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Memory: The Origins of Alien

Name: Memory: The Origins of Alien
Genre: Documentary
Released: October 4, 2019
Duration: 95 min
Rating: 70
Cast: Axelle Carolyn, Ben Mankiewicz, Bijan Aalam, Henry Jenkins, Mickey Faerch

2019

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Memory: The Origins Of Alien

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Screen Media Films | Release Date: October 4, 2019 | Not Rated

Starring: Axelle Carolyn, Ben Mankiewicz, Bijan Aalam, Henry Jenkins, Mickey Faerch, Roger Christian, Roger Corman, Tim Boxell, Veronica Cartwright, William Linn

Summary: Take an in depth voyage into the sci-fi masterpiece ALIEN with the visionary filmmakers who created it. See how one of the most terrifying movies of all time burst to life 40 years ago, inspired by ancient mythology and our universal fears.

Director: Alexandre O. Philippe

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 95 min

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RogerEbert.com Matt Zoller Seitz

Oct 4, 2019

It weaves every detail — whether provided by an on-camera witness, a document, a drawing, a painting or a photograph — around that set of intertwined arguments, which are too complex to explain in this review, but come across powerfully by the time the credits roll. Read full review

Joshua Rothkopf

Oct 3, 2019

Philippe earns his keep, not only by mounting a crisp, elegant production well above the standard of your typical video-lensed making-of, but by skewing toward anecdotes that most corporate clients would frown upon. Read full review

Fionnuala Halligan

Oct 3, 2019

Although MEMORY follows some templates of the format, trying to lock Alien into a cultural and political framework, the film itself transcends that obviousness. Read full review

Todd McCarthy

Oct 3, 2019

Saving some of the best for last, director Philippe makes outstanding use of footage of what in the trade is called the money shot, the startling payoff that everything has been building toward — in this case, of course, the scene featuring the “chestburster.” Read full review

Christopher Machell

Oct 3, 2019

Memory certainly makes a good go of it, weaving together industrial production history with its mythic, pulp and artistic inspirations. The disparate strands of Alien’s origins have never quite been connected like this in a popular documentary, but billing this as the “untold story” of Scott’s film is a bit of a stretch. Read full review

Norman Gidney

Oct 3, 2019

Alexandre O. Philippe is a fine filmmaker and documentarian. Memory – The Origins of Alien, however, is a bit of a class on story structure and theory. Read full review

Matt Singer

Oct 3, 2019

Essentially, Memory is too superficial a treatment of the chestburster sequence to validate making half of a movie about it, and it’s also too lengthy an exploration of it to give the other elements of the movie their proper due. Read full review

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