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Entries Tagged as 'Philip K. Dick'

Blade Runner (1982, Ridley Scott), the final cut

January 9th, 2008 No Comments

I’m having trouble working up the enthusiasm for a Blade Runner post. Not because it isn’t a great film, but because I don’t really want to engage in this “Final Cut” business, which I guess I’m going to do anyway. I’ll get it out of the way… Ridley Scott’s “Final Cut” is, so far as […]

A Scanner Darkly (2006, Richard Linklater)

August 18th, 2006 No Comments

For a while–during the film–A Scanner Darkly is a great film. It sets itself up as a significant examination of man’s identity and its relation to the people around him. It’s based on Philip K. Dick and that theme is one Dick used at least one other time (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?). When […]