Join screenwriter Stuart Wright as he dives into movies that changed your life with the director of the Texas Chain Saw Massacre documentary CHAIN REACTIONS, Alexandre O. Phillipe, in this engaging episode of 3 Films That Have Impacted Everything In Your Adult Life. Explore Vertigo impact, Bladerunner analysis, and All Tex Avery Cartoons influence on his personal growth and cinema’s transformative power. Alexandre O. Phillipe also discusses how he directed CHAIN REACTIONS

Movies That Changed Your Life  

Find out about the making of the Texas Chain Saw Massacre documentary CHAIN REACTIONS and the lasting impact of cinema with Stuart Wright on his movie podcast.  

[1:00] Describe CHAIN REACTIONS

[3:00] Texas Chain Saw Massacre is an extraordinary film

[5:20] Texas Chain Saw Massacre is pure cinema

[7:20] Texas Chain Saw Massacre looks amateurish is part of the charm of the film

[9:00] What changes in perception did Alexandre have from making CHAIN REACTIONS?

[13:00] Gaining new readings of Texas Chain Saw Massacre from those interviewed.

[14:00] 3 Films That Have Impacted Everything In Your Adult Life

Vertigo impact 

[14:43] Alexandre O. Phillipe describes how Vertigo goes really deep and was his first film memory. 

Bladerunner analysis

[20:20] Alexandre O. Phillipe shares how Bladerunner was a film he watched in theatres, in Paris, when he was 10. He got the VHS as soon as he could and there was a time in his youth when he watched the film every day of his life.

All Tex Avery Cartoons Influence  

[26:00] Alexandre O. Phillipe talks about how watching Tex Avery Cartoons were a huge part of his pre-school routine when he was growing up in Switzerland. The absurdity and over the top humour and how Tex Avery could escalate every situation. Alexandre thinks that Tex Avery was the greatest. 

Key Take Aways:  

- Discover how movies that changed your life shape personal and professional growth.

- Learn about how Alexandre O. Philippe decided on the style and format of the Texas Chain Saw Massacre documentary CHAIN REACTIONS

About the Guest:  

Alexandre O. Philippe is a Swiss American film director. Philippe is also the Creative Director and co-owner of Denver-based Cinema Vertige

Fifty years after Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chain Saw Massacre shocked the world, this feature-length documentary charts the film's profound impact and lasting influence on five great artists – Patton Oswalt, Takashi Miike, Alexandra Heller-Nicholas, Stephen King and Karyn Kusama. 

Chain Reactions will be available on Digital and Blu-ray from 27th October

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Credits:  

Intro/Outro music: *Rocking The Stew* by Tokyo Dragons (https://www.instagram.com/slomaxster/) 

Written, produced, and hosted by Stuart Wright for [Britflicks.com](https://www.britflicks.com/britflicks-podcast/)  

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