Blade Runner [Final Cut] ~ 1st November 2015
Sunday 1st November at 7.00 p.m.
Admission: £3.50 ~ all seats unreserved. Doors open 30 min before screening.
Certificate 15 ~ 112 minutes.
Director: Ridley Scott
Starring: Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer and Sean Young
It’s been so long now since Ridley Scott’s sci-fi thriller Blade Runner was first released (1982) that the futuristic setting – 2019 – no longer seems far off.
The best version to see is Blade Runner: The Final Cut – as the perfectionist director’s definitive cut is called — which is bleaker than the original but a more wonderfully immersive and true film.
The film is based on Philip K Dick’s 1968 novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, and is set in Los Angeles. The ‘hero’ is a detective called Deckard (expertly played by Harrison Ford), who hunts down androids – in the film they are called replicants – who have escaped from their slave jails on outer-space colonies and are trying to blend in back on Earth. Rutger Hauer’s android Roy Batty is one of the most dangerous, yet appealing, ‘monsters’ in cinema.
Doors open 30 min. before screenings for Front Row and Sunday cinema.
Ricks Café is open for tea, coffee and refreshments on Sundays for 30 min. prior to screenings.