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Badlands (The Criterion Collection) [Blu-ray]

Martin Sheen (Actor), Sissy Spacek (Actor), Terrence Malick (Director) Rated:
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Genre Drama, Mystery & Suspense
Format Blu-ray
Contributor Sissy Spacek, Martin Sheen, Warren Oates, Roman Bieri, Alan Vint, Terrence Malick
Language English
Runtime 1 hour and 34 minutes
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Badlands announced the arrival of a major talent: Terrence Malick (Days of Heaven). His impressionistic take on the notorious Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate 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 (Apocalypse Now) and Sissy Spacek (Carrie). The film also 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 equaled its strange sublimity.

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  • Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 1.85:1
  • Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
  • MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 3.17 ounces
  • Item model number ‏ : ‎ badlands-3
  • Director ‏ : ‎ Terrence Malick
  • Media Format ‏ : ‎ Blu-ray
  • Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 34 minutes
  • Release date ‏ : ‎ March 19, 2013
  • Actors ‏ : ‎ Martin Sheen, Sissy Spacek, Warren Oates, Roman Bieri, Alan Vint
  • Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ English
  • Studio ‏ : ‎ Criterion Collection
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00AQ6J5JU
  • Country of Origin ‏ : ‎ USA
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
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I really love this movie with a passion, it’s a weird but very great movie. Even for 1973 standards, the plot is shocking, interesting, and dramatic. Even the package itself is in super high quality! Not a single scratch is visible on the disc. A whopping 100/10!
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Aaron Espino
5.0 out of 5 stars Badlands Blu-ray Disc
Reviewed in the United States on February 28, 2024
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I really love this movie with a passion, it’s a weird but very great movie. Even for 1973 standards, the plot is shocking, interesting, and dramatic. Even the package itself is in super high quality! Not a single scratch is visible on the disc. A whopping 100/10!
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Aaron Espino
5.0 out of 5 stars Badlands Blu-ray Disc
Reviewed in the United States on February 28, 2024
I really love this movie with a passion, it’s a weird but very great movie. Even for 1973 standards, the plot is shocking, interesting, and dramatic. Even the package itself is in super high quality! Not a single scratch is visible on the disc. A whopping 100/10!
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M. Ramon
5.0 out of 5 stars It takes all kinds
Reviewed in the United States on April 10, 2013
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Inspired by the true life case of Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate, Terence Malick's debut feature film follows two young lovers who go on a short-lived crime spree, like a bored and jaded Bonnie and Clyde. It all starts when Kit, a garbage man, takes a liking to teenaged Holly. Holly's father warns Kit to stay away from his daughter, leading to a showdown of sorts between the two men that ends with an act of violence. Kit leaves a record player playing a recorded message claiming that he and Holly are going to kill themselves (to throw off the authorities), and sets fire to the house before escaping with Holly, setting off on a journey whose course is foreshadowed by something Kit says in the aforementioned recording: "Nobody's coming out of this thing happy...especially not us."

From their makeshift home in the woods and a brief, violent visit to an old friend of Kit's, to their dash for the mountains of Saskatchewan (which to Kit represent freedom beyond the reach of the law), we are given a window into Holly's private thoughts through the use of voice-over, a sometimes vapid, sometimes rambling commentary from a young girl that can also be frightening at times, like when she thinks after Kit commits a triple murder: "At this moment, I didn't feel shame or fear, but just kind of blah, like when you're sitting there and all the water's run out of the bathtub."

Holly chitchats with a teenage girl, who is likely not much older than herself, surely knowing that the girl will most likely come to a bad end, and soon. Kit records nonsensical "advice" (for whose benefit, we're not quite sure) into a Dictaphone while holding a man and his housemaid hostage. The pair politely ask a man if they can borrow some gas before Kit pulls out a gun when the man refuses. Kit and Holly dance together in the glare of headlights while listening to Nat King Cole. We watch them drive though a great emptiness under painfully blue skies, heading somewhere, reaching for something, while seeming to not quite know where or what it is they are searching for. And all the while we remember those words spoken earlier in the film, "...especially not us." But as Kit concedes in that same recorded message: "I can't deny we've had fun, though."

And the reason for it all? There is no reason here, no logic to these senseless acts of violence. It's best summed up in a line from the short story "Nebraska" by Tennessee Jones, a story inspired by the Bruce Springsteen song of the same name, which in turn was inspired by this film. When the girl asks the boy why he killed a man, he answers simply: "I don't think I need a reason for that. He was doing what he does, and here I am doing what I do."
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Zachary Bednar
5.0 out of 5 stars Love Is Strange
Reviewed in the United States on May 21, 2013
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A masterwork is a hard thing to come by, and once you find one, it becomes impossible to let it go. Make no mistake about it, Badlands is a masterpiece of the highest order. It is a film I might never recover from, like all of Terrence Malick's films, Badlands aims to get personal with its audience. Badlands has officially entered my top ten favorite films ever made. Chilling, haunting, sublime, and enigmatic, Badlands is a blessing.

