Lord Emsworth on Jul 23, 2021 9:04:46 GMT
Very good film, been a while since I watched it, BBC2 would show it every so often.
I thought it was shown during one of the Moviedrome seasons of cult films presented by Alex Cox but according to the list of films featured it wasn't. I'm convinced it was on one of the Alex Cox Moviedromes but I definitely caught it before that on BBC2 as a nipper when that channel would show great films late nights on Sundays
Badlands is a timeless classic - a true cinematic masterpiece
One of the many things that makes it so great is the use of Carl Orff's Gassenhauer....
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Jul 23, 2021 18:28:57 GMT
Very different from Orff's best known work 'Carmina Burana' or 'that music from the Old Spice tv ad' as it's better known.
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Post by Dirty Epic on Jul 23, 2021 19:58:25 GMT
The BBC's Videodrome was brilliant managed to enjoy a fair few good films from that season and Alex Cox's introductions were very good too. Shame the BBC don't really show films like that anymore, BBC Four could certainly revisit Videodrome whether repeating the original idea or using it with new and fresher films!
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