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For Criterion: “Love is Strange”: The Hot-Blooded Love Cry at the Cold Heart of Badlands
For Criterion’s “Songbook” column: I wrote about the use of Mickey & Sylvia’s “Love is Strange” in Terrence Malick’s Badlands: The Hot-Blooded Love Cry at the Cold Heart of Badlands.
Posted in Movies, Music
Tagged Badlands, drama, Martin Sheen, reviews, Sissy Spacek, Terrence Malick
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Supernatural: Season 1, Episode 6: “Skin”
Directed by Robert Duncan McNeil written by John Shiban Dark doubles are a recurring theme in Supernatural. What is more frightening, more eerie, than to think of there being another one of you out there, someone who looks like you, … Continue reading
Posted in Television
Tagged Alain Delon, Elia Kazan, John Shiban, Lana Turner, Quentin Tarantino, Sissy Spacek, SPN Season 1, Supernatural
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Psychopaths and morality: Jeremy Renner and Sissy Spacek
Fascinating article called Psychopaths and Rational Morality: The Frontal Cortex, with an even better conversation going on in the comments. Go read the whole thing, it’s very interesting. It is one of my obsessions: psychopaths, antisocial personalities, whatever name you … Continue reading
Posted in Actors
Tagged Badlands, Jeremy Renner, psychopaths, Sissy Spacek, Terrence Malick
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Sissy Spacek in Badlands: An Analysis
Roger Ebert writes in his review of Terrence Malick’s great film Badlands: She claimed she was kidnapped and forced to go along with Starkweather. When they first were captured, he asked the deputies to leave her alone: “She didn’t do … Continue reading
A performance I love …
… by an actress I love … … in a movie I love even more.
Movie Poster: Badlands
One of my favorite posters of all time. Definitely in my top five.