#071: (Pt. 2) Alien (1979) / Life (2017)

The Next Picture Show

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Tv & Film, Film History, Film Reviews

4.6 • 858 Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2017

⏱️ 53 minutes

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It’s perhaps unfair to compare the uninspiring new LIFE with the genre-defining ALIEN, but we do it anyway in this half of our discussion of how the Ridley Scott classic (and GRAVITY) informed Daniel Espinosa’s halfhearted homage. After wrestling with our apathy toward the newer movie, we compare the two films’ extraterrestrial baddies, their effects, and their use of space, both outer and inner. Plus, Your Next Picture Show, where we share recent filmgoing experiences in hopes of putting something new on your cinematic radar. Please share your comments, thoughts, and questions about ALIEN, LIFE, or both by sending an email to comments@nextpictureshow.net, or leaving a short voicemail at (773) 234-9730. Your Next Picture Show: * Tasha: “Junkyard” by Clifford D. Simak (via Tangentonline.com); “No Offense, But What Is Donnie Darko?” by Rachel Handler (MTV.com); “Beauty and the Beast’s Lumiere and Cogsworth Have a Fascinating Real-Life Backstory,” and “Game Over, Uwe Boll,” by Darryn King (VanityFair.com) * Keith: John Waters’ MULTIPLE MANIACS and SERIAL MOM * Scott: Julia Ducournau’s RAW Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's very difficult to keep the line between the past and the present.
0:05.1	Do you believe that someone out of the past can enter and take possession of a living
0:11.5	we may be through with the past, but the past is not through with us.
0:18.4	Welcome back to the next picture show, a movie of the week podcast
0:21.6	to a classic film and the way it shaped our thoughts on a recent release.
0:24.8	I'm Keith Phipps here again with...
0:26.3	Tosh Robinson.
0:27.1	Scott Tobias.
0:28.0	And behind the boards is Genevieve Kosky.
0:29.8	Hello, Genevieve.
0:30.6	On the previous episode, we discussed a 1979 film Alien.
0:33.7	With this one, we'll look at one of its many descendants, the Daniel Espinoza directed thriller,
0:38.1	Life, starring Jake Gielandhall, Rebecca Ferguson, Ryan Reynolds, and others.
0:42.8	Set aboard the International Space Station, it depicts a few tumultuous days after the station
0:47.4	intercepts and begin studying some samples from Mars that may contain the first proof of life
0:51.6	on other planets.
0:52.8	They do, unfortunately.
0:54.8	So take a moment to review quarantine procedures,
0:57.0	and we'll be right back to talk about life.
0:58.8	This is Dr. David Jordan.
1:01.4	Blackbox recording in case of death.
1:07.1	What have we done?
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