Blade Runner: The Final Cut

Warner Home Video has announced plans to release a new special edition DVD of Blade Runner, the landmark adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s classic sci-fi novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? To be titled Blade Runner: The Final Cut, the multi-disc set will include a remastered version of the 1992 director’s cut, as well as the original 1983 U.S. theatrical release and an expanded international theatrical cut, both of which will be available on DVD in the U.S. for the first time.

The director’s cut has clearly come to be considered the definitive version of the film (and rightly so), but the original theatrical release—completed with a tacked-on voice-over narration by star Harrison Ford and an altered ending—has great sentimental value to me, so I’m looking forward to finally being able to get both in the same box .

Cannes 2006 Winners

The jury at the 59th Cannes Film Festival has selected the festival’s winners:

Palme d’Or—The Wind That Shakes the Barley (directed by Ken Loach)
Grand Prix—Flandres (directed by Bruno Dumont)
Jury Prize—Red Road (directed by Andrea Arnold)