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Most of today was spent on Disc 4 of the Ultimate Until the Next One Blade Runner Collector's Edition, but I'm not going to count it as a film.
"The Electric Dreamer: Remembering Philip K. Dick" - includes a bit more of the filmed footage of PKD used in the Arena documentary, "A Day in the Afterlife". Familiar faces are Aldiss, Powers, Blaylock, Lethem, Rickmann but not Williams, Sutin or Jeter. Aldiss makes a claim for literature.
"Sacrificial Sheep: The Novel vs. The Film": points out the fundamental differences but skates over the Rachel as seducer vs rape victim switch.
"Philip K. Dick: The Blade Runner Interviews": Sammon's 1980/81? interviews about the film.
"Signs of the Times: Graphic Design" designing graphics.
"Fashion Forward: Wardrobe & Styling" designing clothes
Screen Tests: Rachel & Pris - not of Sean Young and Darryl Hannah but rejected actors
"The Light That Burns: Remembering Jordan Cronenweth" - doc on the lighting camera man - but what else did he do? Name a single bloody film. Compare. Contrast.
Deleted & Alternate Scenes: boils down to a 45 minute version of the film - a tears in the rain opening credits, a very ropey voiceover, a couple of vsiits to Dave Holden, different ways of briefing Deckard, and more driving off into the sunset.
1982 Promotional Featurettes - Syd Meads shows us through the keyhole, a piece for a convention with Ridley Didley reading a card badly and silent footage of the set.
Trailers & TV Spots - mercifully few - Cider House Rules comes with eleven versions of its trailer that are barely distinguishable and a couple that are.
"Promoting Dystopia: Rendering the Poster Art" - talking about doing the poster, and the art used on the book.
"Deck-A-Rep: The True Nature of Rick Deckard". Remember that replicants are stronger, smarter and have developed emotion? Deckard doesn't fit any of those. On the other hand, Gaff does say "You've done a man's job" which is ironic. Screw the unicorn.
"Nexus Generation: Fans & Filmmakers" various filmmakers that explain they have been influenced by the film without mentioning anything that has been influenced. Or showing any clips.
There are apparently pictures and galleries, which I've not perused. What strikes me is a) much of this is a set of offcuts from the documentary, b) PKD is the only person to say anything derogatory about the film (although Fancher is throwing his toys out the pram) and c) the film exists in a vacuum. Alien is mentioned, and some of Ford's earlier work, but Blade Runner is the first sf art film (The Man who Fell to Earth? 2001? Alphaville?) and the first grubby future (Dark Star? Solaris?) It draws on noir, no one mentions the films The Maltese Falcon or The Big Sleep as obvious sources. A hard bitten, hard drinking, hard living, depressed hero is something new. Aside from all those figures in Fredric Brown novels and half the noir films ever made.
Still to come: The Final Cat. Joyness abounds.
"The Electric Dreamer: Remembering Philip K. Dick" - includes a bit more of the filmed footage of PKD used in the Arena documentary, "A Day in the Afterlife". Familiar faces are Aldiss, Powers, Blaylock, Lethem, Rickmann but not Williams, Sutin or Jeter. Aldiss makes a claim for literature.
"Sacrificial Sheep: The Novel vs. The Film": points out the fundamental differences but skates over the Rachel as seducer vs rape victim switch.
"Philip K. Dick: The Blade Runner Interviews": Sammon's 1980/81? interviews about the film.
"Signs of the Times: Graphic Design" designing graphics.
"Fashion Forward: Wardrobe & Styling" designing clothes
Screen Tests: Rachel & Pris - not of Sean Young and Darryl Hannah but rejected actors
"The Light That Burns: Remembering Jordan Cronenweth" - doc on the lighting camera man - but what else did he do? Name a single bloody film. Compare. Contrast.
Deleted & Alternate Scenes: boils down to a 45 minute version of the film - a tears in the rain opening credits, a very ropey voiceover, a couple of vsiits to Dave Holden, different ways of briefing Deckard, and more driving off into the sunset.
1982 Promotional Featurettes - Syd Meads shows us through the keyhole, a piece for a convention with Ridley Didley reading a card badly and silent footage of the set.
Trailers & TV Spots - mercifully few - Cider House Rules comes with eleven versions of its trailer that are barely distinguishable and a couple that are.
"Promoting Dystopia: Rendering the Poster Art" - talking about doing the poster, and the art used on the book.
"Deck-A-Rep: The True Nature of Rick Deckard". Remember that replicants are stronger, smarter and have developed emotion? Deckard doesn't fit any of those. On the other hand, Gaff does say "You've done a man's job" which is ironic. Screw the unicorn.
"Nexus Generation: Fans & Filmmakers" various filmmakers that explain they have been influenced by the film without mentioning anything that has been influenced. Or showing any clips.
There are apparently pictures and galleries, which I've not perused. What strikes me is a) much of this is a set of offcuts from the documentary, b) PKD is the only person to say anything derogatory about the film (although Fancher is throwing his toys out the pram) and c) the film exists in a vacuum. Alien is mentioned, and some of Ford's earlier work, but Blade Runner is the first sf art film (The Man who Fell to Earth? 2001? Alphaville?) and the first grubby future (Dark Star? Solaris?) It draws on noir, no one mentions the films The Maltese Falcon or The Big Sleep as obvious sources. A hard bitten, hard drinking, hard living, depressed hero is something new. Aside from all those figures in Fredric Brown novels and half the noir films ever made.
Still to come: The Final Cat. Joyness abounds.
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