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Production Company(ies)
Alcon Entertainment, Columbia Pictures, Sony
 
Distributor
Warner Bros. Pictures
 
Release Type
Theatrical, Theatrical (Wide)
 
Filming Location(s)
Stock Exchange Palace, Szabadság Square, Budapest, Hungary
 
MPAA / Certificate
Rated R for violence, some sexuality, nudity and language
 
Year of Release
1982
 

 
Genre(s)
Mystery & thriller/Sci-fi
 
Keyword(s)
Blade Runner, Harrison Ford, Rutger Hauer, Sean Young, Edward James Olmos, M Emmet Walsh, Daryl Hannah, Ridley Scott, Michael Deeley, Charles de Lauzirika, Hampton Fancher, David Webb Peoples, Philip K Dick, Mystery, Thriller, Sci-Fi, R rating, $3.9M box office, Surround sound, Dolby Stereo, Dolby A, Magnetic Stereo 6 Track, Scope (2.35:1), 70mm, reviewed by Scott Cain, Zaki Hasan, Bob Thomas, Michael Wilmington, Martin Chilton, Peter Rainer, Brian Eggert, Peter Stack, Ginger Varney, Don Shanahan, Sarah Brinks, Fico Cangiano, misunderstood, neo-noir, visually remarkable, achingly human, sci-fi masterpiece
 

Cast & Crew

Harrison Ford

Rutger Hauer

Sean Young

Edward James Olmos

M. Emmet Walsh

Rick Deckard

Roy Batty

Rachael

Gaff

Captain Bryant

Harrison Ford – Rick Deckard
Rutger Hauer – Roy Batty
Sean Young – Rachael
Edward James Olmos – Gaff
M. Emmet Walsh – Captain Bryant
Daryl Hannah – Pris

 

Ridley Scott

Hampton Fancher

Michael Deeley

Charles de Lauzirika

Director

Writer

Producer

Producer

Producer

Director(s)
Ridley Scott
 
Writer(s)
Hampton Fancher, David Webb Peoples, Philip K. Dick
 
Producer(s)
Michael Deeley, Charles de Lauzirika

 

Film Festivals

 
Awards & Nominations
Won 2 Oscars
101 wins & 165 nominations total
 
Academy Awards
Oscar Nominees
 

Top Reviews

Scott Cain

Zaki Hasan

Bob Thomas

Michael Wilmington

Martin Chilton

Atlanta Journal-Constitution

San Francisco Chronicle

Associated Press

Los Angeles Times

Daily Telegraph (UK)

BLADE RUNNER
  All Critics (126) | Top Critics (30) | Fresh (112) | Rotten (14)
  Ridley Scott ought to be a set decorator, rather than a director. In Blade Runner, he loses sight of the story while devoting all his attention to decor and lighting. The decor and lighting, it must be admitted, are stupendous.
 
  November 9, 2021 | Rating: 3/5
 
  Scott Cain
  Atlanta Journal-Constitution
  TOP CRITIC
  Still profound 18 years after its sell-by date, Blade Runner remains worthy of acclaim and analysis even as it exists in a “future” with very little resemblance to the one that came to pass.
 
  November 18, 2019
 
  Zaki Hasan
  San Francisco Chronicle
  TOP CRITIC
  Ridley Scott has produced a new vision that is forbidding.
 
  October 17, 2018
 
  Bob Thomas
  Associated Press
  TOP CRITIC
  Film noir cubed, science fiction a step beyond 2001.
 
  August 2, 2015
 
  Michael Wilmington
  Los Angeles Times
  TOP CRITIC
  A masterpiece of dystopian science fiction on film.
 
  August 2, 2015 | Rating: 5/5
 
  Martin Chilton
  Daily Telegraph (UK)
  TOP CRITIC
  Too bad the filmmakers didn’t try to recapture the modest virtues of the Dick novel, which (despite many flaws of its own) has a humor and humanity that are nowhere felt in ‘Blade Runner.
 
