SIGHT & SOUND DEEP CUTS: "BLADE RUNNER" (1982)
Sunday, September 10, 2023 1pm to 3:30pm
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5030 Brunson Dr, Coral Gables, FL 33146
https://cosfordcinema.com/event/sight-sound-deep-cuts-blade-runner-the-final-cut-1982/Conducted every 10 years, the Sight & Sound Best Movies of All Time poll is voted on by film critics, writers, professors and other experts in the field of cinema. Although the primary list consists of 100 movies, the poll actually includes a total of 200 films. The Cosford Cinema will be showcasing ten selections from the second half of the list every Sunday over the fall from Sept. 10-Dec. 3.
BLADE RUNNER | 1982 | DIRECTOR: Ridley Scott | WITH: Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, Edward James Olmos, Daryl Hannah, Joanna Cassidy | RUNNING TIME: 1H 57M | RATED R for violence, gore, brief nudity, sexual content, adult themes.
Released in the summer of 1982, considered the great summer movie season of all time ("E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial," "The Thing," "The Road Warrior," "Rocky III," "Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan") director Ridley Scott's visionary sci-fi noir tanked at the box office. But the movie has grown in esteem over the decades and is now considered one of the filmmaker's best and most enduring movies.
Based on Philip K. Dick's novella "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?", the film stars Harrison Ford stars as the cop assigned to chase down four renegade replicants -- worker robots who can pass for human -- in a dystopian future.
"Visually and sonically assured, intelligent and moody, there is much to be admired in Blade Runner. But why has its legacy endured to such a degree? Perhaps in its gloomy portrayal of environmental catastrophe, social divide and oppressive authority we recognise our own world.
"Or perhaps it’s because, despite all of its foreboding, Blade Runner offers a chance of hope. Hope of a love between two people not meant to love. Hope of freedom, however impossible. A hope as fragile as an origami unicorn, maybe. A hope as beautiful as C-beams glittering in the dark, and as fleeting as tears in rain.
"Blade Runner is not a film with easy answers. And maybe that is why, forty years later, we’re still remaking it, exploring it, pulling it apart and holding it up to the light." -- Tom Ward, Esquire
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