The 45th New York Film Festival
September 28 – October 14, 2007
Twenty-eight films will be showcased at the 45th New York Film Festival. Five films will screen in NYFF's retrospectives including the "definitive cut" of "Blade Runner" by Ridley Scott, marking the film's 25th anniversary.
RETROSPECTIVE SCREENINGS:
"Blade Runner: The Definitive Cut," directed by Ridley Scott, US, 1982/2007 (Warner Brothers)
Philip K. Dick's tale of rogue androids on the loose, hunted down by
ex-cop Rick Deckard, offered a vision of a time in which the line
between the human and the non-human has become perilously thin. Ridley
Scott's masterpiece starring Harrison Ford now seems not only to have
anticipated our future but also, with some of the most extraordinary
sets ever, to have designed it. So much of the world today appears,
well...just so Blade Runner. To commemorate its 25th anniversary, Scott
has gone back to the film, correcting a few details and coming up with
a version of the film that he feels is closest to what he had always
intended to make. One of the greatest American films of the '80s has
gotten, remarkably, even better.
The specific date and time has not yet been revealed. As soon as it is known...I'll pass it along.