Erin Ptah#Marathon51 over. #Mickey17 was trying to be at least 5 different movies at once, and I liked at least 3 of them, so it worked out.
Now I'm home and the cats are fed, which for them is the big hit news of the weekend <3
#Marathon51 Eyes resting for the back half of Frankenhooker...but from what I heard, I enjoyed the ending.
#Mickey17 was scheduled to start at 12:40. Trailers running now...
#Marathon51 The internet argues over whether Dune 2 is a Bechdel pass (all conversations come back to Paul, not slowly).
Repo is an easy pass, though! Possibly just our third one of the night.
#Marathon51 Skipped out on #Dune 2 (saw the first one, wasn't dying to see what happened next).
Surprise 3 is #RepoTheGeneticOpera, which I remember fandom being really into for a hot minute? ...almost 20 years ago, wow. Didn't feel the need to see it then, hasn't changed since.
#Marathon51 #Krull was the expected fun fantasy epic. Villains in spiky black armor, comic-relief shapeshifter, bandits with hearts of gold, shiny magic weapon of destiny. I like how the evil castle was built like a body: the architecture is giant bones and blood vessels, the kidnapped--
#Marathon51 As tends to happen with these, I ended up losing #ALGOL's plot, just closing my eyes and enjoying the live music. (The player called it something like "one of the craziest films I've done this for...")
Weird fable about an alien giving one guy a perpetual motion machine, so he--
#Marathon51 But seriously, we're watching this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algol_(1920_film)
With an "Out of the Inkwell" short to open.
The coding PP was to give our live score player time to set up his gear:
https://silentfilmlivemusic.blogspot.com/?m=1
#Marathon51 Surprise 2 was #TheCatFromOuterSpace ! Extremely red old print. Looks like they were dedicated to using An Actual Cat for all the cat scenes. I dozed off toward the end, but it looks like the good guys won.
#Marathon51 Oh, wow, that mystery Star Wars cartoon was a clip from the Holiday Special? With no relation to the rest of the special? Huh.
http://thefilmexperience.net/blog/2015/4/18/tims-toons-star-wars-the-animated-misadventures.html
#Marathon51 Saturday Morning Cartoon Break, aka "playing a bunch of cartoon opening themes, try to gage the age of the audience by how many people song along."
...Although it was way shorter than last year's. Tactic to make up time? Surprise 2 was set for 11:30.