Fantastic Fest Review: Southland Tales

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Fantastic Fest Review: Southland Tales
Published 9/24/2007 at Movie Blog
... (involving Janaene Garafalo and Kevin Smith's characters) and added special effects that he felt the movie required. The new cut, which will hit theaters in November, premiered at Fantastic Fest in Austin at a "secret screening" on Saturday night. The recut film may still be difficult to follow and occasionally difficult to enjoy, but audiences who are willing to pay close attention and focus on the world of the film for more than two hours are rewarded by something extraordinary.Continue reading Fantastic Fest Review: Southland Tales ...

Richard Kelly is back
Published 9/24/2007 by Simon Crowe at Mostly Movies
A review of Richard Kelly's Southland Tales. (Cinematical)

The Buzz: Richard Kelly’s Southland Tales Screens at Fantastic Fest
Published 9/24/2007 by orfilms@gmail.com (slashfilm.com) at /Film
... of end of the world conspiracy that you’d expect to come out of Terry Southern or Hunter S Thompson or Kurt Vonnegut. It concerns alternate realities, subversive sub-cultures, neo-politic-paranoia and religious doomsday soothsaying. You may not get what it all means, but it is about asking what it means and laughing at the absurdist fever dream that you just watched. It’s a Basquiat at 24 frames a second – if that makes any sense to you – then perhaps this film is for you.” Jette at Cinematical: “The recut film may still be difficult to ...

Southland Tales Fantastic Fest Screening Buzz
Published 9/25/2007 by Alex Billington at FirstShowing.net
... challenges and succeeds in finding the human, emotional core lurking beneath all of its high concepts." -TwitchFilm The reviews seem to get a bit more negative as they go on. "The recut film may still be difficult to follow and occasionally difficult to enjoy, but audiences who are willing to pay close attention and focus on the world of the film for more than two hours are rewarded by something extraordinary." -Cinematical And some that are both positive and negative, ...