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There's only so long he can keep playing himself before everyone loses interest.

15 years ago, the director of Donnie Darko destroyed his own career

Dwayne Johnson plays unusual (for him) role in "Southland Tales."

So begins Southland Tales, the wildly ambitious second film from writer/director Richard Kelly.  Kelly’s three films ( Donnie Darko, Southland Tales, The Box) all share a unique sensibility, featuring outsider characters struggling to exist within a mundane normal in the foreground, with the very nature of existence and reality up for the debate against the margins.  In these works, Kelly frequently uses the element of water, and the concept of time, as the shades he colors with.  Though his work is more structured than that of David Lynch, he operates within a similar space wh...

Image zoom After first-time filmmaker Richard Kelly's brilliant-but-strange 2001 movie Donnie Darko fizzled at the box office, another director might have followed it with something more obviously appetizing to Joe Public. Instead, Kelly doubled down on the weirdness and made Southland Tales. A sprawling sort-of post-apocalyptic science-fiction epic, the film starred Dwayne Johnson as a movie star named Boxer Santaros who writes a screenplay with Sarah Michelle Gellar's porn star Krista Now, which foretells the end of the world. Kelly's deep bench cast included Seann William Scott (portrayi...