Southland Tales

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New DVDs, 3/20.
Published 3/20/2008 by underdog at GreenCine
DVDs, 3/20. "What an awesome disaster of a movie," writes Waggish of Southland Tales. "Panned at Cannes, left for dead by Sony, eventually raking in $300K on an $18 million budget and forcing a promise from Richard Kelly that he will be more commercial in the future, I now say that it's the major American movie of 2007 that I enjoyed the most, far more than limp critic-fodder There Will Be Blood and No Country for Old Men." "I know, for myself, that ...

DVDs, 3/20.
Published 3/20/2008 at GreenCine Daily
"What an awesome disaster of a movie," writes Waggish of Southland Tales. "Panned at Cannes, left for dead by Sony, eventually raking in $300K on an $18 million budget and forcing a promise from Richard Kelly that he will be more commercial in the future, I now say that it's the major American movie of 2007 that I enjoyed the most, far more than limp critic-fodder There Will Be Blood and No Country for Old Men." "I know, for myself, that whereas No Country for Old Men stunned me in its ...

Screenwriting News & Links! 3/25/08
Published 3/25/2008 by Mystery Man at Mystery Man on Film
... Adams’ Screenwriter “The complexity of Adams as a character: "What emerged from David's book, at least to me, was this idea of a man who was constantly torn between his duty to his country and his ambition to excel, and how those two things were often in conflict with him. ... There's this constant dialectic between this dedication to duty and his belief that he should be recognized for his work."” How bad is Southland Tales? “What an awesome disaster of a movie. Panned at ...