Double Feature: Blade Runner & The City of Lost Children at the Guild Cinema
Monday-Friday, December 26-30
Blade Runner shows at 3:30 & 8:30 pm each day.
Directed by Ridley Scott – 1982 – 117m.
The City of Lost Children shows at 6:00 pm only each day.
Directed by Dir. Jean-Pierre Jeunet & Marc Caro – 1995 – 112m – France – In French with English subtitles – No Matinees
BLADE RUNNER: Visually spectacular, intensely action-packed and powerfully prophetic since its debut, Blade Runner returns in Ridley Scott’s definitive Final Cut, including extended scenes and never-before-seen special effects. In a signature role as 21st-century detective Rick Deckard, Harrison Ford brings his masculine-yet-vulnerable presence to this stylish noir thriller. In a future of high-tech possibility soured by urban and social decay, Deckard hunts for fugitive, murderous replicants – and is drawn to a mystery woman whose secrets may undermine his soul. This incredible version features the definitive Final Cut of Ridley Scott’s steampunk/cyber urban classic based on the Phillip K. Dick novel (Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep) with a mesmerizing Vangelis score!
“The single most immersive and tactile world ever created for the cinema.” – Tom Huddleston, Time Out
“This remains an astonishing achievement: a Dystopian sci-fi epic that is also one of the best film noirs of recent times.” – Geoffrey Macnab, Independent (UK)
“Another chance to savour its pure unhurried strangeness, beginning with that bizarre vista of 2019 LA, with four tall buildings mysteriously belching fire-plumes into the night like apocalyptic oil rigs.” – Peter Bradshaw, Guardian
THE CITY OF LOST CHILDREN: One of the most unique and visually stunning films in years, The City of Lost Children concerns a malevolent scientist who attempts to unlock the mystery of dreaming. To this end, he kidnaps young children and studies them as they sleep. From Jean-Pierre Jeunet, the director of Amelie and Alien: Resurrection, starring Ron Perlman, Briac Barthelemy, Guillaume Billod-Morel, Geneviève Brunet and Marc Caro.
“One of the most fantastic (in the literal sense) films to have emerged from Europe in the past 50 years; a masterpiece of dark invention.” – Film4
“On visual terms alone, The City of Lost Children is something of a masterpiece, using state-of-the-art physical, optical and digital special effects to stretch cinematic boundaries.” – Jeff Shannon, Seattle Times
“Set in a wondrously seedy waterfront world populated with runaway children and grotesque, sinister adults, it glistens with dense fantasies, technological feats that make the catch-phrase “state of the art” seem antique.” – Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune
The Guild Cinema is located at 3405 Central Avenue NE, in the Nob Hill area.
Website: GuildCinema.com