Blade Runner (Ridley Scott, 1982)
Can a machine have a soul? One of the greatest achievements in Science Fiction History.
“I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time… like tears in rain… Time to die.”
don’t shoot.
Gena Rowlands, John Adames - Gloria (1980)
john cassavetes: “On every film that we’ve ever made, she has enormous trepidations before she goes out and acts, but it’s not because she can’t act, but because she doesn’t know whether she’s capable of speaking for a bunch of women who are childless, and she wants to represent them truthfully. She doesn’t want to represent them as caricatures, she wants to represent the people she’s playing with some authenticity as to what they are feeling, what they would feel in a certain circumstance and in a way that not many actresses do. She’s an artist. And her holdbacks are her pain. I mean, she went through a tremendous amount of pain thinking she’s not good enough to play these things. Once she starts going she forgets “I’m not good enough” and the scenes hold her in check and she just keeps on going as long as she can.”
Apocalypse Later, Surf Now (by Keith Turner)
