Richard Kelly

...Blade Runner but as far as intricate storytelling then it is on a par with recent directional debuts such as Christopher Nolan's Memento and Richard Kelly's Donnie Darko. Much like the aforementioned it takes the genre to new levels, often...

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...instantly cause someone they don't know to drop dead - came not on the page, but on TV. "As a bunch of attorneys have informed me, I am not allowed to exploit the name of a certain television program to help promote the movie," Kelly said.

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Though Kelly hit instant cult favorite status with Donnie Darko, which he wrote and directed, he does not command the same adoration here. He clutters the central point with numerous subplots and miscellaneous characters and raises...

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...open. "I don't even know if [Summit Entertainment] would ever be interested in someone like me. I'm certainly keeping an open mind," Kelly said. If he sticks to his guns on what he said, "The Box" will be the last "very personal... straight...

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Review of "The Box" Between "Donnie Darko," "Southland Tales" and now "The Box," Newport News native Richard Kelly is becoming the cinematic poet laureate of suburban Virginia, in all its drab monotony and sneaking sense that something's...

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...The Rock for a day and I could make twice that by opening a kissing booth in Times Square. I can't help but root for Kelly, though. His movies are unapologetically ragged, but they can also be wonderfully strange, and they're always...

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A common critical complaint about Kelly's films is that they simply try to pack in too much, overwhelming the viewer instead of engaging him. Kelly understands that criticism, particularly after the resounding failure of the endlessly...

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...in that piece. Hard to believe that was ten years ago. Because of that article, by the time I met Richard at Sundance, I felt some kinship to him. The difference, of course, was that "Darko" had gotten picked up and produced, and it...

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...religious motifs and a dab of existentialism. Oh, there's also a lot of nose bleeding. The writer-director is Richard Kelly, whose 2001 sci-fi mystery "Donnie Darko" achieved cult status. It seems he's going that way again, only this...

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...Henry-style gotcha ending, Matheson's story is perfect for "The Twilight Zone." But when Kelly reaches that surprise climax from the short story, he's sadly just getting started. Diaz and Marsden play Norma and Arthur Lewis, a Virginia...

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