Trylove https://bsky.app/profile/trylovepodca.st Pinecast (https://pinecast.com) enTrylove Trylove jasondafnis@gmail.com yes Trylove https://bsky.app/profile/trylovepodca.st https://storage.pinecast.net/podcasts/covers/37a14aeb-0d27-4671-b6be-e7c067c1d4c0/Trylove_Show_Art_2024_1800.jpg episodic All rights reserved Minneapolis-based repertory film podcast. Episode 379: COLLATERAL (2004) https://pinecast.com/guid/b2d5f68e-b8ba-4dfc-bbf4-37ad679ad9f7 Tue, 21 Apr 2026 23:00:00 -0000 02:33:06 COLLATERAL is a different flavor for Michael Mann, yet it’s still familiar territory for the tortured auteur. There are enough distinct ingredients, for sure: Some mixture of Stuart Beattie’s script, a blend of film and digital aesthetics, and Tom Cruise’s real-life sociopathy resulted in a critical and commercial darling (something of a rarity in Mann’s body of film work).

In this episode, Jason, Cody, and Harry recap what we’ve watched lately and then hop in the back seat on a long night’s journey through COLLATERAL’s bristling version of Los Angeles. It’s a discussion replete with takes: On the relationship between the meek Max and the vicious Vincent; on the vices and virtues that define Michael Mann movies; and a pretty okay analysis of the coyote scene. You didn’t think we wouldn’t have an answer for that, didja?

Then, as we so often do, we finish with some trivia about craft brewery offerings that have some tangent connection in name to the films of Tom Cruise. I guess that means this episode is 21+! Haha. Just joshin’.

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Show art by Emily Csuy. Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro: “Briefcase” by Tom Rothrock from the COLLATERAL soundtrack.

Timestamps

0:00 - Episode 379: COLLATERAL (2004)

4:28 - Whadja Watch This Week?

27:43 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary (under exclusive license from AG Enterprises, Ltd.)

30:49 - Different stakes than your usual Mann movie

42:04 - Our Mann-kings rankings and what Tom Cruise’s casting does for this movie

51:49 - How COLLATERAL changes the calculus of Michael Mann’s mechanical men

58:38 - Vincent: Everything is performance and there is no self

1:05:27 - The one-sidedness of change in COLLATERAL

1:10:23 - Max, the malleable man

1:21:40 - Fate, coincidence, and coyotes

1:34:11 - The ending

1:47:18 - The Junk Drawer

1:56:36 - To All the Loves We’ve Tried Before: 2004

2:02:11 - Cody’s Noteys: Tom Brews (Tom Cruise-adjacent craft brewery trivia)

]]> yes Episode 378: HEAT (1995) with Kelly Krantz and Natalie Marlin https://pinecast.com/guid/263850fa-b752-4c69-965d-b0644fbe2b48 Tue, 14 Apr 2026 11:00:00 -0000 02:23:50 That’s right: We’ve finally got Womenn on Mann on Trylove!

The heist of a lifetime. Everything on the line. And at the center of it: Two guys in their 50s having romantic tensions that make classic Hollywood look like a convent. HEAT is a thoroughly sung masterpiece of Michael Mann’s career: inspired by real events, a remake of his own earlier work, and embellished with the director’s signature lonely, lingering, Shakespearean pathos.

With Kelly and Natalie, we’re circling HEAT like a shark to figure out what makes it the melodramatic, epic, load-bearing high water mark that most gritty crime movies are still trying to match — and what still gives it an edge over the rest, more than three decades later. Then, it’s time for some rapid-fire HEAT-adjacent trivia.

Find Kelly…

  • On Bluesky at @kransekage.bsky.social
  • On Twitter at @kransekage_
  • On Letterboxd at @luckyhoss
  • On Trylove episodes: WINGS OF DESIRE (1987), ARREBATO (1979), PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE (1974), REVOLVER (1973), THE DOOM GENERATION (1995), THE NIGHT PORTER (1974), REMEMBER MY NAME (1978), PLAY IT AS IT LAYS (1972), OUTLAND (1981), BASIC INSTINCT (1992), THIEF (1981)

Find Natalie…

  • On Twitter and Bluesky
  • On Letterboxd at @framingthepic
  • In the byline for Noise Music, a forthcoming entry in Genre: A 33 ⅓ Series book about the noise genre and its influences on and intersections with culture
  • On Trylove episodes about THE THIRD MAN (1949), CHESS OF THE WIND (1979), RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD (1985), MAD MAX: FURY ROAD (2015), MILLENNIUM MAMBO (2001), THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT (1999), LONG DAY’S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT (2018), ZARDOZ (1974), NOSTALGHIA (1987), SECONDS (1966), THERE WILL BE BLOOD (2007), THE HEARTBREAK KID (1972), STAR WARS (1977), DEMONLOVER (2002)

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Show art by Emily Csuy. Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro: “God Moving Over The Face of the Waters” by Moby as heard in the HEAT soundtrack.

]]> yes Episode 377: THIEF (1981) with Kelly Krantz https://pinecast.com/guid/2e2ceddb-afc1-4091-89cc-ff04d3f4ef27 Tue, 07 Apr 2026 11:00:00 -0000 01:54:29 Michael Mann’s debut THIEF is pretty fully formed, a tightly wound caper with the grit of a ‘70s movie and the pizazz of an ‘80s thriller. Frank (James Caan) is an ex-convict and current master thief with a one-track mind: Make the money, marry the girl, make the family, live in peace at last. This being a movie, none of those things happen as he expects them to.

