Donnie Darko with Maris Kreizman
You Are Good
Alex Steed
4.8 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 26 March 2025
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
Some people are just born with tragedy in their blood. In which we discuss the 1980s, existentialism, nonconformity and Donnie Darko with our dear friend Maris Kreizman.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello you. |
| 0:09.9 | Welcome to You Are Good, a feelings podcast about movies. |
| 0:13.6 | Today, we are talking about Donnie Darko, |
| 0:16.3 | or talking about it with our great friend, Maris Christman. |
| 0:19.0 | I'm one of your hosts, Alex Steed, and I will |
| 0:21.5 | soon be joined by my Marvelous co-host, Sarah Marshall. You Are Good is a feelings podcast about |
| 0:28.8 | movies, as I said, up top. We're not critics. We're not here to offer the definitive |
| 0:35.8 | critical take or explanation of your favorite films. |
| 0:39.9 | We are watching these movies and we're saying, what does this speak to in me when it comes |
| 0:45.3 | to thinking about who and how I am in the world? |
| 0:49.5 | Donnie Darko, if you are not familiar, is the 2001 American science fiction psychological thriller film |
| 0:57.7 | written and directed by Richard Kelly and produced by Flower Films. |
| 1:01.3 | Thank you so much to our friends at Wikipedia.org for providing such a concise explanation. |
| 1:06.3 | It serves Jake Gyllenhaal, Jenna Malone, Drew Barrymore, Mary MacDonald, Catherine Ross, Patrick Swayze, |
| 1:12.6 | and Noah Wiley. It's set in October 1988, and stuff happens. We'll talk about all that stuff |
| 1:17.7 | in this very episode. Maris Kreiseman is an essayist and critic with a biweekly column at Lit Hub, |
| 1:23.9 | whose work appeared in the New York Times, New York Magazine, the LA Times, |
| 1:29.6 | Vanity Fair, The Atlantic, and more. |
| 1:32.4 | She also has a newsletter called The Marys Review. |
| 1:34.8 | She also has a new book, a debut essay collection, called I Want to Burn This Place Down. |
| 1:41.3 | Love Maris. We love Maris. |
| 1:42.8 | She's been here before for a bonus episode. I believe |
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