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THIS IS THE WAY THE WORLD ENDS
In 2001, writer/director Richard Kelly achieved cult status with Donnie Darko, an assured debut feature exploring deep existential questions through the lens of 80s nostalgia. Five years later, he followed up with a more ambitious and even more beguiling sophomore effort, in which forces of totalitarianism and anarchism collide against the backdrop of a post-apocalyptic, near-future world – the beguiling and baffling Southland Tales.
Los Angeles, 2008. As the city stands on the brink of social, economic and environmental chaos, the fates of an eclectic set of characters – including an amnesia-stricken action star (Dwayne Johnson, the Fast & Furious series), an adult film star developing her own reality TV project (Sarah Michelle Gellar, Cruel Intentions) and a police officer whose identity has split in two (Seann William Scott, TV's Lethal Weapon) – intertwine with each other and with the whole of humanity.
A darkly comic futuristic epic that speaks as presciently to our turbulent times as it did to the American socio-political climate in 2006, Southland Tales receives a fresh – and timely – lease of life with this new, director-approved restoration.
2-DISC LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS
- New 2K restoration by Arrow Films, approved by director Richard Kelly and director of photography Steven Poster
- High Definition Blu-ray™ (1080p) presentations of both versions of the film: the 145-minute theatrical cut and the 160-minute "Cannes cut", which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2006
- Original lossless DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 and PCM 2.0 stereo soundtracks
- Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- Audio commentary on the theatrical cut by Richard Kelly
- It's a Madcap World: The Making of an Unfinished Film, a new in-depth retrospective documentary on the film, featuring contributions by Richard Kelly and members of the original crew
- USIDent TV: Surveilling the Southland, an archival featurette on the making of the film, featuring interviews with the cast and crew
- This is the Way the World Ends, an archival animated short set in the Southland Tales universe
- Theatrical trailer
- Image gallery
- Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Jacey
- Limited edition collector's booklet featuring new writing by Peter Tonguette and Simon Ward
- Arrow Video
- 15
- 2.35:1
- English
- 2
- Arrow Video
- Richard Kelly
- Dwayne Johnson
- Sarah Michelle Gellar
- Seann William Scott
- English SDH
- 2006
- B
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Arrow Films
THIS IS THE WAY THE WORLD ENDS
In 2001, writer/director Richard Kelly achieved cult status with Donnie Darko, an assured debut feature exploring deep existential questions through the lens of 80s nostalgia. Five years later, he followed up with a more ambitious and even more beguiling sophomore effort, in which forces of totalitarianism and anarchism collide against the backdrop of a post-apocalyptic, near-future world – the beguiling and baffling Southland Tales.
Los Angeles, 2008. As the city stands on the brink of social, economic and environmental chaos, the fates of an eclectic set of characters – including an amnesia-stricken action star (Dwayne Johnson, the Fast & Furious series), an adult film star developing her own reality TV project (Sarah Michelle Gellar, Cruel Intentions) and a police officer whose identity has split in two (Seann William Scott, TV's Lethal Weapon) – intertwine with each other and with the whole of humanity.
A darkly comic futuristic epic that speaks as presciently to our turbulent times as it did to the American socio-political climate in 2006, Southland Tales receives a fresh – and timely – lease of life with this new, director-approved restoration.
2-DISC LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS
- New 2K restoration by Arrow Films, approved by director Richard Kelly and director of photography Steven Poster
- High Definition Blu-ray™ (1080p) presentations of both versions of the film: the 145-minute theatrical cut and the 160-minute "Cannes cut", which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2006
- Original lossless DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 and PCM 2.0 stereo soundtracks
- Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- Audio commentary on the theatrical cut by Richard Kelly
- It's a Madcap World: The Making of an Unfinished Film, a new in-depth retrospective documentary on the film, featuring contributions by Richard Kelly and members of the original crew
- USIDent TV: Surveilling the Southland, an archival featurette on the making of the film, featuring interviews with the cast and crew
- This is the Way the World Ends, an archival animated short set in the Southland Tales universe
- Theatrical trailer
- Image gallery
- Reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Jacey
- Limited edition collector's booklet featuring new writing by Peter Tonguette and Simon Ward
- Arrow Video
- 15
- 2.35:1
- English
- 2
- Arrow Video
- Richard Kelly
- Dwayne Johnson
- Sarah Michelle Gellar
- Seann William Scott
- English SDH
- 2006
- B
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Fluid Karma...
Writing my thoughts about Southland Tales feels like an impossible task, because the film itself feels like somebody slamming their head onto a cinema screen and letting the ideas spill out, a gaudy, colorful, incoherent, yet oddly beautiful, wonderful mess. A peculiar yet impeccable ensemble, the best Dwayne Johnson has ever been on a film, and the second best Seann William Scott performance (Can't beat Doug Glatt), and Sarah Michelle Gellar is cold, ruthless yet still brings an empathetic depth to her character, whilst Justin Timberlake's voice-over is kind of like somebody holding your hand and walking you through a fun house maze of mirrors making the almost impenetrably confusing tale seem almost coherent, until you stop and try and reflect upon it and, well, it makes no sense, but also offers up a thousand interpretations, or, better, a million springboards for your own thoughts, feelings and stream of consciousness. Richard Kelly has made three films. They are all great. Two are incredible. It's such a shame we haven't had another in well over a decade. Arrow's blu-ray release feels like a humble, yet necessary, tribute to a divisive (put distinctive) film that I personally feel sits alongside Under The Silver Lake as a masterpiece of distinctly 21st century cinema.
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