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DONNIE DARKO
(2001)
RICHARD KELLY
Donnie Darko was originally screened at the Sundance festival in the US. It was screened as an ‘Indie, art-house’ film. It was released on 25th October 2002 in the UK. The budget for the film was approximately $4,500,000. Because the film contained myriad themes and genres it was difficult to find a distributor. This was because it is difficult to market a film with no real, true theme. (Finally, Newmarket Films accepted to be the distributor.) To counteract this, the film was shown to different ‘circuits’ of cinema. The domestic total gross of the film was $517,375. In its opening weekend in the UK it made a total of £191,348.
http://www.totalfilm.com/reviews/cinema/donnie-darko - This is a good summary of Donnie Darko and gives a good review on the film. It also states some points that are key to understanding why the film has so many interpretations.
Here’s the article…
‘America is covered in flakes of scalp right now. It has been since Richard Kelly's head-scratcher of a debut, Donnie Darko, revealed itself at Sundance 2001. Some viewers dismissed it. Others proclaimed it a masterpiece. Most huddled protectively on the fence. All, however, agreed on one thing: boy, was it a headfuck.
Set in a suburban any-town in 1988, it follows the eponymous teen (Jake Gyllenhaal, mesmerizing) through 28 very strange days. Donnie is troubled. Donnie is on medication. Donnie is seeing a shrink (Katharine Ross). Donnie is also seeing, rather worryingly, a malevolent six-foot-tall rabbit called Frank, who swings by to warn of the world's imminent demise. It's because of one such visit that Master Darko fortuitously eludes death, the baleful bunny luring him out of his house just as a jet engine crashes onto his bed.
Thing is, no one knows where it came from or what happened to the plane that birthed it. And that's just the beginning of this bizarre adventure: Donnie's begun seeing liquid timelines shimmering from people's
(2001)
RICHARD KELLY
Donnie Darko was originally screened at the Sundance festival in the US. It was screened as an ‘Indie, art-house’ film. It was released on 25th October 2002 in the UK. The budget for the film was approximately $4,500,000. Because the film contained myriad themes and genres it was difficult to find a distributor. This was because it is difficult to market a film with no real, true theme. (Finally, Newmarket Films accepted to be the distributor.) To counteract this, the film was shown to different ‘circuits’ of cinema. The domestic total gross of the film was $517,375. In its opening weekend in the UK it made a total of £191,348.
http://www.totalfilm.com/reviews/cinema/donnie-darko - This is a good summary of Donnie Darko and gives a good review on the film. It also states some points that are key to understanding why the film has so many interpretations.
Here’s the article…
‘America is covered in flakes of scalp right now. It has been since Richard Kelly's head-scratcher of a debut, Donnie Darko, revealed itself at Sundance 2001. Some viewers dismissed it. Others proclaimed it a masterpiece. Most huddled protectively on the fence. All, however, agreed on one thing: boy, was it a headfuck.
Set in a suburban any-town in 1988, it follows the eponymous teen (Jake Gyllenhaal, mesmerizing) through 28 very strange days. Donnie is troubled. Donnie is on medication. Donnie is seeing a shrink (Katharine Ross). Donnie is also seeing, rather worryingly, a malevolent six-foot-tall rabbit called Frank, who swings by to warn of the world's imminent demise. It's because of one such visit that Master Darko fortuitously eludes death, the baleful bunny luring him out of his house just as a jet engine crashes onto his bed.
Thing is, no one knows where it came from or what happened to the plane that birthed it. And that's just the beginning of this bizarre adventure: Donnie's begun seeing liquid timelines shimmering from people's