BLADE RUNNER | Film Screening: Ridley Scott Season

Join us for Ridley Scott's future noir classic BLADE RUNNER on the big screen.

"A visually remarkable, achingly human sci-fi masterpiece." Metacritic.

1982's Bade Runner is a mysterious, neo-noir science fiction film directed by Ridley Scott, starring Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, and Edward James Olmos, ibased on Philip K. Dick's 1968 novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? The film is set in a dystopian future Los Angeles of 2019, in which synthetic humans known as replicants are bio-engineered by the powerful Tyrell Corporation to work on space colonies. When a fugitive group of advanced replicants led by Roy Batty (Hauer) escapes back to Earth, burnt-out cop Rick Deckard (Ford) reluctantly agrees to hunt them down.

The film's soundtrack, composed by Vangelis, was nominated in 1982 for a BAFTA and a Golden Globe as best original score. Blade Runner became a cult film, and has since come to be regarded as one of the greatest science fiction films. Hailed for its production design depicting a high-tech but decaying future, the film is often regarded as both a leading example of neo-noir cinema and a foundational work of the cyberpunk genre. It has influenced many science fiction films, video games, anime, and television series. In 1993, it was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress.

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Our Filmmaker Focus series brings some of the finest directors works to the big screen in Sunderland, and what better place to start than with South Shields born Ridley Scott, whose career has been thrilling cinema audiences for close to 50 years.

Screenings are open to the public and are free, though cinemagoers are encouraged to donate to support future screenings.

This screening is brought to you by Film Hub North as part of the Spotlight Sunderland project which aims to develop and build film opportunities for audiences in the City.

Host or Publisher University of Sunderland