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		With Strange Days, a glistening, brainstorming techno-noir set in a ragged and race-torn Los Angeles on the eve of the millennium, director Kathryn Bigelow, one of the most cinematically muscular directors working in Hollywood, unleashes her biggest punch yet.
		Strange Days is her most ambitious and her most expensive work to date.
		According to Cameron, casting posed a problem during the film's lengthy pre-production phase: “To be honest, a lot of the actors were a little scared of the script,” he noted.
	www.filmfestivals.com /london/ldfilm1.htm (707 words)

	Feral Scholar » Strange Days [Friday Film Review]
		Strange Days, like Born in Flames and a handful of others, is a movie that got a grip on my brain the first time I saw it.
		The film then pursues its fairly predictable course, with car chases, betrayals and revelations, fight scenes (Angela Bassett’s character gets to demonstrate her competence at both martial arts and marksmanship), more murders for which our hero is being framed, and so on.
		Of all the film’s conceits they have — for me anyway — aged worst, and while they were obviously intended to be visually memorable and artsy the film carries them as a kind of baggage, at times clunky and self-indulgent.
	stangoff.com /?p=415 (3062 words)

	STRANGE DAYS - DVD
		Strange Days arrived at cinemas in the fall of 1995, during the peak of the virtual reality craze.
		More peeves: the movie takes place on the last two days of a 1999 in which widescreen TVs are ubiquitous (I can understand Lenny owning one, but the local watering holes, too?), and neon appears to be the only light source the city has to offer.
		Strange Days was released on Laserdisc in 1996 as an SE of sorts, and the majority of its content has been recycled for this DVD.
	www.filmfreakcentral.net /dvdreviews/strangedays.htm (1161 words)

	Film Scouts Reviews: Strange Days (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It's the final days of 1999 and the city of Los Angeles appears to be still reeling from the aftershock of the O.J. Simpson verdict.
		Thanks to the admittedly inventive Steadicam shots in STRANGE DAYS you, the poor unsuspecting viewer, are thrust smack in the middle of this Beirut-like hell.
		But STRANGE DAYS is just a lot of sound and fury that, with its ludicrous attempt at a happy wind up, signify nothing in the end.
	www.filmscouts.com /scripts/review.cfm?File=str-dayc (598 words)

	The Review Pages: Strange Days
		Strange are the days in Los Angeles leading up to the Millenium New Year's Eve.
		Strange Days was difficult to understand; it was about ten minutes before I figured out what was going on.
		This film is rated R for language, violence, and sexuality.
	www.angelfire.com /fl2/kathe/film/review/strangedays.html (473 words)

	Review: Strange Days
		This film can be seen as a two-pronged cautionary tale: what happens when drugs become the only escape from a grim reality, and what could occur if attempts aren't made to heal the racial fissure.
		Strange Days may be a dark fantasy, but its subtext never strays far from a reality we can all understand.
		Strange Days may not be the best movie to hit screens during the Fall, but it's likely to be the brashest.
	www.reelviews.net /movies/s/strange_days.html (797 words)

	CNN - 'Strange Days' - Oct. 14, 1995 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		These are indeed strange days, and Hollywood has cast cops as the villains in the movie.
		"Strange Days" was written 10 years ago, but there are many parallels to current events, namely the exposure of racism in the LAPD.
		Overall, "Strange Days" is a cautionary tale against violence, drugs and self-delusion.
	www.cnn.com /SHOWBIZ/Movies/9510/strange_days/index.html (369 words)

	STRANGE DAYS - DVD
		Strange Days arrived at cinemas in the fall of 1995, during the peak of the virtual reality craze.
		More peeves: the movie takes place on the last two days of a 1999 in which widescreen TVs are ubiquitous (I can understand Lenny owning one, but the local watering holes, too?), and neon appears to be the only light source the city has to offer.
		Strange Days was released on Laserdisc in 1996 as an SE of sorts, and the majority of its content has been recycled for this DVD.
	filmfreakcentral.net /dvdreviews/strangedays.htm (1161 words)

