The San Antonio Public Library’s free Friday Retro Movies for Adults series is presenting Alien for its next installment — a movie that stands alongside classics like The Silence of the Lambs and Chinatown as eternally perfect works of Hollywood filmmaking.
Just like your favorite album, you can return to Alien again and again and be dazzled. Nothing has aged. The effects still look great, the performances are uniformly brilliant — Harry Dean Stanton’s casual insouciance, Yaphet Kotto’s intensity, Ian Holm’s chilly callousness and Sigourney Weaver’s ferocious, indelible presence.
This is still Ridley Scott’s best film, still the best film in the esteemed Alien series and still the greatest horror sci-fi film. Like the xenomorph at its center, Alien is unkillable, and just like Holm’s android Ash, it is impossible not to “admire its purity, unclouded by conscience, remorse or delusions of morality.”
Free, 2-4 p.m., Collins Garden Library, 200 N. Park Blvd., (210) 207-9120, mysapl.org.
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This article appears in Best of San Antonio 2024.