Date and Time for this Past Event
- Sat, Aug 19, 2023 - Thu, Aug 24, 2023
Details
Special Features: Screening as part of AFI’s Night at the Movies: A Look Back. Presented in Association with ArcLight Cinemas.
Preceded by a recorded introduction by Harrison Ford filmed in 2013 as part of AFI's Night at the Movies program at ArcLight Cinemas’ famed Cinerama Dome location in Los Angeles.
Los Angeles, 2019, is a squalid, sprawling metropolis, overdeveloped and overpopulated. Harrison Ford is Rick Deckard, a detective on the "blade runner" unit, charged with hunting down and "retiring" replicants — humanlike androids created to toil on off-world colonies. His latest assignment: six Nexus 6 models who have mutinied and returned to Earth to take action against their creators at the Tyrell Corporation. Ford is superb as the existentially weary Deckard, as is Rutger Hauer as the charismatic leader of the replicants, Daryl Hannah as tempestuous replicant Pris and Sean Young as a Tyrell Corporation secretary who's both more and less than she seems. The acclaimed soundtrack, which memorably combines classical melodic composition with futuristic electronic synthesizers, is by the great Greek composer Vangelis. DIR Ridley Scott; SCR Hampton Fancher, David Webb Peoples, from the novel "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick; PROD Michael Deeley. U.S., 1982/2007, color, 117 min. RATED R