It is a film about a savage murder spree and the lovers who went through with it. Kit and Holly, played incredibly well by Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek, are the lovers on the run, killing anyone they see fit, all the while remaining charismatic, likable, and most of all, relatable. Just imagine if the films of Quentin Tarantino actually had soul. My interest in the films of Quentin Tarantino dwindles more and more as the years go by. I've come to the conclusion that the man is not only a hack but a thief, and his crimes against Badlands did not go unnoticed nor can they ever by forgiven or forgotten.

If I could pick one word to describe the films of Terrence Malick, it would have to be 'poetry'. Badlands is one of the cinema's boldest and most chilling poems. I could go on forever about how I analyzed the film but these 'films of the day' are meant to be brief, so I'll spare myself the time and energy I'd spend on writing something that will never actually be read. Just know that the film is brilliant, in every single aspect, one the my favorite films of all time, and the best directorial debut ever. Beautiful and intimate, Badlands is a true treasure.

Bare with me while I praise Martin Sheen. He was just incredible in the film. Badlands' Kit is quickly becoming one of my all time favorite screen characters. Sheen was extraordinary, and has definitely proven that he was one of the best actors of the seventies, and that's a pretty big accomplishment once you consider his contemporaries. I absolutely loved his performance. Great talent.

The film is otherworldly, maybe even mystical. A visual poem full of lyrical beauty. I believe that Badlands best represents American cinema of the seventies. There is an intimacy that no other film, aside from maybe Malick's other ventures, has been able to match. An amazing film that I recommend to everyone I know. A top ten mainstay for me, and a film that like none other. An addictive film, I can watch Badlands over and over again, and I do.

Kudos To Criterion For An EXCELLENT BLU RAY!
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4.0 out of 5 stars No subtitles or CC
Reviewed in the United States on October 2, 2019
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I love Terrence Malick. I haven't started the film yet, but subtitles are not an option. I am slightly disappointed but will power through.
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5.0 out of 5 stars How they got their start!
Reviewed in the United States on October 18, 2023
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Martin and Sissy when they was YOUNG. Fantastic acting, incredible music. Malik's best, IMO.
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Jeff Lucas
5.0 out of 5 stars A milestone 1973 movie looks as new today as when it was first released.
Reviewed in the United States on May 26, 2022
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I feel like at least one of the last people my age who wanted to see this movie since the 1970s but finally got to watch it intently the other day. Martin Sheen, deep and mystical, and Sissy Spacek have an effective chemistry throughout as do all the characters involved. During 1973, I saw a number of films that, I didn't know whether I was watching an action movie, or a comedy, or a drama, or a horror film, and then I realized I was watching all four.
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Andrea Tappen
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent
Reviewed in Canada on December 18, 2020
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MrCarlson
5.0 out of 5 stars Terrence Malick's first feature, and Martin Sheen's best
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 29, 2019
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Malick's movies would get more visually ambitious as his career went on, with sometimes a lesser emphasis on story over stunning visuals. This one however manages to maintain a nice balance between beautiful frames and an interesting storyline. It relies on great chemistry and performances from both leads, Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek, who both shine here with, arguably the best performance of their careers, at least on the movie side. Sheen manages to be compelling, interesting and charming while playing a clear psychopath, which is a testament to his charisma as an actor. This new Criterion collection has great image and sound, accompanied with great documentaries about the making of the movie, and the real life people the main characters are semi-based on. The only thing missing from this release is a 5.1 surround track, it only has a monaural one, and a commentary track on the movie, but sound and image are top notch, clearly some great care was put into restoring this great little movie. At 93 minutes it's a very quick experience, and when it's over it's sort of a shame that there is no more of both these interesting characters.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Sur les éditions de Badlands / La Balade sauvage (États-Unis, Grande-Bretagne, France)
Reviewed in France on May 23, 2015
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NB En 2013, une édition Criterion de Badlands a paru. Comme toutes les éditions Criterion ou tant s’en faut, elle est excellente, par le master utilisé mais aussi par l’accompagnement éditorial, riche et varié, autant pour le livret papier que pour les suppléments vidéo. Cela fait la différence avec l’édition française Warner, évidemment, et c’est elle que je recommande au premier chef mais il faut bien entendu préciser que :
- les éditions Criterion sont réservées aux anglophones, puisque les seuls sous-titres disponibles avec le film sont en anglais
- Criterion, une maison américaine, sort ses dvd et blu-ray en zone 1 / A ; cependant, certains de ses titres paraissent en Grande-Bretagne depuis deux-trois ans en blu-ray zone B. Badlands fait partie de ces titres ayant fait l’objet d’une édition blu-ray en GB. A moins que l’on soit certain que son lecteur lit les blu-rays zone A, c’est bien entendu cette édition-là qu’il faut acquérir. Pour ne pas simplifier les choses, Amazon marque souvent qu’il s’agit d’imports italiens ou polonais pour ces éditions anglaises. On peut vérifier les informations sur la page évidemment (langue et sous-titres en anglais ; zone 2 / B indiquée et pas zone 1 / A ; reproduction de la pochette portant bien le certificat de censure, ce qui est le cas pour les éditions britanniques et pas pour les éditions américaines) mais si l’on n’est pas certain mon conseil serait plutôt de s’assurer qu’on trouve l’édition britannique plus facilement en se rendant directement sur le site britannique d’Amazon.

