Southland Tales

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 director-approved restoration.Product Features2K restoration by Arrow Films, approved by director Richard Kelly and director of photography Steven PosterHigh Definition Blu-ray (1080p) presentation of the theatrical cutOriginal lossless DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 and PCM 2.0 stereo soundtracksOptional English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearingAudio commentary by Richard KellyIt’s a Madcap World: The Making of an Unfinished Film, an in-depth retrospective documentary on the film, featuring contributions by Richard Kelly and members of the original crewUSIDent TV: Surveilling the Southland, an archival featurette on the making of the film, featuring interviews with the cast and crewThis is the Way the World Ends, an archival animated short set in the Southland Tales universeTheatrical trailerImage galleryReversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Jacey