The Circuit

Twitch has a review of Richard Kelly's reworked "Southland Tales." The first cut famously bombed at Cannes.  Todd Brown says the "Donnie Darko" director's new cut, secretly screened last night at Fantastic Fest, "is far from the mess it has been made out to be, a work that rewards as much as it challenges and succeeds in finding the human, emotional core lurking beneath all of its high concepts." 

Yet he predicts that "if Darren Aronofsky's 'The Fountain' was too obscure and cerebral for mainstream audiences then 'Southland Tales,' a more challenging film by far, is destined to die a quick and unpleasant death at the box office."