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	OZ CINEMA.com : People : Alex Proyas
		While Alex Proyas may have seemingly exploded onto the international cinema scene out of nowhere, his meteoric rise to directorial stardom has followed a long and distinguished career in Australia.
		Alex Proyas is one of Australia's most talented visionaries, a man whose creative energy has spawned the creation of entire worlds, entire fictional diegeses, and whose work has become trademarked by its fast-paced visceral qualities.
		Alex Proyas' next film, to be released in Australia this August, is one of the most eagerly awaited films of the year.
	www.ozcinema.com /people/p/alexproyas.html (787 words)

	Shoot: Alex Proyas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Proyas is interesting: In addition to helming spots through bicoastal/ international Chelsea Pictures (he is the main director at the shop's Sydney office), he has directed several films, including Spirits of the Air (1987), Gremlins of the Clouds ('89), The Crow ('94) and Dark City ('98).
		Proyas was born in Egypt but moved to Sydney at the age of three, and his path was clear from the start.
		Proyas' early departure from film school back in '84 may have been a relief to the staff: "I was not known as a cooperative individual at film school," he recounts.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0DUO/is_40_41/ai_66452750 (1199 words)

	Alex Proyas
		Dark City is a haunting, surreal, and stunning cinematic achievement from Alex Proyas: an amalgam of German expressionism, science fiction and film noir.
		John Murdoch (Rufus Sewell) awakens at midnight in a bathtub, paranoid and amnesiac, with a primitive instrument on the floor, a bloody knife on the table, and a woman's corpse behind the bed.
		Proyas' synthesis of film genres and directorial styles results in a film that is remarkably adept and original, despite its derivation from established, often insipidly imitated archetypes.
	www.filmref.com /directors/dirpages/proyas.html (344 words)

	INKPOT MOVIE REVIEWS: DARK CITY (WenQing)
		Alex Proyas also directs DARK CITY, and he revisits these themes about the essence of humanity, love, memory and man's ability to transcend all odds, all set within the gripping story-line of a fantasy/sci-fi world.
		Proyas uses bold and broad strokes of his imagery to paint a striking and vivid city, where it's always darkest, gloomiest, claustrophobic and always night-time.
		Proyas does this in such a sensitive and touching way, that at the film's conclusion (which I shouldn't reveal), we are filled with almost exhilaration, as the dark, despairing city is swept away.
	inkpot.com /film/darkcity.html (1096 words)

	Dark City (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Proyas and his co-screenwriters, Lem Dobbs and David S. Goyer, use dream logic to pursue their hero through the mystery of his own life.
		Proyas directed ``The Crow'' (1994), the visually inspired film that was almost doomed when its star, Brandon Lee, was killed in an accident.
		Proyas' background was in music videos, usually an ominous sign, but not here: His film shows the obsessive concentration on visual detail that's the hallmark of directors who make films that are short and expensive.
	www.geocities.com /Paris/Palais/8334/darkcity.html (2957 words)

	Alex Proyas Biography @ Filmbug
		Alex Proyas is a member of the latest generation of Australian filmmakers to burst upon the world since the belated Australian New Wave of the Seventies was inaugurated by the international success Peter Weir's aptly named The Last Wave.
		In 1987 Proyas made his debut feature, a post-apocalyptic western called Spirits of the Air, Gremlins of the Clouds, which also won festival awards but was not distributed in the United States.
		Proyas is currently writing a screenplay for a comedy set in the real world that he is enjoying as a rest after the two years of sitting in rooms with writers creating the rules for the completely invented world of Dark City and ways of communicating them economically to an audience.
	www.filmbug.com /db/733-9 (631 words)

	Alex Proyas @ Filmbug
		Alex Proyas first came to the attention of cinema audiences around the world in 1994 with his film adaptation of the cutting-edge comic book The Crow, which was followed by the critically acclaimed science fiction drama Dark City in 1998.
		Proyas also co-wrote Garage Days, which is about an aspiring garage band, drawing upon his experiences as a rock music video director.
		Proyas lives and works in Sydney where his production company Mystery Clock Cinema is developing numerous projects for him to direct and produce for film and television.
	www.filmbug.com /db/733 (176 words)

