Product Details
- An MVD Exclusive
- SKU: AV301
- Format: BLU-RAY DISC
- UPC: 760137446880
- Street Date: 01/26/21
- PreBook Date: 12/22/20
- Label: Arrow Video »
- Genre: Drama
- Run Time: 305 mins
- Number of Discs: 2
- Audio: STEREO
- Year of Production: 2006
- Region Code: 0
- Box Lot: 0
- Territory: US
- Language: English
Cast & Crew
- Actors:
- Dwayne Johnson as Boxer Santaros / Jericho Cane
- Sarah Michelle Geller as Krysta Kapowski / Krysta Now
- Seann William Scott as Roland Taverner / Ronald Taverner
- Justin Timberlake as Private Pilot Abilene
- Kevin Smith as Simon Theory
- Mandy Moore as Madeline Frost Santaros
- Amy Poehler as Veronica Mung / Dream
- Nora Dunn as Cyndi Pinziki
- Miranda Richardson as Nana Mae Frost
- Wallace Shawn as Baron Von Westphalen
- Janeane Garofalo as General Teena MacArthur
- Curtis Armstrong as Dr. Soberin Exx
- Jon Lovitz as Bart Bookman
- Christopher Lambert as Walter Mung
- John Larroquette as Vaughn Smallhouse
- Bai Ling as Serpentine
- Director: Richard Kelly
Product Assets
Southland Tales: Cannes Cut + Theatrical Cut (2-Disc Limited Edition)
From The Writer / Director of DONNIE DARKO and THE BOX!
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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.
Media
Bonus Materials
- 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
Sales Points
- Superstar cast that includes Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson & Justin Timberlake
- Worldwide debut of the extended Cannes Cut, which includes over 15 minutes of restored footage
Press Quotes
Southland Tales has more ideas, visual and intellectual, in a single scene than most American independent films have in their entirety.
—Manohla Dargis, The New York Times
(Richard Kelly) is a cinematic anarchist.
—Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
Eerily prescient...a saga of crime, identity, and conspiracy in LA that touches on government surveillance, armed resistance, corporate intrusion and celebrity culture -- told with equal parts anger, humor, disillusionment and apocalyptic rapture
—The Los Angeles Times
Is Southland Tales seemingly willfully perplexing? Yes, but the film does offer a truly bizarre assortment of plot points and attendant visuals. This is another Arrow release of a cult item that may arguably hold as much interest in its supplemental content as for the feature itself. Technical merits are solid, and the supplemental package very enjoyable. Recommended.
—Blu-ray.com
A major movie that's genuinely subversive, unapologetically and unsubtly political, speaking specifically to the American mindset of the PATRIOT Act era; it plays now as a time capsule, a pure shot of paranoid, W-era Id. Kelly fills the cast with 'Saturday Night Live' alumni, and perhaps that's the spirit to approach it in: hit and miss, sometimes wildly so, but capable of landing a bulls-eye on occasion.
—The Playlist