Arrow Films completed a new 2K restoration for
Southland Tales for both the 145-minute theatrical cut and the 160-minute “Cannes cut”, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2006. The restoration was approved by director Richard Kelly and director of photography Steven Poster.
Audio features the original lossless DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 and PCM 2.0 stereo soundtracks with optional English subtitles.
Here’s the bonus features:
Audio commentary on the theatrical cut by Richard Kelly
It’s a Madcap World: The Making of an Unfinished Film, a new in-depth retrospective documentary on the film, featuring contributions by Richard Kelly and members of the original crew
Richard Kelly is busy revisiting his
Southland Tales
world at the moment. In the new year, fans of the cult sci-fi movie will finally see the infamous Cannes cut, which heavily re-edited following its debut. But a few years after that film, Kelly’s sophomore effort after
Donnie Darko, he attempted to make his most commercial movie with
The Box. Now, over a decade after
The Box‘s release, Kelly is still interested in releasing a Director’s Cut of his third film.
Based on
Richard Matheson‘s short story, the film follows a couple who are presented with a terrible deal: if they press a button on a box given to them by a mysterious man, a stranger dies and they get a million dollars. It’s a great, simple concept, and the film itself is an ambitious sci-fi drama that starts small and then goes big. Originally, Kelly went even bigger. “There is a lot more there,” he told us during a new interview. “There’s probably 45 minutes of scenes that never saw th