  August 2, 2015
 
  Peter Rainer
  Christian Science Monitor
  TOP CRITIC
  Philip K. Dicks frequent exploration of perceived realities that begin to breakdown upon inspection, and thus define the fragile, shattered nature of existence and humanity, is brought to awe-inspiring life through Blade Runner.
 
  March 21, 2022 | Rating: 4/4
 
  Brian Eggert
  Deep Focus Review
  A disjointed, implausible sci-film so trapped in photographic maneuvers that it’s lifeless.
 
  November 11, 2021 | Rating: 2/4
 
  Peter Stack
  San Francisco Examiner
  One of the more imaginative and less realized movies of this or any year. Scott directs as if he were a doctor about to deliver some giant conception, and never once notices that this mountain of a movie is giving birth to little more than a mouse.
 
  November 10, 2021
 
  Ginger Varney
  L.A. Weekly
  Some of us saw it and loved it early. Some of us saw it later in life or in broken forms before coming to love or respect it.
 
  October 2, 2021
 
  Don Shanahan
  Cinephile Hissy Fit Podcast
  If a machine thinks independently, feels, and even loves, is it alive? How do we decide who/what deserves a chance at life and freedom? Blade Runner doesn’t answer those questions…but it does make you think.
 
  April 1, 2021
 
  Sarah Brinks
  Battleship Pretension
  Without a doubt a seminal film for the science fiction genre. Ahead of its time, Ridley Scott gave us a visually stunning, mind-bending and soul-searching masterpiece. [Full review in Spanish]
 
  December 3, 2020 | Rating: 4.5/5
 
  Fico Cangiano
  CineXpress Podcast…

 

Plot
Thirty years after the events of Blade Runner (1982), a new Blade Runner, L.A.P.D. Officer “K” (Ryan Gosling), unearths a long-buried secret that has the potential to plunge what’s left of society into chaos. K’s discovery leads him on a quest to find Rick Deckard (Harrison Ford), a former L.A.P.D. Blade Runner, who has been missing for thirty years.
 
Trivia

 
Goofs / Tidbits
Rutger Hauer’s performance as Roy Batty has been praised as one of the highlights of Blade Runner.
 

 
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Production Company(ies)
American Zoetrope Zoetrope Studios,
 
Distributor
Miramax Films
 
Release Type
Theatrical
 
Filming Location(s)
Baler Bay, Baler, Aurora, Philippines
 
MPAA / Certificate
R
 
Year of Release
1979
 

 
Genre(s)
War/Drama
 
Keyword(s)
starring Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall, Frederic Forrest, Albert Hall, Sam Bottoms, directed by Francis Ford Coppola, written by Francis Ford Coppola, John Milius, Joseph Conrad, Michael Herr, produced by Francis Ford Coppola, war, drama, box office performance, budget, reviewed by David Ansen, Rob Humanick, Roger Moore, Eric Harrison, Steven Rosen, Desson Thomson, Eddie Harrison, David Walsh, CJ Sheu, Sean Axmaker, Cole Smithey, Jeffrey Overstreet, MPAA rating R, Vietnam War, Captain Willard, Colonel Kurtz, Lieutenant Colonel Bill Kilgore, Chief Phillips, Chef, Lance Johnson, restored, digital, dye-transfer, Dolby SR, Dolby Stereo, Surround, Dolby A, Dolby Digital, Miramax Films, Scope (2.35:1)
 

Cast & Crew

Marlon Brando

Robert Duvall

Martin Sheen

Frederic Forrest

Albert Hall

Colonel Walter E. Kurtz

Lieutenant Colonel Bill Kilgore

Captain Benjamin L. Willard

Chef

Chief Phillips

Marlon Brando – Colonel Walter E. Kurtz
Robert Duvall – Lieutenant Colonel Bill Kilgore
Martin Sheen – Captain Benjamin L. Willard
Frederic Forrest – Chef
Albert Hall – Chief Phillips
Sam Bottoms – Lance Johnson

