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Reply #30 - Mar 9^th, 2015 at 8:03pm

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L.A. Connection wrote on Mar 9^th, 2015 at 12:25pm:

We could hold it this fall. Maybe in conjunction with the Somerville and their annual (?) October marathon.

da_Bunnyman wrote on Mar 9^th, 2015 at 10:39am:

Frank wrote on Mar 8^th, 2015 at 11:35pm:

I feel that we should borrow a page from Ohio and have a time warp marathon where we go back in time and have SF40 a second time... with different films, of course......

Maybe have a sub-theme of an SF40 do-over?
Of course we could not repeat the films (or maybe we could in the mini-cinema, some of them at least.)

Or even an idea to kick off SF41 ticket sales, a showing of films that were supposed to be shown at SF40, that way folks who did make it could go.
Actually I'd love seeing the Boston Sci-Fi doing some rare showings during the year.

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Reply #31 - Mar 10^th, 2015 at 6:28pm

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da_Bunnyman wrote on Mar 9^th, 2015 at 8:03pm:

Actually I'd love seeing the Boston Sci-Fi doing some rare showings during the year.

Well, we ran something like that......and virtually no one showed up! Cry

I have seen the future, and it is sucky digital....

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Reply #32 - Mar 10^th, 2015 at 9:14pm

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What was run?

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Reply #33 - Mar 11^th, 2015 at 2:01pm

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David the Projectionist wrote on Mar 10^th, 2015 at 6:28pm:

da_Bunnyman wrote on Mar 9^th, 2015 at 8:03pm:

Actually I'd love seeing the Boston Sci-Fi doing some rare showings during the year.

Well, we ran something like that......and virtually no one showed up! Cry

If you didn't insist on showing all those golden moldies on 35MM no less (how old fashioned!), you might have a better turnout. I hear MOTIVATIONAL GROWTH II and FOLKLORE MEETS FRANKENSTEIN were available to show on DVD projection.

For the record, here was the lineup:

THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI
THE INVISIBLE MAN
DR. CYCLOPS
FORBIDDEN PLANET
PLANET OF THE APES
WESTWORLD
BUCKAROO BANZAI
TREMORS

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Reply #34 - Mar 11^th, 2015 at 6:15pm

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If Dave's talking about last summer's midnight series, I don't think they were all on 35mm (although most of the digital ones were the current indie stuff), but, yeah, the ones I attended were seldom particularly crowded. Granted, I tended to go more to the more obscure ones than Pitch Perfect, The Big Lebowski, etc. I suspect Boston's a tought place for midnight movies, though - when the weather's nice enough for people to consider staying up late, the students who might make up much of the audience are gone.

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Reply #35 - Mar 12^th, 2015 at 11:58am

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L.A. Connection wrote on Mar 11^th, 2015 at 2:01pm:

David the Projectionist wrote on Mar 10^th, 2015 at 6:28pm:

da_Bunnyman wrote on Mar 9^th, 2015 at 8:03pm:

Actually I'd love seeing the Boston Sci-Fi doing some rare showings during the year.

Well, we ran something like that......and virtually no one showed up! Cry

Ah the Terror-Thon.
Yeah I was at that one, nice lineup for a sci-fi marathon but it was being pushed as a Halloween horror show.

I was thinking more in the line of one night double features with shows of old films that could be sold as "see it on the big screen" or drive in type schlock that are fun to see with a crowd.
Throw in a short or two and a couple of cartoons.

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