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Episode 94: TO LIVE AND DIE IN L.A. (1985) [feat. Seth Zarate]
November 23, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 39.5 MBFeaturing special guest Seth Zarate (@snzarate)! Our Friedkin series comes to a close with TO LIVE AND DIE IN L.A., a cynical forebearer of the modern buddy cop movie – a slick, seething, uncompromising movie with something up its sleeve and a lot on its mind. Follow Seth on Twitter at https://twitter.com/snzarate and on Letterboxd at http://letterboxd.com/snzarate Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/trylovepodcast and email us at [email protected] to get in touch! Buy tickets ...
Episode 93: SORCERER (1977)
November 16, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 36.3 MBIf THE FRENCH CONNECTION (1971) is about the futility of the chase, SORCERER is about escapes as hollow as they are narrow. In this episode, we discuss the movie’s relationship to bootstraps capitalism, its contemporary reception, and how nobody really gets out alive. Then, we get a little genre-obsessed in another edition of Cody’s Noteys! Follow us on Twitter at twitter.com/trylovepodcast and email us at [email protected] to get in touch! Buy tickets and support the Trylon at www.try...
Episode 92: THE FRENCH CONNECTION (1971)
November 10, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 37.1 MBTHE FRENCH CONNECTION is known for one great chase scene, but it’s actually a constant pursuit of the self through grimy Brooklyn, breezy Marseilles, and the dark hearts of evil men. Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro music: "Subway" by Don Ellis from THE FRENCH CONNECTION (1971).
Episode 91: A Conversation with Sam Waymon, GANJA & HESS Composer & Actor
November 03, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 44.1 MBOn this episode, we’re thrilled to welcome Sam Waymon, composer and actor in several Bill Gunn films and brother of soul legend Nina Simone, to talk about GANJA & HESS (1973), Sam’s film debut. We discuss Sam’s approach to creating music, writing for such a specific vision and his involvement in creating that vision, the renewed attention on Sam’s first movie, and the importance of preserving Black art for future generations. Find Sam and his work at the following links: - Buy the limited-ed...
Episode 90: HUBIE HALLOWEEN (2020) [feat. Seth Zarate, Kyle Olson, Ellen Aster & Grant Zoch]
October 31, 2020 00:00 - 57 minutes - 27.5 MBFeaturing Seth Zarate, Kyle Olson, Ellen Aster, and Grant Zoch! Appropriately set in Salem, Mass., HUBIE HALLOWEEN is a harbinger of the horrible past. Hubie is at once the innocently puckish everyman which lead actor Adam Sandler helped create and a scathing vignette of the 54-year-old’s increasingly cynical approach to the character archetype that made him a comedy commodity for decades: “When I was your age,” Hubie opines to the next generation, “I made some huge boners. Boners that I wis...
Episode 89: THE INVISIBLE MAN (1933)
October 20, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 29 MBThe titular invisible man might not be struggling with any deeper discomforts than the madness brought on by the drug that makes his skin disappear, but that might be traumatizing enough. It's definitely enough to whip the residents of Iping, Sussex, into a proper frenzy – along with, you've gotta imagine, moviegoers in 1933. While we find it hard to knock 90-year-old movies for not being very insightful, THE INVISIBLE MAN moves so quickly to the exploitative monster movie vibes that it can f...
Episode 88: GANJA & HESS (1973)
October 13, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 38.1 MBExperimental Black horror film GANJA & HESS is tough to pin down, despite a simple synopsis (doctor cursed to crave blood shares his curse with another before succumbing to it himself). It packages much of its text inside a fractured storytelling framework, which seems to have dominated its critical appraisal in the decades since its release. In this episode, we wrangle with that discourse and try to read what director/actor Bill Gunn might’ve been trying to say with the overall piece, from ...
