Glad to hear about your cool 'thon! I'm definitely going to follow in your footsteps, and watch some of these, maybe doing a mini thon of the eighties films (skipping Humanoids of the Deep).

Oh, fantastic. Have fun!

I am not sure why I am becoming interested in '80's movies after spending most of my life, including the part of my life that was the '80's, ignoring them, but I think they feel like a decade in film where the id was particularly close to the surface and that sort of thing always interests me.

The straightforward pleasures of the film within the film are like a simple cold glass of milk alongside a complicated dessert, while also serving as a way to look the power and importance (and limitations) of stories as a way to think/feel through big scary complicated stuff.

I like that way of describing it. I went into the film expecting it to be fun; I didn't expect it to be all the other things.

I remember Fantastic Planet from the midpoint of a weeklong film fest, which was, for me, a less than ideal time to catch what it was throwing.

I would call it worth revisiting.

(I have never done a week's worth of film fest. I am not actually sure if I would enjoy it or burn out.)