…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?