15th Anniversary 4K Digital Restoration
Friday, April 14 | 8 pm
Saturday, April 15 | 8 pm
Sunday, April 16 | 2 pm
The “quintessential cult-movie of the past 20 years,” twenty-six year-old Richard Kelly’s paranoid, dreamlike debut-feature found only modest success in its limited fall 2001 release. But over time, growing word-of-mouth and a passionate following among young cinephiles turned the film into a midnight-movie sensation that ran for two consecutive years at New York’s Pioneer Theater. Invoking his late-80s suburban setting with a mixture of erudite pop-culture nostalgia and free-floating Lynchian dread, Kelly weaves an enigmatic tale of falling jet engines, man-sized rabbits, and quantum wormholes. Struggling to make sense of it all is teenage anti-hero Donnie Darko (Jake Gyllenhaal), who may be a homicidal lunatic, a dead man, a time-travelling messiah, or some combination of the three. Backed by a note-perfect new-wave soundtrack, featuring Echo & the Bunnymen and Tears for Fears, Donnie Darko is a haunting, moving, utterly unclassifiable cinematic experience. It is our sincere pleasure to present the newly restored Donnie Darko in pristine 4K.
Director Richard Kelly 2001 USA 113 minutes R (for language, some drug use and violence) 4K DCP
