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Jul 24, 2009 · Is it possible that after only two films (his cult hit debut Donnie Darko and his infamously panned follow-up, Southland Tales), director Richard Kelly has already achieved auteur status? Audiences will find out this Halloween, when Kelly's next film, The Box, opens in theaters.
Sep 27, 2012 · With one movie, 2001's Donnie Darko, Richard Kelly immediately announced himself as a filmmaker to watch. Since then he's only directed two films, neither of which managed to reach the heights of ...
Oct 20, 2023 · More than 20 years after its release, Richard Kelly is often asked how Donnie Darko — his 2001 sci-fi film anchored by a six-foot-tall rabbit — got made. On the face of it, it’s an origin ...
Mar 26, 2017 · Richard Kelly makes films that are often appreciated retrospectively, due to initial studio mishandling and to their own inchoate natures. There’s a sense in Kelly’s cinema of a struggle to adequately express ineffable cultural alienation, as exhibited by the films’ intense emotionality and by labyrinthine plots that are hard to understand even with, say, on-screen expositional text and ...
Dec 14, 2016 · Donnie Darko (2001) is bewitching, beguiling and nigh-on impossible to categorise. You could describe it as a high-school movie, a sci-fi tale, a psychological thriller, a black comedy or even a horror film of sorts, because it is all of these things and more, a cult film of strange, wondrous beauty.
Richard Kelly's debut feature Donnie Darko is a daring, original vision, packed with jarring ideas and intelligence and featuring a remarkable performance from Jake Gyllenhaal as the troubled title character.
Oct 26, 2021 · For the cult classic's 20th anniversary, we asked writer-director Richard Kelly to break it all down. What the hell is ‘Donnie Darko’ about ... “In my mind,” the filmmaker replies, ...
