Bonus Episode: The Screening Room – Alien

About this episode

Zeth discusses Ridley Scott's film Alien with Matt Beaudoin.

This week in the Screening Room, Zeth is talking with Double Elvis’ Head of Production, Matt Beaudoin, about Ridley Scott’s 1979 masterpiece Alien, starring Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, Harry Dean Stanton, John Hurt, Ian Holm, Yaphet Kotto, and Veronica Cartwright. Become an All Access member and get ad-free listening by visiting disgracelandpod.com.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

People in this episode

Host: Zeth

Guest: Matt Beaudoin

Topics covered

• film analysis
• science fiction
• horror
• cinema history
• Ridley Scott
• Alien

Keywords

• Alien
• Ridley Scott
• film
• horror
• science fiction
• Sigourney Weaver
• cinema

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Books & works: Alien

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