	MTV.com - Movies - Alex Proyas
		Alex Proyas is an innovative and versatile filmmaker, with a penchant for large-scale science fiction productions.
		Maintaining prolific careers in both commercials and feature films, Proyas often uses the smaller venue as a testing ground for his big screen imagination, an inspired move that has rendered him a master of visual imagery.
		After The Crow, Proyas continued cultivating a script he had begun in 1990, a paranoid thriller (soon to be called Dark City) based on both science fiction literature and hard-boiled detective stories.
	www.mtv.com /movies/person/94848/bio.jhtml (703 words)

	eFilmCritic - Alex Proyas - Director, Dark City
		Alex Proyas hates to talk about certain things: His origins as a music video and commercials maker; the death of his dear friend Brandon Lee during The Crow shoot; Dark City's budget; and Kiefer Sutherland being busted outside a famous Sydney brothel.
		Proyas makes it clear from the beginning: Dark City is his movie, made his way or the highway.
		PROYAS: I had been offered a number of films before it, and it wasn't like it was the first thing that came along.
	efilmcritic.com /hbs.cgi?feature=54 (1630 words)

	Egobrowser: Alex Proyas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Alex Proyas has fulfilled his five year dream to bring Asimov's I, Robot to the screen.
		Alex Proyas does a great job alternating between the multiple themes, while always keeping a close eye on character and relationship.
		Alex Proyas does not indulge in the near future in such mindless fares.
	blog.outer-court.com /egobrowser/Alex-Proyas.html (153 words)

	Animal Logic: Commercials - Metroid Prime (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Alex Proyas' first commercial following the release of Garage Days is a Nintendo cinema spot ‘Metroid Prime’ for Leo Burnett, Chicago.
		Describing the convergence of film and TVC values on the project, Nalbandian says “Proyas’ commercials and other TVCs at this level are more like short films. Although they advertise a product, it’s ultimately their ability to entertain that captures the audience’s imagination”.
		There was real trust in terms of the confidence Alex (Proyas) has that we do quality work”.
	www.animallogic.com /commercials/metroidprime (459 words)

	MJ Forums -> Alex Proyas
		I'm currently analysing the films he has chosen, comparing them to his own work, trying to understand the ideology inherent, but unfortunately the understanding of the man behind the films is being difficult by the inability of getting hold of some of his films.
		What I am trying to do is to understand what where the elements in those films that captured his interest, not what actually influenced him, but what he may admire; therefore, I am trying to get hold of his work so that I can actually understand the ideology behind his work and his preferences.
		Proyas also has his own website, under the name of his production company: www.mysteryclock.com (requires a Flash player).
	www.moviejustice.com /forums/index.php?showtopic=4404 (1154 words)

	DARK CITY - Production Notes...CinemaReview.com....Movie Reviews, Movie Contents, Moviegoer Opinions and Much More!
		A lover of science fiction in his youth, Proyas had long been intrigued by one of the genre's wilder branches, in which the very nature of reality is called into question.
		After meeting with Alex Proyas and reading the script, Sewell accepted the role of John Murdoch, which was a departure from the kinds of film roles he has played to date.
		Alex Proyas says he was "blessed" to have William Hurt playing the impassive and meticulous, but not unemotional, Inspector Bumstead.
	www.cinemareview.com /production.asp?prodid=122 (1955 words)

	Chelsea Pictures: Alex Proyas
		Alex Proyas is one of the industry's premier visionaries.
		Alex entered Film School in Australia at the age of 17.
		In 1993 Alex directed the box office hit "The Crow", one of the legendary tales of filmmaking dedication, while fully exhibiting his power of film imagination.
	www.chelsea.com /directors.php?fullname=Alex+Proyas (494 words)