Je reproduis-ci-dessous tel quel le commentaire que j'avais consacré aux éditions de Badlands. Il faut donc y ajouter la version britannique de l'édition blu-ray Criterion, plus pratique car correspondant à notre zone.

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Ce commentaire ne vise pas à disserter sur le film. Non pas qu'il ne le mérite pas - une myriade de commentaires ne serait pas déplacée pour une telle oeuvre - mais parce qu'il a essentiellement pour objet de donner quelques informations sur les éditions disponibles. Je renvoie donc à ce qu'ont écrit du premier film météorique de Terrence Malick les commentateurs de l'édition française, souvent très éloquents. Rappelons peut-être que ce film, tout en s'inscrivant dans une tradition dans un sous-genre donné, celui des amants criminels, ne leur ressemble que de très loin tant il romantise peu leur relation et leur échappée. Dans cette lignée on trouve des œuvres aussi formidables que They Live by Night / Les Amants de la Nuit de Nicholas Ray ou Gun Crazy de Joseph H. Lewis, et bien sûr, plus proche dans le temps de Badlands, Bonnie and Clyde d'Arthur Penn. Le regard de Malick, si singulier, s'imposa d'emblée avec force (même s'il s'agit comme l'avait écrit un critique avisé d'un 'cauchemar de douceur'), pour être confirmé et amplifié avec son deuxième film, Days of Heaven / Les Moissons du ciel (1978). Badlands révéla en outre deux jeunes acteurs promis à une carrière exceptionnelle (meme s'ils n'ont pas toujours eu tous les grands rôles qu'ils auraient dû avoir) : Martin Sheen et Sissy Spacek.

Les admirateurs de Terrence Malick essaient de se rabattre sur les meilleures éditions de ses films. Le moins qu'on puisse dire est que ce n'est pas en France qu'on peut les trouver, en tout cas pas pour les deux premiers. On peut bien sûr attendre que Days of Heaven et Badlands soient édités dans les magnifiques copies restaurées de leur réédition en salles de 2010. Mais cinq plus tard, toujours rien de neuf chez nous, où l'on a toujours droit aux éditions dvd sorties il y a une douzaine d'années et où il n'existe toujours pas de blu-rays : un état de fait totalement incompréhensible. Pour ceux qui ne souhaiteraient pas attendre cette hypothétique édition française, signalons ce qui existe en zone 1/A chez Criterion. Précisons que d'une part votre lecteur doit pouvoir lire les dvd zone 1 ou Blu-ray zone A (être dézoné) et d'autre part que leurs éditions dvd et blu-ray n'incluent que des sous-titres anglais pour le film, le reste n'étant pas sous-titré du tout.

C'est donc Criterion, l'éditeur n°1 aux Etats-Unis, responsable d'une collection qui serait au dvd l'équivalent de ce qu'est la Pléiade au livre, qui s'est chargé de Badlands et Days of Heaven. J'avais déjà detaillé les caractéristiques des dvd et blu-rays sortis aux Etats-Unis sur les pages correspondant pour le 2ème opus au dvd -  Criterion Collection : Days of Heaven, Import USA Zone 1  - et au Blu-ray :  Criterion Collection : Days of Heaven, Blu-ray .

