Dark City Blu-ray
'Dark City' Director: Alex Proyas (1998) Arrow Blu-ray | DOP-approved 4K restoration | Director's Cut
From the director of The Crow, a mind-bending science fiction thriller set in a shadowy world where the sun never rises and nothing is quite what it seems.
John Murdoch wakes in a hotel bathtub with no memory of who he is or how he got there, but there's a body on the floor with bloody spirals carved into the flesh and a voice on the phone that tells him to flee. Soon he is on the run, wanted by the police, a woman who claims to be his wife and a group of mysterious pale men who seem to control everyone and everything in the city... except him.
With a cast that includes Rufus Sewell, Kiefer Sutherland, William Hurt, Jennifer Connelly and Richard O'Brien, Dark City is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma, filmed through a lens of film noir and German expressionism.
Special features include:
- New audio commentary by director Alex Proyas
- New audio commentary with Craig Anderson, Bruce Isaacs and Herschel Isaacs, co-hosts of the Film Versus Film podcast
- Archive audio commentary by director Alex Proyas
- Archive audio commentary by film critic Roger Ebert
- Archive audio commentary by writers Lem Dobbs and David S. Goyer
- Archive audio commentary by film critic Roger Ebert
- Archive introduction by Alex Proyas
- Return to Dark City, a new hour-long documentary featuring interviews with cast and crew
- Visual essay by film scholar Alexandra West
- Visual essay by film scholar Josh Nelson on film noir and identity in Dark City
- Design & storyboards featurette
- Memories of Shell Beach, a 2008 featurette in which cast and crew look back at the making of the film from concept to reception
- Architecture of Dreams, a 2008 featurette presenting five perspectives on the themes and meanings of the film
