Aus dem empfehlenswerten, aber sehr durchgeknallten und damals mehr oder minder überall verrissenen Film “Southland Tales” des Donnie-Darko-Regisseurs Richard Kelly:

Zur Feier der heutigen Deutschland-DVD-Veröffentlichung des neuen Films von Donnie-Darko-Regisseur Richard Kelly die Rezension des großen US-Kritikers Roger Ebert zum letztjährigen US-Kino-Start:

“After I saw the first cut of Kelly’s “Southland Tales” at Cannes 2005, I was dazed, confused, bewildered, bored, affronted and deafened by the boos all around me, at the most disastrous Cannes press screening since, yes, “The Brown Bunny”. But now here is the director’s cut, which is 20 minutes shorter, lops off a couple of characters and a few of the infinite subplots, and is even more of a mess. I recommend that Kelly keep right on cutting until he whittles it down to a ukulele pick.
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It’s like the third day of a pitch session on speed. What does he imagine an audience feels like while watching this movie? Did his editor ever suggest that he might emerge… weiter lesen