Amanda’s Random Rantings

Like most children from military families, Kelly has an impressive list of places she has lived starting with her birth in Selma, Alabama. Then it was on to California, back to Alabama, then Germany, Mississippi, and Alabama again. Then to England and finally Del Rio, Texas. Kelly started high school in England and graduated in Del Rio. From there she went to SMU in Dallas, graduating with degrees in Political Science and Economics. She went on to the University of Texas Law School where she earned her JD degree.

Just as this issue was going to press, word (albeit, still unconfirmed) came that Southland Tales will in fact be distributed in North America without the drastic cutting rumoured to be inevitable after the film’s Cannes screening. Rather than rework both this interview and the analysis on Southland Tales and its ridiculously controversial reception as found in the Cannes summary, let these pieces instead stand as a monument to the general stupidity of relying on overblown reactions from the international press corps for assessing both the aesthetic and commercial validity of a challenging American feature film. —MP

Back at the Fraternity House it was now almost 6am, and Ms. Professor was kicking on the door with her boot, and we were both shouting. I went around to the side of the building rapping on windows and doors as I went. Without divulging anything that could be used as evidence against me in court–I gained entry to the House.