“Do you believe in time travel?” 🐰
A two day event!
Be here when DONNIE DARKO writer/director Richard Kelly steps out of a wormhole and onto our stage for a weekend of mind-bending cinema, live music, and answers to all the burning questions you’ve had since 2001!
In addition to an appearance by Richard Kelly, this event also features the exciting return of MULHOLLAND DRIVE singer Rebekah Del Rio, who will be performing a LIVE musical rendition of her tracks off the 2006 SOUTHLAND TALES soundtrack, as well as a few other surprises.
Rush tickets to DONNIE DARKO are still available:
Get tickets HERE.
ITINERARY:
Evening #1 (6:30pm FRIDAY August 11, 2023):
• An intimate performance by Rebekah Del Rio (6:30 pm) featuring a performance of her tracks from the SOUTHLAND TALES soundtrack as well as personal work
• A screening of the Cannes Film Festival Cut of SOUTHLAND TALES
• A post-show Q&A session with Rebekah Del Rio
• Fan meet-and-greet in our lobby
Evening #2 (7:00pm SATURDAY August 12, 2023):
• A screening of DONNIE DARKO (7:00 pm)
• A post-show Q&A with writer/director Richard Kelly
• A complimentary autograph session and meet-and-greet with the director
About DONNIE DARKO (2001):
Restored in beautiful 4K!
Fifteen years before Stranger Things combined science-fiction, Spielbergian touches and 80s nostalgia to much acclaim, Richard Kelly set the template – and the high-water mark – with his debut feature, Donnie Darko. Initially beset with distribution problems, it would slowly find its audience and emerge as arguably the first cult classic of the new millennium.
Donnie is a troubled high school student: in therapy, prone to sleepwalking and in possession of an imaginary friend, a six-foot rabbit named Frank, who tells him the world is going to end in 28 days, 06 hours, 42 minutes and 12 seconds. During that time he will navigate teenage life, narrowly avoid death in the form of a falling jet engine, follow Frank’s maladjusted instructions and try to maintain the space-time continuum.
Described by its director as “The Catcher in the Rye as told by Philip K. Dick”, Donnie Darko combines an eye-catching, eclectic cast – pre-stardom Jake and Maggie Gyllenhaal, heartthrob Patrick Swayze, former child star Drew Barrymore, Oscar nominees Mary McDonnell and Katharine Ross, and television favourite Noah Wyle – and an evocative soundtrack of 80s classics by Echo and the Bunnymen, Tears for Fears and Duran Duran.
About SOUTHLAND TALES (2006):
NOTE: We will be screening the director’s preferred “Cannes Cut”, which includes 15 minutes of extra scenes cut for theatrical release.
In 2001, writer/director Richard Kelly achieved cult status with Donnie Darko, an assured debut feature exploring deep existential questions through the lens of 80s nostalgia. Five years later, he followed up with a more ambitious and even more beguiling sophomore effort, in which forces of totalitarianism and anarchism collide against the backdrop of a post-apocalyptic, near-future world – the beguiling and baffling Southland Tales.
Los Angeles, 2008. As the city stands on the brink of social, economic and environmental chaos, the fates of an eclectic set of characters – including an amnesia-stricken action star (Dwayne Johnson, the Fast & Furious series), an adult film star developing her own reality TV project (Sarah Michelle Gellar, Cruel Intentions) and a police officer whose identity has split in two (Seann William Scott, TV’s Lethal Weapon) – intertwine with each other and with the whole of humanity.
A darkly comic futuristic epic that speaks as presciently to our turbulent times as it did to the American socio-political climate in 2006, Southland Tales receives a fresh – and timely – lease of life with this new, director-approved restoration.
