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Episode 189: MANDY (2018) with Dan Nagan
August 31, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 71.4 MBFeaturing guest Dan Nagan of Everything We Learned (https://twitter.com/adapperdanman)! Red and Mandy live in remote, mountainous California. Jeremiah Sand wants Mandy for his own. When he finally gets her and finds out he can’t earn her love, fealty, or fear, he burns her alive in front of her beloved. Red, newly given to the righteous, hellacious power of grief, embarks on a bloodbath rampage to exact vengeance on Sand, his followers, and the tripping, genetically modified sadomasochist bik...
Episode 188: LA CIÉNAGA (2001) with Nick Kouhi
August 29, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 54.7 MBFeaturing guest Nick Kouhi (https://twitter.com/kouhi_nick)! The debut of Argentinian filmmaker Lucrecia Martel is hot – but in an uncomfortable, sweaty, drenched kind of way. The matriarch of a rural summer home is bedridden after a drunken poolside injury; her cousin brings her family to tend house; her children play with guns in the woods and fish with machetes; there might be a monster lurking next door; it’s humid and it almost never seems to rain. Underneath the comings and goings of ...
Episode 186: ELECTRA, MY LOVE (1974) with Nazeeh Alghazawneh
August 16, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 47.5 MBWith writer and former Trylon volunteer Nazeeh Alghazawneh (https://twitter.com/naazeeehh)! In the bones of ELECTRA, MY LOVE, there sits one of the most important Greek myths. But the surface of Miklós Jancsó’s anti-Soviet retelling is reserved for a more direct comment on eternal cycles of power, the need for change in those who hold it, and the effect it has on those subject to it. Comprising only 12 shots over its 70-some minute runtime, ELECTRA, MY LOVE isn’t subtle in form or theme, whic...
Episode 185: ACROSS 110th STREET (1972)
August 10, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 53 MBWhen $300,000 goes missing in New York City – a numbers racket payout of both Italian and black mob money – cops, mafiosi, and gangsters alike chase down every lead to get it back. In ACROSS 110TH STREET, lines are drawn between cops and criminals, wealthy and poor, white and black, neighborhoods and ghettos. Jim Harris, an impoverished Black man with a disability, plans to take advantage of all those intersections with one big heist. - “NIC CAGE, NATIONAL TREASURE” (June - Aug 2022 at the Tr...
Episode 184: DRIVE ANGRY (2011) with Abbie Phelps
August 04, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 54.9 MBFeaturing special guest Abbie Phelps (https://twitter.com/goodhunterabbie)! DRIVE ANGRY is not a very good movie. In fact, it’s kind of a piece of shit. But like a lot of piece of shit movies, it’s far more charming, fun, and likeable than the sum of its parts would lead you to believe. Nic Cage is John Milton (yeah), a man back from hell who seeks revenge on cult leader Jonah King (yeah) for killing his daughter and kidnapping his granddaughter in pursuit of netherworldly gain. Piper (Amber...
Episode 183: SANTA SANGRE (1989)
July 27, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 43.2 MBContent warning: Discussions of sexual violence and abuse. Neither Jodorowsky’s most remembered film nor his most surreal, SANTA SANGRE is still a horror-drama marked by its many allusions to faith, guilt, responsibility, and triumph of the self over evil. Fenix, a young circus performer, is left forever scarred when his father kills his mother and then himself. Years later, he gets what he thinks is an opportunity to resolve his trauma when his mother returns to him – but instead, he’s dragg...
Episode 20: RAISING ARIZONA (1987) with Eric Leith (Republished 7/19/22)
July 20, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 39.2 MB*** Note: This episode was originally recorded and released in June 2019 during a series on the films of Joel and Ethan Coen at the Trylon. We've republished it to coincide with the Trylon's showing of RAISING ARIZONA as part of the NIC CAGE: NATIONAL TREASURE series that screened in the summer of 2022. We didn't really know what we were doing with this show back then, but we're still pretty happy with how the conversation went. Thanks for coming back. *** Featuring special guest Eric Leith!...