Episode 87: BLACK MAGIC 2 (1976)
October 06, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 32.8 MBWe’re in full goofball mode for BLACK MAGIC 2, a fun artifact of the changing world of Hong Kong cinema in the 1970s. With a “please ignore this” plot and gross-out moments to spare, you could call it a subversion of the soap opera dramas that dominated the 1940s and ‘50s… or you could call it a really silly, fun way to spend 90 minutes with friends. “Black Magic and Sleazy Spells: The Shaw Brothers Horror Films” by James Mudge: https://www.easternkicks.com/features/black-magic-and-sleazy-spe...
Episode 86: THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH (1964) [feat. Nick Ransbottom]
September 28, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 37.4 MBFeaturing returning guest Nick Ransbottom (twitter.com/theeziokenway)! A bit of a riff on THE SEVENTH SEAL (1957)’s dour upholding of Christian values, THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH is more about seeing how camp can drive a point home in a completely different way. In this episode, we chat about what it borrows from serious gothic horror including the Poe story of the same name, what’s lost and gained in the transition from the page to the soundstage, if that even matters compared to how much f...
Episode 85: FRIDAY THE 13TH (1980) [feat. Nick Ransbottom]
September 22, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 45.5 MBFeaturing returning guest Nick Ransbottom (https://twitter.com/theeziokenway)! The inherent conservatism of the horror genre isn’t spared in FRIDAY THE 13TH (1980), the seminal slasher film that, at least in retrospect, earns its keep as a bit of a commercial riff on the genre. It might not be the most high-concept use of horror’s toolkit (i.e., external violence addressing intergenerational anxieties), but our guest argues there’s something to truly value under its blood-soaked mysteries, si...
Episode 84: 10 THINGS I HATE ABOUT YOU (1999) [feat. Taylor Zastrow]
September 12, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 45.8 MBFeaturing special guest Taylor Zastrow (@teeemotional)! In Gil Junger’s directorial debut 10 THINGS I HATE ABOUT YOU, there’s a little bit more than a ‘90s teen adaptation of Shakespeare. “Don't let anyone, ever, make you feel like you don't deserve what you want,” says Heath Ledger’s Patrick Verona, acknowledging the contractual nature of self-fulfillment: one’s pursuit of happiness, the world’s ability to satisfy it, and the compromises between the two. Of course, it’s also a charming time ...
Episode 83: THE SEVENTH SEAL (1957)
September 08, 2020 10:00 - 1 hour - 33.3 MBFor better and worse, Ingmar Bergman's 1957 historical fantasy epic THE SEVENTH SEAL has quite a reputation. Since establishing his career as one of the preeminent auteurs of his time, Bergman's spiritually-charged tale of a crusader confronting his mortality as he journeys home across plague-stricken Europe has been both celebrated and dismissed as intellectual, philosophical, austere, and unapproachable. But how does the film's reputation stack up to the actual experience of watching it – e...
Episode 82: SON OF THE WHITE MARE (1981) [feat. Sarah Seember Huisken]
August 31, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 49.4 MBFeaturing special guest Sarah Seember Huisken – Minneapolis storyboard artist, and 25% of the Cult Film Collective! There’s so much to love, to be joyful about, in SON OF THE WHITE MARE, including its recent long-awaited 4K restoration. Transplanting traditional Hungarian folklore for a 1981 audience in the name of nomadic peoples, this immaculately animated film communicates much more than its experimental trappings. Rather than play a straight fairytale, SON OF THE WHITE MARE dodges the aud...
Episode 81: A FISH CALLED WANDA (1988)
August 25, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 67.1 MBThrough the not-so-straight-laced English mouthpieces of A FISH CALLED WANDA, you’re meant to feel the profound repression of being British – akin to being dead, as John Cleese's Archie Leach says – and then laugh at the morbidity of it all with the help of often morally objectionable humor. A jewel heist gone wrong at the last minute leaves American and British double-crossers spiraling, connecting, clashing, and wondering what you have to do in this life to make people trust you. Follow us ...
Episode 80: THE LAVENDER HILL MOB (1951) [feat. Matt Clark]
August 18, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 71.9 MBFeaturing special guest and heist film aficionado Matt Clark (@TheMplsMatt)! This Ealing train keeps a-rolling with another comedy of errors! Alec Guinness (again?) is Dutch, a bean-counter who’s protected government gold for 20 years, quietly plotting ways to rip them off in a big way. His plan accelerates beyond sustainability when he meets Al, an artist-turned-tchotchke maker with dreams of pursuing his passion instead of stuffing tourists’ suitcases. What separates THE LAVENDER HILL MOB f...
