
A Trifecta of What’s Best on the Box for Sunday 22 April 2018
Today’s Number One Film: Blade Runner: The Director’s Cut (aka The Final Cut), 9pm HBO Plus BEST FILM OF THE DAY. Watch this if you liked Arrival, Children of Men or 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Director’s cuts are usually longer, adding in bits the auteur was
forced to remove by studio executives worried about long runtimes. This
cut was a literal one and improved the original theatrical release
greatly by surgically slicing out its most cancerous five minutes – the
contrived happy ending inane American focus groups and studio bosses
wanted. Perhaps even more important, it removed entirely the Harrison
Ford film noir gumshoe detective voice-over narration, transforming this
version into an altogether fine, all but flawless, film.