Background
Kathryn Bigelow was born on 27 November 1952 in San Carlos, California, United States.
Kathryn Bigelow was born on 27 November 1952 in San Carlos, California, United States.
There was a moment around 1990 when, married to director James Cameron and honored bv the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Kathrvn Bigelow was cool, chic, and in. There were no need to know she’d been a painter before the movie bug hit; that past screamed tastefully out of movies like The Loveless (like lost love for Edward Hopper) and Near Dark, which is a pretty cute vampire film. But Blue Steel was a very bad story with terrible dialogue such that Jamie Lee Curtis and Ron Silver seemed trapped in its cold ambience. That was nothing compared with Strange Days, which is one of the loudest bad films ever made, and which acted like the panic brake on several careers.
Bigelow has been quoted as saving that “action cinema is pure cinema." Since Strange Days, she has made two more films that struggled to get a proper release.