Episode 182: CHESS OF THE WIND (1979) with Natalie Marlin
July 14, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 61.3 MBFeaturing special guest Natalie Marlin (https://twitter.com/NataliesNotInIt)! Screened only once at release before it was banned during the Iranian cultural revolution, Mohammad Reza Aslani’s CHESS OF THE WIND (aka THE CHESS GAME OF THE WIND) is still shocking after more than 40 years in obscurity. Focusing on the lurid power plays conducted behind the closed doors of an aristocrat’s mansion (including marriage for status, murder, and revenge for both), it’s squarely pointed at the powerful a...
Episode 181: CON AIR (1997) with Finn Odum
July 07, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 71.3 MBWith returning guest and Trylon volunteer Finn Odum (https://twitter.com/Finnematic)! Maybe the question isn’t whether CON AIR is ‘sincere’ or not. Maybe it’s more like “What’s it doing to leverage action tropes to comment on the American carceral state?” or “Is it possible to rehabilitate a whole society?” or “Is Steve Buscemi even real in this movie?” or “Why is John Malkovich in this movie?” Links: - Find your local abortion fund at https://abortionfunds.org/funds/ - Follow Finn on Twitter...
Episode 180: THE TRIPLETS OF BELLEVILLE (2003) with Sarah Huisken
June 29, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 68.3 MBWith returning guest Sarah Huisken of the Cult Film Collective! THE TRIPLETS OF BELLEVILLE is plot-light but craft-heavy. Its French style takes inspiration from many eras and regions of animation to build a descriptive, sometimes unsettlingly detailed picture of a fictional city and its unique inhabitants. With Sarah, we pull apart what exactly the movie is doing with its technical achievements, share our favorite bits of character-building animation, and discuss mixing discrete styles and c...
Episode 179: TRUE STORIES (1986)
June 23, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 67.1 MBA bunch of people in Virgil, Texas, are gearing up for the sesquicentennial celebration – the Celebration of Specialness – and in TRUE STORIES, David Byrne of Talking Heads is your guide to the lifestyles, traditions, and movers & shakers of the oddball town. In this episode, we discuss the kind of world Byrne and company imagined in TRUE STORIES, the assumptions its inhabitants make about their changed world, what its exaggerations of contemporary American society say about the real thing, ...
Episode 60: FACE/OFF (1997) [feat. Dan Nagan] (Republished 6/20/22)
June 20, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 55.7 MBFeaturing special guest Dan Nagan (@aDapperDanMan)! What is even going on in John Woo's FACE/OFF? The simplest conceit – swap badass criminal Nic Cage and sadboy cop John Travolta's faces for max irony – is stretched beyond its reasonable boundaries and into truly bizarre territory. How can two whole men live as half of each other? What do they become when united in flesh and singular purpose? Through it all, FACE/OFF retains trademark Woo-isms (sometimes for the better, sometimes for the... ...
Episode 178: BRINGING OUT THE DEAD (1999) with Charlie Mackin
June 17, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 70.5 MBWith returning guest Charlie Mackin (https://twitter.com/charliemander13)! Frank thinks he’s supposed to save lives. Frank’s got it backwards. Join us in discussing BRINGING OUT THE DEAD: number two in the Trylon’s Nic Cage summer series, one of the black sheep of Martin Scorsese’s filmography, and a stylized-but-intimate look at what motivates and depresses EMTs. Stick around for our takes on the impact of failed systems on individuals and communities, the hard-learned lessons of guilt and t...
Episode 177: MOONSTRUCK (1987)
June 07, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 59.8 MBMOONSTRUCK is a perfect film made in 1987 by Norman Jewison and written by John Patrick Shanley. Loretta (played by Cher), a neurotic Italian woman in her mid-30s, is set to marry Johnny (Danny Aiello), a neurotic Italian man in his mid-40s, even though she doesn’t really love him. She meets his brother Ronny (Nic Cage) and falls into a whirlwind romance that starts to crumble her idea of what she wants from her life. MOONSTRUCK was acclaimed at release and is considered a classic romantic co...
