Spirits of the Air, Gremlins of the Clouds is a visually stunning reminder of Proyas’s fascinating early creative vision
For a brief period – which seemed to come and go like a dream – the Egyptian-Australian film-maker Alex Proyas was one of the coolest emerging directors in the world. The apotheosis of the music video-cum-feature film-maker’s coolness was his second feature, the 1994 goth-punk classic The Crow: a revenge fantasy set in a Gotham City-on-acid metropolis, starring a makeup-caked and black trench coat wearing Brandon Lee (who tragically died during an on-set accident).
Then there was Proyas’s spectacular follow-up, the Kafkaesque neo-noir Dark City: a surreal sci-fi set in a futuristic world where humans have become lab rats for an advanced but dying alien race. The top brass at Warner Bros seized the film and re-edited it, crowbarring their own botched version – which they considered more palatable for mass consumption – into cinemas. But hey, what’s cooler than a hotshot director making a movie the studios consider too daring to release?
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