Episode 79: THE LADYKILLERS (1955)
August 11, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 68.7 MBA comedy classic or a flat farce? THE LADYKILLERS is pretty Ealing through and through, and it opts for a directness and simplicity that can come off as uninspired instead of prototypical – Alec Guinness aside. It’s probably the most approachable of the Ealing films we’ve covered so far, but is it one of the better? The boys are split as a Classic Grossman Ranking Mandate rears its ugly head! Stick around for the inaugural edition of Trylibs! Follow us at @trylovepodcast on Twitter and email ...
Episode 78: PASSPORT TO PIMLICO (1949) [feat. Jason Statham]
August 04, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 60.1 MBFeaturing special guest and Hollywood film star Jason Statham! Jason Statham (UK actor, former model, husband of Rosie Huntington-Whitely, and star of the later films in CRANK (2006), SNATCH (2000), THE TRANSPORTER (2002), the blockbuster Fast & Furious franchise), and more joins us to talk, appropriately, about a deeply British film! Without a stronger commitment to its premise (a Central London neighborhood grapples with its sudden independence from the British government that landlocks it...
Episode 77: KIND HEARTS AND CORONETS (1949)
July 27, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 42.7 MBCW: A racial slur appears several times toward the end of this film. We talk about that. Over the course of a darkly comic scenario that veers between dry and madcap, KIND HEARTS AND CORONETS takes jabs at the aristocracy through the eyes of one who would be them, resulting in some fun dissonance between medium and message. In it, Alec Guinness is poisoned, Alec Guinness is incinerated, Alec Guinness is shot, Alec Guinness is crushed, Alec Guinness is drowned, Alec Guinness is exploded, and A...
Episode 76: AFTER HOURS (1985)
July 21, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 43.5 MBCW: Discussions of suicide and sexual assault as plot elements. A wacky entry in the "just tryin' to get home" genre, Martin Scorsese's post-THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST kickstarter couldn't be more indispensable. Both pointed critique of Reagan-era exceptionalism and pastiche of 20 years of Hollywood preceding its release, AFTER HOURS pits Griffin Dunne's entitled yuppie against a single night with the inhabitants of SoHo – a people and place he'd rather ignore – while he waits for the have...
Episode 75: THE JUNIPER TREE (1990)
July 14, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 43.4 MBA not-so-traditional tale of witchcraft, the search for belonging, and how goddamn hard it can be to find. Buy tickets for Trylon Cinema showings at www.trylon.org/. Follow us at @trylovepodcast on Twitter and email us at [email protected] to get in touch! Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro music from "THE JUNIPER TREE".
Episode 74: THE ANDROMEDA STRAIN (1971)
July 07, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 39.9 MBContent warning: Discussions of onscreen depictions of animal abuse. THE ANDROMEDA STRAIN scraps a lot of classic tension-building elements in favor of a painstakingly detailed, process-focused look at how scientists, citizens, and the American government would respond to a viral outbreak with global lethal potential. It ends up feeling a bit clinical, sure, but there's a charming dedication to its obsessions, especially when they're broken up by some interesting formal innovations that keep ...
Episode 73: ATTACK THE BLOCK (2011) [feat. John Moret]
June 30, 2020 00:00 - 48 minutes - 27.9 MBFeaturing special guest and Trylon film programmer John Moret! Film discussion begins at 13:26. The Trylon's first in-theater showing since March, Joe Cornish's sci-fi/horror/comedy/commentary mashup directorial debut ATTACK THE BLOCK touches on just enough 2020-adjacent themes (Black oppression, social confinement, the dangers of the outside world, the villainous police state) to make it a super-fitting complementary piece for the world the theater is reopening into. It's also just fun enoug...
