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Blade Runner Ridley Scott’s vanguard science-fiction epic from 1982 has been digitally tweaked in hundreds of ways, most of which will be noticed only by the most pious of fanboys. Mainly, the rerelease is a good excuse to indulge once more in Scott’s iconic and highly influential vision of a future Los Angeles choked by rain, neon, and cheap pleasure palaces, where Harrison Ford’s bounty hunter trolls the godforsaken urban landscape for those renegade “replicants.” Of course, there comes a steely-eyed brunette (Sean Young), who may be a replicant herself. It has always been difficult to discuss Blade Runner-one of the few genuine masterpieces of the forlorn 1980s-without focusing on its style, and yet it is a movie where style becomes content and vice versa, as the romantic fatalism of <2005>’40s film noir freely intermingles with the visionary imagination of Philip K. Dick. And yes, a sequel is said to be planned with an actual script written, though those rumors have been circulating for years. But if Ford can reprise Han Solo, why not Rick Deckard? (R) Brian Miller BRIAN MILLER Central Cinema, 1411 21st Ave., Seattle, WA 98122 $7-$9 Friday, December 26, 2014, 9:30 – 10:30pm
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Blade Runner Ridley Scott’s vanguard science-fiction epic from 1982 has been digitally tweaked in hundreds of ways, most of which will be noticed only by the most pious of fanboys. Mainly, the rerelease is a good excuse to indulge once more in Scott’s iconic and highly influential vision of a future Los Angeles choked by rain, neon, and cheap pleasure palaces, where Harrison Ford’s bounty hunter trolls the godforsaken urban landscape for those renegade “replicants.” Of course, there comes a steely-eyed brunette (Sean Young), who may be a replicant herself. It has always been difficult to discuss Blade Runner-one of the few genuine masterpieces of the forlorn 1980s-without focusing on its style, and yet it is a movie where style becomes content and vice versa, as the romantic fatalism of <2005>’40s film noir freely intermingles with the visionary imagination of Philip K. Dick. And yes, a sequel is said to be planned with an actual script written, though those rumors have been circulating for years. But if Ford can reprise Han Solo, why not Rick Deckard? (R) Brian Miller BRIAN MILLER Central Cinema, 1411 21st Ave., Seattle, WA 98122 $7-$9 Saturday, December 27, 2014, 9:30 – 10:30pm
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Blade Runner Ridley Scott’s vanguard science-fiction epic from 1982 has been digitally tweaked in hundreds of ways, most of which will be noticed only by the most pious of fanboys. Mainly, the rerelease is a good excuse to indulge once more in Scott’s iconic and highly influential vision of a future Los Angeles choked by rain, neon, and cheap pleasure palaces, where Harrison Ford’s bounty hunter trolls the godforsaken urban landscape for those renegade “replicants.” Of course, there comes a steely-eyed brunette (Sean Young), who may be a replicant herself. It has always been difficult to discuss Blade Runner-one of the few genuine masterpieces of the forlorn 1980s-without focusing on its style, and yet it is a movie where style becomes content and vice versa, as the romantic fatalism of <2005>’40s film noir freely intermingles with the visionary imagination of Philip K. Dick. And yes, a sequel is said to be planned with an actual script written, though those rumors have been circulating for years. But if Ford can reprise Han Solo, why not Rick Deckard? (R) Brian Miller BRIAN MILLER Central Cinema, 1411 21st Ave., Seattle, WA 98122 $7-$9 Sunday, December 28, 2014, 9:30 – 10:30pm
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Blade Runner Ridley Scott’s vanguard science-fiction epic from 1982 has been digitally tweaked in hundreds of ways, most of which will be noticed only by the most pious of fanboys. Mainly, the rerelease is a good excuse to indulge once more in Scott’s iconic and highly influential vision of a future Los Angeles choked by rain, neon, and cheap pleasure palaces, where Harrison Ford’s bounty hunter trolls the godforsaken urban landscape for those renegade “replicants.” Of course, there comes a steely-eyed brunette (Sean Young), who may be a replicant herself. It has always been difficult to discuss Blade Runner-one of the few genuine masterpieces of the forlorn 1980s-without focusing on its style, and yet it is a movie where style becomes content and vice versa, as the romantic fatalism of <2005>’40s film noir freely intermingles with the visionary imagination of Philip K. Dick. And yes, a sequel is said to be planned with an actual script written, though those rumors have been circulating for years. But if Ford can reprise Han Solo, why not Rick Deckard? (R) Brian Miller BRIAN MILLER Central Cinema, 1411 21st Ave., Seattle, WA 98122 $7-$9 Monday, December 29, 2014, 9:30 – 10:30pm
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Blade Runner Ridley Scott’s vanguard science-fiction epic from 1982 has been digitally tweaked in hundreds of ways, most of which will be noticed only by the most pious of fanboys. Mainly, the rerelease is a good excuse to indulge once more in Scott’s iconic and highly influential vision of a future Los Angeles choked by rain, neon, and cheap pleasure palaces, where Harrison Ford’s bounty hunter trolls the godforsaken urban landscape for those renegade “replicants.” Of course, there comes a steely-eyed brunette (Sean Young), who may be a replicant herself. It has always been difficult to discuss Blade Runner-one of the few genuine masterpieces of the forlorn 1980s-without focusing on its style, and yet it is a movie where style becomes content and vice versa, as the romantic fatalism of <2005>’40s film noir freely intermingles with the visionary imagination of Philip K. Dick. And yes, a sequel is said to be planned with an actual script written, though those rumors have been circulating for years. But if Ford can reprise Han Solo, why not Rick Deckard? (R) Brian Miller BRIAN MILLER Central Cinema, 1411 21st Ave., Seattle, WA 98122 $7-$9 Tuesday, December 30, 2014, 9:30 – 10:30pm
