Happy 30th Birthday Blade Runner!

On June 25th 1982, Blade Runner was released in the USA to a deafening chorus of ‘Meh’.

Hobbled by a studio-mandated happy ending and pointless voice-over narration from a very bored-sounding Harrison Ford, it would be some time before Ridley Scott’s classic would be fully appreciated.

Now of course, the film is rightly regarded as one of THE all-time great entries in the sci-fi genre, and countless words have been used to discuss the movie’s intricacies, including this newly published piece by Nathan Hardisty.

Rather than then let me waffle on, why not head over to this page at the BFI, which includes a brief write-up, a nice collection of stills and video from March 2009′s ‘Blade Runner’ day, where guest of honour Ridley Scott shares his thoughts about the radical influence of the film on architecture, fashion and design, before being awarded a BFI Fellowship for his outstanding contribution to film culture.