Newsday from New York, New York • 87

WAKNUHNOSmulO "Blade Runner" with Harrison Ford and Edward Janies Ohnos is back in an extended cut The mega revivals UMVUihAlblUUIUkPttUlU Cate Blanchett reigns again and Ray Winstone hopes to THE NKanTMAU HrUKE CHRISTMAS 3D The gamer Animated yuktide horror-fantasy Oct 19 iTim Burton The Chris Sarandon Catherine O'Hara Paul Reubens Danny Elfman The psssMKtai The holiday season seems to come soon THE DEFINITIVE CUT The ganrai Futuristic sci-fi Ealans dataOct 5 Scott The radrslds sad Harrison Ford Rutger Hauer Sean Young Daryl Hannah The peariMHsai Scott is a man possessed at least when it comes to "Blade In 1993 the Oscarwinning director of Gladiator" substantially retooled a movie that many consider to be the "Citizen of nihilistic '80s fantasy For the film's 2Sth anniversary Scott has returned to the editing room one more time and emerged with yet another edition ofbisPhilmK Dick-inspired classic that is purported to represent the last word (for die moment) on his original intentions We hope he hasn't tinkered with the majestic Vangelis scoring or the multimedia-saturated urban landscape ofthe future at the time a chilling harbinger of the Times Square of the present Not everyone is waiting with bated breath: Movie-guide maestro Leonard Maltin for one kissed the original off with one and a half stars We suspect his android double filed the review The serious makeup and major costume ops er with every passing year If a new jumped the gun for Labor Day it follows that a digitalized enhancement of Burton's Christmas romp should herald the trick-or-treat season We expect that three dimensions should bring out the best in the stop-animation figures of Pumpkin King Jack Skellington the incorrigible Lock Shock and Barrel and professional spoilsport Oogie Boogie Even without those galumphing 3-D glasses cm your nose the essential contributions of Burton's veteran collaborators are still in place: the sprightly screenplay of "Edward writer Caroline Thompson and the inventive songs of Danny Elfman who has Men making musical magic for the fantasy impresario since "Pee Wee's Big in "Elizabeth: The Golden slay audiences as Beowulf PANAMUUNI hUUMbl'MUiU king Bob Dylan in Todd Haynes' unconventional biopic Not BEOWULF The gaam Cliff Notes cinema Batoasa data Nov 16 Acting prefasaoR Robert Zemeckis Acton hi ragsi Ray Winstone Anthony Hopkins John Maikov ich Robin Wright Penn Alison Lohman Angelina Jolie Crispin Glover The paasMMear A legend so revered it took more than a century of celluloid to work up the chutzpah to make it into a movie this Holy Grail of medieval-studies geeks gets the big-screen treatment via "Back to the Future" director Zemeckis in cahoots with graphic novelist Neil Gaiman and "Pulp Fiction" writer Roger Avary Winstone stars as the titular warrior who goes mano-a-mano with the beastly Grendcl (Glover) Hopkins plays King Hrothgar (h'rayl) and Jolie hooks back into dangerous-temptress mode in that bom-to-play role mother of GrendeL Morton C8 Jason Sdiwartzman left Adrian Brady and Owen Wilson play brothers heading to Mother India in "The Darjeeling Limited" The gatshaapm Joel and EtjunCoen Tommy Lee Jones Josh Brolin Javier Bardem Woody Harrelson The peeriUMew Even when they flirt with disaster (as was the case with their 2004 remake of "The the brothers Coen don't have it in them to make an uninteresting movie That said the last decade has strained patience among non-believers for whom Brother Where Art was a great soundtrack "The Man Who Wasn't an exercise in style and "The Kg an exercise for loutish guys who could use more exercise Which may be why a multilingual chorus of cheers could be heard at Cannes Film Festival where "No Country for Old was acclaimed as a return to the ghoulish middle-American pleasures of "Blood and The screenwriting halt Ethan finally shares directing chores with bro Joel on this rip-roaring adaptation of Cor-mac McCarthy's novel set amid a modern-day wild West Bardem gives a gleefully malevolent performance as a drug lord locked in a three-way money chase with lawmen Jones and Brolin The regional accents are so convincing you might want to bring your favorite Texan along to help with the translation ELIZABETH THEGOIDCM AGE Thagsam Historical thriller Release data OcL 5 The reyai traffic espi Shekhar Kapur (he ttoeeai Cate Blanchett Geoffrey Rush Clive Owen Samantha Menton Jordi Molli The peesMMesr When a relatively unknown Australian thespian named Blanchett was first crowned Queen Elizabeth I in the 1998 a formidable film career was officially off and marching This lavish follow-up reunites that film's star and director who also has summoned Geoffrey Rush back to the court to reprise his role as the Queen's adviser Francis WalsTngham This time out Elizabeth must negotiate a threat from King Philip II and reconcile her burgeoning affections for Sir Walter Raleigh (Owen) Blanchett's dexterity with real-life celebrities (she won her Oscar for playing Katharine Hepburn in "The gets a further workout in November when she impersonates folk-rock.