Summary
The director's cut DVD, presented in a letterboxed edition, doesn't duplicate features from the original release, either. A new commentary track has [Richard Kelly] jabbering with Clerks auteur Kevin Smith, while the second disc includes a 53-minute diary of the low-budget, 28-day shooting schedule in July 2000, with additional knowledge imparted by director of photography Steven Poster on an optional track ("Richard would say, 'This is what I want to do," and I would say to him, 'I'm sure we could do that but it'll take 25 minutes to set it up.' This is the way you get a director to say, 'Well, let's do something different.'"); a one-minute trailer for the film's 2004 theatrical reissue; an eight-minute segment comparing the detailed storyboards to the finished scenes; and the 28-minute "They Made Me Do It, Too" puff piece-tribute to the movie's British admirers. The real eye-opening extra is "No. 1 Fan: A Darkomentary," a funny-creepy profile of demented [Donnie Darko] nut Darryl Donaldson; watching this guy stalk Kelly and his co-stars at a comic-book convention, you realize that Donaldson should be watched, too. Very closely.
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Donnie Darko: Director's Cut
Ignored and misunderstood by 2001 audiences, this quirky teen Armageddon comedy-drama understandably acquired a cult following on home video, with fans lapping up the layered subtex...
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