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	Dark City - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Dark City is a 1998 movie written by Alex Proyas, Lem Dobbs and David S. Goyer, and directed by Proyas.
		For instance, whenever the clock strikes midnight, everyone in the city falls asleep simultaneously, it is always night, and it seems to be impossible to leave the city.
		The overlying plot of the anime The Big O also features an isolated, noir-esque city, where virtually everyone suffers from amnesia, memories are possessed only by a few, and in the end it is revealed that the city is apparently some sort of experiment, ending and resetting itself every forty years.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dark_City_(1998) (1671 words)

	Dark City (1998) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Dark City's visual backgrounds enliven a difficult and incomprehensible plot to comprehend and the special effects create an astounding experience, traveling into a vortex of mankind's phantasm.
		DARK CITY is splendid viewing injected with a theme about the loss of identity and the destruction of individualism in order to create an ideal society.
		DARK CITY is a fine treat for the eyes and mind.
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	Jammer's Review: "Dark City" (1998) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Co-written and co-produced by Proyas, Dark City comes off like a carefully thought-out story tailored specifically for the styles and talents of a single director--rather than an urban thriller that happened to succeed because it was focused through a particular director's vision, the way The Crow seemed to be.
		Dark City's central character is a man named John Murdoch (Rufus Sewell) who wakes up one night with no memory, only to find that he is wanted for murder.
		The residents of this city are at the mercy of arbiters who have an agenda far beyond witnessing the typical, mundane human existence.
	www.st-hypertext.com /misc/movies/darkcity.html (891 words)

	MJ Movie Reviews - Dark City (1998) by Dan DeVore
		Dark City is one of the most remarkable, imaginative films I have seen in a long time.
		A citizen of Dark City may be a police officer one night and then the next be a taxi driver, all thanks to a memory injection from a syringe.
		Dark City is the kind of movie that stays with you and can easily having the audience believe that the world truly does exist.
	www.moviereviewindex.com /getreview/175764 (1743 words)

	The Lonesome Road - Dark City (1998) - Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Dark City does for 1990s sci-fi cinema what Tiger Woods has done for golf, what Nirvana did for grunge rock, what Star Wars did for film during the 1970s.
		Set within a brooding claustrophobic gothic wonderland, Dark City traverses the generic boundaries of both the science fiction film and the film noir mystery, in a similar vein to Ridley Scott’s poignant Blade Runner (1982).
		Dark City, though, is by far his most developed, most inspired work yet.
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	Dark City (R, 1998) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Before long, both the "police" that the aliens have brought to the city as well as the aliens themselves are after him as he tries to figure out who he is and whether or not he is responsible for the woman's murder.
		Along the way, the aliens discover that he is able to "tune" in the same way that they can and begin to think that he may be the answer to their questions about human individuality.
		Until then, Dark City still holds its own as a refreshingly bizarre and original film that is sure to please fans of science fiction or of psychological thrillers.
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	Review: Dark City (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Dark City is much like Open Your Eyes (which was shown at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival and will open theatrically later this year in North America) -- both are meditations on the importance of memory to an individual, and how everyone's personality is comprised of the sum total of his or her remembrances.
		Dark City opens by immersing the audience in the midst of a fractured, nightmarish narrative.
		Proyas' inspiration for his Dark City appears to be New York during the first half of this century, but, using a style that is part science fiction, part noir thriller, and part gothic horror, he has embellished it to create a surreal place unlike no other.
	movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/d/dark_city.html (978 words)

	Dark City / **** (1998) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		"Dark City" is not only great, but impressive, gorgeous, intelligent, and so overwhelming that it will remain in my mind for the duration of my life.
		Schreber is helping them with their several experiments, every night at midnight putting the residents of the city to sleep and moving around their memories, personalities, city structures, etc., all in the end to create new situations and new scenarios for the strangers to experiment on.
		Films like "Dark City" are the pinnacles of imagination and visual style--you look at them and wonder, how any human being could possibly create such breathtaking scenarios and stories.
	www.cinemaphile.org /reviews/1998/darkcity.html (762 words)

	All-Reviews.com Movie/Video Review: Dark City
		They control Dark City, freezing time every night to rearrange the skyline and warp every resident's mind to find out what makes us "tick".
		Directing with as little light as possible and using only the shades of gray, fl and dark green, he manages to create a cold and unfriendly world, which is a bizarre mixture of countless time periods and ages - a world of eternal night, lit up only by the colorful memories.
		Regrettably the characters in "Dark City" are not very developed and there are some disturbing holes in the plot, that some will find disturbing.
	www.all-reviews.com /videos/dark-city.htm (547 words)

	Dark City (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This is a disambiguation page for Dark City.
		Ciudades oscuras (2002 film; named "Dark City" in translation)
		This is a disambiguation page, a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dark_City_(disambiguation) (105 words)

