Review of Memory: The Origins of Alien (2019) by Phil Hoad for The Guardian — 26 Sep 2019
What this solemn and enlivening documentary plunge into the history of Ridley Scott’s sci-fi classic reiterates is the idea of film as a collective art form – not just the wider circle of writers, performers and technicians beyond the director, but in the case of the truly great films, serendipitous access to a deeper collective unconscious to which we all have the keys – even if few know how to use them.
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This review of Memory: The Origins of Alien (2019) was written by Phil Hoad and published by The Guardian on 26 September 2019.
Memory: The Origins of Alien has generally received positive reviews.
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