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The
Millennium Eve party: Westin Bonaventure
Hotel, downtown LA
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STRANGE
DAYS filming locations
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CREDITS
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Kathryn Bigelow's
dark techno-thriller harks from back in the days when
when Millennium Eve was a scary date way in the future.
Lenny Nero (Ralph
Fiennes,
cast brilliantly against type) is a scuzzy wheeler-dealer
peddling virtual reality experiences around a nightmarishly
benighted, riot-ridden LA.
The vast Millennium party clogs the street in front
of the Bonaventure Hotel,
South Figuroa Street, downtown. The landmark
building was a major location for Wolfgang
Petersen's In The Line
of Fire, with
Clint Eastwood,
and the John
Badham real-time thriller Nick
of Time, with Johnny
Depp, and was also featured in Barry
Levinson's Rain Man,
James Cameron's
True Lies
and was the 'Atalnta' record office in This
Is Spinal Tap.
Lenny meets VIP client Mr Fumitso at, what was then,
the St James Club. This striking zigzag moderne highrise,
towering over Sunset in West Hollywood, seems to change
its name with every season. After several years as
the Argyle, it's now the Sunset
Tower, 8358 Sunset Boulevard, West Hollywood.
Built in 1931, this luxury block once housed Errol
Flynn, Clark Gable, Howard Hughes and the Gabor sisters.
Legend has it, John
Wayne kept a cow on the balcony. Whatever, it
was recently restored, and can be seen in movies as
diverse as Jean-Claude Van Dammeís A.W.O.L.,
Robert Altman's
The Player, the
1944 Farewell My Lovely,
Get Shorty and
the 2003 remake of The
Italian Job.
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The
Carlyle, West Hollywood
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