Memory: The Origins of Alien
Screen Media Films | Release Date: October 4, 2019 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
70
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Generally favorable reviews based on 18 Critic Reviews
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11
Mixed:
7
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0
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60
CineVueChristopher MachellOct 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
60
EmpireJohn NugentOct 3, 2019
Falls slightly short of being the definitive Alien doc, but Memory is slick and thoughtful, and will deepen your love of a classic. Read full review
60
Film ThreatNorman GidneyOct 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
60
New Orleans Times-PicayuneMike ScottOct 3, 2019
An admirably full portrait of a film that reflects, with thrilling discomfort, the darker recesses of our minds. Read full review
58
IndieWireDavid EhrlichOct 3, 2019
Caught somewhere between a genealogy project, an oral history, and an in-depth video essay about the iconic scene that seared “Alien” into our imaginations, it reaffirms the film’s basic power without probing deeply enough to achieve any power of its own. Read full review
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The A.V. ClubIgnatiy VishnevetskyOct 1, 2019
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. Read full review
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ScreenCrushMatt SingerOct 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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