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MIGS 09: Dead Space: A Musical Post Mortem...and trained with TV and film industry veterans. He worked with greats in the industry, including Jerry Goldsmith who worked on many classic films such as Alien, Poltergeist and Chinatown. Graves recognized early that suspense and horror... In this article: Jerry Goldsmith, Alien, Poltergeist, and Chinatown |
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San Francisco Chronicle | October 18, 2009
CD: 'In Harm's Way' soundtrack
Jerry Goldsmith was a master of almost every Hollywood genre. Nominated for 18 Oscars (he won for "The Omen"), he scored "Alien," "Chinatown" and five "Star Trek" features. One of his standout genres was war ("Patton," the "Rambo"...
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A.V. Club RSS Feeds | May 01, 2008
Better Late Than Never: Alien The A.V. Club
...because they drastically changed his score. Scott apparently thought it was too lush, and it probably was; watching Alien, I couldn't imagine a big, boomy score complementing the film. Two-thirds of the way through it, I actually...
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Wikipedia | November 04, 2009
Alien (film)
...Story, as well as a 1980 Alien calendar. Two behind-the-scenes books were released in 1979 to accompany the film: The Book of Alien contained many production photographs and details on the making of the film, while Giger's Alien...
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Conch (musical instrument)
...Shells. A partially echoplexed Indian conch was featured prominently as the primary instrument depicting the extraterrestrial environment of the derelict spaceship in Jerry Goldsmith's score for the film Alien . Director Ridley...
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Alien (soundtrack)
Alien (soundtrack) The iconic, avante garde score to the film Alien was composed by Jerry Goldsmith and is considered by some to be one of his best, most visceral scores. It is predominantly dissonant. Rather than focusing on themes,...
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Poltergeist (film series)
...Movie Quotes at number 69. H.R. Giger the conceptual artist for the "Alien" tetralogy (which composer Jerry Goldsmith composed music for its first installment ), was responsible for The Beast's creature design. Of all the films in the...
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Alien is a 1979 science fiction/horror film directed by Ridley Scott and starring Sigourney Weaver. The film's title refers to its primary antagonist: a highly aggressive extraterrestrial creature which stalks and kills the crew of a spaceship.
Alien garnered both critical acclaim and box office success, receiving an Academy Award for Visual Effects, Saturn Awards for Best Science Fiction Film, Best Direction for Ridley Scott, and Best Supporting Actress for Veronica Cartwright, and a Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation, along with numerous other award nominations. It has remained highly praised in subsequent decades, being inducted into the National Film Registry of the Library of Congress for historical preservation as a film which is "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" and being ranked by the American Film Institute as the seventh-best film in the science fiction genre. It launched a media franchise of novels, comic books, video games, and toys, as well as three sequel and two prequel films. It also launched Weaver's acting career by providing her with her first lead role, and the story of her character Ripley's encounters with the titular Alien creatures became the thematic thread that ran through the sequels Aliens (1986), Alien 3 (1992), and Alien Resurrection (1997). The subsequent prequels Alien vs. Predator (2004) and Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem (2007) diverged from this theme in favor of a crossover with the Predator franchise.
- Name:
- Alien
- Country of Origin:
- United States
- Release Date:
- May 25, 1979
- Directed By:
- Ridley Scott
- Produced by:
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- Gordon Carroll
- Walter Hill
- David Giler
- Written By:
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- Walter Hill
- Dan O'Bannon
- Story:
- Screenplay:
- David Giler
- Ronald Shusset
- Editor:
- Terry Rawlings
- Starring:
- Cinematography:
- Derek Vanlint
- Music By:
- Jerry Goldsmith
- Distributed By:
- 20th Century Fox
- Length:
- 119 min.
- Language:
- English
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