Southland Tales at Floyd Theater

By Michelle on February 8, 2008 | Permalink | Comments (0) | Film , UofL

I'm going to confess to being a little hesitant about any film featuring Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson. I'm sure that makes me a bad person or something but I'm being honest here so cut me some slack. That being said I'm intrigued by Southland Tales, the second feature film from Richard Kelly writer and director of Donnie Darko.

Wikipedia says "The title refers to the Southland, a name used by locals to refer to Southern California and Greater Los Angeles. Set in the near future, the film is a portrait of Los Angeles and a comment on the military-industrial news-tainment complex. The film features an ensemble cast. Original music for the film was provided by Moby."

Sounds interesting. The film was released in theaters last year but apparently was only shown on something like 63 screens across the U.S. After seeing the trailer I could understand that it would be a little hard to market but I think it's definitely worth a look, particularly since seeing movies at Floyd Theater is such a great deal. The film is showing this weekend only (it actually opened last night but I'm a little late).

Friday February 8, 2008 8 pm
Saturday February 9, 2008 5 & 8 pm
Sunday February 10, 2008 5 & 8 pm
$1 - students
$2 - all others

Floyd Theater
University of Louisville
Student Activities Center (Under the clock tower)

Trailer after the jump

"Richard Kelly's second feature is as talented as-and even more ambitious than-his debut, the cult hit Donnie Darko. A high-voltage farrago of unsynopsizable plots and counterplots, Southland Tales unfolds-mid-presidential campaign-in an alternate, pre- and post-apocalyptic universe where Texas was nuked on July 5, 2005, and a German multinational has figured out how to produce energy from ocean water. The mode is high-octane sci-fi social satire; the cast is large and antic (with wrestler Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson as an anxious, amnesiac action hero and Sarah Michelle Gellar biting down hard on the role of socially conscious porn queen Krysta Now)." (J. Hoberman, Village Voice)