Badlands (1973 Film) Terrence Malick

Terrence Malick’s 1973 film Badlands transforms the real-life killing spree of Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate into a modernist film that questions the purpose and belonging of youth in the suburban Midwest. Badlands philosophizes on the...

Terrence Malick, who has been lauded as one of the greatest directors of the New American cinema, has only made seven films in the last forty-five years (with three more forthcoming this year), yet his status as an auteur was initially solidified...