'Trylove in the Time of Corona' Episode 12: A COLT IS MY PASSPORT (1967)
June 23, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 41.9 MBWhen hitmen Kamimura and Shun are made pawns in yakuza territorial pissings, they've got to rely on each other and a band of bargefolk to make it out alive. Part spaghetti western, part yakuza film, part spy fiction, and part drama, A COLT IS MY PASSPORT forces its audience to see much of its worthwhile cast through its protagonist's eyes (for better or worse). Follow us at @trylovepodcast on Twitter and email us at [email protected] to get in touch! Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No...
'Trylove in the Time of Corona' Episode 11: LA HAINE (1995) [feat. Grant Zoch]
June 16, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 51.5 MBFeaturing special guest Grant Zoch (Slimethug on Letterboxd)! Focusing on three rabblerousing friends living in the Parisian suburbs under a police state, LA HAINE is a film that makes abstract concepts – racial tension, toxic masculinity – concrete through its characters. It skirts coming off as “capital ‘I’ important” by grounding so many of its big topics in its characters’ very real-feeling, human reactions to them. It’s an absolute gut-punch of a movie whose resonance is only deepened t...
'Trylove in the Time of Corona' Episode 10: SHOGUN ASSASSIN (1980) [feat. Matt Clark]
June 09, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 50.5 MBFeaturing special guest Matt Clark (@themplsmatt)! Though it might not reach the dramatic highs of the movies it's comprised of, SHOGUN ASSASSIN is an interesting artifact of film localization that manages to be super fun (not to mention influential). We finally enlisted Matt Clark to help us unpack the special 36 Chambers screening we caught in quarantine, which featured live commentary from RZA of Wu-Tang Clan and Dan Halsted of the Hollywood Theater. Follow Matt on Twitter at @themplsmatt ...
'Trylove in the Time of Corona' Episode 9: REBELS OF THE NEON GOD (1992) [feat. Jenny Ackerson]
May 26, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 54.4 MBFeaturing special guest Jenny Ackerson (@AckersonJenny)! Tsai Ming-liang's debut is much more than most summaries can tell you. Less a coming-of-age morality play amid 1990s Taipei than a tale about the downward emotional spiral of youth, REBELS OF THE NEON GOD is a work fueled by empathy and the struggle to find oneself amid urban decay, social prescriptivism, and expectations of mythological proportions. Follow Jenny at @AckersonJenny on Twitter and on Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/j...
'Trylove in the Time of Corona' Episode 8: CABARET (1972) [feat. Matt Yost]
May 20, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 45.9 MBFeaturing special guest Matt Yost (@mattyost_)! It could be said that as an adaptation of an adaptation, Bob Fosse's CABARET has an audience of an audience, too: working as critique by paralleling the rise of Naziism with bourgeois escapism in Weimer-era Berlin, it implicates both its characters and world. To what end, though? Is it didactic or just descriptive? Follow Matt Yost on Twitter and Letterboxd @mattyost_! "CABARET and antifascist aesthetics" by Steven Belletto: https://ldr.lafayett...
'Trylove in the Time of Corona' Episode 7: Bong Joon-ho at the Walker [feat. Charlie Mackin]
May 12, 2020 00:00 - 44 minutes - 25.5 MBFeaturing special guest Charlie Mackin (@charliemander13)! After winning four Oscars for PARASITE (2019), South Korean director Bong Joon-ho finished a short press run, boarded a plane, landed in Minneapolis, and headed to the Walker Art Center for a talk with film critic Scott Foundas. To hear Bong speak so candidly about his films, philosophy, and collaborators in Minneapolis was a completely surreal event – and, of course, we were all there for it. Follow Charlie on Twitter at @charliemand...
'Trylove in the Time of Corona' Episode 6: 12 MONKEYS (1995) [feat. Seth Zarate]
May 05, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 48.9 MBFeaturing special guest Seth Zarate (@snzarate)! Forget Bruno – it's the return of the man we're calling our Bruce Willis expert, Seth Zarate, for a peek at Terry Gilliam's slightly madcap time-traveling paranoia piece 12 MONKEYS (1995). Inspired directly by the 1962 experimental short film LA JETÉE, Gilliam's vision of the future is one marred by human failure – both to protect the world from a devastating virus and to adapt to the aftermath – and told through the eyes of the man meant to fi...
