Blade Runner (1982): Film Noir UK
Fri 09 Sept
|Curzon Cinema & Arts, Clevedon


Time & Location
09 Sept 2022, 19:30
Curzon Cinema & Arts, Clevedon, 46 Old Church Rd, Clevedon BS21 6NN, UK
About the Event
Perhaps more than any other film, Ridley Scott’s iconic sci-fi classic has gripped audiences and inspired passionate and fierce debate for the past 40 years. Based on the novel “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” by science fiction master Philip K Dick, Blade Runner is a haunting look at reality, memory and mortality set against the dystopian future of LA, 2019.
Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford) is exemplary as the world weary detective and former “blade runner” called out of retirement to hunt and kill four “replicants” led by Roy (Rutger Hauer). These genetically altered humans with superior strength and intellects have returned to earth on a killing spree, determined to meet their maker, Dr. Eldon Tyrell (Joe Turkel).
Deckard’s investigation leads across the glittering heights and disintegrating depths of Ridley Scott’s fantastically imagined metropolis – filled with pyramids, enormous neon billboards and spinner cars amid unimaginable overcrowding and a constant…