Alexandre O. Philippe (of Faith): on documenting pop culture first published by Little White Lies “This is Bill Friedkin, day one, take one,” says the famous filmmaker, bringing his hands together, like a clapperboard, in front of the camera. In this opening scene to Leap of Faith: William Friedkin on The Exorcist, we see a…
Memory: The Origins of Alien first published by Little White Lies Not every documentary on a sci-fi horror hybrid made in 1979 opens with a modern staging of Aeschylus’ play The Eumenides on the numinous open-air ‘theatre’ of ancient Delphi, but then Alexandre O. Philippe’s Memory: The Origins Of Alien is engaged, as its very…
Review first published by Grolsch FilmWorks With the zombies of cinema, it is a numbers game. Typically shuffling, putrescent and none too smart, zombies pose only a small threat as individuals. Yet en masse they easily overwhelm their hapless prey – prey whose better functioning brains mark them out as fodder, and whose superior fleetness…