Cinema Can Do 70mm: Aliens

Since 2018, 70mm screenings have formed a recurring, hugely popular part of the Arsenal monthly program. At special request, we are repeating James Cameron’s ALIENS. 57 years after an alien killed the crew of the spaceship Nostromo, its only survivor, officer Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver), is found in the hyper-sleep chamber of a small rescue ship in the endless expanse of space. At the space station, no one wants to believe her account of the terrible events; she also finds out that Planet LV-426, where the Nostromo’s crew came across the alien eggs, has been being terraformed for habitation over the last 20 years. While the first part of the tetralogy, Ridley Scott’s Alien (UK/USA 1979), functions according to a classic horror film structure and is dominated by dark green hues, James Cameron’s second part shifts the color spectrum to glowing blue and the genre template towards action. For this screening, a 70mm print with 6 channel magnetic sound and Swedish subtitles will be screening for the very first time. (hjf)