

Memory: The Origins of Alien
Before Alien, there was Starbeast. Before Starbeast, there was… Memory.
The untold origin story behind Ridley Scott's Alien - rooted in Greek and Egyptian mythologies, underground comics, the art of Francis Bacon, and the dark visions of Dan O'Bannon and H.R. Giger. A contemplation on the symbiotic collaborative process of movie-making, the power of myth, and our collective unconscious.
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United StatesUS
- PremiereSundance Film Festival24 Jan 2019
DenmarkDK
- Theatrical1524 Jan 2019
FinlandFI
- Theatrical (limited)K-1624 Jan 2019
IrelandIE
- Digital / OTT1530 Aug 2019
South KoreaKR
- PremiereBucheon International Fantastic Film Festival30 Jun 2019
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Memory: The Origins of Alien was released on 24 January 2019.
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SWITCH.
8/10/2019
What makes ‘Memory: The Origins of Alien’ interesting is the way, as one critic puts it, “it was a synthesis that wasn’t done consciously“ of Giger’s biomechanical designs, Scott’s eye for striking compositions and O’Bannon’s fear of insects and the unknown. The Xenomorph, a symbiotic monster and classic cinema nasty, was created through a vast melting pot of the different influences brought to the film by three pret…
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Sheldon Nylander
9/21/2019
Honestly, there's not much to say about "Memory." Or rather, there isn't much to say about "Alien" that hasn't really been said before. Most of the information is stuff that's been talked about before. It was interesting to see some more information about the original idea for "Alien," that being the screenplay for "Memory." To be honest, not only would I like to see more about that, but I would actually like to see …
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