I first saw Blade Runner at Chicago’s gorgeous Music Box Theatre in late 2007, when Ridley Scott released to theaters his “final cut” of the film ahead of the December DVD release.
It was unlike any film I’d seen before, and I loved it. I watched it again last week, and I love it even more. Intelligent science fiction is a tough combination—it’s all too easy for directors to forsake the story for special effects and futuristic gadgetry—but Blade Runner pulls it off in spades, and for that, it’s one of my very favorite films.