C-Beams Glittering in the Dark: A Conversation with Cooper Lee Bombardier
Cooper Lee Bombardier discusses his first book, PASS WITH CARE: MEMOIRS.
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Posts Tagged: Blade Runner
Swinging Modern Sounds #84: Music for Spaceships
Perhaps space is an inevitable resting place for music of this kind, because time is completely different when conceived of in the vastness of space, and not only because of relativity.
...moreThe Mystical Dick
What neither Scott nor most audiences of Blade Runner knew was that Dick’s mind really was every bit as far out as what was on the screen, if not more so. Philip K. Dick barely lived to see one movie made of his books. Here is how it went down.
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The Rumpus Interview with Manuel Gonzales
Manuel Gonzales talks about his new novel, The Regional Office is Under Attack!, transitioning from nonprofit work to teaching, and how to zig when a trope wants you to zag.
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Orphans by Ben Tanzer
Brian Gresko reviews Ben Tanzer’s ORPHANS today in The Rumpus Book Reviews.
...moreBlade Runner Take Two
Blade Runner is making a comeback. It was twenty-nine years ago that Ridley Scott directed the awesome dystopian sci-fi film, based on the Philip K. Dick novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Now he is making either a prequel or a sequel (the filmmakers are still withholding this info). Either way, it will be […]
...moreCut, Chop, Re-release: Director’s Cuts
Cinema may face a far less foreboding fate than, say, our country’s print journalism, but the medium still seems to be undergoing a transformation. In Slate Magazine’s “Death by a Thousand Director’s Cuts,” Jonathan Rosenbaum reflects on the state of cinema in an age where people seem unsatisfied by original editions of material. Blade Runner, […]
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