Past Film/Video | Classics

Blade Runner: The Final Cut

(Ridley Scott, 1982/2007)

101 Films You Need to See Before Graduation

Info & Tickets

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Sep 11, 2024–Sep 19, 2024

Wed, Sep 11, 2:00 PM
Thu, Sep 19, 2:00 PM

Film/Video Theater

Free for all audiences with ticket

ACCESSIBILITY
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Become a Member

Expand your knowledge of classic films with the Wexner Center’s new matinee series, 101 Films You Need to See Before Graduation.

Our first offering this year is Ridley Scott’s influential sci-fi masterpiece Blade Runner. In a neon-drenched future, replicants are bioengineered humans programmed to complete almost any task, usually better than the real thing. Harrison Ford stars as a blade runner—a cop trained to hunt down replicants gone rogue and “retire” them. As the lines between human and machine begin to blur, he soon learns that the truth is more complicated than he could have imagined. Based on a short story by Philip K. Dick, Scott’s dark and atmospheric vision of a dystopian Los Angeles influenced scores of films that followed. With Rutger Hauer, Daryl Hannah, Edward James Olmos, and Sean Young. (117 mins., DCP)

Blade Runner is notable for having been available in multiple versions; we’ll be showing 2007’s Final Cut, the only version over which Scott had complete control.

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Blade Runner, courtesy of Warner Bros.

About the series

This year we are excited to welcome a new series of free matinees featuring films that everyone should see before they graduate—whether that is from Ohio State or from the school of film fandom! Working with faculty and listening to student feedback, we’re presenting an enticing and eclectic array of classics that will compliment and expand your appreciation of film history.

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FILM/VIDEO PROGRAMS MADE POSSIBLE BY
National Endowment for the Arts
Ohio Humanities

ADDITIONAL SUPPORT PROVIDED BY
Rohauer Collection Foundation

WEXNER CENTER PROGRAMS MADE POSSIBLE BY
Greater Columbus Arts Council 
The Wexner Family
Institute of Museum and Library Services 
Mellon Foundation
Every Page Foundation
Ohio Arts Council, with support from the National Endowment for the Arts
CampusParc
Nationwide Foundation
Ohio State’s Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme
The Columbus Foundation
Axium Packaging

ADDITIONAL SUPPORT PROVIDED BY
Ohio State Energy Partners
Ohio History Fund/Ohio History Connection
David Crane and Elizabeth Dang
Melissa Gilliam and William Grobman
Rebecca Perry Damsen and Ben Towle