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While it is generally engaging to learn about the influences of the screenwriter Dan O'Bannon or the artistic process of H.R. Giger (who designed the alien), the documentary is at its least fawning when it focuses on technique.
October 4, 2019 | Full Review… -
This much I can promise: after seeing this documentary you'll never look at Alien the same way again.
October 4, 2019 | Full Review… -
It has a complex and rigorously argued set of theses that all come together at the end.
October 4, 2019 | Rating: 4/4 | Full Review… -
"Memory: The Origins of 'Alien,'" a well-mounted peek behind the scenes of Ridley Scott's 1979 science-fiction masterpiece, is more interested in what you can see, as well as what you cannot unsee.
October 3, 2019 | Full Review… -
The result often feels superficial; it is neither a definitive account of the creation of Scott's touchstone of horror and sci-fi, nor a cogent analysis of its aestheticized subtexts, those gritty and unnerving surfaces and the things lurking underneath.
October 2, 2019 | Rating: C+ | Full Review… -
Too superficial a treatment of the chestburster sequence, and also too lengthy an exploration of it to give the other elements of the movie their due.
October 1, 2019 | Rating: 5/10 | Full Review…
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