Episode 176: TERROR OF MECHAGODZILLA (1975) with Michael Popham
June 07, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 59.8 MBFeaturing the first appearance of writer, Trylon volunteer, Horrorthon body counter, and comms specialist Michael Popham (https://twitter.com/mpopham)! A direct sequel to the movie where Godzilla rips Mechagodzilla’s head off, TERROR OF MECHAGODZILLA is a movie (written by newcomer Yukiko Takayama!) where Godzilla rips Mechagodzilla’s head off… and there’s a dinosaur… being controlled by aliens… who’ve teamed up with a disgraced scientist… whose daughter is a cyborg… that controls another Me...
Episode 175: CHERRY FALLS (2000) with Audrey Callerstrom
May 26, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 58.4 MBContent warning: Discussions of sexual assault and domestic abuse. Featuring special guest Audrey Callerstrom (https://twitter.com/schmaudrey)! CHERRY FALLS exists in the “sardonic horror-comedy” genre, but even at that, it’s somewhat more pessimistic than its contemporaries. A brutal serial murderer targets virgins with no clear motive, and the implications ripple throughout the East Coast town they’re terrorizing. As the mystery unfolds, it becomes clear that nobody’s really safe from the ...
Episode 174: GHIDORAH, THE THREE-HEADED MONSTER (1964)
May 19, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 59.5 MBLike much of the GODZILLA franchise, GHIDORAH: THE THREE-HEADED MONSTER is more focused on the fun of watching giant monsters duke it out and the innate humor in their skyborne rivalries. While the story is less about Godzilla himself, it’s a superb example of what made mid-career GODZILLA movies so special and worth discussing: Like a great martial arts movie, it’s a case study in integrating humor into physical performance, and how it can open up an unsuspecting audience to a movie’s concep...
Episode 173: GODZILLA (1954)
May 12, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 56.5 MBThe original GODZILLA is a lot more up-front about its mission statement than later entries would lead you to believe. It was concepted and written as a metaphor for Japan’s traumatic response to nuclear tragedy and fear of another, but it’s remembered more for its genre-defining special effects. But with a focus on a melodramatic love triangle and humans who can’t decide if they’re heroes or horrors, the most frightening thing about GODZILLA is its premonition that the threat of more Hiroshi...
Episode 172: CLÉO FROM 5 TO 7 (1962) with Emily Csuy
May 03, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 46.1 MBEmily Csuy of Stoop Kidz!: A Hey Arnold! Podcast is back behind the mic to kick off the Trylon’s Agnès Varda series with CLÉO FROM 5 TO 7 (1962)! Florence, who sings and performs under the stage name Cléo (short for “Cléopatra”), is reeling after she’s diagnosed with cancer. The movie picks up during a tarot reading that spells her imminent doom, and the rest of the film tracks the following two hours of her life, moving in roughly real time as she floats aimlessly through neighborhoods of Pa...
Episode 171: THE CONVERSATION (1974) with Seth Zarate
April 28, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 46.5 MBTHE CONVERSATION is remembered as one of the greatest films of all time, and it is. There’s so much to say about it, we welcomed Seth Zarate (https://twitter.com/snzarate) back to help us sift through our thoughts, hands on the dials, focusing on the juiciest nuggets from Francis Ford Coppola’s masterpiece. Gene Hackman’s Harry Caul is a man defined by his ignorance, believing he can observe and report his way through life, even if those observations and reports sometimes have a body count. I...
Episode 170: THE KING OF MARVIN GARDENS (1972)
April 21, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 55 MBBob Rafelson’s third film, THE KING OF MARVIN GARDENS, plays out differently than you may think. For the most part, it moves like series of disconnected examples, testing characters like David (Jack Nicholson) and Sally (Ellen Burstyn) as Jason (Bruce Dern), David’s brother, leads them on a doomed plot through post-settling, pre-gambling Atlantic City to get rich quick by buying an island off the coast of Hawaii. David seems to know it’s a farce, like everything Jason’s tried for 30 years; Sa...
