“La Balade Sauvage” is the French title for Terrence Malick’s 1973 classic neo-noir Badlands, and is arguably a more evocative description of the film itself. Badlands was director Malick’s feature debut, and shares a lyrical tone, leisurely pace and strong use of imagery with much of his later works. Much of the movie’s enduring strength…
The Dead Zone
The Dead Zone is my favourite of David’ Cronenberg’s movies. At university, I once wrote a dissertation on Cronenberg’s earlier ‘body horror’ movies – including Shivers, Rabid and Scanners. These were all typically set in a Canadian winter and are fundamentally very cold, dour and disturbing movies, with little known casts. They had a pretence…
Apocalypse Now
This is the US one sheet poster for one of the most epic and ambitious war movies ever. I distinctly remember seeing Apocalypse Now in the cinema. It was at an arthouse cinema in Nottingham, which did not have the best sound. Consequently it was impossible to understand a word of Marlon Brando’s dialogue. At…