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‘Memory: The Origins of Alien’ Review: Enriching an Iconic Piece of Genre Cinema

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Christopher Campbell
Apr 30, 2019
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Alexandre O. Philippe has a knack for creating the kinds of making-of documentaries that don’t feel like they belong among DVD extras. And with this year’s Memory: The Origins of Alien, the Swiss filmmaker has done it once again.

Memory is Philippe’s first project since 2017’s 78/52, the feature-length doc that focused expressly on the iconic shower scen…

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