 

Francis Ford Coppola

Francis Ford Coppola

Francis Ford Coppola

Director

Writer

Producer

Producer

Producer

Director(s)
Francis Ford Coppola
 
Writer(s)
Francis Ford Coppola, John Milius, Joseph Conrad, Francis Ford Coppola, Michael Herr
 
Producer(s)
Francis Ford Coppola

 

Film Festivals

 
Awards & Nominations
Won 2 Oscars
21 wins & 33 nominations total
 
Academy Awards
Oscar Best Achievement in Cinematography Winners, Oscar Best Achievement in Sound Mixing Winners, Oscar Nominees, Oscar Winners
 

Top Reviews

David Ansen

Rob Humanick

Roger Moore

Eric Harrison

Steven Rosen

Newsweek

Slant Magazine

Orlando Sentinel

Houston Chronicle

Denver Post

APOCALYPSE NOW REDUX
  All Critics (84) | Top Critics (25) | Fresh (78) | Rotten (6)
  Does it strive too hard for greatness? Sure. But it’s not likely that you’ll see another movie this year with so much heart-stopping, gut-churning greatness in it.
 
  March 8, 2018
 
  David Ansen
  Newsweek
  TOP CRITIC
  The episodic nature is less apparent in Redux, the pacing surprisingly smoother as a result.
 
  June 6, 2011 | Rating: 4/4
 
  Rob Humanick
  Slant Magazine
  TOP CRITIC
  Packs every bit the wallop it did when it was new.
 
  September 21, 2001
 
  Roger Moore
  Orlando Sentinel
  TOP CRITIC
  The originally released version wasn’t broken, but Coppola can fix it as long as he wants, as far as I’m concerned.
 
  August 17, 2001
 
  Eric Harrison
  Houston Chronicle
  TOP CRITIC
  Redux doesn’t redefine Apocalypse Now — rather, it adds archival material. But it’s terrific to see the film back in theaters.
 
  August 17, 2001
 
  Steven Rosen
  Denver Post
  TOP CRITIC
  This is the one where [Coppola] honors his vision — or clears his name, whichever way you look at it.
 
  August 10, 2001 | Rating: 4/5
 
  Desson Thomson
  Washington Post
  TOP CRITIC
  …a punishing, poetic, beautiful, horrible film about man’s inhumanity to man…
 
  February 18, 2021 | Rating: 5/5
 
  Eddie Harrison
  film-authority.com
  One has an uneasy feeling that every time a group of Americans forms, violence will erupt. And Kurtz is the crowning figure in this universal mayhem.
 
  February 16, 2021
 
  David Walsh
  World Socialist Web Site
  It’s about the absurd tragedies that occur when a rational strategy or cultural institution is guided by humans and their inherent irrationalities.
 
  June 30, 2020
 
  CJ Sheu
  Critics at Large
  I’m not convinced that the additions strengthens his story-they humanize Sheen’s character, a figure more interesting as a dead man walking-but they also fill out his psychedelic odyssey with a heft and a scope befitting an epic.
 
  December 10, 2016
 
  Sean Axmaker
  Seanax.com
  [VIDEO ESSAY] “Apocalypse Now” all but ruined Francis Coppola as a director. It remains a staggering achievement of pure provocative cinema.
 
