Valentines Wes Anderson Double Bill: Badlands & Moonrise Kingdom
Badlands and Moonrise Kingdom will be presented as part of a special valentines double bill, celebrating the release of the new book ‘The Worlds of Wes Anderson: The Influences and Inspiration Behind the Iconic Films’. Each screening will include a short introduction by the book’s author, Adam Woodward, who will also be signing copies after the double bill finishes. Tickets are available for the Double Bill of Badlands and Moonrise Kingdom on this page, or you can also find tickets to the films individually here: Badlands tickets Moonrise Kingdom tickets Badlands (1973) Terrence Malick’s debut feature was loosely inspired by the real-life story of serial killer Charles Starkweather and his girlfriend-turned-accomplice Caril Ann Fugate, who together embarked on a week-long rampage in January 1958 that resulted in the murders of ten people. In Malick’s version of events, Holly (Sissy Spacek), a baton-twirling girl-next-door, meets Kit (Martin Sheen), a James Dean type from the wrong side of the tracks, while he’s working as a garbage collector outside her home in smalltown South Dakota. They quickly fall in love and not before long find themselves making tracks for the titular ‘badlands’ of Montana, leaving a trail of bodies in their wake. Despite being punctuated by violence, Badlands is at its heart a hopelessly romantic, deeply tender film, with Sheen and Spacek setting the template for on-screen errant young couples for years to come. Moonrise Kingdom (2012) Moonrise Kingdom follows in the tradition of the great American adventure story, concerning a couple of star-crossed kids who find comfort in each other’s idiosyncrasies and decide to run away together: it could have been called The Ballad of Sam and Suzy. Of course, this being a Wes Anderson film, our preteen protagonists (played by Jared Gilman and Kara Hayward) quite often appear more grown up than the adults who conspire to thwart their union. Set in 1960s New England on the fictional island of New Penzance, Moonrise Kingdom contains narrative and visual allusions to everyone from Agnès Varda and Arthur C. Clarke, to Norman Rockwell and Satyajit Ray. But its most significant spiritual connection is with Badlands, Terrence Malick’s lilting tale of young lovers on the lam. Adam Woodward bio Adam Woodward is Editor-At-Large at Little White Lies magazine, where he has been writing about film since 2009. His first book, ‘The Worlds of Wes Anderson’ was published in 2024.PT4H152025-02-16Valentines Wes Anderson Double Bill: Badlands & Moonrise Kingdom"Valentines Wes Anderson Double Bill: Badlands & Moonrise Kingdom"Showtimes
February 16, 12:15 pm
February 16, 2:00 pm
February 16, 5:30 pm
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