Episode 169: ARREBATO (RAPTURE) (1979) with Kelly Krantz
April 13, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 57.7 MBKelly Krantz (https://twitter.com/kransekage_) is back to discuss a doozy of a movie: Iván Zulueta’s enigmatic, career-ending, post-Franco, quasi-horror film ARREBATO (also known as RAPTURE)! ARREBATO focuses on Pedro and José, two filmmakers seduced by art, heroin, history, and each other. As the mystery behind Pedro’s enigmatic naivete unravels – recurring “raptures” that maybe take Pedro out of his body when he watches film – José and his girlfriend Ana find themselves pulled closer and c...
Episode 168: Double Bill – Babysitting Adventures
April 07, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 67.3 MBWe’re getting both A) loosey and B) goosey on this episode covering a 35mm themed Trylon double-bill of teen comedy cult classics: DON’T TELL MOM THE BABYSITTER’S DEAD (1991) and ADVENTURES IN BABYSITTING (1987)! Tune in for a discussion of the conformist themes running through DON’T TELL MOM as well as the cutely naive, pretty problematic depictions of inner city Chicago in ADVENTURES! They really are a blast to watch, especially with a group, but we wanted to see if we could wring a little...
Episode 167: MILLENNIUM ACTRESS (2001)
March 31, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 62.3 MBWe hope you’ve enjoyed our series on Kon at the ‘Lon! It was a dream to see these on the Trylon’s screen and to add to the conversation on these underseen anime classics. Our series closes with MILLENNIUM ACTRESS, Kon’s sophomore feature and co-winner – with SPIRITED AWAY (2001) – of the 2001 Grand Prize in the Japan Agency of Cultural Affairs Media Arts Festival. MILLENNIUM ACTRESS is a distillation of Satoshi Kon’s most prominent themes: discovery of the self against the experiences of lif...
Episode 166: PAPRIKA (2006)
March 24, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 71.5 MBIn a body of work that defined a subgenre, Satoshi Kon’s PAPRIKA is something like a culmination. His final feature film realizes some of his longest-brewing concepts (identity, community, connection, division, reality, fiction) so well that it leaves others feeling somewhat unfulfilled – like the director’s own career after his death at just 46 years old. As certified Konheads, we discuss PAPRIKA’s trippy aesthetics, conflation of the digital world with the subconscious, the film’s problemat...
Episode 165: DIABOLIQUE (1955) with Finn Odum
March 16, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 55 MBFeaturing special guest Finn Odum (https://twitter.com/Finnematic)! DIABOLIQUE’s gothic vibes, feminist undertones, iconic imagery, and twist ending are all great ways to remember this psycho-sexual-horror-noir classic. A husband’s murder by his wife and mistress goes off the rails, sending the killers spinning looking for an explanation when the body goes missing after the deed’s been done. The twisting tale that follows calls into question nearly everyone’s motives, leading to one of the be...
Episode 164: TOKYO GODFATHERS (2003) with Seth Zarate
March 09, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 71.1 MBFeaturing special guest Seth Zarate (https://twitter.com/snzarate)! When three homeless people – aging dad Gin, trans self-exile Hana, and confused young Miyuki – discover an abandoned baby in the trash on Christmas, the stage is set to reunite the child with its real parents. Before that, however, the unlikely family learns more about each other through their threatened attempts to care for the child, including run-ins with gangs, meeting other colorful characters of the Tokyo streets, and e...
Episode 158: FILIBUS (1915)
March 03, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 45 MB“Theft is good, actually.” – Cody FILIBUS is a 1915 Italian silent film directed by Mario Roncoroni and written by Giovanni Bertinetti. It features Valeria Creti as Baroness Troixmonde and the titular Filibus, an Italian sky pirate and infamous burglar. In an attempt to cast off suspicion after her recent heist of the International Bank, the baroness enters a competition to find the culprit and frame investigating detective Kutt-Hendy (played by Giovanni Spano) himself as Filibus. The film fo...
