Blade Runner [HD] [5 Discs] [Complete Collector's Edition] DVD

Blade Runner
A blend of science fiction and noir detective fiction, Blade Runner (1982) was a box office and critical bust upon its initial exhibition, but its unique postmodern production design became hugely influential within the sci-fi genre, and the film gained a significant cult following that increased its stature. Harrison Ford stars as Rick Deckard, a retired cop in Los Angeles circa 2019. L.A. has become a pan-cultural dystopia of corporate advertising, pollution and flying automobiles, as well as replicants, human-like androids with short life spans built by the Tyrell Corporation for use in dangerous off-world colonization. Deckard's former job in the police department was as a talented blade runner, a euphemism for detectives that hunt down and assassinate rogue replicants. Called before his one-time superior (M. Emmett Walsh), Deckard is forced back into active duty. A quartet of replicants led by Roy Batty (Rutger Hauer) has escaped and headed to Earth, killing several humans in the process. After meeting with the eccentric Eldon Tyrell (Joe Turkel), creator of the replicants, Deckard finds and eliminates Zhora (Joanna Cassidy), one of his targets. Attacked by another replicant, Leon (Brion James), Deckard is about to be killed when he's saved by Rachael (Sean Young), Tyrell's assistant and a replicant who's unaware of her true nature. In the meantime, Batty and his replicant pleasure model lover, Pris (Darryl Hannah) use a dying inventor, J.F. Sebastian (William Sanderson) to get close to Tyrell and murder him. Deckard tracks the pair to Sebastian's, where a bloody and violent final confrontation between Deckard and Batty takes place on a skyscraper rooftop high above the city. In 1992, Ridley Scott released a popular director's cut that removed Deckard's narration, added a dream sequence, and excised a happy ending imposed by the results of test screenings; these legendary behind-the-scenes battles were chronicled in a 1996 tome, Future Noir: The Making of Blade Runner by Paul M. Sammon. ~ Karl Williams, All Movie Guide

Cast Harrison Ford as Rick Deckard Rutger Hauer as Roy Batty Sean Young as Rachael Edward James Olmos as Gaff M. Emmet Walsh as Harry Bryant Daryl Hannah as Pris William Sanderson as J.F. Sebastian Brion James as Leon Joe Turkel as Tyrell Joanna Cassidy as Zhora James Hong as Chew Morgan Paull as Holden Kevin Thompson as Bear John E. Allen as Kaiser Hy Pyke as Taffey Lewis

Crew David Snyder - Art Director Marci Liroff - Casting Jane Feinberg - Casting Mike Fenton - Casting Michael Kaplan - Costume Designer Charles Knode - Costume Designer Newt Arnold - First Assistant Director Ridley Scott - Director Terry Rawlings - Editor Hampton Fancher - Executive Producer Brian Kelly - Executive Producer Vangelis - Composer (Music Score) Marvin Westmore - Makeup Lawrence G. Paull - Production Designer Jordan S. Cronenweth - Cinematographer Michael Deeley - Producer Bud Yorkin - Producer Linda de Scenna - Set Designer Louis Mann - Set Designer Lawrence G. Paull - Set Designer Peg Cummings - Set Designer Gregory Pickrell - Set Designer Thomas Roysden - Set Designer William Ladd Skinner - Set Designer Charles Breen - Set Designer Bud Alper - Sound/Sound Designer David Dryer - Special Effects Supervisor Richard Yuricich - Special Effects Supervisor Douglas Trumbull - Special Effects Supervisor David Peoples - Screenwriter Darryl Ponicsan - Screenwriter Hampton Fancher - Screenwriter Philip Barberio - Visual Effects Philip K. Dick - Short Story Author

Blade Runner
Critics and audiences didn't care for it in 1982, but Ridley Scott's Blade Runner has since risen from cult object to classic of postmodern science fiction. A dystopian view of the future as a decaying, nostalgia-ridden junk culture, it features enormous neon billboards, ad blimps, and soaring Mayan temple-esque skyscrapers, evoking an infernal consumer society divided between those divinely living in the clouds and the multi-cultural exploited masses inhabiting the permanently dank streets. Only the robot "skin job" replicants understand the value of life and freedom. As Deckard's search for the replicants becomes a philosophical rumination on man, machine, and life, Blade Runner's striking production design and visual effects (supervised by FX maestro Douglas Trumbull) underline the cost to humanity of technology-obsessed late capitalism. Blade Runner's increasing stature merited the 10th anniversary release of the "Director's Cut," which rendered the film even more evocatively ambiguous by adding a brief unicorn dream and eliminating the studio-mandated voice-over narration and tacked-on "happy" ending. ~ Lucia Bozzola, All Movie Guide
 

Charles Knode: British Academy Awards, Best Costume Design (winner) David Dryer: Academy, Best Visual Effects (nominated) David Snyder: Academy, Best Art Direction (nominated) Douglas Trumbull: Academy, Best Visual Effects (nominated) Jordan S. Cronenweth: British Academy Awards, Best Cinematography (winner) Jordan S. Cronenweth: L.A. Film Critics Association, Best Cinematography (winner) Lawrence G. Paull: Academy, Best Art Direction (nominated) Lawrence G. Paull: British Academy Awards, Best Production Design/Art Direction (winner) Linda de Scenna: Academy, Best Art Direction (nominated) Michael Kaplan: British Academy Awards, Best Costume Design (winner) Richard Yuricich: Academy, Best Visual Effects (nominated) Vangelis: Golden Globe, Best Original Score (nominated)

Las Vegas Film Critics, Best DVD (winner) Library of Congress, U.S. National Film Registry (winner)

General Specifications: Language Options: English, French Subtitle Options: English, French, Spanish, Japanese, KO Sound Processing: DD2: Dolby Digital Stereo Additional Features: Definitive documentary days: making Blade Runner - incorporating outtakes, deleted scenes, and all-new interviews - and a bonus enhancement archive DVD of extra, rare vintage and new material DVD Aspect Ratio: 2.40:1: 2.40:1 MPAA Rating: R DVD Discs Included: 5 DVD Sides: 5 DVD DVD Region Code: Content Length: 578 min