Southland Tales

Released: 25th January 2021. THIS IS THE WAY THE WORLD ENDS 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. 2-DISC LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS -        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 feature-length 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 -        Limited edition collector’s booklet featuring new writing by Peter Tonguette and Simon Ward