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Signs of Vigorous Life: The New German Cinema
BBC documentary about the rise of the New German Cinema and several of its most important figures.
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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Diane O'Bannon Self
Ben Mankiewicz Self
William Linn Self
Henry Jenkins Self
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