Part of Staff Picks and programmed by Kirk who says, “At a time when AI is transforming daily life at a rapid pace, the film questions the very things that we believe make us more human than machine. With its stunning cinematography by Roger Deakins and a score by Hans Zimmer, this modern sci-fi masterpiece must be seen on the big screen.”
Set against a mystifying dystopian backdrop 30 years after the original BLADE RUNNER film — 2049 follows Officer K (Ryan Gosling), a bioengineered human working for the LAPD who is tasked with hunting down old model replicants. When his investigation unearths a buried secret — one that could alter society’s balance — he’s led to Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford), a former blade runner who has been missing for decades. Winner at the 90th Academy Awards for Best Cinematography and Best Visual Effects — BLADE RUNNER 2049 is heralded as a hallmark of visual and audio cinematic ingenuity.
“As bold as the original BLADE RUNNER and even more beautiful…. Visually immaculate, swirling with themes as heart-rending as they are mind-twisting, 2049 is, without doubt, a good year. And one of 2017’s best.” —Dan Jolin, Empire Magazine (Feb 10, 2017)
“Doesn't just honor [BLADE RUNNER’s] legacy, but, arguably, surpasses it, with a smart, grimly lyrical script (by Hampton Fancher and Michael Green of the top-notch LOGAN); bleakly beautiful cinematography (by Roger Deakins); and an even deeper dive into questions of the soul.” —Michael O’Sullivan, Washington Post (Oct 1, 2017)
“Take a moment to absorb and interpret and appreciate the vibrant and gorgeous and sometimes brutal and mind-bending and occasionally incomprehensible hallucinatory epic that is BLADE RUNNER 2049, which stands with the likes of THE GODFATHER: PART II and TERMINATOR 2 and ALIEN as a sequel worthy of the original classic.” —Richard Roeper, Chicago Sun-Times (Oct 2, 2017)
“A visually breathtaking, long-fuse action movie whose unconventional thrills could be described as many things — from tantalizing to tedious — but never ‘artificially intelligent.’” —Peter Debruge, Variety (Sep 29, 2017)