Archive: Year 2023
BLAST FROM THE PAST: From the Archive of Lumbardhi
Blade Runner: The Final Cut
Director
Ridley Scott
Producers
Brian Kelly
Charles de Lauzirika
Hampton Fancher
Michael Deeley
Cinematographer
Jordan Cronenweth
Editor
Marsha Nakashima
Sound
Peter Pennell
1982
United States
118 min
Color
It has taken 25 years and three cinema edits for Ridley Scott to arrive at the definitive new version of his science-fiction masterpiece. Blade Runner: The Final Cut includes added and extended scenes, added lines and new and cleaner special effects. Scott's vision of Los Angeles in 2019 is the ultimate movie dystopia: a fabulous hell of skyscrapers and monolithic Fritz Lang factories. The sky is cluttered with fuming aircraft and floating neon adverts. It never stops raining on the cramped and seedy streets, and everyone, apart from Harrison Ford, smokes like a chimney. What does it mean to be human in such a diseased world? This is the thrust of Scott's film noir, which has aged quite brilliantly.
Director
Sir Ridley Scott (born 30 November 1937) is an English film director and producer. Best known for directing films in the science fiction, crime, and historical drama genres, his work is known for its atmospheric and highly concentrated visual style. Scott has received many accolades throughout his career, including the BAFTA Fellowship for lifetime achievement from the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in 2018, two Primetime Emmy Awards, and a Golden Globe Award. In 2003, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.
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