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2 days ago · A concept similar to Richard Kelly’s “Southland Tales” could have been achieved, yet it was too focused on being an uber-serious morality play. Worst of all is the film’s final words, which left me so baffled that I buried my face in my hands from secondhand embarrassment.
3 days ago · There's also a tabloid TV host with the great Vonnegut-via-Southland Tales moniker Wow Platinum (a never-better Aubrey Plaza), whose secret affair with Cesar might be a play for power, and the ...
2 days ago · on September 27, 2024. Images courtesy of Lionsgate. Francis Ford Coppola has been developing Megalopolis, a sprawling gargantuan crossbreed of pure cinema between Fritz Lang’s Metropolis, William Cameron Menzies’ Things to Come and Richard Kelly’s Southland Tales, for forty-seven years. First imagining the project in 1977 while filming ...
5 days ago · To offer some completely banal and ill-thought-through cinematic reference points, it sits at a midpoint between Southland Tales and Inland Empire, while also nodding to Fellini and Lang and von Stroheim and Murnau and Tati and, and and… It is an epic outpouring from an artist who genuinely DNGAF whether you like or loathe what he’s done.
4 days ago · Gellar starred in Richard Kelly's Southland Tales (2006) as a psychic adult film star who creates a reality television series based on prophetic visions. Drawn to the "batshit ambitious" ideas for the film, [ 116 ] she accepted the role before she even read the script.
2 days ago · What if an octogenarian wine baron made Southland Tales? My friends, you don’t have to imagine. Like Richard Kelly’s film maudit, Megalopolis is a dense, absurdist, self-consciously visionary sprawl set in a semi-futuristic bizarro-world, featuring all-star cast playing broad archetypes of contemporary politics and culture. The setting is ...
2 days ago · Sometimes, these films miss the mark, but even those like Southland Tales or Heaven’s Gate maintain their fandom and respect because of their audacious vision. Some filmmakers would rather go hard and risk failure than succeed at mediocrity, and Francis Ford Coppola is one of those filmmakers.
