This is an audio version of a video I recorded with Robert Beshara, RC Roberts and Matthew Flisfeder about the original, 1982 release of the movie ‘Blade Runner’ on the occasion of the film’s 40th anniversary. This was recorded before the Film Conversations podcast took its present form but is very much within our wheelhouse. In the introduction, I make reference to the guests’ websites (which appeared on-screen) which you’ll find listed below.

 

During this conversation, we explore the film using a postmodern lens (Matt Flisfeder), from a literary point of view (RC Roberts), from the perspective of memory (Robert Beshara) and as a resurrection of the Film Noir (moi).  It was a good time.

 

Dr. Robert Beshara

 

Author of works such as a translation of Fundamentalism and Secularization by Egyptian scholar Mourad Wahba, artist and composer whose most recent music effort is an album based Horny Cricket You can learn more about Robert’s work at his website and here’s the URL

 

https://sites.google.com/site/robertkbeshara/home

Matthew Flisfelder

 

Assoc Professor of Rhetoric and Communications at the Univ of Winnipeg, and author of, among other works Postmodern Theory and Blade Runner. Here's Matthew's website:

 

https://matthewflisfeder.com

RC Charles Roberts, Internet polemicist, a student of the traditions of Jean Paul Sarre, Wiford Bion, Gore Vidal and HL Mencken to name some of the people who sit at what Charles calls his 'writers table'. You can read Charles' work at his Substack Ferocia Animi and here's the link

 

https://ferocia.substack.com