'Trylove in the Time of Corona' Episode 6: 12 MONKEYS (1995) [feat. Seth Zarate]
May 05, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 48.9 MBFeaturing special guest Seth Zarate (@snzarate)! Forget Bruno – it's the return of the man we're calling our Bruce Willis expert, Seth Zarate, for a peek at Terry Gilliam's slightly madcap time-traveling paranoia piece 12 MONKEYS (1995). Inspired directly by the 1962 experimental short film LA JETÉE, Gilliam's vision of the future is one marred by human failure – both to protect the world from a devastating virus and to adapt to the aftermath – and told through the eyes of the man meant to f...
'Trylove in the Time of Corona' Episode 5: TOTAL RECALL (1990) [feat. Logan Lafferty]
April 28, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 62.8 MBFeaturing special guest Logan Lafferty (@mrleviathan)! In a clever marriage of narrative and form, the pieces of TOTAL RECALL (1990) don't all add up at first. Each question about its world, plot, and sweeping class themes seems to beg a little more explanation – just enough to maintain intrigue without leaving the audience behind. It's classic Verhoeven, classic Arnie, classic Ironside, classic Stone, and Logan's seen it something like 20 times. For a reason, we hope. Follow Logan on Twitter...
A Message From John Waters
April 22, 2020 19:10 - 17 seconds - 267 KBOn Saturday, February 29, 2020, John Waters performed his sold-out one-man show, "This Filthy World," at the Parkway Theater in Minneapolis. He left us with some cogent, concise words of wisdom, and we're humbled to share them with you on his 74th birthday.
'Trylove in the Time of Corona' Episode 4: HIS MOTORBIKE, HER ISLAND (1986)
April 20, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 94.2 MBIn honor of Nobuhiko Obayashi's passing on April 10, we're discussing HIS MOTORBIKE, HER ISLAND (1986), the director's summery teen romance that does what all good teen movies do: it makes you want to trek the Japanese countryside on a Kawasaki motorcycle. Less outrageous but no less pointed than Obayashi's seminal HAUSU (1977), HIS MOTORBIKE, HER ISLAND is still a showcase for the director's playful awareness of audience and how to surmount the limitations of cinema. Only Obayashi could make...
'Trylove in the Time of Corona' Episode 3: INSIDE MAN (2006)
April 13, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 56.4 MBThough not immediately recognizable as a Spike Lee film, INSIDE MAN (2006) still engages with some of the issues the director is known for tackling, including systemic racism, racial interiority, and the faith placed in American law enforcement. A bank robbery ostensibly gone wrong reveals a dark truth at the heart of the heist that leads the audience, if not the characters, to question the legacy of capital when we deploy military force to protect it. Follow us at @trylovepodcast on Twitter ...
‘Trylove in the Time of Corona’ Episode 2: CONTAGION (2011) [feat. Kyle Olson]
April 07, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 54.3 MBFeaturing special guest Kyle Olson! To take your mind off of all the depressing news, we bring you the kind of uplifting content that only we can: an in-depth look at Steven Soderbergh’s 2011 film CONTAGION. Back when it was first released, the film was known for its uncompromising, cold realism. How does the film hold up in 2020? Does the ensemble cast help take away from that feeling? Is watching this movie, right now, really a smart thing to do in any way? Recommended media: - SHIN GODZILL...
'Trylove in the Time of Coronavirus' Episode 1 [feat. John Moret]
March 31, 2020 00:00 - 51 minutes - 35.1 MBFeaturing special guest John Moret! Things are tough for everyone during the COVID-19 crisis, so it can sometimes feel a little indulgent to even worry about things like repertory cinema. But as we talked with Trylon Film Programmer John Moret about how the Trylon and the people behind it are dealing with the pressure, it became clear that keeping in touch – even if it’s kind of all bad news – isn't a bad way to deal with the day-to-day. While confusion runs high, John and the team remain o...
