Wednesday, November 30, 2022

Everything You Ever Need To Know About Life...

 ... you can learn from:

Badlands (1973)

Holly: Did you hear about the guy at the nuthouse that walked around naked except for hat and gloves? This nurse came up to him and said, "You can't walk around that way." And the guy says, "It's okay, nobody comes around here anyway." And the nurse says, "Well, what do you have on the hat and gloves for?" And the guy says, "Well, you never know..."

A happy 79 to the director Terrence Malick today! I bought the Criterion blu of Badlands earlier this year, I should give it a look since I haven't seen this movie in ages. Depending on the day it, The New World, or Days of Heaven are my favorite films of his, but you can't go wrong with any of those. After that... well, notsomuch. I'm not a fan of The Tree of Life at all. I did really dig A Hidden Life, his most recent movie, though. Anyway here, a poll:

3 comments:

Shawny said...

Tree of Life was hideous. Yech. Overall, I don't connect with his filmmaking. The New World was memorable.

mrripley said...

I've only seen Badlands so Badlands and it's Sissy.

Anonymous said...

I've only seen Tree of Life and Thin Red Line. TRL was gorgeous and haunting (that score!) but the celebrity cameos were a bit distracting. I actually loved Tree of Life and thought Pitt was fantastic in it.