Whenever you take a foreign cinema class at film school, you’ll be show the lofty titles that once played the fanciest of art houses in major cities. These are noble productions that made audiences feel like they needed to dress up for a screening. They expected to feel illuminated by deep meaningful productions about the human factor. They wanted real butter on their popcorn because nothing would be artificial on the silver screen as they read subtitles. When it came to the selection from Japan, your professor would make the hard choice of which Akira Kurosawa film would be put on the syllabus. Odds are it would be
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Donnie Darko Hits 4K Blu-ray With a Limited Edition Collector s Set
Fans of the 2001 sci-fi cult classic film Donnie Darko starring Jake Gyllenhaal can finally add it to their 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray collection. The release comes from Arrow Video, who have packaged it in one of their Limited Edition sets for collectors.
The Donnie Darko limited edition set includes 4K restorations of both the theatrical and director s cut of the films, which were created under the supervision of director Richard Kelly and cinematographer Steven Poster. It also includes a 100-page hardcover book, a double-sided fold-out poster, six double-sided collector s postcards, and special packaging with a reversible sleeve featuring original and new artwork by Luke Preece.
“We were talking about how it would be to make a horror film that we can write quickly, shoot quickly and release quickly,” Paco Plaza remembers when we ask how his and co-creator Jaume Balagueró’s zombie horror tale
[REC] came to be unleashed on viewers back in 2007. “Jaume and me met when we made short films in the Nineties and we were missing that feeling of freedom, of immediateness, of the craziness of doing something just for the fun of it. I think that was the spark that blew our minds to say: ‘Okay, let’s do a zombie film. Just very cheap. Let’s shoot it really quick’. I think it came from trying to get back that feeling of freedom.”
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When you land a smash indie hit like
Donnie Darko, the world canât help but take notice. A mind-bender like the iconic Jake Gyllenhaal-starring sci-fi thriller almost always makes waves for a talent like writer/director Richard Kelly, and when Hollywood came aâcallin in one particular instance, we could have seen an alternate
X-Men sequel happen with his talents applied that very project. However, there was a huge lesson that Kelly learned when it came time for him to turn down that rather promising gig: when you have a movie as weird as