Skip to Content

Media | Movie Marathon

Follow on Twitter

Flicks.co.nz The People's Republic of V

ULTIMATE MARATHONS

For our 10th Anniversary, we asked a selection of movie maniacs what their ultimate marathon line-up would be. You never know, a few of these may indeed screen this year.

Lars Nilson / Programmer / Alamo Drafthouse

Weird Wednesdays is the pet project of Lars Nilson, a film programmer at Alamo Drafthouse in Austin, who has an amazing knowledge of all kinds of movies. At Best of QTFest, when Quentin Tarantino drew a blank on a Seventies actress's name or an obscure Sixties film, Lars piped up with the right information. People think QT knows his shit. No way jose.

  • Vigilante
  • Point Blank
  • Truck Turner
  • Brain That Wouldn't Die
  • King Boxer
  • Mister Scarface
  • Phantom Of The Paradise
  • BREAKFAST
  • Donovan's Reef
  • Venus In Furs
  • Duel
  • Unholy Rollers
  • Night Warning
  • Surf 2

Aaron Yap / ISFF Old Schooler / Film Critic

For someone so young Aaron has exquisite eclectic taste. When he was just a whippersnapper, we pulled him into the strange fold to help us with the film festival years ago. He is one of the few film reviewers I enjoy reading.

  • Macon County Line (Richard Compton, '74)
  • Zebra Force (Joe Tornatore, '76)
  • Rituals (Peter Carter, '77)
  • The Keep (Michael Mann, '83)
  • Delinquent Schoolgirls (Greg Corarito, '75)
  • The Mafu Cage (Karen Arthur, '76)
  • Looking for Mr Goodbar (Richard Brooks, '77)
  • Furious (Tim Everett, '84)
  • BREAKFAST
  • Last of Sheila (Herbert Ross, '73)
  • 4D MAN (Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr., '59)
  • Soldier Blue (Ralph Nelson, '70)
  • Demon Seed (Donald Cammell, '77)
  • Brewster McCloud (Robert Altman, '70)

Gary Huggins / Director & Programmer

Gary Huggins is an archivist and programmer of genre cinema. On the strength of his first short, FIRST DATE, Gary Huggins has been named one of Filmmaker Magazine's "25 New Faces of Indie Film 2006". FIRST DATE premiered at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival and was one of five U.S. narratives invited to France's prestigious Clermont-Ferrand Festival International du Court Metrage. It has since been selected for festivals worldwide.

  • Pocket Money (1972, Stuart Rosenberg)
  • The Sandglass (1973, Wojciech Has)
  • Brass Eye Pedophilia Special (2001, Chris Morris)
  • Fucking Tulsa (world premiere - 2009, Clu Gulager)
  • Inflatable Sex Doll of the Wastelands ('67, A. Yamatoya)

  • Night Warning ('83, W. Asher) or The Pit ('81, L. Lehman)

  • 2 Hours of Shorts: Toby Dammit (AIP version - 1968, Federico Fellini), The Cowboy and the Frenchman (1988, David Lynch), Kitchen Sink (1989, Alison Maclean), See The Sea (1997, Francois Ozon), Feels So Good (2007, Gary Huggins)

  • Watari The Ninja Boy (1966, Sadao Nakajima)

  • The Devils (restored - 1971, Ken Russell)
  • Rape: The 13th Hour (1977, Yasuharu Hasebe)
  • Poor Pretty Eddie (1975, Chris Robinson)
  • Raw Force (1982, Edward D, Murphy)
  • The Day The Clown Cried (world premiere - 1972, Jerry Lewis)

Bruce Fletcher / Programmer / Dead Channels

When Bruce Fletcher left the San Francisco Independent Film Festival (IndieFest), fans who'd relied on his horror and sci-fi picks were understandably a little worried. Fortunately, Fletcher's Dead Channels: The San Francisco Festival of Fantastic Film proved there's room enough in this town for multiple fests with an eye for sleazy, gory, gruesome, unsettling, and offbeat films, indie and otherwise.

  • The Stunt Man - Richard Rush
  • The Reflecting Skin - Philip Ridley
  • Marquis - Henri Xhonneux
  • Humanoids from the Deep - Barbara Peters
  • Pufnstuf - Hollingsworth Morse
  • Brain Damage - Frank Henenlotter
  • Shogun Assassin - Robert Houston
  • Feed - Brett Leonard -BREAKFAST
  • The Magic Christian - Joseph McGrath
  • Legend of the Overfiend - Hideki Takayama
  • Possession - Andrzej Zulawski
  • Bliss - Ray Lawrence
  • LisztOmania - Ken Russell

Mike McPadden aka McBeardo / Writer / Mr Skin

McBeardo is the defining moniker of the Brooklyn-born miscreant occasionally still known as Mike McPadden and Selwyn Harris. He began with his early-90s sleaze-zine HAPPYLAND, followed by a stint as Entertainment Editor at Hustler, and gigs at numerous subsequent slap-mags, mo(i)st notably, Celebrity Skin. As a screenwriter, McBeardo gave us the softcore epic Animal Instincts 3: The Seductress (1995), as well as the XXX-rated milestones Devil in Miss Jones 5: The Inferno (1994), Sex Freaks (1995), Gregory Dark's Flesh (1996). Writings by McBeardo have been published in Esquire, Movieline, The New York Press, Playboy.com, and Peter Bagges HATE, as well as the books Bubblegum Music Is the Naked Truth (Feral House) and The Facsheet Five Zine Reader (Three Rivers Press).

