SCREENING
Strange Days
Sunday, Jul 7 at 5:00 p.m.
Location: Redstone Theater
Part of See It Big at the ’90s Multiplex
Dir. Kathryn Bigelow. 1995, 145 mins. U.S. 35mm. With Angela Bassett, Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Lewis, Tom Sizemore, Vincent D’Onofrio. Bigelow’s grandest cinematic vision, Strange Days is an anxiety-filled drama of near-apocalypse set in Los Angeles at the turn of the 21st century. With a screenplay by James Cameron and Jay Cocks (The Age of Innocence), Bigelow’s film stars Fiennes as a mangy former LAPD officer who has turned into a black marketer of SQUIDs, virtual recordings of others’ experiences that attach directly to the viewer’s cerebral cortex, and a fierce Bassett as his bodyguard, who gets caught up in the investigation of a murder case following a snuff SQUID recording. Ambitious, brutal, and building in power to a frenetic climax, Strange Days is a singular take on the sci-fi dystopia genre that predicted anxieties around virtual technologies and Y2K panic.
Tickets: $15 / $11 senior and students / $9 youth (ages 3–17) / discounted for MoMI members ($7–$11). There is a $1.50 transaction fee per ticket for all online purchases. The cost of admission may be applied toward a same-day purchase of a membership.
Order tickets. Please pick up tickets at the Museum’s admissions desk upon arrival. All seating is general admission.