Blade Runner: The Director's Cut (1992) – 35mm

Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner opens on one of the most iconic shots in cinema history. An immense, futuristic cityscape, dominated by inconceivably huge skyscrapers, lit by constant eruptions of fire. Beneath the immensity of the skyscrapers, we find an urban jungle. Blade runner doesn’t just paint the broad strokes of its imagined future, but has an unmatched sense of detail. The film wants to draw our attention to every little detail: how the restaurants work, how people dress, how they communicate, how their homes look, and on, and on.

The film stars Harrison Ford in the role of a blade runner, a cop tasked with hunting down replicants, artificial people who have escaped from off-world colonies, who seek to infiltrate human society on earth. At the heart of Blade Runner, and perhaps the source of its cultural resonance, we find a dense rumination on mortality, existence, and above all, what it means to be human.

Ridley Scott

USA

1982 (original release) / 1992 (director's cut)

35mm

116 minutes

English language, Norwegian subtitles

Written by Olav Elias Riksheim