{"id":3252,"date":"2015-10-07T09:26:53","date_gmt":"2015-10-07T16:26:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=3252"},"modified":"2015-10-07T09:26:53","modified_gmt":"2015-10-07T16:26:53","slug":"see-me-introduce-blade-runner-and-talk-dystopia-in-san-francisco-on-november-6th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/?p=3252","title":{"rendered":"See me introduce Blade Runner and talk dystopia in San Francisco on November 6th"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The second annual San Francisco Urban Film Festival<\/a>\u00a0happens this\u00a0November from the 3rd through the 8th, taking as its theme the idea of going “beyond dystopia.” In line with that, they’re screening Ridley Scott’s\u00a0Blade Runner, <\/em>whose\u00a0vision of\u00a02019 Los Angeles\u00a0has, for nearly 35 years, endured as a vision of the urban future. Its crowded streets and Babel of languages beneath constant rain and the glow of skyscraper video screens once stood for dystopia itself, but might Blade Runner<\/i>\u00a0urbanism still have something to teach our cities, San Francisco included?<\/p>\n

I’ll appear at the screening, in any case, to talk about just that, giving a presentation to introduce the film and doing a Q&A with professor Pedro Lange-Churion<\/a>\u00a0afterward. You can find all the details here<\/a>\u00a0and follow the San Francisco Urban Film Festival on Twitter @SFUrbanFilmFest<\/a>. And if you’d like a piece of preparatory viewing before you come, might I suggest my City in Cinema video on\u00a0Blade Runner<\/em><\/a>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The second annual San Francisco Urban Film Festival\u00a0happens this\u00a0November from the 3rd through the 8th, taking as its theme the idea of going “beyond dystopia.” In line with that, they’re screening Ridley Scott’s\u00a0Blade Runner, whose\u00a0vision of\u00a02019 Los Angeles\u00a0has, for nearly 35 years, endured as a vision of the urban future. Its crowded streets and Babel […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,6,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-film","category-san-francisco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3252"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3254,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3252\/revisions\/3254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.colinmarshall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}