I recently read somewhere that Dark City is one of the most underrated science-fiction movies of the 20th century. Now, considering that I hadn’t heard of this movie until recently, I’d have to agree. An amnesiac named Johnny Murdoch sets out to find why he can’t remember who he is and encounters “the Strangers”, a race of beings who are performing experiments on humans. It’s a futuristic tale filmed in the typical noir styling, but what’s probably best about the movie is that there are very little computer-generated special effects. In the documentary on the DVD, the director Alex Proyas describes that filming took place on stage and oversized replicas of objects were used in particular scenes to make the film seem as realistic as possible. It has an all-star cast (before they were considered all-stars) featuring William Hurt, Jennifer Connelly, Rufus Sewell, and Kiefer Sutherland and the director’s cut of the film has twelve extra minutes of bonus footage. Several copies are available through SWAN!