Episode 163: RAN (1985)
March 02, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 53.4 MBCody’s away, so we spend like 10 minutes talking about video games at the top of this episode. The last of Kurosawa’s samurai epics, RAN recontextualizes King Lear, widening the scope of Shakespeare’s text to show the effect of karma on the world, not just its tragic players. In this episode, we discuss what it’s like to know this is one of the greatest films ever made while also knowing it’s not the best Kurosawa movie; the personality of the spaces in RAN and other Kurosawa classics; and ho...
Episode 162: THE THIRD MAN (1949) with Natalie Marlin
February 24, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 64.4 MBFeaturing special guest Natalie Marlin (https://twitter.com/NataliesNotInIt)! THE THIRD MAN is often cited as one of the greatest movies of all time, an expressionist noir that mixes style, form, and zeitgeist to paint postwar Vienna with sharp chiaroscuro that spotlights wanton interventionist masculinity and hides sinister motivations in the shadows. It is also an incredibly entertaining watch today, which makes its twists and turns fun to follow some 70 years after its release. With Natali...
Episode 161: The 16mm Experimental Animation Showcase
February 19, 2022 00:00 - 20 minutes - 14.6 MBListening note: Live audio from the Trylon lobby. With masks on. Socially distanced. Great conversation, suboptimal audio quality. The Trylon is hosting a showcase of 8 animated short films, all on 16mm film, on March 3. We sat down with Trylon film programmer John Moret and asked about their plans for showing more 16mm, where he got all this weird stuff, and whether or not becoming a registered film archive is right for the Trylon. Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/trylovepodcast a...
Episode 160: KAGEMUSHA (1980) with Peter Hogenson
February 17, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 65 MBFeaturing special guest Peter Hogenson (https://twitter.com/phogenson)! Kurosawa’s KAGEMUSHA – “shadow warrior” – is more than a tale of double identity. It’s an examination of the politics of identity, who we become when we assume social positions, and the absurdities of class, all with a distinctly Kurosawa touch. For this episode, we’re joined by filmmaker Peter Hogenson, whose experience with the craft of filmmaking has given him a whole new appreciation for its grandiosity, believability...
Episode 159: DERSU UZALA (1975)
February 10, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 64.1 MBContent warning: This episode contains a brief discussion of attempted suicide. Coming later in Kurosawa’s career and after his storytelling was thought to have gone out of vogue, DERSU UZALA is a comment on man’s relationship with nature, himself, and the world around him. Based on a Russian memoir and shot on 70mm, it’s a beautiful example of the humanist narratives for which Kurosawa became known and a stunning exhibition of the world’s natural splendor – both within and without the people...
Episode 157: PURPLE NOON (1960)
January 27, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 56.4 MBBased on Patricia Highsmith’s novel, “The Talented Mr. Ripley,” PURPLE NOON conducts itself naturally as it winds along the Italian coastline and within the exploits of the titular Tom Ripley, a low-class jack-of-all-trades tasked with fetching the tactless dauphin Mr. Philippe Greenleaf. Greenleaf, made from money he didn’t earn, has the life Tom wants. Not just the money: The existence. The status. The stature. The lack of burden. The life. Tom’s plot to assume and absorb Greenleaf’s very b...
Episode 156: DEVIL IN A BLUE DRESS (1995)
January 19, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 44.1 MBDEVIL IN A BLUE DRESS is a movie about the path to power, the systematized utility of racial identity, the people wielding it in postwar Los Angeles, and the color of everyone’s skin. When Ezekiel “Easy” Rawlins gets caught up in a white man’s business of “favors for friends,” he finds himself a pawn in sordid political race politics, a tool of the colonizing class, and a weapon to be wielded by those in power. It’s structurally noir but far more stylistically natural, lending it a certain fe...
Episode 155: Building a Boutique Film Label with Jonathan Hertzberg of Fun City Editions
January 16, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 46 MBHere’s a special bonus episode for y’all – a wonderfully frank discussion with Jonathan Hertzberg, founder of boutique repertory film label Fun City Editions (and its self-proclaimed one-man-show). Two of the films he helped re-release were screened at the Trylon in January 2022: WALKING THE EDGE (1983) and RADIO ON (1979). With Jonathan, we dive into the freedom of running his own label after working in Kino Lorber’s theatrical distribution, what it takes to sell a movie nobody’s ever heard...
