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Documentary on Blade Runner presented by Mark Kermode, aired on Channel 4 in the year 2000.

"Not all the movie's predictions have come true. The cityscape was littered with advertising hoardings and neon displays - many of which related to companies which have since suffered the so-called curse of Blade Runner. "

"I didn't 'get' the story at all"

"Years later, I was having lunch with Ridley, and when the conversation turned to inspiration, we were both very clear about our debt to the Metal Hurlant [the original Heavy Metal magazine] school of the '70s--Moebius and the others. But it was also obvious that Scott understood the importance of information density to perceptual overload. When Blade Runner works best, it induces a lyrical sort of information sickness, that quintessentially postmodern cocktail of ecstasy and dread. It was what cyberpunk was supposed to be all about."

"The Contributions of Ridley Scott's film Blade Runner to the Landscapes of the Twenty-First Century"

"The representations of Los Angeles (as endless suburb; a physical embodiment of postmodern/post-Fordist decentralisation) and New York (as high density modernist metropolis) both have utopian and dystopian elements. Blade Runner's strength is that it anticipated many of the anxieties surrounding postmodern futures, and did so at a very early stage."

1. Beyond Blade Runner 2. Scanscape 3. Free Fire Zone 4. The Half-Moons of Repression 5. The Neighbors are Watching 6. Mini-Citadels and Geroncrats 7. Parallel Universes 8. Hollywood(s): Powers of Simulation 9. The Toxic Rim 10. Before We Wake...