Southland Tales (Blu-ray) R
Have a nice apocalypse.
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: R
- Run Time: 2 hours, 24 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region ABC (Worldwide)
- Released: November 18, 2008
- Originally Released: 2007
- Label: Sony Pictures
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Sarah Michelle Gellar, Seann William Scott & Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson | |
Performer: | Beth Grant, Will Sasso, Zelda Rubinstein, Amy Poehler, John Larroquette, Jon Lovitz, Mandy Moore, Christopher Lambert, Nora Dunn, Lou Taylor Pucci, Kevin Smith, Justin Timberlake, Wallace Shawn, Miranda Richardson, Holmes Osborne, Cheri Oteri & Bai Ling | |
Directed by | Richard Kelly | |
Screenwriting by | Richard Kelly | |
Composition by | Moby | |
Produced by | Bo Hyde, Sean McKittrick & Kendall Morgan | |
Director of Photography: | Steven Poster |
Entertainment Reviews:
3 stars out of 5 -- The best part is its Terry Southern-style madness and wonderful depiction of America as it seems today.
Empire
[A] dense and often wildly funny portrait of a near-future America on the brink of destruction.
The Atlantic
As the follow-up to his debut feature, the unexpectedly enduring teen-movie/sci-fi hybrid Donnie Darko, writer-director Richard Kelly has crafted an even more ambitious and far-reaching story
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Film Comment Magazine
3 stars out of 5 -- [I]n Kelly's dark, dystopian vision, everyone is a culprit. Amusingly berserk.
Uncut
As in Kelly's previous film, Southland's flaws, and its scope, are magnificently earnest; the guy is in way over his head, but his flailing is extravagant.
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Stop Smiling
Rating: 2/6 --
By the climax, his truly ambitious, truly flawed film finally disappears into the 'time-space rift' (or whatever) to achieve some sort of cosmic transcendence.
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Time Out
Fasten your seat belts and put up your tray tables. You're in for the ride to end all rides.
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Behind The Lens
Product Description:
Director Richard Kelly's follow-up to 2001's surprisingly popular DONNIE DARKO is a sprawling dystopian satire featuring an all-star cast and a storyline that splinters off into strange and unexpected places. The film begins with a nuclear explosion in Texas, which sparks a full-scale war between the U.S., the Middle East, and North Korea. Kelly's central character is action-movie star Boxer Santaros (Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson), who is suffering from a bout of amnesia upon returning from the desert. His reasons for being in the desert are hazy, but he's hooked up with porn star Krysta Now (Sarah Michelle Gellar), and together they have written a screenplay about the end of the world. Santaros tries to prepare for the film by taking a ride with a cop named Taverner (Sean William Scott). But the cop is actually Taverner's twin brother, who is working for a shadowy group of neo-Marxists who are trying to overthrow the government. Meanwhile, a brilliant scientist (Wallace Shawn) unveils an incredible new energy source, the end of the world as predicted by the Book of Revelations draws ever closer, and Justin Timberlake (who plays an Iraqi war veteran) provides a voiceover that fills in some of the gaps. As the film builds to its explosive climax, the reasons for Santaros's time in the desert become clear, and the various strands of the plot are brilliantly woven together.
SOUTHLAND TALES is packed with ideas, tangents, song-lyrics-as-dialogue (in particular, "Three Days" by Jane's Addiction), cameos from established stars, and plenty of references to the post-9/11 political landscape. Kelly's film is bursting with imagination, and it will undoubtedly need multiple viewings for everything to sink in. Comparisons to films as varied as Richard Linklater's A SCANNER DARKLY and David Lynch's DUNE are valid, but Kelly's movie inhabits a wonderful world of its own, and is one of 2007's most unique and inspiring pieces of filmmaking.
SOUTHLAND TALES is packed with ideas, tangents, song-lyrics-as-dialogue (in particular, "Three Days" by Jane's Addiction), cameos from established stars, and plenty of references to the post-9/11 political landscape. Kelly's film is bursting with imagination, and it will undoubtedly need multiple viewings for everything to sink in. Comparisons to films as varied as Richard Linklater's A SCANNER DARKLY and David Lynch's DUNE are valid, but Kelly's movie inhabits a wonderful world of its own, and is one of 2007's most unique and inspiring pieces of filmmaking.
Description by Sony Pictures Home Entertainment:
SOUTHLAND TALES is an ensemble piece set in the futuristic landscape of Los Angeles, as it stands on the brink of social, economic and environmental disaster. Boxer Santaros (Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson) is an action star who's stricken with amnesia. His life intertwines with Krysta Now (Sarah Michelle Gellar), an adult film star developing her own reality television project, and Ronald Taverner (Seann William Scott), a Hermosa Beach police officer who holds the key to a vast conspiracy.