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Richard Kelly: Southland Tales

Posted by Jonathan On November - 18 - 2007

southland_talesHow Donnie Darko’ director Richard Kelly got lost in Southland Tales…

Porn star. Severed thumbs. Amnesiac actor. Lip-synching Iraq veteran. Psychedelic drugs. Kidnapped cop. His twin brother. Neo-Marxist anarchists. Republicans. Levitating ice-cream truck. Apocalypse. Read the rest of this entry »

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Film review: Southland Tales

Posted by Jonathan On November - 18 - 2007

southlandtales1A vision gone mad for a world gone mad? More coherent and less grandiose than his infamous Cannes rough-cut, Richard Kelly‘s Southland Tales is still a mess – but what a mess. Like his genre-bending cult debut Donnie Darko, it’s an end-of-days pulp-prophesy. But this time, political steamrollers personal as terrorists, politicians, porn stars, actors, singers, soldiers and scientists collide in a paranoid fantasy of dystopian America the day after tomorrow. Read the rest of this entry »

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Jonathan is a London-based journalist, critic and editor. He currently works for data visualisation agency Beyond Words.

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