	EUFS: Strange Days
		Strange Days perhaps could not be other than an honourable failure.
		Thus, whilst the film starts off brilliantly, with a breathtaking hand-held cinema-verité sequence depicting what it is like to be wired into the SQUID, it gradually collapses under its own weight.
		Some critics suggested that Bigelow was exploiting her status as a woman here, to get away with filming something that a male director would have been condemned for doing.
	www.eufs.org.uk /films/strange_days.html (401 words)

	Amazon.ca: Strange Days (Widescreen): DVD: Kathryn Bigelow,Ralph Fiennes,Angela Bassett,Juliette Lewis,Tom ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		"Strange Days" is much more than a futuristic thriller, providing a rich cinematic experience that brings issues such as isolation, trust, friendship, love and life in general.
		I saw this film in the theatre and was immediately turned off as the setting was a completely unrecognizable LA of the future -- set just a little over four years away.
		The film is dark and not in some clever "noir" way but as if the director hoped she could hide the boring sets and ugly costumes this way.
	www.amazon.ca /Strange-Days-Widescreen-Kathryn-Bigelow/dp/B00000JSJC (2089 words)

	O.F.C.S.: The Online Film Critics Society
		Strange Days has since languished in obscurity despite brilliant kinetic action, great characters, a unique visual style, and daring social criticism.
		We share the visceral thrills of her tech-addled protagonists without escaping the consequences, a balancing act that few films have the courage to attempt.
		Their unlikely partnership underscores the film’s social conscience, which finds dark power in a sequence where the police pull over and execute a notorious fl motorist.
	ofcs.rottentomatoes.com /pages/pr/1990overlooked/ofcs44 (326 words)

	Review: Strange Days
		The film starts off with an intense opening that puts us in the middle of a robbery and keeps pushing off from there, becoming more and more intense and unwavering throughout, rarely stopping to take a break.
		The film has a few soft moments during the middle as we learn more about the background of the characters, such as Faith(Juliette Lewis), Lenny's former girlfriend who hasleft him for a rock promoter Philo Gant(Michael Wincott), who was involved with managing Jeriko One when he was killed.
		The film creates a vision of the future that also doesn't step over the line, it goes to the point where we're amazed, but we still believe that this all could be possible.
	www.currentfilm.com /strangedays.html (559 words)

	Strange Days (1995) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		from Oldwick, NJ `Strange Days', one of many films made in the mid- to late-1990s that chose to dabble in `the near future of the year 2000', not only still looks good in the year 2001, but holds its own as a darn good film.
		Combine that with the way other things are filmed in `Strange Days' - the close-up look of Lenny's face as he samples past memories through VR films, the utter sweeping chaos of a riot as shot from high above - director Kathryn Bigalow creates a film that's visually mesmerizing.
		Inventive and daring, `Strange Days' is a solid movie, falling short of true greatness only because of the awkward execution of some brilliant ideas.
	us.imdb.com /Title?0114558 (822 words)

	DVDFILE.COM: Strange Days review
		This film is darker and more disturbing than anything he's directed himself.
		Strange Days is presented THX approved in it's original 2.35:1 aspect ratio without 16X9 enhancement.
		As with most deleted scenes, they just don't belong within the frame of the film as is, but are good to see as a sort of side note.
	www.dvdfile.com /software/review/dvd-video/strangedays.htm (848 words)

	Santa Barbara Film Festival: STRANGE STORY
		And as the Oscar race heads to the March 5 finish line, the Herald Sun has been told lavish parties are being held by several best-picture nominees in an illegal bid to win votes from the 5798 members of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences.
		O'Neil attended one of the parties for a best-picture nominated film and said the guests there were all academy voters.
		In the last few days, posters of Ledger have appeared outside the headquarters of one of the biggest groups of Oscar voters -- the Screen Actors Guild.
	www.sbfilmfestival.org /blog/2006/02/strange-story.htm (444 words)

