Badlands - The Criterion Collection

Terrence Malick's exquisite first film, in a new digital restoration. Badlands announced the arrival of a major talent: Terrence Malick. His impressionistic take on the notorious Charles Starkweather killing spree of the late 1950s uses a serial‐killer narrative as a springboard for an oblique teenage romance, lovingly and idiosyncratically enacted by Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek. The film introduced many of the elements that would earn Malick his passionate following: the enigmatic approach to narrative and character, the unusual use of voice‐over, the juxtaposition of human violence with natural beauty, the poetic investigation of American dreams and nightmares. This debut has spawned countless imitations, but none have equalled its strange sublimity.Bous Features:New, restored 4K digital transfer, approved by director Terrence Malick, with uncompressed monaural soundtrackMaking Badlands, a new documentary featuring actors Martin Sheen and SissySpacek and art director Jack Fisk New interviews with associate editor Billy Weber and executive producer EdwardPressman Charles Starkweather, a 1993 episode of the television programme AmericanJustice, about the real‐life story on which the film was loosely basedTrailerPLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by filmmaker Michael Almereyda