Okay, I feel recovered enough to try a marathon review.
First off the fact it even took place with no public transportation available and literally just after a blizzard ended was a great tribute to the marathoids new and old who attended.

The In Memoriam tribute was really well done. Very good clip selection.
Snowpiercer- very appropriate starter film. Slightly insane yet really a bit of a downer. The fact a frozen building looked just like the Alewife garage was pretty eerie.
Big plus was the singalong to Charlie On The MTA afterwards.
2001: A Space Odyssey- Haven't seen this in awhile, napped the last couple of marathon showings. Really looked great except for some weird white strobing early on. Having an intermission helped it not be too overwhelming. The Somerville's HUGE screen was really shown off to advantage too.
Interesting to hear from Doug Trmbull, scary when he almost took a header off the stage. Him zapping Garen with a raygun was a nice touch.
Cabinet of Dr. Caligari- Silent films with live music are always a treat. Caligari is just so over the top weird that it may be the ultimate silent film experience.
Prelude to Axanar- Interesting short, the idea of setting it up like a history channel documentary worked very well.
Fantassacherie- Kinda dragged, maing problem was segments never really seemed to connect to make a bigger story.
Them- Classic, always fun to watch with the marathon crowd. Should not work as well as it does but seems like you notice something else each time it runs, this time was noticing the female scientist was using a 3D still camera.
Moonraker- missed it for a nap.
The Day The Earth Stood Still-still napping (hey it's my 40th marathon, I've seen it a few times before.)
Twilight Zone-I Sing The Body Electric- A lesser known ep but a good Bradbury adaption and a nicely sentimental one.
Big Trouble In Little China- An out of place action fantasy but a lot of fun. Stands up rather well for its age.
Iron Giant- Sigh! Still consider this the last great American 2D animated film. As before, after the "Superman" line was almost total silence from the crowd except for people fighting back tears.
This Island Earth- The VERY FIRST marathon film returns. Not quite an 'A' film classic but a definite 'B' film must see space opera. Though looking back, very little takes place off earth.
Ducked out on the last film, had seen it before and was starting to feel my energy fade.
See you all at SF41

Frank wrote on Feb 19^th, 2015 at 2:49pm:


I agree with you Frank, it really is not that good a film.
Now that the anniversary is out of the way we can put it into retirement for a long while.
Amazingly we still have yet to show one of the classics from the 50's The Creature From The Black Lagoon, that is WAY overdue.