Episode 154: LAURA (1944)
January 14, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 89.9 MBReleased the same year as the better-remembered DOUBLE INDEMNITY (1944), LAURA is an evocative noir that both plays in and interrogates the femme fatale trope so crucial to the genre. In death, Laura Hunt is remembered by the people in her life as kind, beautiful, generous, powerful – just about everything a lover (or a friend, a fraud, or a cop) could ask for. But when the truth comes out, the audience is left to determine how much of the myth is really true, and what elements of Laura’s lif...
Episode 153: POSSESSION (1981) with Blake Hester
January 07, 2022 00:00 - 1 hour - 71.3 MBContent warning: Discussions of domestic and sexual violence, miscarriage, and self-harm. Featuring special guest and Game Informer senior associate editor Blake Hester (https://twitter.com/metallicaisrad)! “Cursed”; “uncomfortable”; “bizarre”; “hopeful”? POSSESSION has been furrowing brows for more than 40 years with its intimately surreal depiction of a dissolving marriage. In the process, it’s garnered a reputation all its own, incomparably strange and off-putting. In this episode, we talk...
Episode 152: The 2021 𝓖𝓸𝓵𝓭𝓮𝓷 𝓑𝓪𝓻𝓻𝔂 Awards
December 31, 2021 00:00 - 3 hours - 152 MBIt’s the most highly anticipated event in podcasting. The most prestigious ceremony in the history of film. The most sought-after award by creators and contributors alike. The 𝒢𝑜𝓁𝒹𝑒𝓃 𝐵𝒶𝓇𝓇𝓎. Enjoy our sometimes enlightening, sometimes bloody, sometimes annoying, always fun discourse as we recap the movies, makers, planners, back-row back-chat, and on-mic discussions from The Year That Was 2021 At The Trylon! No, we can’t just talk about them, because we have to pretend everything is a contest....
Episode 151: BATMAN RETURNS (1992) Christmas Special with Logan Lafferty & Seth Zarate
December 28, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 67 MBHappy holidays and 𝙈𝙀𝙊𝙒, everyone! 🐈🦇🐧🎄 Batmaniacs Logan Lafferty and Seth Zarate step in the iron maiden and slide down to the cave for a festive episode on a Christmastime classic. By being an absolutely nutso movie about freaky people, BATMAN RETURNS is still probably the greatest example of what a superhero movie can really be. Underneath the neo-gothic aesthetic, there’s the sexy antics of the title weirdo and his new antiheroes. And underneath THAT, there’s a power struggle for the ele...
Episode 150: THE GREEN RAY (1986)
December 23, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 64.4 MBA series on Éric Rohmer’s films of the 1980s closes with THE GREEN RAY (1986), winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival and one of the best-known films in his Comedies and Proverbs series. When her fiance calls off their summer vacation, Delphine is left adrift, bouncing from apartment to summer home to atelier in the hope she can quell her loneliness. Her baggage makes her feel like a burden to friends and strangers. At the same time, she feels most vulnerable in solitude, leavi...
Episode 149: BOYFRIENDS AND GIRLFRIENDS (1987)
December 16, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 61.9 MBEpisode two of Éric Rohmer’s 1980s at the Trylon takes us to suburban Paris with a small cohort of young lovers who change each other little by little, chipping away at their self-image like sculptors looking in the mirror. Parisian twentysomethings Lea and Blanche are almost complementary in their romantic desires. Lea is a creature of whimsy, testing her boyfriend with little “games” to see if he’ll stand up for himself; Blanche is less frivolous, less experienced, and less sure of what she...
Episode 148: THE AVIATOR'S WIFE (1981)
December 10, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 44.2 MBOur first episode of Éric Rohmer’s 1980s at the Trylon kicks off with a newly-created 35mm print of THE AVIATOR’S WIFE! François thinks his girlfriend Anne is cheating on him (she kind of is… but she’s kind of also not his girlfriend? It’s very French), so he follows the other man, Christian, around Paris to catch him in the act. He crosses paths with Lucie, a student, whose curiosity convinces her to play along with François’s little game. What François and Lucie learn about Christian and A...
