Blade Runner: The Final Cut
Not unlike replicants who treasure photos as tokens of their past, seeing Blade Runner: The Final Cut (2007) this weekend provoked a flood of memories related to my own history. I recall avidly reading about the film’s production as an 11-year-old special effects buff (despite the fact that I’m not a collector, I still have the original Cinefex issue devoted to the film), repeatedly watching it on video as a teenager in love with its cinematography, and more recently, enjoying its complex themes and critical reappraisal as an adult cinephile. Surely Boomer critics who grew up watching Ford, Hawks, and …
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