Director George A. Romero as a priest in MARTIN (1977)…
…and John Sayles as one of the Men in Black in THE BROTHER FROM ANOTHER PLANET (1984). Okay, this is Joe Morton below, of course, not John Sayles; I didn’t get a picture of the latter. But: <squeeeeeee>, that high-pitched noise he and David Straithairn made—ooh, I just about peed my pants with laughter.
How much of a coincidence is it that both directors of tonight’s films had amazingly well-acted cameos in their own films? Romero played a practical, sweet-liqueur-loving priest not about to put up with a lot of mystical guff. And Sayles? I didn’t even recognize him as the taller twin of the alien “slave”-hunters.
And, just ‘cos I’m a sentimental twit, a lovely dawn picture of the other twins:
This screenshot foreshadows Wikus’s transformation in DISTRICT 9 (2009), methinks. Completely unexpected sci-fi goodness. THE summertime movie to see. I had been a tiny bit intrigued by the viral marketing campaign, but hadn’t gone further to investigate what it was all about. I’m glad I didn’t know much going in. As for the UA Theater in Berkeley: slippery floors (carpet cleaning residue tracked about), dingy smell, and the “usher” with the light saber patrolling the aisle three times during the screening. Urk.
[Sorry to tantalize you with a heading like that and then accompany it with such a bad animated gif—so here's Sean in aforementioned outfit.] According to the Time Out Film Guide, John Boorman didn’t get to direct a J.R.R. Tolkien adaptation, so we ended up with this visual feast as a substitute.
This screen shot gives away one of the main points of ZARDOZ (1974). Can you work it out?
By the way, from what fountain of youth does Charlotte Rampling drink?