Donnie Darko

Director: Richard Kelly

2001 / 113min / DCP

The defining midnight movie of the 21st century, Kelly’s down-the-rabbit-hole mind-bender is a journey through space and time firmly set in a Virginia suburb during the lead-up to the 1988 presidential election, featuring Jake Gyllenhaal as a gloomy teenaged outcast who finds himself under the influence of a six-foot-tall rabbit who encourages him to ever-bolder acts of vandalism in preparation for the end of the world. Lushly swathed in period tunes and featuring, in the form of Patrick Swayze, an impeccable period performer.