The gift that keeps on giving...

No, but I now will as soon as I get the chance. I've seen it dozens of times and this will be a welcome twist. Thanks for the tip!

No I haven't seen Alien in black and white. How was it this time around for you?

Well the caveat with doing this is that colour films are lit to be viewed in colour, B&W films are lit very differently so there are some scenes that don't work, Kane's drop into the egg cave for example, but the film overall works really well. The B&W shift definitely refocuses you on the sound, perhaps because there is less overall visual stimulus, and I spotted loads of little details as you eye is drawn to odd things, like the brand of cigarettes Lambert smokes and the Weyland-Yutani logos all over the place. The weather on LV-426 is more wild somehow. One of the best scenes is the lights coming on in the cryo-chamber right at the start of the film as the contrast is huge. A funny effect is that the Jerry Goldsmith score makes some of the scenes with the creature, particularly in the Narcissus seem like an old universal horror, really weird at times!! And the contrast really shows off the 'skull' under the dome of the creatures head in a way I'd only noticed in production stills before. Its a real trip, get on it!

Awesome! Can't wait to check out the b&w effects on the alien...still the best depiction of the scariest creature of all time....30 years BEFORE CGI ruined everything IMO