Blade Runner

Blade Runner

Release Date

1982

Director

  • Ridley Scott

Cast

  • Harrison Ford
  • Rutger Hauer
  • Sean Young

A blade runner must pursue and try to terminate four replicants who stole a ship in space and have returned to Earth to find their creator.

In the not-too-distant future, Los Angeles and the surrounding area has become a dystopian wasteland, heavily industrialized and overcrowded. Genetically engineered humanoid beings known as replicants are manufactured by the powerful Tyrell Corporation for use in dangerous off-world colonization. Retired police officer Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford), whose job was to track down replicants and assassinate them, is informed that four have come to Earth illegally. Called before his one-time superior (M. Emmett Walsh), Deckard is forced back into active duty to find and destroy the rogue replicants. Ridley Scott’s neo-noir classic initially polarized critics, but has since come to be regarded as one of the greatest sci-fi films of all time.

Past Programs

2013

2014

The possibility of artificial people

Amherst Cinema, Amherst, MA

2015

Extraterrestrial Physics

Indiana University Cinema, Bloomington, IN

2017

2019

Dystopian 2019: Blade Runner vs. reality

Coolidge Corner Theatre, Brookline, MA

Envisioning the present

Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu, HI

2022

What's so special about us?

Ragtag Cinema, Columbia, MO

2023

AI and the Replicants

The Loft Cinema, Tucson, AZ

2024

A.I.: More human than human

Images Cinema, Williamstown, MA