Pour ce qui est de Badlands, la situation est donc tout aussi regrettable. Warner France semble parfaitement se contenter de continuer à commercialiser son dvd de qualité moyenne, sans véritable supplément qui vaille sur le film lui-même. Si l'on est anglophone, on aura donc tout intérêt là aussi à se diriger vers les éditions Criterion en dvd ou en Blu-ray. En voici les caractéristiques :
- un master restauré en 4K en tout point supérieur à celui de l'édition précédente, supervisé par le chef-opérateur actuel du cinéaste Emmanuel Lubezki, et approuvé par Terrence Malick lui-même
- un making-of rétrospectif qui se fait en l'absence de Malick - rappelons qu'il n'a pas accordé un seul entretien depuis plus de 35 ans et ne se montre plus guère. Martin Sheen et Sissy Spacek y contribuent bien, en revanche. Les entretiens supplémentaires se font avec le monteur Billy Weber et le producteur Edward Pressman. Tout cela s'avère plus ou moins passionnant - le tout est moins riche que les commentaires des intervenants sur Days of Heaven et The Thin Red Line - mais éclaire en tout cas les méthodes du jeune Malick
- un documentaire de la série American Justice sur l'affaire Charles Starkweather, qui a en partie inspiré à Malick ses personnages
- un fort beau livret, comprenant un texte renseigné et pertinent de Michael Almereyda, qui établit quelques parallèles intéressants, pas tous ultra-balisés dans ce qui a pu s'écrire sur le film (notamment avec les personnages des nouvelles de Flannery O'Connor)

Rappelons donc que les dvd comme les blu-rays Criterion ne proposent pas de sous-titres français. Même quand ils sont indiqués comme indisponibles ou proposés à des tarifs prohibitifs sur le site français, ils se trouvent sans aucun problème sur le site américain d'Amazon.

Pour ce qui est du 3ème film de Malick, Criterion a sorti une édition de The Thin Red Line / La Ligne rouge en 2010 en dvd et en blu-ray :  Criterion Collection : The Thin Red Line, Import USA Zone 1  (dvd) /  Criterion Collection : The Thin Red Line  (Blu-ray). Plus chanceux que les deux premiers, ce film a vu l'éditeur reprendre dans sa quasi-totalité cette édition pour le Blu-ray français (mais pas le dvd) :  La Ligne rouge - Combo Blu-ray + DVD . À quand des éditions de ce calibre en France pour un des plus grands réalisateurs américains en activité, dont les deux premières œuvres sont déjà devenues des classiques ?

Sur Badlands, il faut savoir qu'il existe un entretien passionnant, un des rares que Malick ait jamais donnés, avec Michel Ciment. Celui-ci a été reproduit dans le recueil  Petite planète cinématographique : 50 réalisateurs, 40 ans de cinéma, 30 pays . Ariane Gaudeaux a par ailleurs consacré une très bonne petite étude au film aux Éditions de la Transparence :  La balade sauvage .

J'en profite pour indiquer à ceux qui s'intéressent à ce peintre-poète-philosophe de l'écran qu'est Malick (pourrait-ce être une définition idéale de cinéaste?) et lisent l'anglais qu'il existe deux ouvrages de très grande qualité, le recueil d'articles  The Cinema of Terrence Malick: Poetic Visions of America  et l'excellente monographie  Terrence Malick  de Lloyd Michaels. Et à quand un ouvrage de cette qualité en français sur un des plus grands cinéastes américains de ces 40 dernières années ?

NB Traduit en français à l'origine par La Ballade sauvage, pour sa ressortie récente le titre a enfin perdu son deuxième "l". Bien sûr, le sens musical de ballade pouvait se défendre pour ce film, mais en fait il s'agissait tout bonnement d'une erreur de français. Les habitués du titre français d'époque ne devront pas se formaliser de voir balade écrit comme cela partout désormais, y compris sur la couverture du livre d'Ariane Gaudeaux indiqué ci-dessus et sur la nouvelle affiche du film. Le dvd Warner de 2003 arbore encore logiquement le titre français d'origine.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Work of art
Reviewed in Canada on May 18, 2016
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Malick's debut is a stunning achievement in cinematography and visual decadence. Malick was a Rhodes scholar who studied Heidegger and Wittgenstein among others, and one gets a sense from this film that the director is attempting to convey some sort of philosophical and holistic vision of the universe through the medium.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Goodlands.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 30, 2015
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You can read reviews of this " based on a true story " cracker of a film elsewhere, this is a review of the wonderful remastering that Criterion have done on Terrence Malick's first film. Restored in 4K with the colours rebalanced this is absolutely beautiful to watch especially the scenery in the second half of the film, depth and detail is incredible ( as is the acting). Audio is English LPCM 1.0 which is spot on considering this was released in 1973, English SDH subtitles are also available.
Original trailer 3 mins.
Making Badlands documentary 42 mins.
Two interviews with producer and editor 35 mins.
Charles Starkweather - a 1993 documentary about the real killing spree of Starkweather and Caril Anne Fugate, on whom the film is loosely based 21 mins.
Last but not least, a 10 page illustrated booklet featuring an essay by filmmaker Michael Almereyda.
Obviously it's a U.S. import so it's region A.I can't recommend this release highly enough.
See also 'The Sadist ',' Natural born killers ' and 'Kalifornia'.
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