Manos: The Hands Of Fate: The Play

I’ve got the Blu-ray restoration — per a question above, it is restored from the original negative, but it was a Super-8 or something similarly basic to start with — and without Joel etc it’s a definitely bizarre watch. The lacunae and utter lack of sense in terms of how to edit for pace become weirdly compelling.

added to the MoMA equation is that a *large* minority of every film audience there is octogenarians who have no idea what they're about to see.

oscar voters, then?

probably a few... the stories i have...

rushomancy, I could've gone to Club 57 (didn't), but a friend (who is still here 35 years later) fondly remembers seeing Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster there. So some people knew it partly for the movies they showed, it seems.

you heard it hear first folks, "manos" has oscar momentum!

how many drive-ins did it play in the '60s?

Scattered ones in Texas by all accounts.

Finally saw this tonight. John Stossel was an inspired choice for the antagonist.