Episode 077: Badlands + Buffalo '66

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Romance-on-the-run is one of cinema's most enduring genres, from Gun Crazy to Wild at Heart - but tonight's selections are a strange breed all by themselves: films built to test the audience's relationship to their heroes, and make us ask why we identify with them and their sometimes ugly stories! First up: Terrence Malick's breakout hit Badlands, in which an innocent-seeming Sissy Spacek follows handsome newcomer Martin Sheen on a cross-country killing spree - then next up is Vincent Gallo's quirky indie Buffalo '66 - one of Erick's favorites!