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Reply #15 - Nov 22nd, 2014 at 2:05am

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There have been both 35mm and DCP screenings of DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL around the nation over the last few years, so it should be available (even from the notoriously difficult 20th Century Fox.)  That being said, could we just trade MOONRAKER for DAY?  Just saw the Bond film at the Cleveland Sci-Fi a few years back.  Yeah.......doesn't really get better with age. 
 
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Reply #16 - Nov 22nd, 2014 at 2:10am

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Joe Neff wrote on Nov 22nd, 2014 at 2:05am:
There have been both 35mm and DCP screenings of DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL around the nation over the last few years, so it should be available (even from the notoriously difficult 20th Century Fox.)  That being said, could we just trade MOONRAKER for DAY?  Just saw the Bond film at the Cleveland Sci-Fi a few years back.  Yeah.......doesn't really get better with age. 


Most of the DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL screenings recently, unfortunately, have been in DCP. Studios has actually begun hoarding their 35mm film prints because they have realized - quite ironically - that even in the digital age, that good old film is still the best preservation medium.
 
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Reply #17 - Nov 22nd, 2014 at 3:22pm

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Joe Neff wrote on Nov 22nd, 2014 at 2:05am:
  That being said, could we just trade MOONRAKER for DAY?  Just saw the Bond film at the Cleveland Sci-Fi a few years back.  Yeah.......doesn't really get better with age. 

You're a better man than I, Joe. I checked & Cleveland showed it January 2010. I must have been asleep. You have a superior memory of the film.
They have also shown DAY six times, the last being 2008.
Boston has also shown it 6 times, the last being 15 years ago. Perhaps some other classic? Looking at the list, I see lots of possibles from Thon #1.
DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS
DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL
EARTH VS. THE FLYING SAUCERS
FANTASTIC VOYAGE
FIVE MILLION YEARS TO EARTH
INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN
INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS (1956))
IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE
THEM
THING, THE (1951)
THINGS TO COME (THE SHAPE OF)
THIS ISLAND EARTH
WAR OF THE WORLDS (1953)
ZARDOZ
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Reply #18 - Nov 23rd, 2014 at 2:48am

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Funny story about that Cleveland Marathon screening of MOONRAKER.  So the film shows around 8am or so on Saturday morning (for those of you who don't know, the CWRU 'thon starts at 8pm Friday night and runs until early Sunday morning.)  The Cleveland audience is usually fairly talky (although that's diminished a bit in recent years), so there's the expected amount of callbacks for this turkey....um, I mean spoof. 

But after ten minutes or so, I begin to notice one particular guy several rows back from my group who's making VERY specific comments about the film.  Then I notice that he's making comments that are paid off by lines on screen.  And it's at this point that I realize that he's gone full-on ROCKY HORROR, watched the film beforehand, and devised scene specific callbacks.  For the whole film!

Even stranger?  I never heard him again for the rest of the event!  CWRU allows prorated and single screening admission to their Marathon, so my only guess is that some guy paid to see MOONRAKER, just so he could perform an entire callback show in the back of the theater.  All that work.....for MOONRAKER!

And although quite a few of those films from Boston SF1 have shown in recent years, there's one that's notable by its absence.  And it involves Sean Connery.  And a red adult sarong.  Yes!
 
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Reply #19 - Nov 30th, 2014 at 5:37pm

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Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY has been announced.

But, that's not all, Marathoids. It will be presented on the big Somerville screen in.......

70MM!
 
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Reply #20 - Dec 4th, 2014 at 9:32pm

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Reply #21 - Dec 6th, 2014 at 11:55am

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First FESTIVAL film announced:

THE NOAH a true obscurity. Rare 35mm print.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0454515/combined

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IRON GIANT and EDGE OF TOMORROW announced!
 
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Reply #23 - Dec 31st, 2014 at 1:07pm

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It is great news that Douglas Trumbull will attend to indroduce 2001. Let s make it a double by adding  ANDROMEDA STRAIN or CE3K.
 
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L.A. Connection wrote on Dec 31st, 2014 at 1:07pm:
It is great news that Douglas Trumbull will attend to indroduce 2001. Let s make it a double by adding  ANDROMEDA STRAIN or CE3K.


Related news is Saturday night at the Somerville there will be a separate event with Doug Trumball including a Q&A session, films TBA.
 
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Which Saturday night? Any details?
 
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Reply #26 - Jan 1st, 2015 at 9:40am

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Rich Bartlett wrote on Jan 1st, 2015 at 6:46am:
Which Saturday night? Any details?


It looks like Marathon eve. Not much time to go to the Trumubull tribute,  travel home, rest and then return for the Marathon. Hopefully, it will be more of a 5pm or 6pm thing that one that drags on past 10 or 11pm. But, who needs sleep?
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Reply #27 - Jan 2nd, 2015 at 9:28am

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We got ants!
Just announced for SF40 the 1954 classic Them!
 
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Reply #28 - Jan 2nd, 2015 at 10:21am

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da_Bunnyman wrote on Jan 2nd, 2015 at 9:28am:
We got ants!
Just announced for SF40 the 1954 classic Them!


The prototype for the BIM (Bug Eyed Monster) movie! Overdue for a return visit. Cool.


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Reply #29 - Jan 5th, 2015 at 10:10pm

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So I'd guess maybe 4-5 films left to be added?
 
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