SESSION: Wednesday 26th April at 7pm

Alien Day - LV426



Alien – 45th Anniversary

(1979, dir. Ridley Scott, w/ Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, Veronica Cartwright, Harry Dean Stanton)

Screens with short film High Rivals: In a small corner of the world a pointless opera occurs. ALIEN: A commercial crew aboard the deep space towing vessel, Nostromo is on its way home when they pick an SOS warning from a distant planet. What they don't know is that the SOS warning is not like any other ordinary warning call. Picking up the signal, the crew realize that they are not alone on the spaceship when an alien stowaway is on the cargo ship. (IMDB)

FILM INFO 55555(Astor rating)

Aliens – Special Edition

(1986, dir. James Cameron, w/ Sigourney Weaver, Carrie Henn, Michael Biehn, Paul Reiser)

Aliens – Special Edition will start at approximately 9:23pm, and finish at approximately 12:03am.

Fifty seven years after Ellen Ripley survived her disastrous ordeal, her escape vessel is recovered after drifting across the galaxy as she slept in cryogenic stasis. Back on Earth, nobody believed her story about the "Aliens" on the moon LV-426. After the "Company" orders the colony on LV-426 to investigate, however, all communication with the colony is lost. The Company enlists Ripley to aid a team of tough, rugged space marines on a rescue mission to the now partially terraformed moon to find out if there are aliens or survivors. As the mission unfolds, Ripley will be forced to come to grips with her worst nightmare, but even as she does, she finds that the worst is yet to come. (IMDB)

FILM INFO 4.154.154.154.15(IMDB rating)