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More human than human.

Hosted by Andrew Quinn and Darren Mooney, The 250 is a fortnightly trip through some of the best (and worst) movies ever made, as voted for by Internet Movie Database Users. New episodes are released every second Saturday at 6pm GMT, with the occasional bonus episode between them.

This time, Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner.

A science-fiction film noir set against the backdrop of Los Angeles 2019, Blade Runner is a cult classic interrogating questions of what it means to be human. Rick Deckard is a blade runner for the Los Angeles Police Department, a specialist tasked with tracking down artificial humans known as “replicants”, but who finds himself questioning his own humanity.

At time of recording, it was ranked the 138th best movie of all time on the Internet Movie Database.

Show Notes:

• Recorded 8th January 2017.
• Blade Runner at The Internet Movie Database.
• The IMDB 250 as it appeared at time of recording.
• Hampton Fancher interview with Jeffrey M. Anderson.
• Ridley Scott’s interview with Wired, September 2007.
• Rutger Hauer’s interview with The Cambridge Student, June 2013.
• Rutger Hauer’s interview with Radio Times, October 2015.
• Edward James Olmos’ interview with Dragon Con Daily, August 2008.
• Edward James Olmos’ interview with galactica.tv, July 2007.
• Costume designer Michael Kaplan interview with AnOther Magazine, October 2012.
• The A.V. Club on the history of the Bradbury Building in popular culture, July 2013.
• Harrison Ford talks to Moono about the production of Blade Runner, July 2007.
• Ridley Scott talks to BBC about the production of Blade Runner, September 2006.
• Blade Runner is the most sampled film ever.
• Blade Runner as watched by an artificial neural net.
• Rutger Hauer reads poetry.
• Rutger Hauer reads his own poetry to Den of Geek, April 2016.
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