  April 9, 2012 | Rating: A+
 
  Cole Smithey
  ColeSmithey.com
  Redux’s virtues far outweigh its flaws. Apocalypse Now in any version remains one of the richest, most extravagant moviegoing experiences
 
  December 30, 2008 | Rating: A+
 
  Jeffrey Overstreet
  Looking Closer…

 

Plot
It is the height of the war in Vietnam, and U.S. Army Captain Willard is sent by Colonel Lucas and a General to carry out a mission that, officially, ‘does not exist – nor will it ever exist’. The mission: To seek out a mysterious Green Beret Colonel, Walter Kurtz, whose army has crossed the border into Cambodia and is conducting hit-and-run missions against the Viet Cong and NVA. The army believes Kurtz has gone completely insane and Willard’s job is to eliminate him. Willard, sent up the Nung River on a U.S. Navy patrol boat, discovers that his target is one of the most decorated officers in the U.S. Army. His crew meets up with surfer-type Lt-Colonel Kilgore, head of a U.S Army helicopter cavalry group which eliminates a Viet Cong outpost to provide an entry point into the Nung River. After some hair-raising encounters, in which some of his crew are killed, Willard, Lance and Chef reach Colonel Kurtz’s outpost, beyond the Do Lung Bridge. Now, after becoming prisoners of Kurtz, will Willard & the others be able to fulfill their mission?
 
Trivia

 
Goofs / Tidbits
Marlon Brando plays Colonel Walter E. Kurtz in Apocalypse Now Redux.
 

 
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Production Company(ies)
Walt Disney Pictures, Marvel Studios,
 
Distributor
NA
 
Release Type
Theatrical
 
Filming Location(s)
Empire Mill Road, Bloomington, Indiana, USA
 
MPAA / Certificate
PG
 
Year of Release
1979
 

 
Genre(s)
Comedy/Drama
 
Keyword(s)
starring Dennis Christopher, Dennis Quaid, Daniel Stern, Jackie Earle Haley, Barbara Barrie, Paul Dooley, directed by Peter Yates, written by Steve Tesich, comedy, drama, PG, box office performance, budget, reviewed by Linda Holmes, Gene Siskel, Richard Schickel, Dave Kehr, Roger Ebert, Janet Maslin, Matt Brunson, Rob Hunter, Adrian Turner, Mike Massie, Heather Boerner, Dan Jardine, coming-of-age story, sports film, bicycle racing, Bloomington, Indiana, university, snooty students, working-class friends, post-high school, chasing girls, bicycle endurance race, opposition, friendship, small-town America, sexual tension, class tension, economic tension, family values, inspirational story, energetic lead performance, sports drama, growing up, Italian culture, funny moments, heartwarming scenes, heartbreaking scenes
 

Cast & Crew

Dennis Christopher

Dennis Quaid

Daniel Stern

Jackie Earle Haley

Barbara Barrie

Dave Stoller

Mike

Cyril

Moocher

Evelyn Stoller

Dennis Christopher – Dave Stoller
Dennis Quaid – Mike
Daniel Stern – Cyril
Jackie Earle Haley – Moocher
Barbara Barrie – Evelyn Stoller
Paul Dooley – Ray Stoller
Peter Yates – Director/Producer
Steve Tesich – Writer

 

Peter Yates

Steve Tesich

Peter Yates

Director

Writer

Producer

Producer

Producer

Director(s)
Peter Yates
 
Writer(s)
Steve Tesich
 
Producer(s)
Peter Yates

 

Film Festivals

 
Awards & Nominations
Won 1 Oscar
11 wins & 14 nominations total
 
Academy Awards
Oscar Best Writing Winners, Oscar Nominees, Oscar Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen Winners, Oscar Winners
 

Top Reviews

Linda Holmes

Gene Siskel

Richard Schickel

Dave Kehr

Roger Ebert

NPR

Chicago Tribune

TIME Magazine

Chicago Reader

Chicago Sun-Times

BREAKING AWAY
  All Critics (41) | Top Critics (8) | Fresh (39) | Rotten (2)
  It’s very, very much worth seeing.
 
  March 14, 2021
 
  Linda Holmes
  NPR
  TOP CRITIC
  I seriously can’t imagine anyone not liking it.
 
