Alexandre O. Philippe
Alexandre O. Philippe is a Swiss-American documentary filmmaker, writer, and producer known for films about cinema, film history, and popular culture. He first gained international attention with The People vs. George Lucas (2010), a documentary examining fan culture surrounding the Star Wars franchise and its creator George Lucas. He later directed Doc of the Dead (2014), a documentary exploring the cultural history of zombies in film and media. Philippe became more widely recognized for a series of analytical documentaries focused on individual films and filmmakers, including 78/52 (2017), about the shower sequence in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960); Memory: The Origins of Alien (2019); Leap of Faith: William Friedkin on The Exorcist (2019); The Taking (2021); Lynch/Oz (2022); You Can Call Me Bill (2023); Chain Reactions (2024); and Kim Novak's Vertigo (2025).
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