I picked up Logan’s Run on Blu-ray in HMV Brighton today. I first saw this film in 1997 on a double bill with Fahrenheit 451 on BBC 2’s Moviedrome, introduced by Mark Cousins.
I was thirteen then and I haven’t seen the film since but I remember it vividly. I’m nervous to watch it again in case it doesn’t live up to my fond memory of it. Rachel has never seen it and I’ve been talking about it for years (it’s never been on streaming when we’ve searched over the years) and I’m hoping it lives up to the hype I’ve given it.
I loved Moviedrome. I discovered so many great films because of it at an age I was probably too young to discover them. I had my own very boxy 14″ TV in my room. Westworld is another one that really stuck in my brain back then. Two very formative films in a lifelong love afair with cinema.
Do you remember Moviedrome?
I’m a decade older than you, Andrew, but I watched and taped Logan’s Run when it was shown on BBC1 in the mid 1980s and have always loved it. I re-taped it when Mark Cousins did his Moviedrome intro that you reference – Moviedrome was a superb series, sadly nothing to compare to it on main broadcast channels now – and loved his enthusiasm for this strange and powerful film. I’m sure he stated for the record that he much preferred Logan’s Run (“It blew…my…mind”) to Star Wars, which was a controversial stance both then and now! You may have seen that a full restoration is being released by Arrow on Blu and 4K this December, which it absolutely deserves.