Ash595 - that is very impressive indeed (and significantly more tasteful than any official Alien DVD cover from Fox...) Personally, I lean towards more ambiguous imagery for this sort of thing (so I'd be more likely to use your back cover for the front!) but as photographic stuff goes, you've made good choices.

I just got the first of the 'Alien Archives' discs from meedermow (cheers fella!) - the 'Shock and Awe' doc is well worth a watch, particularly as the actual process of making the Alien DC is hardly documented at all in the Quadrilogy.

Just out of interest I had a look at the version of Giger's Alien included on the disc - it actually appears to be a PAL conversion of the NTSC copy I have. I guess the original compiler decided to convert it in order to get it on the same disc as the PAL 'Shock and Awe', but it's at a certain cost to the image sharpness - the Ebay NTSC laserdisc copy is still the best I've seen, no doubt until the official disc suggested by Jiri comes to fruition. I have to wonder though, is handheld 16mm EVER going to look that great?