I'm not generally a fan of complicated, Flash-oriented Web sites, but the evocative page that's up for Donnie Darko is pretty nifty -- not least because some of the junk that it throws up on-screen actually resembles what you might see if your computer's video card was freaking out.

God bless Richard Kelly. I interviewed him a few years ago for a story about the original DVD release of his film (he hated the cover of the DVD, by the way) and he was already talking about what he'd like to see on an eventual Criterion Collection director's-cut release of it. That seemed unlikely -- and I wasn't a huge fan of his film -- but I admired his confidence and initiative. And now he may not be getting a Criterion spine number to call his own, but he is apparently getting a director's cut with new footage and FX. It premieres at the Seattle International Film Festival later this month and could, apparently, get a second-chacne theatrical release through Newmarket.

The theatrical release of Darko made only about $500,000 -- though it seemed to play in New York City for months and months -- but it's reportedly made $10 million on DVD. That pays for a lot of bunny suits.

According to Fangoria, Kelly is now working on The Box, a screenplay that he's co-writing with Eli Roth (Cabin Fever), who is set to direct. (It's based on a Richard Matheson short story.) Good move -- Kelly's introspection and SF ennui plus Roth's forthright genre histrionics sounds like a good time to me.

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