Donnie Darko

Tried to watch the Director’s Cut but had to to turn it off pretty quickly once I saw that it doesn’t use The Killing Moon in that opening sequence. Felt wrong.  It’s a miracle that this fusion of sci-fi, drama, and comedy works as well as it does. All these little disconnected weird pockets of plot, backgrounded by this unintelligible time travel stuff should make for a hodge-podge disaster, but because all of it is thematically linked, it’s this bizarre little masterpiece that’s just as compelling as it always has been.  Happy Halloween!