A beautiful work of art

Alien film, is a happy marriage between art and film. Alliance not necessarily a foregone conclusion, especially for a production financed by a major Hollywood studio (FOX) and at great expense. IT remains today one of the great artistic achievements of cinema. AND it was the essence of the project, since Alien is in fact born of the aborted film adaptation of Dune of Alejandro Jodorowsky recovering its artists Moebius, Giger, Cobb, Foss and of course that is the O'Bannon lead author. The result is there, great symbiosis between the terrifying and sublime, experimental and commercial. Alien can enter the museum. It's a bit the idea of ​​this book, beautiful art object richly illustrated with facsimiles where there are posters, maps, excerpts from the storyboard shots ... what makes the difference with the traditional film book.
The story of the creation of Alien, any unconditional film (I) knows from the special edition of Heavy Metal edited its release in 1979 the bonus DVD. But a passionate reading as Ian Nathan is always rewarding, even if we know or think they know everything and already have most of the illustrations, the fact of holding our hands this beautiful book is to touch the soul of a form of art which is always noted admiringly.