  March 14, 2021 | Rating: 4/4
 
  Gene Siskel
  Chicago Tribune
  TOP CRITIC
  There are a few moments when the picture’s easygoing pace turns into wobbliness, but these are insignificant compared with its many moments of shrewd insight into the lives of amusingly shaded but very recognizable human beings.
 
  August 3, 2008
 
  Richard Schickel
  TIME Magazine
  TOP CRITIC
  Peter Yates, previously typed as an action director, lends the film a fine, unexpected limpidity, and the principals are mostly excellent.
 
  March 21, 2007
 
  Dave Kehr
  Chicago Reader
  TOP CRITIC
  Breaking Away is a wonderfully sunny, funny, goofy, intelligent movie that makes you feel about as good as any movie in a long time. It is, in fact, a treasure.
 
  October 23, 2004 | Rating: 4/4
 
  Roger Ebert
  Chicago Sun-Times
  TOP CRITIC
  Here is a movie so fresh and funny it didn’t even need a big budget or a pedigree.
 
  May 20, 2003 | Rating: 4.5/5
 
  Janet Maslin
  New York Times
  TOP CRITIC
  A textbook definition of a sleeper hit.
 
  October 11, 2021 | Rating: 3.5/4
 
  Matt Brunson
  Film Frenzy
  Part coming of age comedy, part underdog sports tale, and part glimpse into small-town America, the film is an effortless joy as it explores a tight friendship approaching the inevitable.
 
  March 14, 2021
 
  Rob Hunter
  Film School Rejects
  Director Peter Yates’s delightfully unpredictable comedy uses a local bicycle race to uncover the sexual, class and economic tensions within an all-American community.
 
  March 14, 2021 | Rating: 4/5
 
  Adrian Turner
  Radio Times
  It manages to be pleasant and upbeat, even as it focuses on the pessimism of uncertain futures and the stresses of small town tedium.
 
  August 27, 2020 | Rating: 9/10
 
  Mike Massie
  Gone With The Twins
  Rousing bicycle race story is a family favorite.
 
  December 18, 2010 | Rating: 4/5
 
  Heather Boerner
  Common Sense Media
  Breaking Away embraces the good old fashioned small town family values that would catapult Ronald Reagan to an enormously popular two term presidency. And still, I like it.
 
  July 22, 2010 | Rating: 78/100
 
  Dan Jardine
  Cinemania…

 

Plot
Best friends Dave, Mike, Cyril and Moocher have just graduated from high school. Living in the college town of Bloomington, Indiana, they are considered “cutters”: the working class of the town so named since most of the middle aged generation, such as their parents, worked at the local limestone quarry, which is now a swimming hole. There is great animosity between the cutters and the generally wealthy Indiana University students, each group who have their own turf in town. The dichotomy is that the limestone was used to build the university, which is now seen as being too good for the locals who built it. Although each of the four is a totally different personality from the other three, they also have in common the fact of being unfocused and unmotivated in life. The one slight exception is Dave. Although he has no job and doesn’t know what to do with his life, he is a champion bicycle racer. He idolizes the Italian cycling team so much he pretends to be Italian, much to the chagrin of his parents, especially his used car salesman father, Ray Stoller, who just doesn’t understand his son. Dave crosses the unofficial line when he meets and wants to date a IU co-ed named Katherine Bennett, who, intrigued by Dave, in turn is already dating Rod, one of the big men on campus. Dave passes himself off to her as an Italian exchange student named Enrico Gismondi. Beyond Katarina as he calls her, Dave’s main immediate focus is that the Italian cycling team have announced that they will be in Indianapolis for an upcoming race, which he intends to enter to be able to race his idols. After an incident at the race, Dave, with a little help from his parents and unwittingly by actions of his friends, has to reexamine his life, what he really wants to get out of it and how best to start achieving it.
 
Trivia

 
Goofs / Tidbits
Dennis Christopher’s character in Breaking Away is obsessed with cycling and Italian culture, leading to some hilarious and memorable moments in the film.
 

 
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