	Strange Days - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Strange Days is an album released by The Doors at the end of 1967.
		This album contains songs such as "Strange Days", "People Are Strange", "Love Me Two Times" and "When the Music's Over".
		"People Are Strange" shot to #12 on the US chart, and Love Me Two Times followed it, going to a, for a second single, more than respectable #25, thus proving The Doors' staying power after the runaway success of their debut.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Strange_Days (259 words)

	Dark Star - Film Reviews: Strange Days (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Set in Los Angeles on December 31st 1999, Strange Days is a future-noir thriller that depicts a city on the brink of collapse.
		In each of her films, she has attempted to reconcile the perceived chasm between the intellectual discipline of her education, and the 'trashiness' of genre moviemaking.
		Shortly before the ending there is an abrupt change of pace, (possibly due to studio interference) after which the picture seems to advance the naïve view that the LA riots were caused by the TV broadcasting of the Rodney King video, rather than by an unjust verdict.
	www.dso.co.uk /fr0024.htm (720 words)

	Movie Reviews: Strange Days, Batman Forever
		On the pretext of examining trash, the film rolls in it like a razorback hog -- it was assigned an R rating, but deserves an NC-17 for scenes that are graphically violent and a hair short of hardcore pornography.
		Strange Days makes seemingly sincere obeisance to the examination of racial justice.
		The film is pretty uneven, and most of the audience will probably bounce over the sexual violence in favor of slick production values and flashy techno speak to feel fairly compensated for eight bucks.
	www.scifi.com /sfw/issue6/movie.html (881 words)

	Film Review - Strange Days
		Strange Days is a futuristic noir about apocalyptic L.A. during the last two nights of the century.
		Painting America as a society whose primary responses to anarchy are voyeurism and escapism, this morality tale concerns the redemption of Lenny Nero (Ralph Fiennes), a fl-market dealer in "playback," a technology that lets one person feel another person's experience (witnessing murder, committing rape).
		However, the eruption of color, sound and motion--the panorama of orchestrated chaos--didn't fool discerning critics and viewers, who couldn't help but notice again the great divide between a simplistic plot and technical sophistication.
	www.emanuellevy.com /article.php?articleID=2451 (174 words)

	Film History of the 1990s
		Another feminist film The Joy Luck Club (1993), an adaptation of Amy Tan's novel with the theme of mother-daughter relationships, told of four mothers from China (who met weekly to play Mah-Jongg) whose daughters were born in America.
		There seemed to be a significant shift toward action films in the 90s - with their requisite speed, kinetic hyper-action, and of course, violence.
		During the 1993 filming of the martial arts action-thriller adapted from a comic book, The Crow (1994), Bruce Lee's actor son Brandon was killed in an accident on the set.
	www.filmsite.org /90sintro2.html (1613 words)

	Ralph Fiennes in Strange Days, Production Notes 2
		"The heart of 'STRANGE DAYS' lies in the emotional matrix and the ability of Lenny Nero to exhibit vulnerability, to show emotional pain that ultimately is the road to his redemption." The director's re-defining of genre is largely responsible for taking the hero in these unexpected directions.
		Film noir implies a downward spiral from which there is no return; 'STRANGE DAYS,' on the other hand, offers tremendous return for Lenny and, by extension, for all of us." Beyond re-defining film noir in STRANGE DAYS, Bigelow offers an intriguing fusion of other genres.
		elaborates on the film's genre-mixing and genre-bending conventions: "'STRANGE DAYS' is a film noir thriller set against this background of racial tension imagined or anticipated to be happening four years from now," he sums up.
	www.fiennesforum.com /strangedays/RalphFiennesstrangedaysnotes2.htm (2605 words)

	STRANGE DAYS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The film, which is essentially a high-tech murder mystery, is set on the eve of the new millennium.
		The protagonist of the film is Ralph Fiennes ("Quiz Show") as Lenny Nero, a former vice cop who now deals in the fulfillment of dreams with the aid of an illegal device that can record information straight from the wearer s cerebral cortex and play it back on tiny metallic discs.
		Despite its virtual reality motif, "Strange Days" is the sort of movie that will live or die according to how clever and suspenseful the audience perceives the mystery to be.
	www.xmission.com /~gregorys/reviews/stranged.htm (270 words)

