Southland Tales
WHAT
SOUTHLAND TALES AT POPCORN TAXI
WHERE
GREATER UNION, WESTFIELD, BONDI JUNCTION
WHEN
THURS MAY 15, 7PM
HOW MUCH
$15 / $12 HERE
DVD
OUT NOW!
WATCH THE TRAILER
HERE
Richard Kelly won fans with his slice of moody postmodern angst, DONNIE DARKO. Now thanks to Popcorn Taxi you get a one-off screening of his follow-up - the long-delayed, much-maligned SOUTHLAND TALES - and the chance to participate in a Q&A with the director, live from Los Angeles.
You might want to start with this: uh, what the hell?
SOUTHLAND TALES is a sprawling, semi-satirical apocalypse flick, populated by visionary porn stars, amnesiac celebrities, giant dirigibles, and other Warhol wet dreams. Kelly obviously has an audacious vision, but wants to squeeze so much in that characters spend their screen-time just explaining stuff to each other.
It strives for Philip K. Dickian oddness, but often seems like still-a-first-draft oddness instead. Embedded at random intervals, though, are some jaw-dropping scenes: Justin Timberlake as a scarred Iraq veteran hallucinating wildly while singing a Killer's refrain - "I've got soul but I'm not a soldier" - is strangely moving.
Is SOUTHLAND TALES a failure? Well, it's a fascinatingly pyrotechnic one, and you have to admire it for that.
Format: Cinema
Mood: Leave brain at home
Keywords: Donnie Darko, Sci-Fi
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