	USATODAY.com - Horror flicks get star power (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		And both are this summer's unlikely doyennes of darkness, headlining two of the season's most talked-about chiller thrillers.
		Dark Water, which opens today, showcases Jennifer Connelly as Dahlia, a single mother who is nearly drowning in her haunting memories of a gruesome childhood.
		She cried the first time she read the Dark Water script and was intrigued "that they built a scary film around this time in a woman's life when she's going through a custody battle and a bitter divorce and she's having to make a life for her daughter," Connelly says.
	www.usatoday.com /life/movies/news/2005-07-07-horror-starpower_x.htm (1170 words)

	Scifilm -- Reviews, DARK CITY (1998)
		Said talent is on serious display as he deftly and imaginatively creates a unique look for the twisted streets of Dark City itself, the Strangers, their mysterious underground world and the machines with which they use to recreate the city and manipulate
		DARK CITY flat out looks great, even if the plot weren't so compelling, this film is such a visual treat as to be watchable as eye candy alone.
		Exciting, energetic, thought provoking, visually stylish, well written and well acted, DARK CITY is a visual treat for discerning viewers with an active and open mind.
	www.scifilm.org /reviews2/darkcity.html (934 words)

	'Dark City'
		he alien puppet-masters in "Dark City" have a problem: It's not that they're tall, ghoulish desiccated goblins with the chalky complexions of corpses, and it's not that they're dying as a race, but something far worse — they've seen too many old movies.
		The film, from the Alex Proyas who made his mark in the hyper-violent, hyper-stylized "The Crow," is set in a zone of visual overload so dense it'll probably cost you some IQ points.
		It's that sort of thing.) Yet as Simple-Simon-met-a-pieman as it is, "Dark City" isn't on its way to the fair, it is the fair.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/darkcityhunter.htm (724 words)

	Dark City (1998) - A Review by David Nusair (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		1998 has not been the best year for movies so far, so I was pleasantly surprised when I watched Dark City, the new film from the director of The Crow.
		Dark City is that rare film that presents us with a world so different than our own, that we can't help but get lost in it.
		His use of permanent darkness really helps set the mood for the apocalyptic nature of the story.
	www.reelfilm.com /darkcity.htm (425 words)

	Dark City (1998): Reviews
		Dark City has as stunning a visual texture as that of any movie that I've seen...Visually, this film isn't just impressive, it's a tour de force.
		All too often, Dark City seems a great production design in search of a movie, an ultimate modern film noir pastiche, in which the images are so strong they overpower the drama.
		The story is dark and often violent, but it's told with a remarkable sense of visual energy and imagination.
	www.metacritic.com /film/titles/darkcity (1421 words)

	SPLICEDwire \| "Dark City" review (1998) Alex Proyas, Rufus Sewell, Kiefer Sutherland, Jennifer Connelly, William Hurt
		"Dark City" stars Rufus Sewell ("Cold Comfort Farm") as John Murdoch, an accused serial killer with no memory of the eccentric, brutal murders he may have committed -- or anything else in his life.
		"Dark City" is built on ideas from the best of the paranoid sci-fi genre, and it is relentless in its mind-boggling.
		While the soundtrack is also relentless in a far less enjoyable way (every frame is inundated with orchestra) and the film is occasionally a bit silly (the Stranger stop time with the aid of a giant glow-in-the-dark clock), "Dark City" has the mesmerizing visual and psychological hex of a cult classic.
	www.splicedonline.com /98reviews/darkcity.html (834 words)

	Dark City (1998)
		Firmly ensconced in the latter category is 1998's Dark City, a picture that I - and a whole lot of other moviegoers, based on its fairly pathetic box office take of only about $14 million - passed up during its theatrical run.
		As with The Matrix, Dark City is one of those movies that can even wriggle out of apparent flaws due to the nature of the story.
		Dark City makes for a very rich and intricate viewing experience, and this DVD replicates the image nicely.
	www.dvdmg.com /darkcity.shtml (1901 words)

	DARK CITY
		There's a foreboding, dark atmosphere permeating the film that may be unsettling to younger children (and perhaps some adults).
		Most of the film has a dark, eerie presence to it, all of which may be unsettling or spooky to some viewers.
		There are several instances where the Strangers cause everyone to "fall asleep" and for everything in the city to stop that may be unsettling to some viewers.
	www.screenit.com /movies/1998/dark_city.html (2505 words)

	Dark City (1998)
		Murdoch finds that he is the only person who cannot be made to sleep by the aliens and that he shares some of their reality-manipulating abilities.
		In his efforts to understand the situation, he comes to discover that the entire city is a vast laboratory being used in experiments by the aliens in order to rearrange and transplant people’s memories in an attempt to penetrate the secrets of the human soul.
		After several wild (but completely logical) twists, the hero makes a classical conceptual breakthrough to discover that the city is an experiment set up by the aliens to determine the nature of the human soul by manipulating and transplanting people’s memories.
	www.moria.co.nz /sf/darkcity.htm (843 words)

	Dark City [1998] : Dark City [1998] : Dark City [1998] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		And yes, it's a bit of a comic book world, with caricatural protagonists -- the dark city, the sad cop, the beautiful singer, the mad scientist.
		A city of eternal darkness is presented to you through the eyes of a certain Robert Murdoch, the main character.
		Well there are certain similarities (am i me, is the world real) but they (Dark City came out one year before The Matrix) are formed into the storline in a very sublime way.
	www.cf6.co.uk /B00004D360/Dark_City_[1998].html (907 words)

