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Restored New 35mm Print!
BLADE RUNNER: FINAL CUT at 10:00
(1982) dir Ridley Scott w/Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, Edward James Olmos, M. Emmet Walsh, Daryl Hannah, William Sanderson, Brion James [118 min]
Please note: no late show on Fri 7/4 - enjoy the fireworks!
We are so thrilled that Ridley Scott’s hands-down-classic has returned to the big screen with a 21st century makeover that we’re celebrating with a July 4th return engagement. With restored picture and sound and Scott revisiting the material to clean up some rough edges and redo some effects, BLADE RUNNER: FINAL CUT is the definitive version of a film that has had many lives.
The story remains the same throughout all versions however, Harrison Ford stars as Deckard, a futuristic detective who specializes in a chasing down ‘replicants’ – lifelike androids designed to live for a brief period of time and then ‘die’ so as not to rival their human masters. Deckard is hired to track down a particularly da
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