  • Mad Monster Party (1967)
  • The Strange Case of Senor Computer (2000)
  • The Trial of Billy Jack (1974)
  • Lemora the Lady Dracula (1973)
  • Screwballs (1984)
  • Head (1968)
  • Forbidden Zone (1980)
  • BREAKFAST
  • Inside aka l'intrieur (2007)
  • Sleepaway Camp (1983)
  • Hardcore (1979)
  • The Island of Dr. Moreau (1996)
  • Coonskin (1975)
  • Farewell Uncle Tom (1971)

Dylan Skolnick / Programmer /

  • Suspiria
  • Spider Baby
  • Daughters of Darkness
  • Videodrome
  • Shogun Assassin
  • Daughter of Horror (aka Dementia)
  • Danger: Diabolik
  • BREAKFAST The Lair of the White Worm
  • House (Hausu)
  • Flash Gordon
  • Night Warning
  • Possession
  • Dawn of the Dead

David Zellner / Director / GOLIATH

  • Aguirre, The Wrath of God (1972)
  • Deliverance (1972)
  • Mudhoney (1965)
  • Even Dwarves Started Small (1970)
  • The General (1926)
  • Who Can Kill a Child? (1976)
  • Hausu (1977)
  • The Plague Dogs (1982)
  • Flash Gordon (1980)
  • Freebie and The Bean (1974)
  • Excalibur (1981)
  • Comanche Station (1960)
  • Irreversible (2002)

David Blyth / Director / DEATH WARMED UP

  • Rubbers Lover / Shozin Fukui
  • Tetsuo ( The Iron Man ) / Shinya Tsukamoto
  • Ichi The Killer / Takashi Miike
  • Haze / Shinya Tsukamoto
  • Matango / Ishiro Honda
  • Tokyo Decadence / Ryu Murakami
  • A snake of June / Shinya Tsukamoto
  • Big Bang Love / Takashi Miike
  • Gozu / Takashi Miike
  • Funeral parade of Roses / Toshio Matsumoto
  • Ghost in the shell / Mamoru Oshii
  • Onibaba / Kaneto Shindo
  • Audition / Takashi Miike

Adam Wingard/ Director/ POP SKULL

  • Cannibal Apocalypse (Antonio Margheriti)
  • Terrifying Girls' High School: Lynch Law Classroom
  • The Lost (Chris Sivertson)
  • Spasmo
  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
  • Singapore Sling
  • Dark Night of the Scarecrow
  • Punisher: War Zone
  • Reflections Of Evil
  • Wheels Of Fire
  • Heroes Shed No Tears
  • Gerry
  • Tokyo Fist

Andrew Todd / Director/ Trash Fiend

  • Equinox (Jack Woods)
  • The Dirty Dozen
  • Skatetown USA
  • The Ninth Configuration
  • The Beauties and the Beast
  • Mystics In Bali
  • Fantastic Voyage
  • The Devil's Rain
  • Pajama Party
  • The Room
  • Alice (Svankmajer)
  • Killing Spree
  • The Fly (Cronenberg)

Dave Brough / Marathon Maniac

  • Gnaw (Food Of The Gods 2)
  • The Warriors
  • Woodchipper Massacre
  • The Beyond
  • The Swap...And How They Make It
  • The Apple
  • Seventh Voyage Of Sinbad
  • Howling 2
  • Sleepaway Camp
  • The Naked Prey
  • Thunderbolt & Lightfoot
  • Please Don't Eat The Babies aka Island Fury
  • Re-Animator

Steve Austin / ISFF / South Island

  • The Apple
  • Taking of Pelham 1 2 3
  • Story of Ricky
  • Martyrs
  • Uptown Saturday Night
  • Phase IV
  • Abagail Leslie Is Back In Town
  • Goke, Bodysnatcher From Hell
  • BREAKFAST
  • Condorman
  • Zacariah
  • Men Behind The Sun
  • Demonwarp
  • The Warriors

PhilBaby / Marathon Regular

  • Tremors (1990)
  • Bela Lugosi meets a Brooklyn Gorilla (1952)
  • Street Hawk (1985)
  • The Apple (1980)
  • Death Bed: The Bed that Eats (1977)
  • Thrashin' (1986)
  • The Ice Pirates (1984)
  • Danger: Diabolik (1968)
  • Forbidden Planet (1956)
  • Black Belt Jones (1974)
  • A Bittersweet Life (2005)
  • The Video Dead (1987)
  • Waterworld (1995)

Darryn Goble / Marathon Regular

  • The General (1926) - with live accompaniment ala Avondale Hollywood Wurlitzer organ
  • The Ice Pirates (1984)
  • Battle Truck (1982)
  • Deathstalker II (1987)
  • Flesh for Frankenstein 3D (1973)
  • School of the Holy Beast (1974)
  • Coonskin (1975)
  • Thriller: A Cruel Picture(1974)
  • BREAKFAST
  • Danger: Diabolik (1968)
  • Kiss the Girls and Make Them Die(1966)
  • The Perils of Gwendoline in the Land of the Yik Yak(1984)
  • UHF(1989)
  • Big Trouble In Little China(1986)