Episode 147: THE ENIGMA OF KASPAR HAUSER (1974)
December 04, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 64.1 MBA man raised in isolation is dumped in Nuremberg in 1828, where he’s abused, abandoned, denigrated, show-ponied, and forgotten before being murdered. From the true story of Kaspar Hauser, Herzog coaxes larger statements about the validity of the basic human experience outside the constructs of ‘civilization’ and ‘society,’ as well as the myriad ways the world fails people on the margins. In the final episode of our series on early Herzog, we talk about the sympathy with which the film views ...
Episode 146: FITZCARRALDO (1982)
November 27, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 45.8 MB“If it was necessary to climb down into hell and wrestle a film out of the claws of the devil,” Werner Herzog once said, “I would do so.” If it was necessary. In FITZCARRALDO, a man whose dream to host opera in the jungle leads him to risk and lose indigenous lives on a harebrained scheme to drag a boat over a mountain – all so he can steal natural resources to fund his manic vision. Its production, including the real-life towing of a real-life boat over a real-life mountain in Peru, was simi...
Episode 145: COBRA VERDE (1987)
November 18, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 57.1 MBKlaus Kinski again appears as That Freaky Guy Who Insists On Going To The Jungle, this time portraying Francisco Manoel da Silva (better known by his outlaw codename, “Cobra Verde”), who’s chased there by his plantation owner boss who has no interest in being his father-in-law after Francisco impregnates the baron’s three teenage daughters. Oops! Cobra Verde’s attempts to kickstart the cold engine of the slave trade on the West African coast, and everything that derail them, make up the rest ...
Episode 144: AGUIRRE, THE WRATH OF GOD (1972)
November 12, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 52.1 MBYou don’t have to squint to see what AGUIRRE, THE WRATH OF GOD is saying about European imperialists hunting for an imaginary city of riches in South America in 1560. It’s saying they’re evil! And stupid! And in that disarming straightforwardness, it’s making an interesting point about what people expect of fiction – of what they expect from movies – and how sometimes, there’s only one right way to tell a story about evil, deluded people: In the meanest, most pejorative way possible. Follow u...
Episode 143: NOSFERATU THE VAMPYRE (1979)
November 05, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 59.4 MBA strikingly stylized reimagining of the classic creature figure, NOSFERATU THE VAMPYRE indicts the driven for the death of passion. Following the broad strokes of F.W. Murnau’s 1922 expressionist horror film, Werner Herzog’s late-70s take on the myth paints the titular non-human as a pathetic figure marked more by his maudlin, passionless philosophies than his bloodlust. “Give me some of your love,” Dracula commands Isabelle Adjani’s Lucy Harker. “I won't even give that love to God,” she rep...
Episode 142: Horrorthon V: Son of Horrorthon with Seth Zarate
October 29, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 55.4 MBFeaturing returning guest Seth Zarate (https://twitter.com/snzarate)! It’s that time of year again: Four of us hit up the fifth annual all-night Horrorthon at the Trylon! Featuring only horror movie sequels, Horrorthon V: Son of Horrorthon was a surprise collection of some real wild choices: PSYCHO II (1983), PHANTASM II (1988), HALLOWEEN III: SEASON OF THE WITCH (1982), DAY OF THE DEAD (1985), CRITTERS 2 (1988), and NIGHT OF THE DEMONS 2 (1994). In our first in-person episode since March 10,...
Episode 141: UNCLE BOONMEE WHO CAN RECALL HIS PAST LIVES (2010)
October 22, 2021 00:00 - 1 hour - 62 MBWhen was the last time a movie made you consider who you were before, during, and after watching it? Or where those people came from? Or what you do with those thoughts? The final installment in Apichatpong Weerasethakul's "Primitive" project, UNCLE BOONMEE WHO CAN RECALL HIS PAST LIVES is an oft-cited example of slow cinema and the movie that made Weerasethakul a darling on the international stage. In this episode, we try to go further than the ‘WTF’ reactions and knee-jerk defenses we foun...