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SF URBAN FILM FEST

Panel Discussion: Cinema and the City

SFUFF 2015 / Panel

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Panelists: Colin Marshall, Pedro Lange Churión

The 2019 Los Angeles of Ridley Scott’s film Blade Runner has, for nearly 35 years, endured as a vision of the urban future. Its crowded streets and babel of languages beneath constant rain and the glow of skyscraper video screens once stood for dystopia itself, but might Blade Runner urbanism still have something to teach our cities?

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    Blade Runner

    Ridley Scott / SFUFF 2015, Narrative / USA / 1982 / 117 mins
    This 1982 Neo Noir Dystopian Classic depicts a world (set in 2019 LA) where a young Harrison Ford is tasked with chasing down and destroying escaped “replicants” – Humanoid Clones created as slaves, with no rights, and strictly forbidden from existing on the homeworld – Earth.

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