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Richard Kelly on Donnie Darko’s 15th Anniversary and Why He’s Not to Blame for That 2009 Sequel

MAD WORLD

Sixteen years after it was released in the shadow of 9/11, Richard Kelly’s haunting cult classic still feels ahead of its time. Here he looks back on its legacy—and its direct-to-video sequel.

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Arrow Films

Richard Kelly was just 25-years-old when he made his first film, 2001’s Donnie Darko, a melancholy and endlessly mysterious time-travel teen drama about a high-schooler (Jake

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