It´s such a busy month!

September is usually a very busy month in our personal lives but also as far as films are concerned. After the Venice film festival, the beautiful city of San Sebastian takes the baton and this year Agnès Varda, Ricardo Darín and Monica Bellucci will be presented with the Donostia Award: a lifetime achievement award . But the premiere of a film does not only get a lot of media coverage when it takes place within the framework of a famous festival; sometimes what matters is the title of the film and the fact that that film is a sequel to a well-known story which managed to make an impact in the past. That´s what happens with Blade Runner, the 1982  Ridley Scott film, whose monologue  by Rutger Hauer as the dying replicant Roy Hatty is already part of our collective memory:

“I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.”

The 1982 film was a loose adaptation of the 1968 novel Do Androids dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick, a sci-fi writer, who claimed to be “a fictionalising philosopher, not a novelist”. If you are keen on learning a bit more about this interesting writer, and you are into sci-fi and philosophical matters, you can have a look at the following article:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/aug/27/philip-k-dick-best-novels-blade-runner-minority-report

Blade Runner wasn´t a big box-office hit when it was first released but over the years it has become a cult film and therefore, critics and fans alike are worried that the new film – Blade  Runner 2049 – may not live up to their expectations.In the new Blade Runner Harrison Ford reprises his role as the replicant hunter Rick Deckard but Ryan Gosling, Robin Wright, Ana de Armas and Jared Leto are also part of the cast of the new film, which has been directed by Denis Villeneuve.

Today, Harrison Ford, Ryan Gosling and Ana de Armas have been to Madrid to promote Blade Runner 2049. 

Far from Madrid, in the north of Spain, the city of Santander hosts the International Film Week. The cultural and arts centre Centro Botín, which was inaugurated in June, and the Film Archive Centre are the venues chosen for this Film Week. It doesn´t matter whether you live in a big or in a small city, films-related events are taking place everywhere these days but if you are not really interested in red carpets, celebrities and famous film-makers, just go to your local cinema and enjoy the story that you decide to watch because that´s what films are really about, don´t you think?