	Alex Proyas Movies & Movie News! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Below is a complete list of all of the Alex Proyas movies alphabetically that we have in our database.
		Alex Proyas ("The Crow"), directs this futuristic thriller about a man waking up to find he is wanted for brutal murders he doesn't remember.
		I Robot Sequel Cometh : Dark Horizons is reporting a sequel cometh for Alex Proyas "I Robot".
	www.moviesonline.ca /celeb-Alex-Proyas.htm (577 words)

	SPLICEDwire \| Alex Proyas interview for "Dark City" (2002)
		On February 27, his latest film, "Dark City," opened nationwide and again Proyas' dusky vision is the centerpiece of a labyrinthine re-working of familiar flavors.
		Combining a Kafkaesque storyline -- about a man with no memory being hunted through a constantly morphing city -- with elements of "Metropolis" and "City of Lost Children," Proyas' pet project (he wrote and directed) is like a high-gloss Terry Gilliam ("Brazil") picture -- ominous, Gothic and wonderfully complex.
		I met Proyas for breakfast in San Francisco last month.
	www.splicedonline.com /features/proyas.html (3421 words)

	Dark City . The Boston Phoenix . 03-02-98
		The serial-killer trail is a red herring and a gratuitous one -- it allows Proyas to display, Seven-like, the slashed, nude corpses of dead call girls and put poor Emma in less than spine-tingling endangerment, but it's really the least of the movie's problems.
		That they don't consider using elements of so-called high culture is disturbing, but then in the age of postmoderism (and this film presents one of the more coherent definitions of that term) such notions of art's transcendence are merely quaint.
		Proyas has, perhaps unconsciously, created an allegory of his own industry, a manufacturer of banal dreams, emotional clichés, hackneyed artifacts, and high-tech hoo-hah designed to conceal the vacancy within and without.
	www.filmvault.com /filmvault/boston/d/darkcity1.html (596 words)

	SCIFI.COM \| EXPOSURE: Groping (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Groping, one of Alex Proyas’ earliest films, is a dark and violent tale of urban alienation.
		Born in Egypt, Alex moved to Australia when he was 3 years old.
		During School, Alex formed his own production company, for which he produced numerous music videos and commercials.
	www.scifi.com /exposure/frameup/groping.html (155 words)

	Alex Proyas a sebastien johnson's website
		Alex Proyas is a member of the latest generation of Australian filmmakers to burst upon the scene since the New Wave of the `70s.
		With this site I'm trying to do a giant database on Alex Proyas stuff + all the recent news about is next movies and more.
		So if you want to do a school project or just see some info about Alex Proyas you are at the right place.
	www.dsuper.net /~surface/sjohnson/aproyas.htm (455 words)

	JoBlo reviews the movie "Dark City"
		Alex Proyas' visionary follow-up to his big hit from 1994, THE CROW (9/10), is a stunning success on all counts of movie-making magic.
		Alex Proyas has crafted a fascinating story with compelling twists and interesting characters (well-played by a terrific cast) that holds up with the best science fiction of both print and screen.
		Dariusz Wolski (Proyas' cinematographer for "The Crow") scores a personal triumph with his brilliant work here, as do the people in charge of the effects- what a revolutionary use of F/X (both the tuning and at the end).
	www.joblo.com /darkcity.htm (2697 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Dark City -- Alex Proyas - DVD - Wide Screen / Pan & Scan
		Alex Proyas (The Crow) directed this noir-styled futuristic thriller, scripted by Proyas, Lem Dobbs (Kafka), and David S. Goyer (The Puppet Masters).
		Separated from his wife Emma (Jennifer Connelly), amnesiac John Murdoch (Rufus Sewell) awakens alone in a strange hotel to learn he is wanted for a series of brutal killings -- but he can't remember if he did or didn't commit these murders.
		Rufus Sewell commented on the Underworld: "When Alex first sent me the sketches for that set, I was more excited than I had been when I read the script.
	video.barnesandnoble.com /search/product.asp?userid=2XVMR4FUX9&EAN=794043465727&FRM=0&itm=1 (513 words)

