Blockbusters and Birdwalks

GATEWAY CINEMA, a conversation – Episode 3A: Life of a Movie: Alternatives to “Alien 3 (Assembly Cut)”

Garrett Chaffin-Quiray

In this multi-part series, we’ve focused on just one movie to explore a key idea in film studies. But this one choice means we’ve left out multitudes. Here is the larger set of also-rans we wrestled with before finally choosing “Alien 3 (Assembly Cut)”.

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Referenced media in GATEWAY CINEMA, Episode 3A:

  • “Apocalypse Now” (Francis Ford Coppola, 1979)
  • “Apocalypse Now Redux” (Francis Ford Coppola, 2001)
  • “Day for Night” (Francois Truffaut, 1973)
  • “Once Upon a Time in… Hollywood” (Quentin Tarantino, 2019)

Audio quotation in GATEWAY CINEMA, Episode 3A: