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Trylove Episode 286: REMEMBER MY NAME (1978) with Kelly Krantz
July 02, 2024 11:00 - 1 hour - 54.3 MBGeraldine Chaplin (Charlie’s daughter), Anthony Perkins, and Berry Berenson (Perkins’s wife) star in a taut, almost-revenge tale directed by frequent Robert Altman collaborator Alan Rudolph — REMEMBER MY NAME is a classic example of a cult classic. We couldn’t be happier to welcome Kelly Krantz (@kransekage_) back to chat about one of her favorite performer’s best performances! Stacked with contemporary actors (Chaplin, Perkins), now-famous names (Alfre Woodard, Dennis Franz, Jeff Goldblum)...
Episode 285: THE EARRINGS OF MADAME DE... (1953)
June 25, 2024 11:00 - 1 hour - 66.9 MBLayers of social prestige have assigned Comtesse Louise de [name redacted] (Danielle Darrieux) a role that doesn’t accommodate her wider range of human desire. She knows that paying a debt by selling her diamond earrings, gifted by her husband General André de… (Charles Boyer), will offend the hierarchical foundations of her way of life — a life of privilege and excess — so instead of admitting folly, she lies. She didn’t sell them; she lost them. Thus starts a clear but ridiculous journey ...
Episode 284: THE PLAYER (1992) with Benjamin Savard
June 18, 2024 11:00 - 1 hour - 64.4 MBWith returning guest, master’s degree holder, and Trylon volunteer Benjamin Savard (@ItBenjaminScott)! After POPEYE (1980) squashed the ‘80s for director Robert Altman, he came back with a wry, cynical film adaptation of Michael Tolkin’s 1988 novel, “The Player”. In the resulting movie of the same name, Tim Robbins plays Griffin Mill, a bigshot Hollywood producer whose decency streak is lined with writers whose ideas prides himself on turning into box office hits without compromising their ...
Episode 283: TOUCH OF EVIL (1958) with Abbie Phelps
June 11, 2024 11:00 - 1 hour - 70.8 MBWith Abbie Phelps (@goodhunterabbie)! Orson Welles’s final Hollywood film has it all: A complicated production history, a contentious editing lifecycle, and a ‘true-to-vision’ recut that followed the original release by some 40 years. It’s a story about Hank Quinlan (played by Welles), a dyed-in-the-wool noir detective who’ll do anything to exact his version of justice, and Ramon Miguel Vargas (confusingly played by a very white Charlton Heston), a Mexican detective set on rooting out Quinl...
Episode 282: LA CASA LOBO (THE WOLF HOUSE) (2018) with Finn Odum
June 04, 2024 11:00 - 1 hour - 72.4 MBWith Finn Odum (@Finnematic)! LA CASA LOBO (THE WOLF HOUSE) is a harrowing journey through violent change. The leader of a cult spins a cautionary fairy tale to indoctrinate followers, telling the story of Maria, a girl who finds herself locked in an abandoned house in the woods after narrowly avoiding the jaws of an overbearing wolf outside. Afraid to return to her isolated community, Maria comes to depend on the wolf’s protection and insulation from malicious forces both within the house ...
Episode 281: THE VERDICT (1982)
May 28, 2024 11:00 - 1 hour - 46.1 MBFrank Galvin will try the case — against the medical professionals whose negligence left a woman a vegetable, against the church that funds it, against the wishes of the victim’s family, and against just about everybody else. THE VERDICT, Sidney Lumet’s OTHER courtroom drama has a bit of a ‘70s vibe to it, despite releasing in 1982. Maybe it’s because of its miserable hero, an alcoholic lawyer portrayed masterfully by the perpetually handsome Paul Newman; maybe it’s because the whole desper...
Episode 280: ZARDOZ (1974) with Natalie Marlin
May 21, 2024 11:00 - 2 hours - 88.5 MBWith Natalie Marlin! Whatever you know about ZARDOZ — it’s by the guy who made DELIVERANCE (1972), it’s a weird meme, Charlotte Rampling’s instant pregnancy, Sean Connery’s nutsling — we promise you, it’s just the beginning. A critically divisive movie that’s garnered a cult following in the five decades since its release, it’s certainly earned that reputation. It’s a movie where philosophical mishmash rubs shoulders with overt sexual politics and more dick jokes than you can shake a dick ...
Episode 279: THE NIGHT PORTER (1974) with Kelly Krantz
May 14, 2024 11:00 - 1 hour - 55.2 MBWith Kelly Krantz! Liliana Cavani’s psychological, post-Holocaust perverted thriller went down as one of the most controversial movies of all time. In a concentration camp during World War II, concentration camp officer Max (Dirk Bogarde) and his prisoner victim Lucia (Charlotte Rampling) form a sadomasochistic relationship. Their relationship is colored as much by their shared depravity as by Max’s evil humanity and Lucia’s shame over her burgeoning desire. Pretty inflammatory stuff! Henc...
Episode 278: NORTH BY NORTHWEST (1959)
May 07, 2024 11:00 - 1 hour - 65.6 MBNORTH BY NORTHWEST is a hinky Hitchcock tale of mistaken identity, assumed identity, shifting truths, and a man with a huge butt chin using a SpongeBob-comically-small razor. Cary Grant stars as an ad man who gets caught up in a Cold War game of cat-and-mouse (he’s the mouse) opposite double agent Eva Marie Saint, Broadly European Bad Guy James Mason, and the FBI/CIA/NSA/WTFE as the other players stringing him along (they’re the cats). A certain amount of NORTH BY NORTHWEST is best apprecia...
Episode 277: LEGEND (1985)
April 30, 2024 11:00 - 1 hour - 71.2 MBLEGEND is a 1985 fantasy film directed by Ridley Scott and written by William Hjortsberg. It stars Tom Cruise in one of his first leading roles as Jack, a pure-hearted forest-dweller who is in love with Princess Lily (played by Mia Sara). Hoping to show her something beautiful, Jack introduces Lily to two majestic unicorns that live in a remote part of the forest. In doing so, he breaks one of the forest’s most sacred rules: That mortals must never touch the unicorns, lest they “upset the or...
Episode 276: THE BEASTMASTER (1982)
April 23, 2024 11:00 - 1 hour - 77.9 MBTHE BEASTMASTER is a 1982 fantasy action movie directed by Don Coscarelli (best known for the PHANTASM films #TheBallIsBack). Marc Singer stars as Dar, rightful heir to the throne of Aruk and prophesied slayer of the evil priest Maax (Rip Torn). Born with the power to speak to animals, Marc befriends a number of mammals on his journey to reclaim the throne (including other humans, though they play a distant second fiddle to the beasts in this film, tbh). THE BEASTMASTER is not a GREAT movie...
Episode 275: SAMURAI REINCARNATION (1981) with Kris Montello and Blake Hester
April 16, 2024 11:00 - 1 hour - 61.2 MBFeaturing filmmaker/programmer Kris Montello and Something Rotten host Blake Hester! SAMURAI REINCARNATION is a 1981 samurai fantasy action film written and directed by Kinji Fukasaku. Shiro Amakusa (Kenji Sawada) is the sole survivor of a massacre of Japanese Christians during the Shimabara Rebellion. Witnessing the devastation, Shiro renounces the Christian God and vows vengeance on the Tokugawa regime that perpetrated the massacre. Now in league with Satan, Shiro gains the power to resur...
Episode 274: CONAN THE BARBARIAN (1982) with Celia Mattison
April 09, 2024 11:00 - 1 hour - 69.2 MBNoted Arnie fan Celia Mattison is back to discuss the swords and sorcery classic! John Milius’s CONAN THE BARBARIAN adaptation limits its view of the character to his pursuit of vengeance and conquest. But that doesn’t mean it’s not a rich, pagan paean to one’s drive for self-determination! On this episode, we talk about what rocks in Arnold Schwarzenegger’s star-making role, how James Earl Jones’s cold, calculating Thulsa Doom is a perfectly cast contrast to Conan’s Austro-Cimmerian barbar...
Episode 273: THE DUELLISTS (1977)
April 02, 2024 11:00 - 1 hour - 66.9 MBTwo years before ALIEN (1979), Ridley Scott packed a bunch of audacious ideas about empire, masculinity, and class into his feature debut: THE DUELLISTS. Rival officers in Napoleonic France, Gabriel Feraud (Harvey Keitel) and Armond d’Hubert (Keith Carradine) are thrown into a mythical, divinely comic cycle of nearly deadly clashes after d’Hubert is instructed to rein in Feraud’s glorified bloodlust. No matter how far he goes, d’Hubert always finds himself at the tip of Feraud’s sword. Over...
Episode 272: NOTHING BUT A MAN (1964)
March 26, 2024 11:00 - 1 hour - 72.7 MBThere wasn’t anything quite like Michael Roemer’s NOTHING BUT A MAN before it, and there arguably hasn’t been anything quite like it since. All the same, it’s often cited as “ahead of its time” – a critical, realistic look, almost documentary in nature, at the life of a black American man in the middle stages of the Civil Rights Movement. Duff Anderson (Ivan Dixon), the son of a deadbeat drifter hoping to avoid the same fate, leaves behind the independence of his railroad section gang to set...
Episode 271: A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH (1946)
March 19, 2024 12:00 - 1 hour - 58.2 MBSweet, heartwarming, funny, and deeply weird, A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH plays to its creator duo Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s strengths: swift writing, a flair for the dramatic, and deeply affecting images. David Niven stars as the should-be-late British RAF Squadron Leader Peter Carter, who falls in love with American soldier June (Kim Hunter) over the radio on his way to the hereafter. But in the throes of World War II, Carter’s demise slides under the radar of the reaper sent...
Episode 270: BLACK NARCISSUS (1947)
March 12, 2024 12:00 - 1 hour - 81.2 MBFive nuns. One Briton man-whore. A harem-turned-convent high in the Himalayas. Fellas – what could go wrong??? In Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s BLACK NARCISSUS, an adaptation of Rumer Godden’s 1947 novel, external conditions reveal internal torment: Altitude, wind, and culture clashes in the hilltop former harem of Mopu help expose the repressed desires of a sisterhood operating in Calcutta. In our discussion of this Technicolor classic, we discuss BLACK NARCISSUS’s potential misn...
Episode 269: Interview with Bret Berg, Creator/VJ/“Mad Scientist” of the Museum of Home Video
March 11, 2024 12:00 - 1 hour - 44.7 MBWith special guest Bret Berg (Theatrical Sales Director at the American Genre Film Archive and Creator/VJ at the Museum of Home Video)! Bret Berg created the Museum of Home Video, a weekly stream comprising archival footage like commercials, TV shows, movies, and more, all edited for the quickest-hit emotional impact possible. Before he hosted two live MHV presentations at the Trylon (RING, RING: A DOORBELL CAM FANTASIA and THE MUSEUM OF HOME VIDEO’S GUIDE TO INFOMERCIALS), Bret sat down wi...
Episode 268: DROP DEAD GORGEOUS (1999) with Drew Tenenbaum
March 05, 2024 16:16 - 1 hour - 73 MBWith special guest and Minnesotan Drew Tenenbaum (@AshCoolBro)! A threshing accident, exploding parade floats and trailers – contestants and participants in the Sarah Rose Cosmetics American Teen Princess Pageant meet untimely ends in a series of suspicious incidents in Mount Rose, Minnesota. In this episode (comprising exclusively Minnesota-born speakers), we discuss the class politics at play in the movie, its turn with the mockumentary format, how many of its jokes actually land, and the...
Episode 267: LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT (2018) with Natalie Marlin
February 27, 2024 13:00 - 2 hours - 85 MBWith special guest Natalie Marlin (@NataliesNotInIt)! Bi Gan’s lovelorn neo-noir follows Luo (Huang Jue) as he pursues Wan (Tang Wei), the woman he fell in love with years before. Luo weaves in and out of half-recalled memories to trace Wan’s whereabouts, only brushing shoulders with reality as he dodges his own past in pursuit of the fading memory of love through decades of lost time. Famous for its non-linear structure, ethereal pacing, and the 59-minute long-take dream sequence that clo...
Episode 266: MIAMI BLUES (1990)
February 20, 2024 13:00 - 1 hour - 62.2 MBBased on Charles Willeford’s noir novel, George Armitage’s MIAMI BLUES is ‘supposed’ to be about the escapades of Hoke Moseley (Fred Ward), a jaded, toothless Miami cop. Instead, it’s about Frederick J. Frenger Jr. (Alec Baldwin), a sociopathic, interloping hustler. Junior’s ongoing seduction of young prostitute Susie (Jennifer Jason Leigh) provides him insulation from Hoke’s suspicions, but threatens Junior’s own self-concept. In this episode, we talk about the ‘happy Sisyphean’ Junior, th...
Episode 265: BLOW OUT (1981)
February 13, 2024 13:00 - 1 hour - 80.5 MBThe truth behind the assassination at the center of Brian De Palma’s political paranoia thriller BLOW OUT isn’t really the point. It’s more about the ways in which fact comes to be distorted through many lenses, each built on relative understandings of the core event itself. When he happens to catch the sound of a politician’s murder on tape while scouting new SFX for a movie, sound designer Jack (John Travolta) is driven to piece together the truth. But with only the audible half of the st...
Episode 264: WERCKMEISTER HARMONIES (2000)
February 07, 2024 13:00 - 1 hour - 81 MBIn Béla Tarr’s dour, slow drama WERCKMEISTER HARMONIES, an aimless people’s anger and malaise is leveraged to violent ends by figures of power. A desolate town bristles when a traveling circus comes through with a stuffed whale as its centerpiece. Uncertain of its meaning, the townspeople respond with disbelief and skepticism as they suffer through the rapid decay of society playing out in parallel. Starry-eyed mail carrier János lets the grotesque attraction – and the shadowy Prince pulling...
Episode 263: BURST CITY (1982) with Blake Hester
January 30, 2024 13:00 - 1 hour - 66.3 MBWith returning guest Blake Hester! BURST CITY is arguably more of a cultural document than a movie with a plot and a story. It consists largely of musical setpieces by the Japanese punk groups of its time, with plot threads (vengeful bikers, nuclear infrastructure, etc.) being more hinted at than shown. In this episode, Blake joins us to talk about BURST CITY's content, context, and creation. Find Blake… On Trylove episodes about POSSESSION (1981) and PULSE (2001) At Game Informer On So...
Episode 262: HARD EIGHT (1996)
January 23, 2024 13:00 - 1 hour - 55.4 MBYou’ve seen movies like Paul Thomas Anderson’s 1996 directorial debut, HARD EIGHT. In fact, if you called it part of the PULP FICTION (1994) neo-noir craze, you wouldn’t be wrong. Sydney (Philip Baker Hall) is an avuncular elder hustler who takes John (John C. Reilly) and Clementine (Gwyneth Paltrow) under his wing, keeping new blood small-timer Jimmy (Samuel L. Jackson) at bay while he sets up a better life for the young lovebirds. When things go south, Sydney goes to extreme measures to p...
Episode 261: PEE-WEE'S BIG ADVENTURE (1985)
January 18, 2024 00:00 - 1 hour - 62.9 MBTim Burton’s debut feature feels a little bit like a filmmaker finding his footing. At the same time, it’s a trial by fire for Paul Reubens and Phil Hartman as they brought their creation, the capricious Pee-Wee Herman, to the big screen. It paid off, of course, cementing Pee-Wee as an icon of character comedy and a mainstay of American children’s programming. Depending on your history with the character, you could find in PEE-WEE’S BIG ADVENTURE a constant, dull, childish annoyance or a char...
Episode 260: WINTER KILLS (1979)
January 11, 2024 00:00 - 1 hour - 64.9 MBWe’re kicking off 2024 (THE YEAR OF THE #BIG #BALLER - "Let your nuts hang!") with William Richert’s gonzo political paranoia thriller WINTER KILLS! It’s kind of funny, but not funny enough to be a laugh-out-loud comedy. It’s kind of serious, but not serious enough to demand attention. Riding behind the unluckiest motorcade in American history, WINTER KILLS pitches Jeff Bridges as Nick Kegan, the half-brother of the late president, who’s suddenly clued into a vast conspiracy – and then prompt...
Episode 259: The 2023 Golden Barry Awards
January 04, 2024 00:00 - 4 hours - 179 MBDozens of movies. Hundreds of hours of talking. Fifteen categories. No ties. The Golden Barrys return. Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/trylovepodcast and email us at [email protected] to get in touch! Buy tickets and support the Trylon at https://www.trylon.org/. Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro music: A song I don’t want to name in case some algorithmic corpo-cop somewhere decides to victimize me and my little unpaid podcast. Timestam...
Episode 258: MEMORIES OF MURDER (2003)
December 28, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour - 68.2 MBContent warning: Discussions of sexual assault. Twenty years after a string of murders in rural South Korea, Bong Joon-ho made a movie about the people who tried to catch the country’s first serial killer. What resulted was a harrowing chronicle of a trail slowly going cold, people who were unequipped for the heuristic exercise of catching a home-grown monster, and a government that cared more about defeating unrest than protecting its citizens – all told with the director’s signature balance...
Episode 257: TAMPOPO (1985)
December 21, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour - 44.7 MBJuzo Itami’s “ramen western” TAMPOPO is… just a delight. The lines that separate class, sex, and generations are broken through the lens of food in vignettes that surround a sweet, satisfying A plot. The mundane and universal is elevated to indulgence through the presumption of taboo, with each character’s indulgence – a meddling supermarket crone, a wealthy, browbeaten elder, a gangster’s hedonist escape – building them as more human than caricature. Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.c...
Episode 256: THE HOLY MOUNTAIN (1973) with Finn Odum
December 14, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour - 49.1 MBWith returning guest and Perisphere senior editor Finn Odum! Alejandro Jodorowsky’s best-known film, THE HOLY MOUNTAIN, is a psychedelic hero’s journey from rags to riches, from shit to gold, and from iniquity to enlightenment. It follows “The Thief” as he gives up his search for material wealth to join a cast of sinful sages on their way up the titular mountain and, hopefully, beyond the boundaries of human mortality. Its provocative antics and theatrics have made it a staple of arthouse cin...
Episode 255: JUNK HEAD (2017)
December 07, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour - 72.5 MBTakahide Hori’s one-man masterpiece-in-the-making is fun, sweet, and terrifying. In the distant future, after losing a war to the synthetic life forms they created, humans who’ve lost the ability to reproduce in a viral pandemic launch a last-ditch effort to correct the course of their species. Parton – a lonely prole who lives a vicarious, virtual existence – enlists in the effort to find a cure from the denizens of the depths… before catching a missile on the way down, losing his body and m...
Episode 254: FOOTLOOSE (1984) with Celia Mattison
November 30, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour - 75.9 MBWith special guest and former Trylon volunteer Celia Mattison! In the small town of Bomont, dancing and rock music are illegal – but on this podcast, they’re literally our favorite things. FOOTLOOSE positions dance as not just a metaphor for self-expression, but the act itself. With writer Celia Mattison, we put our Sunday shoes back ON to discuss the place of FOOTLOOSE in the dance movies landscape, Reverend Shaw (John Lithgow) as the antagonist-turned-sidekick, and the and fear of the futur...
Episode 253: TWILIGHT (1990)
November 23, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour - 69.8 MBTWILIGHT (nope!) can be considered in the same conversation as other works of slow cinema, but György Fehér’s detective story has a bit more of a direct, even darkly comic, edge to it. A girl is found violently murdered in the woods, kicking off a slow-but-frenzied search for the perpetrator. In this discussion, we talk about how TWILIGHT leverages the slow cinema toolkit (slow pans, long takes, minimal action) to what Fehér called the “ridiculous contrast” between the search for justice and ...
Episode 252: APOCALYPSE NOW (1979)
November 16, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour - 76.1 MBFrancis Ford Coppola’s war epic coasts from the formulaic to the surreal so smoothly, it’s almost hard to pinpoint the point of no return. On its face, it’s obviously anti-war; in the director’s own words, it’s “anti-lie”; and in many ways, it excoriates Hollywood portrayals of war themselves. The Final Cut, as discussed on this episode, puts a finer point on the film’s specific criticisms of the imperialism and colonialism that resulted in the war in Vietnam while streamlining its most visce...
Episode 251: HI, MOM! (1970)
November 07, 2023 13:00 - 1 hour - 60.9 MBOne of Brian De Palma and Robert De Niro’s earliest features (a big movie for famous guys with “De” in their last names) is a De Mented, De Praved, De Tached experimental film that De Tails (I’m done) voyeurism, vicarity, and white liberal apologia in the Civil Rights era. When Vietnam vet Jon Rubin (De Niro) fails to convey his desire for authenticity through both filming porn and marrying one of his subjects, he trades in his 8mm camera for a TV set (see, he’s no longer just the one who SEE...
Episode 250: THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS (1991)
November 02, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour - 65.4 MBContent warning: Depictions of abuse and violence toward women and transgender people. The atrocities committed by Buffalo Bill, a serial killer known for skinning his victims, make up only some of the injustices outlined in THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, director Jonathan Demme’s adaptation of Thomas Harris’s novel. Among the others: Stunted actualization, systemic removal of agency, and a culture-wide lack of empathy. In this episode, we discuss the motivations of Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkin...
Episode 249: THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT (1999) with Women
October 26, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour - 57.1 MBWith Maddy Sheehy, Emma Youndtsmith, Abbie Phelps, and Natalie Marlin! How did YOU come across THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT? Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez’s found footage horror film kicked off a genre before the turn of the millennium, and it still holds a freaky deaky power over audiences today. Four voices are distinctly absent from this episode of Trylove, but the four who’ve replaced them have a lot to say about its provenance, use of negative space, and missing baddie. Find Maddy… - On L...
Episode 248: THE VANISHING (1988)
October 18, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour - 46.4 MBWho would you be if not for destiny? What kind of person are you holding yourself back from becoming? George Sluizer’s psychological thriller is best known for its morbidity and shock ending, but on this episode of Trylove, we focus on the stuff in the middle. At its heart, THE VANISHING is two parallel tales of men driven to pursue a new version of themselves: An aggrieved ex-husband and a sociopath who takes a leap into the unthinkable. Watch THE VANISHING on YouTube: https://www.youtube.co...
Episode 247: SCREAM (1996)
October 12, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour - 68.2 MBTurns out there’s still a bunch to say about SCREAM, the movie that saved the horror genre by one of the guys who almost killed it. Go figure! From generational moral panic to metacommentary on slasher media to the impact of consumer technology on the way movies tell stories, this episode unpacks Wes Craven’s third wall-breaking classic that started a scary movie revolution. Get tickets to “The Nightmarish Nineties” (October 2023 at the Trylon): https://www.trylon.org/films/category/the-night...
Episode 246: PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK (1975)
October 05, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour - 69.2 MBContent warning: This episode includes references to sexual violence as discussed in PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK. Public reaction to three missing schoolgirls and their teacher during a field trip to Hanging Rock – a prehistoric monolith – ranges from shock to guilt to pocket-watching. But how the citizens of Victoria react sometimes belies their true feelings: The girls who were spared their classmates’ fate are giddy with drama; the police fear what their inability to solve the incident means fo...
Episode 245: THE MOSQUITO COAST (1986)
September 28, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour - 68.9 MBPart FITZCARRALDO (1982), part APOCALYPSE NOW (1979), part Lord of the Flies, THE MOSQUITO COAST was Harrison Ford’s wily villainous turn and one of Peter Weir’s most cynical movies to that point in his career. Allie Fox’s Nicaraguan sojourn – an ill-conceived plot to bring ice to the jungle – is cut short by his hubris, his family’s increasing skepticism, and the harsh realities of jungle living that put a cap on his seemingly limitless madman optimism. On this episode, we talk about America...
Episode 244: THE CARS THAT ATE PARIS (1974) with Seth Zarate
September 21, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour - 47.1 MBWith returning guest Seth Zarate! Listening note: This episode sounds different from our usual productions. Cody, Seth, and Jason were all in a room together, while Aaron joined remotely. Jason had precious little editing time. Our apologies for any disruptions. One of Peter Weir’s earliest feature length films, THE CARS THAT ATE PARIS bears some of his hallmarks (genre-mixing, dualities, subcultures, cars cresting hills menacingly) and also some surreal, batshit filmmaking in the same conver...
Episode 243: THE PLUMBER (1979)
September 12, 2023 13:56 - 1 hour - 68.2 MBContent warning: This episode contains references to sexual violence as discussed in THE PLUMBER. Peter Weir’s 1979 made-for-TV 16mm creeper is a short parable about two people from the same part of the world but two different parts of society (a lower-middle-class plumber and a member of the liberal intellectual elite) becoming the worst versions of themselves to survive the other. Max is the itinerant tradesman making frequent uninvited appearances at the home of Jill, an anthropologist wit...
Episode 242: WITNESS (1985)
September 07, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour - 65.2 MBInside its genre ‘guardrails,’ WITNESS tells the story of worlds brought together by tragedy – but whose intersection point (a haggard Harrison Ford and a repressed Kelly McGillis) exemplifies the deep, dignified richness of human love and connection. Also, Angus MacInnes dies horribly via grain entrapment and Danny Glover’s guts get spilled in cow shit. Watch WITNESS on the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/Witness_1985 Get tickets to the Peter Weir series at the Trylon: https:/...
Episode 241: TWIN DRAGONS (1992)
August 31, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour - 47.3 MBIt’s not quite like the Jackie Chan movies you might be expecting. It’s more bizarre and slightly less martial arts-focused – but once you get on its wavelength, it’s truly a joy of a screwball action comedy. Watch TWIN DRAGONS (English subs) on the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/jackie-chans-twin-dragons-full-movie-english-sub Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/trylovepodcast and email us at [email protected] to get in touch! Buy tickets and support the Trylon ...
Episode 240: Z (1969)
August 24, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour - 46.4 MBThe opposition leader is dead, clubbed in the city square for all to see – and the ruling dictatorship does everything it can, which is literally everything, to deny responsibility. Z is a fictional account of the real, state-conducted assassination of a Greek leftist politician, but its satire achieves a degree of incisiveness rarely seen in the modern political thriller. By showing the audience the planning, execution, and cover-up, Z is less about the mystery and more about the mechanics o...
Episode 239: MILLENNIUM MAMBO (2001) with Natalie Marlin
August 17, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour - 55.2 MBFeaturing Natalie Marlin (https://twitter.com/NataliesNotInIt)! Even though MILLENNIUM MAMBO shows us a vivid portrait of Vicky, a woman struggling with personal change at the dawn of the millennium, it’s arguably not REALLY about that. It’s almost more about her relationship to herself – rather, to the version of herself who makes those choices – as narrated by Vicky 10 years in the future. Vicky’s hushed voiceover and swallowed admissions build a narrative of her recursive patterns in 2001:...
Episode 238: SAMURAI WOLF (1966)
August 09, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour - 53.7 MBWhat if Toshirô Mifune was a little bit more of a churlish bastard – but what if that didn’t make you like him any less? You might get something like Hideo Gosha’s jidaigeki action film SAMURAI WOLF! It’s a fun, contemporary take on some of Kurosawa’s best movies and the tropes they codified, with a wandering ronin taking on the cause of the underdog and finding more of his own humanity in the people he’s aiding – but also being kind of terrified of that discovery. Hired to aid a valuable rur...
Episode 237: THE CONFORMIST (1970)
August 03, 2023 00:00 - 1 hour - 58.9 MBA self-sentenced prisoner in Plato’s cave, Marcello Clerici thinks he chooses the shadows. Marcello doesn’t want to be a fascist. He doesn’t want to be an anti-fascist, either. He doesn’t want to be an academic, an assassin, a husband, son, straight, or gay. He wants to be normal. He wants to be nothing. THE CONFORMIST is a dizzying psycho-political thriller that digs into the motivations that lead worms like Marcello to follow fascist ideology (or any ideology). Watch THE CONFORMIST for free...