"God Bless Dwayne Johnson": Richard Kelly on Southland Tales, 15 Years Later

Some films are not meant for the era in which they're made. Such was the case with Richard Kelly's Southland Tales, a sci-fi epic from the provocative filmmaker whose first feature, Donnie Darko, premiered in 2001. Arriving five years into President Bush's presidency, Kelly's second feature debuted in Competition at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival, where it was received much like Bush's tumultuous War on Terror. "More film maudit than the basis for a midnight cult," film critic J. Hoberman observe...