Four Weeks of Neo-Noir: Blade Runner
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Four Weeks of Neo-Noir: Blade Runner
📅 Thursday, September 10th | 🕗 8:00 PM | 📍 TicTic
Week two goes back to where a lot of this genre's visual language actually started. Harrison Ford plays Rick Deckard, a "blade runner" sent to hunt down four replicants - engineered beings built to be indistinguishable from humans - who've slipped illegally back into a soaked, neon-lit Los Angeles of 2019. Ridley Scott built the film from Philip K. Dick's novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, fusing hardboiled detective conventions with a future that still doesn't look like anywhere else on screen.
The critical reversal here is one of the odder stories in film history: this bombed at the box office and got torn apart by several major critics on release in 1982. By the time Scott's "Final Cut" landed 25 years later, the same paper that once called it a failure was putting it in the canon. Worth sitting with that gap while you watch it.
"An unparalleled visual achievement."
- Empire
"A timeless sci-fi classic…an overwhelming experience."
- The Guardian
🎟 Free Entry & Popcorn – Arrive early for sofa, bed, or beanbag seating.
IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083658/
Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/film/blade-runner/
📅 Thursday, September 10th | 🕗 8:00 PM | 📍 TicTic
Week two goes back to where a lot of this genre's visual language actually started. Harrison Ford plays Rick Deckard, a "blade runner" sent to hunt down four replicants - engineered beings built to be indistinguishable from humans - who've slipped illegally back into a soaked, neon-lit Los Angeles of 2019. Ridley Scott built the film from Philip K. Dick's novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, fusing hardboiled detective conventions with a future that still doesn't look like anywhere else on screen.
The critical reversal here is one of the odder stories in film history: this bombed at the box office and got torn apart by several major critics on release in 1982. By the time Scott's "Final Cut" landed 25 years later, the same paper that once called it a failure was putting it in the canon. Worth sitting with that gap while you watch it.
"An unparalleled visual achievement."
- Empire
"A timeless sci-fi classic…an overwhelming experience."
- The Guardian
🎟 Free Entry & Popcorn – Arrive early for sofa, bed, or beanbag seating.
IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083658/
Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/film/blade-runner/
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TicTic តិចៗ, Langka Lane (Lane behind Patio Hotel), Boeng Keng Kang Ti Muoy, Chamkarmon, Phnom Penh, Cambodia 120102, Cambodia
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