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Reply #30 - Dec 17^th, 2014 at 12:29am

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da_Bunnyman wrote on Dec 16^th, 2014 at 11:04pm:

Pretty sure I slept through Star Crystal.
Really cheesy trailer, check out 55 seconds in when the group runs around some vintage mall escalators.

Worst part is Corman made some halfway decent low budget sci-fi films that never seem to show up.

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Reply #31 - Dec 17^th, 2014 at 12:34am

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da_Bunnyman wrote on Dec 16^th, 2014 at 11:04pm:

Pretty sure I slept through Star Crystal.
Really cheesy trailer, check out 55 seconds in when the group runs around some vintage mall escalators.

Worst part is Corman made some halfway decent low budget sci-fi films that never seem to show up.

It was on at about 5am, so there were many who (fortunately for them) slept through it. But, us Marathon droids soldiered on. It wasn't a Corman film, however. As I noted, it was a pick-up that New World distributed. And, Corman already had sold the company by that time anyway so he was never involved.

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Reply #32 - Dec 17^th, 2014 at 1:17pm

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Speaking of Roger Corman, I would rather see Corman's stuff from the 50's than his later stuff at the thon... As for Star Crystal, who can forget the haunting ballad... Crystal of the Stars.

I bring you peace. It may be the peace of plenty and content or the peace of unburied death.

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Reply #33 - Dec 22^nd, 2014 at 1:35pm

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NIAGRAVATION

Director Joe Romano hustling to sell his movie. One of his stops? The Coolidge Corner Cinema for SF/21. The movie was booed off the screen. Romano was 'greeted' with a hail of abuse - but, his sincerity paid off, and the crowd actually cheered him as he left the stage.

The movie? Uh, not so cheery.

http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/USA-Weird-And-Wacky-Feature-Films/3277119aebd2...

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Reply #34 - Dec 22^nd, 2014 at 2:40pm

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L.A. Connection wrote on Dec 22^nd, 2014 at 1:35pm:

NIAGRAVATION

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Director Joe Romano hustling to sell his movie. One of his stops? The Coolidge Corner Cinema for SF/21. The movie was booed off the screen. Romano was 'greeted' with a hail of abuse - but, his sincerity paid off, and the crowd actually cheered him as he left the stage.

The movie? Uh, not so cheery.

http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/USA-Weird-And-Wacky-Feature-Films/3277119aebd2...

I totally agree. The cheers were born of a feeling of guilt for the initial trashing that his movie received in the Q&A as well as Romano coming off as a decent guy trying his best to sell a movie. Unlike Julie Corman, he won the audience over. We did not change our minds about the movie but we liked him.

I bring you peace. It may be the peace of plenty and content or the peace of unburied death.

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Reply #35 - Jan 2^nd, 2015 at 5:26pm

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if you could destroy all copies of niagravation would you do it?

PANTS UP. DON'T LOOT.

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Reply #36 - Jan 2^nd, 2015 at 6:35pm

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kirok wrote on Jan 2^nd, 2015 at 5:26pm:

if you could destroy all copies of niagravation would you do it?

Wouldn't be too hard since, I believe, the only copies other than the print and neg the Director probably has, are VHS tapes that were privately sold by the Director himself. The few copies that exist outside of his circle of crew and friends are probably buried in landfill or at the bottom of stacks of tapes in Salvation Army stores...

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Reply #37 - Jan 13^th, 2015 at 1:06pm

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Good a time as any to show the Godard classic ALPHAVILLE, now that a remake is in the works!

http://www.thewrap.com/alphaville-remake-in-the-works-from-twin-peaks-cinematogr...

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Reply #38 - Jan 13^th, 2015 at 2:11pm

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L.A. Connection wrote on Jan 13^th, 2015 at 1:06pm:

Good a time as any to show the Godard classic ALPHAVILLE, now that a remake is in the works!

http://www.thewrap.com/alphaville-remake-in-the-works-from-twin-peaks-cinematogr...

It will never be a good time to show this at the marathon. Zzzzzzz.....Zzzzzzzzz....Zzzzzzzzzzzz

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Reply #39 - Jan 26^th, 2015 at 2:23pm

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Feast on this SCHEDULE FROM HELL
buddy boys:

Noon    MOONRAKER
            RAGNAROK
            CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI
            EDGE OF TOMORROW
            Premiere of TRAIL OF MOTIVATIONAL FOLKLORE GROWTH
            THIS ISLAND EARTH
Midnight THEM!
            DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL - yeah, 3 50s flicks in row!
4AM       2001 - Try to stay awake during this! Tongue

            IRON GIANT
            SNOWPIERCER
            BIG TROUBLE LITTLE CHINA

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