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Blade Runner

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Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
On Movies & Media

Blade Runner 2049 (2017)

"More Human Than Human." "That is our motto," said Tyrell, head of the android-designing Tyrell Corporation. And so began Blade Runner, a movie in which our human hero, Deckard the Replicant Hunter, began to wonder how human he really was, and in which his targets — ferocious
12 Oct 2017 5 min read
I'm Blade-running behind
Film Forum

I'm Blade-running behind

I'm traveling at the moment, so I'll have to catch the most important sequel of the decade after everyone else has seen it. But here are some reviews worth reading.
06 Oct 2017 2 min read
On Movies & Media

"... like tears in rain ..."

In today's mail, I received a note from a reader named Trace: ... I am reading Through a Screen Darkly and thought I'd share a short story with you. When I was about 20 years old I was watching the movie Blade Runner. Near the end of
23 Nov 2007 1 min read
On Books & Writing

Comparing Robert Bresson and Flannery O'Connor

The new issue of Senses of Cinema sounds is a feast of thought-provoking essays. Not only does it have a feature on the long, slow emergence of Blade Runner as a classic, but it features four essays on Robert Bresson... including one that asks us to consider the correlation of
13 May 2007 1 min read
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