The Blow Ups

Blow-Up (1966)
dir. Michelangelo Antonioni

Blade Runner (1982)
dir. Ridley Scott

The Burnt Hull

The X from Outer Space (1967)
dir. Kazui Nihonmatsu

Alien (1979)
dir. Ridley Scott

The Radar

Message from Space (1978)
dir. Kinji Fukasaku

Alien (1979)
dir. Ridley Scott


"Dallas encounters the alien in the air shafts just as the computer depicted "sperm" and "egg" merge in the motion tracker, at which point we hear the baby-like Alien screech. The alien reaches out as if about to grab Dallas by the face."

The Upside-Down Kiss (2)

Cabaret (1972)
dir. Bob Fosse

Blade Runner (1982)
dir. Ridley Scott


Cabaret cap from Old Films Flicker

The Wheat Field

Elgar: Portrait of a Composer (1962)
dir. Ken Russell

Days of Heaven (1978)
dir. Terrence Malick

Gladiator (2000)
dir. Ridley Scott


Days of Heaven screencap from Cinema Sights' excellent reading of it.

The Space Jockey

Goodrich XH-5 pressure suit (1948)
National Archives College Park Collection

Alien (1979)
dir. Ridley Scott

The DNA

Jurassic Park (1993)
dir. Steven Spielberg

Prometheus (2012)
dir. Ridley Scott


from Roni Lücke, who's two for two.

The Kamikaze Run

Illustrated edition of War of the Worlds, "Sacrifice of the HMS Thunder Child" (1906)

Henrique Alvim Corrêa

Prometheus (2012)
dir. Ridley Scott


from Electronico6

The Meeting with God

Blade Runner (1982)
dir. Ridley Scott

Prometheus (2012)
dir. Ridley Scott


from Electronico6, emphasizing that Prometheus is as much a sequel to Blade Runner as Alien.

The Encounter with the Alien

The Thing from Another World (1951)
dir. Christian Nyby & Howard Hakws

Prometheus (2012)
dir. Ridley Scott


from Electronico6. I love this one.

The Gross Mouth Monster

The Thing (2011)
dir. Matthijs van Heijningen Jr.

Prometheus (2012)
dir. Ridley Scott


from Disappointed Owl

The Captain Off Duty

L'Atalante (1934)
dir. Jean Vigo

Prometheus (2012)
dir. Ridley Scott

The Ecstasy and the Agony

Ecstasy of the Angels (1972)
dir. Koji Wakamatsu

Prometheus (2012)

dir. Ridley Scott

The Sketch

Apocalypse Now (1979)
Polish poster art by Waldemar Swierzy

Prometheus (2012)
dir. Ridley Scott

The Alien

Alien (1979)
dir. Ridley Scott

Prometheus (2012)
dir. Ridley Scott

The Remoteness of Space

 

Alien (1979)

dir. Ridley Scott

Sunset on Mars (2009)
Mars Exploration Rover Spirit for NASA/JPL/Texas A&M/Cornell

The Computer Room

Phantom of the Paradise (1974)

dir. Brian De Palma

Alien (1979)
dir. Ridley Scott

The Lifecycle

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
dir. Stanley Kubrick

 

Prometheus (2012)
dir. Ridley Scott


from Bugblatter, national hero with a copy of Prometheus.

The Planets Aligned

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
dir. Stanley Kubrick

The Tree of Life (2011)
dir. Terrence Malick

Prometheus (2012)
dir. Ridley Scott


from Bugblatter

The Upside-down Meeting

Blade Runner (1982)
dir. Ridley Scott

Nightjohn (1996)
dir. Charles Burnett