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Pittsburgh City Paper speaks with Richard Kelly, who visits Pittsburgh for a double feature of Donnie Darko and his second film, Southland Tales, at Row House Hollywood in Dormont.

More than 20 years after its release, Richard Kelly is often asked how Donnie Darko — his 2001 sci-fi film anchored by a six-foot-tall rabbit — got made. On the face of it, it’s an origin story as unusual as the film, where, midway through, Kelly unexpectedly finds himself on the set of Charlie’s Angels…