“Dark City” (1998) maybe wasn’t quite as perfect as its most ardent fans make it out to be, but it was still a damned good film — creative, original and caliginously artistic.  (It occasionally suffers somewhat in comparison with its spiritual cousin, “The Matrix,” which changed the very medium of movies only a year later.)  And what a cast — William Hurt, Jennifer Connelly, Kiefer Sutherland and Rufus Sewell!

I saw this movie on VHS around … 2001, I think.  I remember being eager at the time to see the inimitable Hurt — I’d grown up with films like “Gorky Park” (1983) and “The Accidental Tourist” (1988).  It was only later in life that I really became a fan of Sewell — after his tour-de-force performance as the Nazi villain in “The Man in the High Castle” (2015-2019).

And how can you beat Connelly as a nightclub crooner?  My girlfriend sent me a gem that she found on Youtube — Connelly singing an alternate version of her musical number in the movie, Giovanni Polimeni’s “Sway.”  (It’s the second video below.)

By the way, I am linking tonight to Media Graveyard and Polimeni’s Youtube channel.