Buffy the porn star vs Jr Bush
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US films at Cannes go Bush-whacking
by Marc Burleigh
Yahoo News
May 21, 2006
CANNES, France (AFP) - US directors are using this year's Cannes Film Festival to pummel President George W. Bush, showing movies that take the US leader to task for everything ranging from sexual repression, Iraq, corporate collusion and climate change.
Sunday saw one of the most egregious attacks in the form of "Southland Tales" by Richard Kelly, the director behind 2001's cult movie "Donnie Darko".
www.southlandtales.com
In his new film, a satire set in a dystopian future Los Angeles, broad parallels are drawn between fascist pre-WWII Germany and the United States under a Bush government that holds onto power well into 2008.
A star-heavy cast moves the story along as it takes scattershot aim at a range of targets, particularly the war in Iraq, Big Brother-style spying on US citizens, the US dependence on energy and the fusion between celebrity and politics.
Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson plays a big-name actor tied to a political family who tries to unravel a plot involving him travelling into the future and back and trying to stop Armageddon. And any resemblance to a certain California governor who starred in "The Terminator" is coincidental.
www.rottentomatoes.com/m/southland_tales/
Also spotted is "Buffy" star Sarah Michelle Gellar, putting in a delightful turn as a marketing-savvy porn star, and pop singer Justin Timberlake who treats the sometimes befuddled audience to a music clip underlining the damage the US military has taken in Iraq.
"The film is meant to be a tapestry of ideas all related to the biggest issues we're facing right now," Kelly told a media conference.
Although it depicts "the very sad situation that we find ourselves as a country," he stressed. "I love our country and I'm a very patriotic person and the movie is meant to be a patriotic piece to say 'Let's solve these problems'."Quote:
Southland Tales is a 2006 motion picture, written and directed by Richard Kelly. A science-fiction thriller interweaving an ensemble cast including The Rock, Kevin Smith a.k.a. Silent Bob, Seann William Scott (in two roles) and Sarah Michelle Gellar, the film is a portrait of Los Angeles and a comment on the military-industrial newstainment complex. It began filming on August 15, 2005, on a budget of around US$15 million.
Kelly stated that the film's biggest influences are Pulp Fiction, Brazil and Dr. Strangelove. He also calls it a "strange hybrid of the sensibilities of Andy Warhol and Philip K. Dick".
This futuristic film evokes the city of Los Angeles, fallen victim to a nuclear attack in 2008, a catastrophe of unimaginable proportions which precipitates America into war. In order to be able to respond to the fuel scarcity, the company USIDent designs a generator of inexhaustible energy which operates thanks to ocean currents. In this city on the brink of chaos, we follow the criss-crossed destinies of Boxer Santaros, action film actor stricken with amnesia; Krysta Now, ex porno star in the midst of reconverting; and twin brothers Roland and Ronald Taverner, whose destinies becomes confused with that of all mankind.
The film has become highly anticipated in many circles, particularly due to the cult success of Kelly's last 2001 independent film release Donnie Darko. Kevin Smith, who has a cult following of his own, is also part of the ensemble cast.
Original music for the film will be provided by Moby.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southland_Tales
"Southland Tales" covered some of the same ground as another, edgier US film, "Shortbus", which is filled provocatively with scenes of real sex in what director John Cameron Mitchell said was "a call to arms" against the Bush administration.
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Is it just me or does SMG look hot in those photos? Pretty cool of her to take a role in this movie, considering her hubby is a Republican.
I wanna be Mr. Baccarin!
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Pretty cool of her to take a role in this movie, considering her hubby is a Republican.
She's a Republican too last time I looked.
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Er...John Major has'nt been Prime Minister for quite a while now.
Just thought I'd let you know.
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Quote:Just a small reminder, there are good Republicans, just like there are bad Democrats.
Originally posted by DallasFirefly:
Pretty cool of her to take a role in this movie, considering her hubby is a Republican.
The Conservative Liberal Chrisisall
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NOW there are no more Republicans or Democrats, there is only The Forsaken.
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Everyone, 15 days to go...
More insane ramblings by the people who brought you beeeer milkshakes!
"I had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalog: 'No good in a bed, but fine against a wall'." -- Eleanor Roosevelt.
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And there shall be a great wind in all the parts of the world.
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Oh we're having beans?
More insane ramblings by the people who brought you beeeer milkshakes!
"I had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalog: 'No good in a bed, but fine against a wall'." -- Eleanor Roosevelt.
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Originally posted by chrisisall:Quote:Just a small reminder, there are good Republicans, just like there are bad Democrats.
Originally posted by DallasFirefly:
Pretty cool of her to take a role in this movie, considering her hubby is a Republican.
The Conservative Liberal Chrisisall
Yes, there are two or three good Republicans left.
I wanna be Mr. Baccarin!
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