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‘Donnie Darko’: Director Richard Kelly Says Christopher Nolan Helped Make The Film Easier To Understand

In the early 2000s, every moody teenager prided themself in being able to explain the plot of “Donnie Darko,” Richard Kelly‘s metaphysical film starring Jake Gyllenhaal about a kid who befriends a mysterious figure who tells him he has 28 days to save the world. Now, in a new oral history of the film, Kelly reveals that the notoriously confusing timeline in “Donnie Darko” was made clearer with the help of a certain Christopher Edward Nolan.

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Director Richard Kelly Looks Back on Dwayne Johnson's Unexpected Performance in 'Southland Tales'

became a beloved cult classic, helping to launch Jake Gyllenhaal’s acting career, director Richard Kelly’s follow-up,, did not enjoy the same fate. In fact, the ensemble dystopian drama about a pornstar turned media mogul (Sarah Michelle Gellar), a movie star suffering from amnesia (Dwayne Johnson), twin cops (Seann William Scott) and many, many others getting mixed up in a battle between authoritarian government agencies and Marxist organizations was booed out of the Cannes Film Festival when it premiered in 2006. Despite its poor reception at the time, not everyone was left scathed by the film, particularly Johnson, who showed considerable range as Boxer Santaros, who finds himself at the center of overlapping conspiracy theories.

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Richard Kelly Talks ‘Southland Tales’, The Time Travel Prequel & His James Cameron-Inspired ‘Donnie Darko’ Sequel [Interview]

2020 was a weird year, you’ll recall. Is 2021 going to be weirder? In the week that The Playlist talked to filmmaker Richard Kelly about “Southland Tales,” his 2006 cult film about the end of the world, a group of conspiracy theorists and militant insurrectionists tried to take over our nation’s Capitol – which seemed in a way like something Kelly had tried to warn us about 15 years ago.

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‘Southland Tales’: Richard Kelly Wants Dwayne Johnson To Appear In Planned Sequel

In an age where apparently any financially-disappointing film can get additional millions of dollars for a director’s cut and any cult film can get a sequel, it’s no surprise that Richard Kelly would be interested in revisiting the underrated financial disaster that was “Southland Tales.” READ MORE: Richard Kelly Teases New ‘Southland Tales’ Film As Well As Two 4K Versions Of The Original After his cult-hit “Donnie Darko,” Kelly made an ambitious pseudo-post-apocalyptical satire with an insane cast that included Dwayne Johnson, Mandy Moore, Sarah Michelle Gellar and Justin Timberlake.

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‘Donnie Darko’: Director Richard Kelly Says Christopher Nolan Helped Make The Film Easier To Understand

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‘Donnie Darko’ director said Christopher Nolan’s date card idea made film easier to follow

Donnie Darko director Richard Kelly has said he received one key piece of advice from Christopher Nolan ahead of the film’s release that made the time-travel classic easier to follow.Kelly’s 2001 film reached its 20th anniversary this week (January 19), and to celebrate the landmark Kelly took part in a new oral history of the film.In the piece published on The Ringer, Kelly said that it was Nolan and his wife Emma Thomas’ idea to include the parenthetical title cards below the date every time the date changes in the film.“Chris and his wife, it was their idea to put the parenthetical beneath the title cards,” he revealed.The piece of advice then helped gain Nolan’s backing for the film; the director was instrumental in getting the film a

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Streaming Platform Mubi Partners With Prada on ‘Perfect Failures’ Film Series

Specialist streaming service Mubi has teamed up with fashion label Prada’s Fondazione Prada foundation on “Perfect Failures,” a curated selection of movies deemed to have been “widely misunderstood” upon their release.

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