RECOMMENDED There’s enough to say about Ridley Scott’s haunting dystopian 1982 meditation on what it means to be human to fill 3.4% of the Internet at any given time, and even before Warners’ December drop of a doorstop of a five-DVD, five-version box set, “Blade Runner: The Final Cut” has garnered a groundswell of attention. At first, it seemed, only Los Angeles’ NuArt and Manhattan’s Ziegfeld were getting a high-definition booking of a version that finally restored, tweaked and refined the melancholy story (from a Philip K. Dick short story, adapted by Hampton Fancher and David Webb Peoples) to the satisfaction of Scott’s ample imagination. But the movie’s being booked across the country now, in both digital and 35mm formats; it’s an essential treat. (Ray Pride)
Time Bandit: Gaspar Noé on "Irreversible: Straight Cut" Noé's brutal, crushing punishing-of-the-innocent “Irreversible" came out in 2002. Twenty-plus years later, we have the American release, which twists the story into a form that was never planned: linear, chronological order.
Heart: A Review of Soul The real world is soulful, too, in Pixar's bountiful life of the mind.
Seeing The Elephant: A Review Of Babylon The boisterous, brawling yet melancholy "Babylon," is a variation on film history, but more drawing for drama. It's gaudy and mean, celebratory and sorrowful.
