Kill Your Darlings (2013 film)
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| Directed by | John Krokidas |
| Screenplay by | John Krokidas Austin Bunn |
| Produced by | Michael Benaroya Rose Ganguzza John Krokidas Christine Vachon |
| Starring | Daniel Radcliffe Elizabeth Olsen Dane DeHaan Michael C. Hall |
| Cinematography | Reed Morano |
| Edited by | Brian A. Kates |
| Music by | Nico Muhly |
Production companies | Killer Films Benaroya Pictures |
| Distributed by | Future Film |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Kill Your Darlings is a film directed by John Krokidas, currently under production and slated for release in 2013.[1] The film had its world premiere at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival garnering positive first reactions.
Plot
David Kammerer's murder by Lucien Carr in 1944 draws together the great poets of the beat generation: Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs.
Cast
- Daniel Radcliffe as Allen Ginsberg
- Elizabeth Olsen as Edie Parker
- Dane DeHaan as Lucien Carr
- Michael C. Hall as David Kammerer
- Ben Foster as William Burroughs
- Jennifer Jason Leigh as Naomi Ginsberg
- David Cross as Louis Ginsberg
- Kyra Sedgwick as Marian Carr
- Jack Huston as Jack Kerouac
- David Rasche as Dean
- John Cullum as Professor Steeves
Production
In 2008, while performing the Broadway play Equus, Daniel Radcliffe auditioned and got the part of Allen Ginsberg. Radcliffe went on to film the last two Harry Potter movies, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2, and with him unavailable for filming, Chris Evans, Jesse Eisenberg, and Ben Whishaw were cast without Radcliffe. Shortly after, financing for the film fell through. When director John Krokidas started again with the film, he offered the role of Allen Ginsberg back to Radcliffe.
Release
Critical reception
Reviewing Kill Your Darlings after its showing at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2013, critic Damon Wise of The Guardian lauded the film for being "the real deal, a genuine attempt to source the beginning of America's first true literary counterculture of the 20th century." Kill Your Darlings, wrote Wise, "creates a true sense of energy and passion, for once eschewing the clacking of typewriter keys to show artists actually talking, devising, and ultimately daring each other to create and innovate. And though it begins as a murder-mystery, Kill Your Darlings may be best described as an intellectual moral maze, a story perfectly of its time and yet one that still resonates today." Wise awarded the film four out of five stars in its review.[2]
Justin Chang of Variety wrote, "A mysterious Beat Generation footnote is fleshed out with skilled performances, darkly poetic visuals and a vivid rendering of 1940s academia in "Kill Your Darlings." Directed with an assured sense of style that pushes against the narrow confines of its admittedly fascinating story, John Krokidas' first feature feels adventurous yet somewhat hemmed-in as it imagines a vortex of jealousy, obsession and murder that engulfed Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac in the early days of their literary revolution."[3]
Accolades
| Year | Award | Category/Recipient | Result | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | Palm Springs International Film Festival | Directors to Watch | Won | |
| 2013 Sundance Film Festival | Grand Jury Prize | Nominated |
References
- ^ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1311071/
- ^ Wise, Damon (January 20, 2013). "Sundance film festival 2013: Kill Your Darlings - first look review". The Guardian. Retrieved January 20, 2013.
{{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - ^ Chang, Justin (January 18, 2013). "Sundance film festival 2013: Kill Your Darlings - first look review". Variety. Retrieved January 18, 2013.
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