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Oct 26, 2021 · Features. By Ian Berriman. published 26 October 2021. Director Richard Kelly walks us through the making of his head-spinning cult classic Donnie Darko on the movie's 20th anniversary. Comments ...
Mar 30, 2017 · in Directors, Interviews, Screenwriters. on Mar 30, 2017. donnie darko, richard kelly. A midnight movie for those not old enough to stay up past midnight, Richard Kelly’s Donnie Darko was, for a great number of millennial teens and college students, the ultimate cult classic. Along with Larry Clark’s Kids and Darren Aronofsky’s Requiem ...
In 2016, filmmaker Kevin Smith said of Kelly: "He is insanely creative and is not unlike Christopher Nolan. But Nolan wound up in the Warner Bros. system where he got special handling, and he got a lot of money to make huge art films like Inception. Richard can be one of our greatest filmmakers. He is right now, but just a lot of people don't ...
James Richard Kelly (born 1975) is an American writer-director, best known for his debut feature, the science-fiction cult classic "Donnie Darko"(2001). Kelly was born in Newport News, Virginia, the son of Lane and Ennis Kelly. He won a scholarship to the University of Southern California to study at the USC School of Cinema-Television. He made two short films at USC, "The Goodbye Place" and ...
Mar 29, 2017 · When Richard Kelly’s Donnie Darko came out in 2002, it was closer in spirit to its 1988 setting than the actual release date. The film plumbed the depths of Kelly’s ’80s adolescence and ...
Jan 6, 2017 · A ‘70s-set sci-fi thriller based on a Richard Matheson short story, Kelly sets much of the action at NASA, where his father worked during that time. Donnie Darko may remain Kelly’s best film, and is the most significant cult film of recent memory — with the possible exception of Fight Club, although that film’s cult status bloomed ...
Jan 7, 2021 · RICHARD KELLY: Well, it was all the way back to 2001. We had premiered Donnie Darko at Sundance almost 20 years ago to this day, which is insane to think. And no one wanted to buy the movie. It ...
