Tag: Memory: The Origins of Alien
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Fox Thought H.R. Giger Was Too ‘Obscene’ To Work On Alien
The backstory of Ridley Scott’s 1979 sci-fi film “Alien” is well-known to its fans, and many details are in the 2019 documentary “Memory: The Origins of Alien.” Screenwriters Dan O’Bannon and Ron Shusett intended “Alien” to be a low-budget B-picture, thrown off in a few weeks with fingers crossed that it make its modest budget…
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Fantastic Fest 2019 Day Six Recap: ‘Memory: The Origins of Alien’ Dives Deep Into a Masterpiece and ‘Scream, Queen!’ Explores the Queer Legacy of an Infamous Horror Film
(Welcome to The Fantastic Fest Diaries, where we will be chronicling every single movie we see at the United States’ largest genre film festival.) Welcome to Fantastic Fest 2019, day six. In this entry, Memory: The Origins of Alien finds new things to say about one of the best movies ever made, The Vast of…
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Sundance Film Review: ‘Memory: The Origins of Alien’
Is there a scene in the history of cinema as awesome in its terror, as primal in its horror, and as memorable a freak-out for the audience that first saw it as the shower scene from “Psycho”? “