The Manifesto and fightingtheboss studios present A weekly curated screening of classic and contemporary films

Volume 006: The Future Is Noir

featuring

BLADE RUNNER / 1982 / Ridley Scott / USA / 7pm

“A haunting, eerily prophetic mixture of science fiction and film noir, director Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner boasts one of the most astonishingly designed futures ever put on film – a dark, decaying Los Angeles circa 2019. Blade Runner is based on the novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by science fiction master Philip K. Dick. It stars Harrison Ford as Rick Deckard, a onetime ‘blade runner’, who is called out of retirement stop four homicidal ‘replicants’ – genetically engineered humans with superior strength and intellect who are used as slave labour on off-world colonies. Gorgeously designed, teeming with ideas about reality, memory, and mortality, Blade Runner is a groundbreaking motion picture. It is also universally acclaimed as one of the most highly influential science fiction films of the past 25 years.”

followed by

MINORITY REPORT / 2002 / Steven Spielberg / USA / 9:30pm

“Based on a short story by the late Philip K. Dick, this science fiction-film noir reflects the writer’s familiar preoccupation with themes of concealed identity and mind control. Tom Cruise stars as John Anderton, a Washington, D.C. detective in the year 2054. Anderton works for “Precrime,” a special unit of the police department that arrests murderers before they have committed the actual crime. Precrime bases its work on the visions of three psychics or “precogs” whose prophecies of future events are never in error. When Anderton discovers that he has been identified as the future killer of a man he’s never met, he is forced to become a fugitive from his own colleagues as he tries to uncover the mystery of the victim-to-be’s identity.”

Tuesday, April 28, 2009
358 Dufferin St., Toronto, Suite 104 (Map)
Programme starts at 7pm
$5 Suggested Donation
Popcorn included with the screenings

If you want to bring your own seating, blanket, sleeping bag, pillow, whatever, that is definitely encouraged!

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