	Big bad Bigelow - film director Kathryn Bigelow - Director Profile - Interview Interview - Find Articles
		Her latest movie, Strange Days, is a tumultuous, twisty pulp about one Lenny Nero (Ralph Fiennes), a sleazy dealer of fl-market digital clips that enable the user to experience the POV sensory impressions of whoever recorded them--whether burglar, prostitute, or murderer.
		GRAHAM FULLER: Strange Days is a kinetic thriller, but when I was watching it, I kept wanting you to stop the plot and just show us more of those POV playback clips of sex and crime that your main character, Lenny, is hawking.
		Certainly, Mace is the moral center of the film, and clearly I'm attracted to strong women, but that's not to say that she doesn't have her own vulnerabilities.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1285/is_n11_v25/ai_17632982 (829 words)

	Foster on Film - Cyberpunk: Strange Days
		His old love for Faith is the catalyst for much of the films action, but it is his relationship with Mace that keeps it going.
		Mace, like Van Helsing in the early Dracula films, is the voice of morality and proper action, and as such, has some uninteresting speeches.
		However, in the films most emotional scene, Mace remembers what Lenny was, and how he looked after her child at a crucial moment.
	www.fosteronfilm.com /sf/cyber/strangedays.htm (596 words)

	Amazon.com: Strange Days: DVD: Ralph Fiennes,Angela Bassett,Juliette Lewis,Tom Sizemore,Michael Wincott,Vincent ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		So I was shocked to find how much I loved "Strange Days." This is a gutsy film that takes a lot of chances in terms of plot, performance and presentation -- American critics claim that's what they want in American movies and, yet, when such a film comes around, they berate it for such.
		It's not a bad film by any means, and that's why I think it's such a boring experience; the cinematography is at times stellar, and likewise in its finer moments (of action, mostly) it can resemble the direction of James Cameron, and surely that's a huge compliment.
		STRANGE DAYS requires a little patience; it's first quarter is chaotic and doesn't seem to be taking us anywhere.
	www.amazon.com /Strange-Days-Ralph-Fiennes/dp/B00000JSJC (2503 words)

	Strange Days: A Review
		Strange Days is a movie that drew me in and wore me out (in a good way) like no film has since maybe James Cameron's Aliens.
		Set against the rising hysteria surrounding the year 2000, the film is, oddly enough, a plea for rational thought and love, in an age where technology is slowly seperating humans as it "brings them together", until the medium itself replaces the things we have lost.
		Strange Days is blatant, melodramatic, and if you can take yourself out of it long enough, even predictable.
	home.comcast.net /~jamesswan/Strange.htm (835 words)

	Shakespeare and Film: Strange Bedfellows
		In the very earliest days of film, one might argue, Shakespeare was still positioned at a cultural crossroads, or at least could still be claimed as disputed territory, no longer truly popular as he seems to have been in the nineteenth century, but not quite yet fully co-opted for high brow culture.
		Indeed, such a film would naturally be congruent with the "key phrase, key scene, key image approach to Shakespeare" that seems to have been popular during the early part of the century.
		Although it is a popularly held conviction that film depends on rapid movement from place to place together with a unique ability to expand, compress, or in a variety of ways distort time, neither of these factors is essential to film.
	www.und.edu /instruct/cjacobs/Shakespeare&Film.htm (729 words)

	Strange Days Review (1995)
		Set during the last two days of 1999, Strange Days made a common mistake in putting across the notion that the second millennium ended on the 31st of December of that year, when most reasonable people knew that it ended on the 31st of December 2000.
		Or perhaps not, as Strange Days has less to it than meets the eye, being a basic murder mystery (or two) dressed up as a searing expose of the state of the world, from the population losing itself in thrillseeking entertainment to corruption in the law, with neither idea being followed to any enlightening conclusion.
		Five years later came the film which made her name, the modern vampire tale Near Dark, and she followed it up with equally cult-ish thrillers Blue Steel, Point Break and Strange Days.
	www.thespinningimage.co.uk /cultfilms/displaycultfilm.asp?reviewid=1996 (783 words)

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