In 1987, the Criterion Collection released BLADE RUNNER on laserdisc.
CTG: So where’s the blu-ray CC?
(via bbook)
“All those moments will be lost in time… like tears in rain… Time to die.”
CTG: I watched the Blu-ray version of the “final cut” last night. Looked like it could have been filmed yesterday. Just an amazing film through and through.
Winter Film Season is in Full Effect:
I have the luxury of a mini-vacation for the week between Christmas & New Year’s. I am going to take a relaxing angle and re-visit some classic films in their Blu-ray format (Can’t wait to see Blade Runner & Paris, Texas in all their visual glory) and I’m also checking out some titles that have escaped me from the past few years (mainly Meek’s Cutoff & I’ve Loved You So Long). My 1980’s list also encouraged me to re-visit Grave of the Fireflies & Au Revoir Les Enfants). I also plan on hitting up the theater to see Shame & We Need to Talk About Kevin. What films are you fellow Tumblr’s gearing up for this time of year? Let me know.
The Decades: Entry #3 – The 1980’s (1980-1989)
Bottom line, the 1980’s list came “easier” to me than the two previous lists. Why? There are plenty of excellent films left off of this list, but you would be hard pressed to name a single film ON the list that could (or should) be bumped off. These 10 films just flat out represent filmmaking at its finest. As always, comments are encouraged:
TOP 10:
10) Ran - Akira Kurosawa (1985)
Recently, a friend of mine was surveying my DVD collection and stumbled upon Rashomon. He turned to me and said “You know you’re a film snob when you own Kurosawa movies”. I found the comment so completely off-putting. When did Kurosawa become an avant-garde name? I can’t think of a more influential filmmaker (outside of Hitchcock and Tarkovski) in regards to the scope of visual storytelling; and yet the “everyday moviegoer” views him as an art-house fixture. How did we get so far off the path as a filmgoing society?
9) Amadeus - Milos Forman (1984)
Hyperbole aside, one the greatest pieces of historical fiction ever committed to film. F. Murray Abraham is of course fantastic, but when I revisit the film, it’s Tom Hulce’s performance that astonishes me on several different levels. His combination of petulance and genius is so calculated that I find myself always seeking the small details in which he portrayed such a complicated and brilliant man.
(via: hitflix.com) HIS ‘HELL’S ANGELS’ PROJECT SOUNDS MUCH MORE PROMISING ‘Tony? William Holden’s in the parking lot, and he wants a word with you.’ (Credit: Warner Home Video) Ah. I see Tony Scott wasn’t content to let his brother ruin my day.The Scott Bros. Are On A Rampage
Tony Scott’s planning a massacre of Sam Peckinpah’s ‘The Wild Bunch’
The notion of remaking “The Wild Bunch” is not a new one. There’s been an ongoing conversation about it for a while now. In January, Borys Kit did a nice rundown of the internal remake conversations going on at Warner Bros., and I lost my damn fool mind about the notion of this particular title going in front of the camera again. It’s asinine for all the reasons I explained before. Even with Brian Helgeland, a very smart guy, writing the remake, I just can’t see it.
Mike Flemming at Deadline is reporting that Ridley Scott has signed on to direct and produce another Blade Runner. There is no clear indication if this is a sequel, prequel or reimagining of the original film (based on Philip K Dick’s Do Android’s Dream of Electric Sheep?)
Blade Runner is one of my favorite films of all time (I even read the book and reviewed it for you last year) so it’s hard for me to wrap my head around this. I’m happy that if anyone is going to touch the Blade Runner… franchise(?) that it’s Ridley Scott. But it seems like a weird choice.
Sure Scott has released a few versions of the original film since it was released, and it does get better with each version but is there more left in that world? Do we need it? Are we going to see an old Deckard? Can he get old? Was that last question a spoiler? Or was it placed there just to make you think about the ending?
At least one thing is clear, I need to watch Blade Runner again. If we need this film or not, I may as well just write Ridley Scott a check right now. I am going to see this movie.
CTG: Oh me oh my, I feel like it was just yesterday that I was seeing Blade Runner: The Final Cut at the Ziegfeld. I think it’s time for Scott to finally walk away from his crown jewel. That being said, if anyone was gonna touch it, it should be him, and I would be at the midnight screening.
