Blade Runner

A blend of science fiction and noir detective fiction Blade Runner (1982) was a box office and critical bust upon its initial exhibition but its unique postmodern production design became hugely influential within the sci-fi genre and the film gained a significant cult following that increased its stature. Harrison Ford stars as Rick Deckard a retired cop in Los Angeles circa 2019. L.A. has be a pan-cultural dystopia of corporate advertising pollution and flying automobiles as well as replicants human-like androids with short life spans built by the Tyrell Corporation for use in dangerous off-world colonization. Deckard's former job in the police department was as a talented blade runner a euphemism for detectives that hunt down and assassinate rogue replicants. Called before his one-time superior (M. Emmett Walsh) Deckard is forced back into active duty. A quartet of replicants led by Roy Batty (Rutger Hauer) has escaped and headed to Earth killing several humans in the process. After meeting with the eccentric Eldon Tyrell (Joe Turkel) creator of the replicants Deckard finds and eliminates Zhora (Joanna Cassidy) one of his targets. Attacked by another replicant Leon (Brion James) Deckard is about to be killed when he's saved by Rachael (Sean Young) Tyrell's assistant and a replicant who's unaware of her true nature. In the meantime Batty and his replicant pleasure model lover Pris (Darryl Hannah) use a dying inventor J.F. Sebastian (William Sanderson) to get close to Tyrell and murder him. Deckard tracks the pair to Sebastian's where a bloody and violent final confrontation between Deckard and Batty takes place on a skyscraper rooftop high above the city.In 1992 Ridley Scott released a popular director's cut that removed Deckard's narration added a dream sequence and excised a happy ending imposed by the res

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The Band of Horses

This Seattle-based band was formed from the ashes of the incredibly talented Carissa's Wierd [sic], whose mopey and self-deprecating songs were like some magical and baroque combination of the Magnetic Fields, Cat Power, and Leonard Cohen. Longtime friends of Iron and Wine, few fans in their native Pacific Northwest could understand why Carissa's weren't huge. But they weren't, and after three albums and few folks really caring, they naturally broke up. Band of Horses, led by ultra-charming CW bassist Ben Bridwell, is a remarkably different, though just as radically excellent, brand of indie-pop sulk. These songs are anthems to ambivalence, and Bridwell's lovely high-pitched trill will please any fan of Built to Spill, the Shins, and Modest Mouse. It takes a few listens to sink in, but Everything is transcendent, shimmering, layered, and smartass emo-pop fully ready for stadium saturation.

Guitarist/vocalist Ben Bridwell and bassist Mat Brooke formed Band Of Horses in 2004 after the dissolution of their nearly ten-year run in northwest melancholic darlings Carissa's Wierd. Carissa's Wierd trafficked in sadly beautiful orchestral pop, whose songs told unflinching stories of heartbreak and loss, leavened with defeatist humor. Band Of Horses rises from those ashes. Buoyed by Bridwell's warm, reverb-heavy vocals (which channel a strange brew of Wayne Coyne, Neil Young, and Doug Martsch), the group's woodsy, dreamy songs ooze with amorphous tension, longing, and hope. Both raggedly epic and delicately pensive, this is an album painted gorgeously in fragile highs and lows.

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