'Trylove in the Time of Corona' Episode 1 [feat. John Moret]
March 30, 2020 00:00 - 51 minutes - 35.1 MBFeaturing special guest John Moret! Things are tough for everyone during the COVID-19 crisis, so it can sometimes feel a little indulgent to even worry about things like repertory cinema. But as we talked with Trylon Film Programmer John Moret about how the Trylon and the people behind it are dealing with the pressure, it became clear that keeping in touch – even if it’s kind of all bad news – isn't a bad way to deal with the day-to-day. While confusion runs high, John and the team remain opt...
Episode 60: FACE/OFF (1997) [feat. Dan Nagan]
March 10, 2020 18:57 - 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 59: DETOUR (1954)
February 25, 2020 00:00 - 47 minutes - 21.7 MBEmerging from the "Poverty Row" studios of 20th Century Hollywood comes Edgar G. Ulmer's 1945 classic DETOUR, a work of film noir that stands out due to its unconventional structure and the wonderful performances of its two main stars, Ann Savage and Tom Neal. Although at first the film might seem to solely represent the usual trappings of American noir, once you get beneath the cool exterior of DETOUR you'll find a suffocating atmosphere of guilt and dread. Although Tom Neal plays the perfec...
Episode 58: A Conversation with Andy Smith, Founder of the Gray Duck Theater & Coffeehouse
February 18, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 45 MBSpoiler alert for PARASITE (2019). In this very special episode, we were thrilled to talk to Andy Smith, founder and owner of the Gray Duck Theater & Coffeehouse in Rochester, MN. As of this writing, Gray Duck is the only theater in Minnesota to screen the rare black and white edition of PARASITE (2019), which gave us a perfect excuse to take this show on the road and ask him all our burning questions. Where do you even start when building a cinema in a suburb of a Midwestern metropolis? Ho...
Episode 57: HARD TARGET (1993)
February 11, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 32.5 MBThe rich hunt the poor for sport. The cops are on strike. The veterans are all out of work. Natasha Binder needs to find her estranged father. Chance Boudreaux needs $217 to pay his union dues. The realities of a one-sided class war meet the fantasies of New Orleans ultraviolence in HARD TARGET, John Woo’s first American production. The rich can afford to take human lives with impunity; the well-to-do can afford to pay the poor to stop them; and the poor can only afford to die. As the cycle i...
Episode 56: THE KILLER (1989)
February 04, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 36.8 MBDespite its signature bombast, THE KILLER doesn’t actually reinvent many of the tropes of action cinema. There’s plenty of gunpowder, gore, and squibs to be found in its 110-minute runtime. What makes it different – and what keeps it feeling fresh more than 30 years later – is how it uses those tropes to service a subversive story. Pitting hitman Ah Jong against Detective Li Ying and tossing an innocent blind woman into the mix, THE KILLER builds tension not through highlighting the differenc...
Episode 55: PARIS, TEXAS (1984) [feat. Jenny Ackerson]
January 27, 2020 00:00 - 2 hours - 56.5 MBSpecial guest Jenny Ackerson (@AckersonJenny) joins us for this extra-long discussion of PARIS, TEXAS! When director Wim Wenders and screenwriter Sam Shepard sat down to start PARIS, TEXAS, they wanted "to tell a story about America." The story they ended up telling was about Travis, an amnesiac reintegrating as if out of memory back into the deserts of the American southwest, intent on making his way back to a home he begins to remember breaking. By leveraging and breaking apart the western ...
Episode 54: THE NAKED CITY (1948)
January 21, 2020 00:00 - 54 minutes - 25 MBFeaturing special guest Nick Ransbottom! (@TheEzioKenway). Filmed on location in the New York City of 1947 and narrated by its own legendary newspaper man-turned-producer Mark Hellinger, THE NAKED CITY is both a product of and commentary on its time and place. By shooting in a faux-Cinéma vérité style and constantly breaking its own fourth wall, THE NAKED CITY playfully reframes how we think about detective stories, film noire, and what it means to be entertained by the stories of the appare...
