soxfandoug

This will definitely be a double dip for me. I can't wait!

Tyler_Durden

I'm most interested, since I'm one of the few who thought the film was "only" good with lots of potential, several missed opportunities and a couple of notable setbacks. The longer cut might be a considerable improvement, although I kind of doubt it.

glassdragon

niiice

Drop

Wow, I like that poster. Not as cool as the Frank bunnyhead one, but it works for the DC, especially with an ax-weilding Donnie.

Verbal Gorilla

I think that it will give the movie a differnt vibe for people who haven't seen it. I can't wait!

BlackBeauty92

DodgingCars

I was completely sober and I didn't understand it.

drjay

My ego demanded that I understand it, so after an hour-long conversation with the friend I watched it with, I got out my copy of A Brief History of Time and kind of made some real-life sense out of it. Then I watched with commentary and realized the director certainly had no sense of real physics, but oh well, I still love the movie.

Seantn

According to BoxOfficeMojo, this will be released on June 4th on 7 screens in Seattle. So if you live in Seattle....GO! Show them that people will see it , then maybe it'll get a wider release.

Jackskeleton

thought it was may 29th?

though a wider release is expected more towards summer so no need to get the pitch forks and picketing signs. New Markets got the cash now a days to do a wide release for a film.

Seantn

I think the 29th is when it is at the Seattle Film Festival. I might be wrong though.

Jackskeleton

think you are right about that

Seantn

I just found this....

According to MovieTickets.com, it starts playing on June 2nd in New York. BUT when I looked up on MovieTickets.com to see what theaters, it says that it doesn't start playing until July 23rd. Hmmmm......

Jackskeleton

interesting. they sure need to get orginized on this quickly as time just keeps on coming closer.

LiquidSky

Since the first release played here in Nashville, I'm hoping this cut will as well.

Daytripper

So, did anyone attend the show yesterday at the Seattle film festival? If so, can you post your review and thoughts?

Daytripper

First one I've seen, and it's GOOD!

Added footage gives 'Darko' new depth

By SEAN AXMAKER
SPECIAL TO THE POST-INTELLIGENCER

Donnie Darko (Jake Gyllenhaal) is an otherwise normal rebellious, angry kid who slumps and frumps his way through the confusion of his life. He just happens to have a little more confusion than most of us, much of it caused by visitations from a demonic looking 6-foot rabbit named Frank, who tells him that the world is going to end in 26 days.


MOVIE REVIEW
DONNIE DARKO: DIRECTOR'S CUT

DIRECTOR: Richard Kelly

CAST: Jake Gyllenhaal, Jena Malone,

Mary McDonnell, Holmes Osborne,

Drew Barrymore

RUNNING TIME: 133 minutes

RATING: R for language, some

drug use and violence

WHERE: Bella Bottega, East Valley 13, Grand Cinemas Alderwood, Uptown, Varsity

GRADE: A


In Richard Kelly's visually imaginative and intellectually challenging debut film, Donnie is a contemporary Holden Caulfield in a grim and glorious world of nightmares and dreams: jet engines fall from an empty sky and alternate realities and time travel are as present as teen angst and high school melodrama. At least they are to Donnie, who can suddenly see the fabric of fate in the ectoplasmic trajectories that lead us to our destiny.

But it's also a frustrating world in which fatuous platitudes are offered in place of practical advice, where censorship hangs over dedicated teachers like a sword of Damocles, and where teenagers aren't trusted to handle the complexities of the world, even through the mirror of literature and philosophy.

Fiction predicted reality perfectly. Distributors thought that young audiences wouldn't understand the film and gave it a disastrous release to an urban adult audience in 2001. It was DVD that transformed it from box office flop to home video cult hit, a veritable phenomenon among teens and tweens, who connect with its inarticulate hero and debate the film in chat rooms, discussion forums and fan Web sites.

Using the momentum from its home video success, the producers are relaunching the film, hoping to find the audience that eluded it the first time around and entice the converted into the theater with a big screen experience and an even denser cinematic presentation.

While 20 minutes of additional footage doesn't transform the film, it enriches the characters (tender new scenes between Donnie and his family makes the heady conclusion even more devastating) and gives the science fiction underpinnings a stronger philosophy (albeit one closer to Philip K. Dick than Stephen Hawking).

But even while it "explains" Donnie's odyssey more clearly, it paradoxically opens the film up to alternate interpretations. Whether you think the tangent universe of "Donnie Darko" is real, dreamed or a schizophrenic hallucination, the wonderfully weird trip leaves you with meaty questions, both metaphysical and moral, and a journey through time-space that is, if anything, even more philosophically invigorating and emotionally intense.

bsktballDude1

Sounds good...hopefully when it comes to theaters it will be in my area.

OldBoy

just...
can't...
wait...
for...
it...
to...
hit...
DVD!!
it will hit soon...right?????

riley_dude

I didnt see it in theatres but remember reading some great stuff about it so I bought the DVD and love the movie. If only audiences would give it a try, they might like it.
Maybe Jake's popularity will grow after Day After Tomorrow and people will go see him in D.D.

PopcornTreeCt

I give the movie a thumbs up for attempting to be philosophical it was still a jumbled mess. Hopefully the Directors Cut will make a little bit more sense.

Jackskeleton

screw dvd, Give me theater listings and times Stat!

cleaver

And I just bought the old DVD. Damn.

OldBoy

that's alright..i'm sure you didn't pay more than $10.00..so not too bad, right?

Daytripper

No big, it's not the same movie. Well, not exactly. The difference is the twenty minutes of deleted scenes incorporated back into the film (some of which weren't on the DVD as extras), upgraded special effects and more 80's songs thrown in on the soundtrack. Bring it on.