{"id":26734,"date":"2019-06-15T06:35:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-15T03:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=26734"},"modified":"2019-06-15T06:35:00","modified_gmt":"2019-06-15T03:35:00","slug":"new-documentary-memory-origins-of-alien","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2019\/06\/15\/new-documentary-memory-origins-of-alien\/","title":{"rendered":"New documentary: &#8220;Memory: Origins of Alien&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alexandre Philippe&#8217;s new feature-length documentary, <em>Memory: Origins of Alien<\/em> (2019, 94 mins) is currently doing the rounds of film festivals and related gallery shows&#8230; <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On the eve of Alien&#8217;s 40th Anniversary, Memory (the title of the script&#8217;s first draft) unearths the largely untold origin story behind Ridley Scott\u2019s cinematic masterpiece: its roots in Greek and Egyptian mythology, underground comics, parasitology, H.P. Lovecraft, the art of Francis Bacon, and the symbiotic genius of Dan O\u2019Bannon and H.R. Giger.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sundance reviews say it tries to take an intellectual angle, but is a bit wobbly in terms of achieving that.  Also that it&#8217;s about the original 1979 <em>Alien<\/em>, rather than the later world-building and cash-ins. <\/p>\n<p>The documentary is currently on <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2wJCzSh\">pre-order on Amazon<\/a>, with a &#8220;student grant-money cow-catcher&#8221; release-date of 2nd September 2019.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/alien-doc.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/alien-doc.jpg?w=200\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-26735\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alexandre Philippe&#8217;s new feature-length documentary, Memory: Origins of Alien (2019, 94 mins) is currently doing the rounds of film festivals &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2019\/06\/15\/new-documentary-memory-origins-of-alien\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-films-trailers","category-lovecraftian-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}