EPISODE 53: THE WARRIORS (1979)
January 14, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 31.4 MBCW: THE WARRIORS contains violence against women, including threats of sexual violence. Our conversation will briefly touch on these elements. When Harry saw the Wonder Wheel come OUT TO PLA-Eee-AAAY on screen at the Trylon's "Up All Night" movie marathon back in November, he hooted and hollered from the back row. The quintessential midnight movie, THE WARRIORS (1979) is a love letter to a vision of grimy, apocalyptic late '70s New York, a thrilling "single destination" action movie, and surp...
Episode 52: THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER (1940)
January 07, 2020 00:00 - 1 hour - 33.3 MB“𝘏𝘦 𝘱𝘪𝘤𝘬𝘴 𝘰𝘯 𝘮𝘦, 𝘵𝘰𝘰. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘥𝘢𝘺 𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘮𝘦 𝘢𝘯 𝘪𝘥𝘪𝘰𝘵. 𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘐 𝘥𝘰? 𝘐 𝘴𝘢𝘪𝘥, ‘𝘠𝘦𝘴, 𝘔𝘳. 𝘔𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘴𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘬. 𝘐'𝘮 𝘢𝘯 𝘪𝘥𝘪𝘰𝘵.’ 𝘐'𝘮 𝘯𝘰 𝘧𝘰𝘰𝘭!” Social constructs exist only to divide, removing humanity layer by layer until we don’t recognize the people and things we love right in front of our eyes. That might be what THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER (1940), Ernst Lubitsch’s early rom-com, is saying with its depiction of working-class Hungarians. Stretching one instance of dramatic irony into 100 minutes, the...
Episode 51: The 2019 Golden Barrys
December 31, 2019 00:00 - 2 hours - 56.2 MBHappy New Year's Eve! We’ve had a hell of a time making this podcast for almost a whole year(!!!), so we wanted to cap 2019 with a special episode to recognize the best and brightest moments of the year: the inaugural Trylove Golden Barry Awards! What’s the best film the Trylon played this year? What was the most memorable guest moment on our show? What's our favorite piece of Trylon trivia we learned? Who will be crowned 2019’s King and Queen of the Trylon? Anything could happen at the 2019 ...
Episode 50: BLACK CHRISTMAS (1974)
December 24, 2019 00:00 - 1 hour - 33.8 MBFeaturing special guest Matt Yost (@matty_ost)! CW: BLACK CHRISTMAS includes violent language including threats of rape and assault toward women. We discuss this as an element of the movie. BLACK CHRISTMAS (1974) established many of the tropes and techniques that would lay the groundwork for HALLOWEEN (1978), A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET (1984) – most modern horror cinema, actually. What's more, it's actually still quite scary! Though it benefits from your expectations of holiday-themed horro...
Episode 50: BLACK CHRISTMAS (1974) [feat. Matt Yost]
December 22, 2019 00:00 - 1 hour - 33.8 MBFeaturing special guest Matt Yost (@mattyost_)! CW: BLACK CHRISTMAS includes violent language including threats of rape and assault toward women. We discuss this as an element of the movie. BLACK CHRISTMAS (1974) established many of the tropes and techniques that would lay the groundwork for HALLOWEEN (1978), A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET (1984) – most modern horror cinema, actually. What's more, it's actually still quite scary! Though it benefits from your expectations of holiday-themed horror, ...
Episode 49: NINOTCHKA (1939) [feat. Griffin Fillipitch]
December 16, 2019 00:00 - 1 hour - 33.3 MBFeaturing special guest Griffin Fillipitch! In 1937, story writer Melchior Lengyel pitched NINOTCHKA (1939) to MGM with a cutesy triptych: “Russian girl saturated with Bolshevist ideals goes to fearful, capitalistic, monopolistic Paris. She meets romance and has an uproarious good time. Capitalism not so bad, after all.” Thank goodness it’s not ACTUALLY that. Greta Garbo’s comedy turn gives her more than something to laugh about: it pits capitalist excess against the inhumanity of Stalinism t...