Blog Terrence Malick’s Badlands: Infamy as Constructed Narrative LRR, March 30, 2026March 30, 2026 Written by: Aidan Srb I recently decided to revisit Badlands (1973), the first film in the career of legendary American filmmaker Terrence Malick. What at first appears to be Malick’s most straightforward film, at least in terms of narrative, turns out to be as strange and unwieldy as anything he’d make after, almost totally consumed by the wandering lyricism that would come to define his… Continue Reading
Blog Read Between The Lyrics LRR, April 30, 2020February 8, 2025 5 female singer-songwriters who put poetry into pop By Ryan Amato When you think of creative writing, chances are you don’t immediately think of music; but you’d be surprised that the same amount of creativity that goes into crafting the powerful metaphors and storylines that can be found in some… Continue Reading