	Alex Proyas
		Born in Egypt, Alex Proyas' family moved to Sydney, Australia when he was just three.
		After filming several more shorts, Proyas directed, wrote and produced his first full length feature, Spirits of the Air, Gremlins of the Clouds (1989), which was nominated for two Australian Film Institute Awards.
		Proyas lives and works in Sydney, Australia, where his production company, Mystery Clock Cinema is developing numerous projects for both film and television.
	www.tribute.ca /bio.asp?id=10909 (315 words)

	Director Alex Proyas - MoviesOnline (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Below is a complete list of all of the Alex Proyas movies in our database.
		Dark City : Alex Proyas ("The Crow"), directs this futuristic thriller about a man waking up to find he is wanted for brutal murders he doesn't remember.
		Empire Online talks I,Robot with Wil Smith : The first trailers for the Alex Proyas movie, in which technophobe cop Will Smith stumbles upon an apparent conspiracy by robots to take over the world, despite inbuilt laws preventing them from harming humans, were mostly...
	www.moviesonline.ca /details_director.php?director=18 (1177 words)

	Optimus Prime Films \| Directors \| Alex Proyas
		Alex Proyas, another director with only a few films under his belt.
		Pretty standard comic book stuff, what makes this film special is the way that director Alex Proyas shows us the story.
		I wanted the audience to be as clueless as the hero, and as he finds out what's going on so does the audience.
	optimusfilms.20m.com /directors/ap (833 words)

	Another sci-fi movie for Alex Proyas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Alex Proyas has produced some excellent work, and in particular the wonderful Dark City, that is a fantastic movie.
		On the other hand, Proyas DID direct "I, Robot." Maybe not entirely his fault, but I wonder what he would've done had it not been tailored into a Will Smith vehicle.
		Proyas has continually evolved his visual style and it sounds like an interesting story.
	www.themovieblog.com /archives/2005/02/another_scifi_movie_for_alex_proyas.html (452 words)

	DVD Talk Forum - Alex Proyas to direct supernatural movie "Knowing"
		The project is the story of a man who unearths a 1950s time capsule with children's drawings predicting the future.
		One set of drawings depicts horrible events that already have come true, but one of the events has not occurred, and the man sets out to prevent it from happening.
		02-18-05 11:11 AM If Proyas is in the form he was with Dark City and The Crow, this could be quite a stunning movie.
	www.dvdtalk.com /forum/printthread.php?t=410285 (600 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - I, Robot -- Alex Proyas - DVD - Wide Screen / Subtitled / Sensormatic / Dubbed
		Once certain critical revelations are made, Proyas switches into high gear; the pace picks up and I, Robot turns into a slam-bang action movie that taxes the ingenuity of special-effects wizards already challenged by mingling thousands of computer-generated robots with an equal number of humans.
		Aside from the fact that Smith seems to be exploiting his already established persona instead of portraying a new character, the film works surprisingly well, even though the "surprise" plot twist is telegraphed well in advance.
		Director Alex Proyas (Dark City, The Crow) helmed this sci-fi thriller inspired by the stories in Isaac Asimov's nine-story anthology of the same name.
	video.barnesandnoble.com /search/product.asp?ean=24543151906&userid=cC6V7bx9TE&frm=0&itm=1 (750 words)

	At the Movies: Alex Proyas: 'I, Robot'
		MARGARET: Alex Proyas might have had a bit of hiccup with his last film 'Garage Days', but he is riding high on the huge opening of 'I, Robot' in America last weekend.
		ALEX PROYAS: I wanted to make 'I, Robot'and I approached Fox with the idea of optioning the 'I, Robot' stories.
		ALEX PROYAS: Alan Tudyk who created Sonny, it's his performance you're seeing.
	www.abc.net.au /atthemovies/txt/s1157770.htm (486 words)

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