I just learned that the prestigious Uptown Theater here in Washington, DC is featuring the theatrical re-release of arguably the single most influential science fiction film in the past 40 years - Blade Runner.
It famously bombed when it premiered in the summer of 1982, my 11th year on this planet, no doubt because it ran up against this little guy. Ouch.
It famously bombed when it premiered in the summer of 1982, my 11th year on this planet, no doubt because it ran up against this little guy. Ouch.
I saw this film on the big screen back in 1995 at the University of Virginia's college cinema. I think we had the director's cut - the 1992 update without the voice over - but I can't remember for sure. I expect this new release has been upgraded visually and sonically. That's thrilling. Seriously, the fanboy in me in dying. I saw Ridley Scott's other sci-fi masterpiece - Alien - at the Uptown in 2003. The theater was cold because the heat was broken. I recall that genuinely enhanced the chills coming from the screen.
I saw the re-release of Hitchcock's Vertigo at the Uptown back in 1996, shortly after I moved to DC. Very exciting! I've got Elizabethan drama Tuesday night at the Shakespeare theater, Mozart on Thursday, a Library of Congress docent tour Saturday morning, and a Kafka play Saturday afternoon.
This agenda would be hard even for a Nexus-6 replicant, but I'm gonna pull it off!
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