By Trachtenberg, Alan "I DON'T KNOW WHY A REPLICANT WOULD COLLECT PHOTOS-MAYBE they were like Rachel-they needed memories." In the role of the bounty hunter Rick Deckard in Ridley Scott's 1982 cult classic, Blade Runner, Harrison Ford utters these words with a bitter edge.

By Scott Bowles Ridley Scott has made a career out of bringing hostile worlds to life, but he may find the trickiest terrain is the political cinematic landscape. The filmmaker behind Alien, Blade Runner and Gladiator brings an unabashedly topical film to screens Oct. 10 in Body of Lies.

By Roger Clarke STORY OF THE SCENE The climactic scene of Blade Runner is the story of a famous building and a key piece of improvisation. Ridley Scott's film was based on the novel by Philip K Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?.

By ERIC FEBER By Eric Feber The Virginian-Pilot The Central Library's Fantasmo Cult Cinema Explosion monthly film series will take film fans back to the future this Friday.

Wolfgang peterson and rutger hauer join film-makers from around the globe to judge the international short film competition: tcm classic shorts The ninth annual TCM Classic Shorts competition launches this May with a truly international flavour to its judging panel which this year includes Wolfgang Petersen, Istvan Szabo, Agnieszka Holland, Mikael Hafstrom, Rutger Hauer, James Franco, Nick Goldsmith and Garth Jennings aka Hammer and Tongs.