	Scifilm -- Reviews, DARK CITY (1998)
		John Murdoch (Rufus Sewell) awakens to a start in a '40s-era hotel bathroom, not knowing where he is or who he is. We join him on a gripping journey of "self discovery" in a city where everyone and everything is manipulated by a strange race of ghastly fiends.
		DARK CITY, by director Alex Proyas, may have its inspirations—METROPOLIS, BLADE RUNNER, CHILDREN OF THE LOST CITY—but it is so original that it sets a new standard.
		DARK CITY will first be recognized for its film noir style.
	www.scifilm.org /reviews3/darkcity2.html (548 words)

	Dark City (1998)
		This is a city of memory fragments, a mosaic drawn from the generations, and it looks just great.
		Throughout Dark City he's uncomfortable, niggled by the feeling that something's wrong without being able to scratch the itch.
		In the end, what makes Dark City stand out is its intelligent questioning of the tenuous bond between identity and the corporeal body that holds it.
	www.film.u-net.com /Movies/Reviews/Dark_City.html (760 words)

	Topspins.net - Dark City on DVD review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Dark City weaves a simple sci-fi/detective noir narrative into a marvel of sustained intensity and richness of atmosphere.
		Dark City has the looks and energy of a great comic book, with loads of static, craftily angled shots edited together like panels in graphic novel.
		Superb lighting is a crucial part of the drama, a city of warm, organic colours shrouded in shadow and ultra diffuse light to make the omnipresent night permeate every pore and fibre.
	www.topspins.net /darkcity.html (392 words)

	Dark City (1998) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		It was groundbreaking in its depiction of an exotic artificial world where the sun never rises and reality changes every midnight.
		Nothing before it had ever used modern special effects to so thoroughly immerse you in a truly unearthly city.
		Sutherland's short-of-breath voice, as the crippled psychiatrist collaborating with the controllers of the city, will stay in your head as firmly as the visuals do.
	gning.org /comix/darkcity.html (388 words)

	GreenCine \| product main - Dark City (1998)
		Dark City is a solid science fiction film that follows the standard "small fish trying to figure out what's wrong with the big pond" formula (can you say The Matrix, Brazil, 12 Monkeys, even Total Recall and The Truman Show?).
		There are many deliberate references to Fritz Lang's Metropolis and the feel is very film noir -- dark and mysterious with a 40's look to the set.
		The mystery unfolds as the film grows more and more dark so that you are riveted for the whole movie.
	www.greencine.com /webCatalog?id=6200 (1004 words)

	Amazon.com: DVD: Dark City (New Line Platinum Series) (1998) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Dark City is an extremely interesting experiment of blending futuristic settings with an oddly 1940's style of society.
		Dark City is indeed a dark movie, any dark sci-fi/fantasy fan will appreciate the atmosphere and spectacular special effects in this edgy, creepy film.
		Overall, Dark City is great movie for horror or sci-fi fans that adore gothic style darkness combined with strangely modern or old-fashioned visualization, interwoven with some nice action scenes and great effects.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0780622553?v=glance (2255 words)

	Dark City movie info - dvds (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The city scapes are dark and gloomy, but what sets them apart from movies like "The Crow" or "Bladerunner" is that "Dark City" uses the style of the 30's and 40's.
		There are some inventive special effects during the "tuning" of the city which are wonderful.
		'Dark City' is pure science fiction noir and a visual feast: a gloomy metropolis encrusted with bristling Gothic ornament, redesigned and reinvented in impressive FX sequences night after night.
	www.mooviees.com /2097-dark-city/movie (498 words)

	Combustible Celluloid - Dark City (1998)
		One of the most amazing things about Dark City is that it was made from an original screenplay, written by Lem Dobbs, David S. Goyer and director Alex Proyas.
		The truth is, when watching Dark City, directed by Alex Proyas, we do think of other movies; Fritz Lang's Metropolis, Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, Ridley Scott's Blade Runner, Tim Burton's Batman, Proyas' previous movie The Crow, and even last year's excellent Gattaca.
		Dark City is only Proyas' second film, and it comes four years after the accidental death of Brandon Lee on the set of The Crow.
	www.combustiblecelluloid.com /classic/darkcity.shtml (705 words)

	Dark City [1998] DVD at Shop Ireland
		Dark City [1998] starring: Rufus Sewell, Kiefer Sutherland, Jennifer Connelly
		I rate Dark City as one of my favourite sci fi stories...
		A friend in the US told me about Dark City some 10 months before it finally made its way to these shores.
	www.shopireland.ie /dvd/reviews/B00004D360 (754 words)

	The Nitpickers Site: Movie Nitpick - Dark City - 1998 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		After the strangers conduct their experiments, the city is restarted again, from midnight.
		But if the city is restarted at midnight, the sun should come up in about 7 hours.
		The memory implants that the Strangers use on the city folk have their lives pick up again the next evening.
	www.nitpickers.com /movies/nitpick.cgi?np=25338 (237 words)

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