
Alien // RIDLEY SCOTT DOUBLE EXPOSURE Presented by Pabst Light
- Sat, Mar 8
Run Time: 132 min.
TICKETS $15
Doors 6:30 p.m.; Event 7 p.m.
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THE EXPERIENCE
After seeing a space opera from an up-and-coming filmmaker named George Lucas, Ridley Scott scrapped his plans to adapt Tristan and Isolde and set out to become “the John Ford of science-fiction.” That ambition birthed Alien, the harrowing saga of the USCSS Nostromo—and its sole survivor, Warrant Officer Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver). Film critic Bennett Campbell Ferguson introduces Scott’s genre-defining vision of a daring resistance to deep-space terror.
Before Alien, join us for Ridley Scott’s iconic film Thelma & Louise!
Presented by Pabst Light
ON SCREEN: Alien
1979. Directed by Ridley Scott. Runtime: 1 hour 57 minutes. Rated R.
During its return to the earth, commercial spaceship Nostromo intercepts a distress signal from a distant planet. When a three-member team of the crew discovers a chamber containing thousands of eggs on the planet, a creature inside one of the eggs attacks an explorer. The entire crew is unaware of the impending nightmare set to descend upon them when the alien parasite planted inside its unfortunate host is birthed.
HOSTED BY: Bennett Campbell Ferguson
Bennett Campbell Ferguson is the founder/editor of foolswhodreammovies.com and the co-chief of the Portland Critics Association. From 2022 to 2024, he served as assistant arts and culture editor at Willamette Week. He has also written for Oregon ArtsWatch, The Oregonian, and T.H.O. Movie Reviews, which he founded and ran for over a decade. Follow him @bcfonfilm.
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