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Though I doubt this'll be news to anyone already psyched for this film (of which there are many some?), it looks like this Thursday night brings with it a marathon of the Saw series at select AMC locations (the list is after the jump), leading up to the midnight premiere of Saw V.

I actually took part last year (the first for the event, I believe), having felt a need to dust off #1 and brush up on #3, and having had no great qualms at sitting through #2 (my favorite to date), all for the same one-time admission. The cost has been bumped up to $15 this year, but that's still a relative bargain for all the bone-cracking action you can stand.

It was an exhausting effort to go eight straight hours, let me assure you, and one that I don't see myself repeating this year to the count of ten. I've admitted my franchise fatigue elsewhere, so leave it to Scott to be a bit more positive about the prospect of this weekend's second-most horrifying new release (that's right, HSM fans, I'm talking to you).

[Thanks to Fangoria for the theater listings.]

There's arguably no better city for a movie lover in America than Manhattan. On a rainy Sunday you can head out to the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens, which always has incredible screenings going on in addition to their amazing exhibits. You can go to the Ziegfeld, a huge, old fashioned, one-screen jewel that is probably the most beautiful movie theater I've been in. And then there's Film Forum, which shows a mixture of new independents, "lost" treasures, foreign films, and the classics. And all you Bond fanatics who reside outside of the Big Apple might want to sell your home (the money should get you a studio apartment for about three months in New York, if memory serves) and move to NYC because Film Forum is hosting a James Bond Marathon, starting next month.

The film fest runs from April 27 to May 17, and will be showing all of the pre-Dalton Bond flicks (except one, they took the liberty of removing Moonraker). Film Forum is also showing a bunch of non-Bond 60's spy films, such as Our Man Flint and The Ipcess File, and there's some great extras in the mix too: Five vintage Bond trailers will be shown before Live and Let Die and there will be a sing-along (presumably of the Bond themes) following From Russia With Love. Oh, and there's double features and a movie called Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine! With Vincent Price and Frankie Avalon! What are you waiting for? For a lot of younger fans who grew up watching these films on video and DVD, this is one hell of an opportunity, and you've got to support these events when they come to your town. Too many of these great theaters are disappearing.

I wish I had the time and money to travel around the country (or the world) attending crazy movie marathons that glut the audience with so-bad-it's-good or underrated science-fiction, horror, and cult movies. I would probably look like an albino toad, but I'd have a wonderful time.

I hadn't heard before about the Boston Science Fiction Film Festival, a 24-hour marathon of films that's been occurring annually since 1976. The only Boston Marathon I knew was the one where people run around town until they drop. This marathon is more to my taste. This year's test of film-geek endurance takes place Feb. 19-20 at West Newton Cinema. The programming is a well balanced combination of classic fantasy (the 1933 King Kong), cheesy 50s sci-fi and horror (Fire Maidens from Outer Space, William Castle's The Tingler), cult favorites (The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai, George A. Romero's The Crazies), and contemporary films (12 Monkeys, Serenity). The features are interspersed with cartoons, serials, trailers, and other neat stuff. If you live near Boston and like science-fiction films, this might be your idea of a fun weekend ... and the chance to meet people who feel the same way.

[via Sitting in the Dark]