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Stella Artois Screen Presents Donnie Darko
This summer Stella Artois Screen will be hosting a unique screening of Donnie Darko.
Set in London's beautiful Royal Kensington Gardens, the film will be accompanied by a specially-commissioned live performance of the soundtrack by the National Symphony Orchestra (for which a new instrument, christened "the darkophone", has been created), and a finale performance of Mad World by the soundtrack's composer, Michael Andrews. There will also be an exclusive pre-recorded introduction by Richard Kelly to open the proceedings.
On September 3 2005 the Stella Artois Screen season will continue with an atmospheric screening of Pulp fiction at Heaton Park in Manchester.
For more information visit stellascreen.co.uk.
An enigmatic film
Donnie Darko - combining concepts of time travel, parallel universes and a grim six-foot rabbit heralding the end of the world - was never going to be an easy one to sell to distributors, but it has endured to become a cult classic, despite an initially slow reception after its release in 2001.
Amazingly, the film is writer/director Richard Kelly's debut feature, released when he was just 26, and at a time when he had little apart from a badly-acted graduate film (by his own admission "completely campy") as a means of selling himself. Still, good films have a way of finding their audience, and Donnie Darko's enigmatic ability to throw up as many questions as it does answers continues to fuel a diehard fan base to this day.
Reviews upon its 2002 British release were positive, if bemused: Peter Bradshaw in the Guardian called it "refreshingly different"; Philip French in the Observer said it was "puzzling and oddly satisfying"; but word-of-mouth spread and within the first two weeks the film had made half as much money as its entire American run did, and eventually spread from London to cinemas across the UK. Donnie Darko's soundtrack also spurned a surprise British Christmas number one in 2003, with a cover of Tears for Fears' Mad World, performed by Gary Jules (the original choice of the closing song, U2's MLK, was scrapped due to difficulties obtaining the rights).
See Donnie Darko in the dark
In association with Stella Artois Screen we are offering you the chance to win tickets to this special event. First prize is a pair of VIP entry tickets and a gala picnic hamper. We also have five pairs of tickets to give away to runners-up. The screening will take place on August 6, and you must be aged 18 or over to attend. For your chance to win simply answer the questions below.
This summer Stella Artois Screen will be hosting a unique screening of Donnie Darko.
Set in London's beautiful Royal Kensington Gardens, the film will be accompanied by a specially-commissioned live performance of the soundtrack by the National Symphony Orchestra (for which a new instrument, christened "the darkophone", has been created), and a finale performance of Mad World by the soundtrack's composer, Michael Andrews. There will also be an exclusive pre-recorded introduction by Richard Kelly to open the proceedings.
On September 3 2005 the Stella Artois Screen season will continue with an atmospheric screening of Pulp fiction at Heaton Park in Manchester.
For more information visit stellascreen.co.uk.
An enigmatic film
Donnie Darko - combining concepts of time travel, parallel universes and a grim six-foot rabbit heralding the end of the world - was never going to be an easy one to sell to distributors, but it has endured to become a cult classic, despite an initially slow reception after its release in 2001.
Amazingly, the film is writer/director Richard Kelly's debut feature, released when he was just 26, and at a time when he had little apart from a badly-acted graduate film (by his own admission "completely campy") as a means of selling himself. Still, good films have a way of finding their audience, and Donnie Darko's enigmatic ability to throw up as many questions as it does answers continues to fuel a diehard fan base to this day.
Reviews upon its 2002 British release were positive, if bemused: Peter Bradshaw in the Guardian called it "refreshingly different"; Philip French in the Observer said it was "puzzling and oddly satisfying"; but word-of-mouth spread and within the first two weeks the film had made half as much money as its entire American run did, and eventually spread from London to cinemas across the UK. Donnie Darko's soundtrack also spurned a surprise British Christmas number one in 2003, with a cover of Tears for Fears' Mad World, performed by Gary Jules (the original choice of the closing song, U2's MLK, was scrapped due to difficulties obtaining the rights).
See Donnie Darko in the dark
In association with Stella Artois Screen we are offering you the chance to win tickets to this special event. First prize is a pair of VIP entry tickets and a gala picnic hamper. We also have five pairs of tickets to give away to runners-up. The screening will take place on August 6, and you must be aged 18 or over to attend. For your chance to win simply answer the questions below.
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Guess I'll have to pick it up on DVD if I wanna see it now