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Focus on Terrence Malick: Badlands

Warning: This essay contains spoilers In Badlands’ epilogue, when all the killing is over and our protagonists have finally been caught, one of the police officers asks him, “You like people?” Kit responds, “They’re okay.” This answer strikes the officer as a bit odd, so he follows it up with, “Then why’d you do it?” Kit’s first response is simple: “I don’t know.” This dialogue sets down the stakes for the film and what it’s trying to implicitly answer: Why did these two seemingly normal people go on a cross-country killing spree, and what is it that makes theirs so...  read more

Get Low Review

Release Date: July 30 Director: Aaron Schneider Writers: Chris Provenzano, C. Gaby Mitchell Cinematographer: David Boyd Starring: Robert Duvall, Sissy Spacek, Bill Murray, Lucas Black Studio: Sony Pictures Classics A forgettable fable Get Low, a glacially-paced portrait of real-life Southern boogeyman Felix “Bush” Breazeale, does little to broaden the scope of American mythology set to celluloid. Robert Duvall stars as the woods-secluded protagonist, who stages a funeral for himself before he’s dead, inviting anyone who’s willing to recount one of the fantastical, widely-told yarns about his life. Even with this rich premise, Get Low’s linear narrative is far too bare-bones...  read more

SXSW 2010: Low Budgets, High Outputs

Get Low With James Cameron spending half a billion on Avatar it’s difficult to expect much from a film with a $7 million budget. But Aaron Schneider’s appropriately titled Get Low beat all expectations with his lovely period piece about redemption and forgiveness in the waning years of an old man’s life. It obviously helped to get Oscar winner Robert Duvall to play the lead role as the “hermit” of the depression-era Tennessee woods. Bill Murray, who says he did it to work with Duvall, plays the town’s undertaker Frank Quinn whose business is slow because no one’s dying. When...  read more

Bill Murray spotted in Georgia filming Get Low

Bill Murray recently poked his head out from shooting Get Low to attend an Atlanta Hawks game where he was seated alongside Spike Lee....  read more

Four Christmases

Proving that quantity does not equal quality, director Seth Gordon...  read more