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Los Angeles, the City in Cinema: “Strange Days” (Kathryn Bigelow, 1995)


Strange Days counts as a Los Angeles movie, a hard-boiled detective movie, a cyberpunk movie, and a “social issues” movie, all of which came out in the shadow of the city’s 1992 riots. In an ideal setting for the subgenre’s mixture of “high tech and low life,” gentleman-loser protagonist Lenny Nero deals in pure neural data against a familiar backdrop of a urban decay, economic woe, hate-filled policemen, unexplained fires, anxiety-driven millennial partying, and the Bonaventure Hotel.

The City in Cinema comes live to Portland, Oregon’s Hollywood Theatre in January 2015. Stay tuned for details.

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