In this episode with guest Kelly Krantz, we talk about the pitiful antihero at the center of THIEF, the supporting cast (including Tuesday Weld and Willie Nelson), the Tangerine Dream score, and the crushing effect of the American carceral system on the American dream itself.

Find Kelly…

  • On Bluesky at @kransekage.bsky.social
  • On Twitter at @kransekage_
  • On Letterboxd at @luckyhoss
  • On Trylove episodes: WINGS OF DESIRE (1987), ARREBATO (1979), PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE (1974), REVOLVER (1973), THE DOOM GENERATION (1995), THE NIGHT PORTER (1974), REMEMBER MY NAME (1978), PLAY IT AS IT LAYS (1972), OUTLAND (1981), BASIC INSTINCT (1992)

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Show art by Emily Csuy. Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro: “Turning Point” as performed by Mighty Joe Young from the THIEF soundtrack.

Timestamps

0:00 - Episode 377: THIEF (1981)

3:39 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary

5:29 - Why THIEF is in Kelly’s top Michael Mann movies

9:38 - Frank, the pitiful man who’s still got prison in him

14:09 - A heist movie that’s not really about the heist

17:57 - The “masterfully architected” opening act

23:11 - The way the score parallels the story and characters

29:03 - Imprisonment, autonomy, and compromise

34:35 - Dependency and the fantasy worlds inhabited by Mann men

46:37 - Did Frank ever have a chance?

55:31 - Willie Nelson as Okla

1:05:04 - Tuesday Weld as Jessie

1:15:54 - The Junk Drawer

1:26:58 - To All the Loves We’ve Tried Before: 1981

1:35:58 - Cody’s Noteys: Marketing Mannagers (guessing Michael Mann movies by their taglines)

]]> yes Episode 376: DEMONLOVER (2002) with Natalie Marlin https://pinecast.com/guid/08eab07a-87e5-4dc6-afa0-b9472103a9f7 Tue, 31 Mar 2026 11:00:00 -0000 02:02:52 Olivier Assayas’s post-millennium brain-bender DEMONLOVER is only a corporate thriller up to a point. A business deal over distribution rights to commercialize fetish content stirs discord among French enterprise, Japanese production houses, American entrepreneurs, and the hidden forces repeatedly shifting the levers of power. DEMONLOVER the movie becomes as compromised as its playactors: Unanticipated plot shifts, unclear linearity, harsh sound design, and claustrophobic cinematography lend a pervasive feeling between not getting the whole picture and already seeing too much.

DEMONLOVER is a very ‘noisy’ film in more ways than one. Writer, movie lover, and noise connoisseur Natalie Marlin is maybe the only person up to the challenge of explaining what that means!

Find Natalie…

  • On Twitter and Bluesky
  • On Letterboxd at @framingthepic
  • In the byline for Noise Music, a forthcoming entry in Genre: A 33 ⅓ Series book about the noise genre and its influences on and intersections with culture
  • On Trylove episodes about THE THIRD MAN (1949), CHESS OF THE WIND (1979), RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD (1985), MAD MAX: FURY ROAD (2015), MILLENNIUM MAMBO (2001), THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT (1999), LONG DAY’S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT (2018), ZARDOZ (1974), NOSTALGHIA (1987), SECONDS (1966), THERE WILL BE BLOOD (2007), THE HEARTBREAK KID (1972), STAR WARS (1977)

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Show art by Emily Csuy. Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro: “Move Away” by Sonic Youth from the DEMONLOVER soundtrack.

Timestamps

0:00 - Episode 376: DEMONLOVER (2002)

5:05 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary

6:38 - Defining noise as a cinematic genre

23:38 - What Assayas does and doesn’t show you and why

27:21 - The important turn at the midway point

32:34 - Patterns of control and subjugation in the worlds of fetish, commerce, and corporate interest

38:41 - Sexuality and the dehumanization of women for profit

1:00:43 - Web 1.0 and the ending of the movie

1:14:26 - The Junk Drawer

1:30:21 - To All the Loves We’ve Tried Before: 2002

1:36:08 - Cody’s Noteys: Seamenlover (seafaring trivia with tangent connections to films)

]]> yes Episode 375: MATEWAN (1987) with Louis Gagnon https://pinecast.com/guid/dfdd6437-d84a-4cb7-bcda-c8284e96416e Tue, 24 Mar 2026 11:00:00 -0000 01:36:16 Based on the real 1920 labor uprising by West Virginia coal miners, John Sayles’s MATEWAN spends much more time on the place than the battle it’s remembered for. Ten people died, including three private detectives hired to violently repress the ascendant labor unions.

Returning guest Louis Gagnon spent part of grad school learning about this period of labor history, so on this episode, we discuss MATEWAN as a movie and as a cultural time capsule, dramatizing a time when there was a more direct, vincible line between federal power, American capital, and the labor that grounded them both.

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Show art by Emily Csuy. Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro: “Fire in the Hole” by Mason Daring and Hazel Dickens from the MATEWAN soundtrack.

Timestamps

0:00 - Episode 375: MATEWAN (1987) with Louis Gagnon

3:02 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary

5:00 - The history of labor conflict in the US and Louis’s grad school work

8:38 - The coolest movie you could’ve been shown in high school history class

24:23 - The Battle of Matewan, the Coal Wars, and American labor post-World War I

32:53 - Violence vs. pacifism

38:06 - The ending

48:08 - Bridey May Tolliver

1:07:48 - To All the Loves We’ve Tried Before: 1987

1:11:50 - Cody’s Noteys: My Mate, Wan (James Wan trivia)

]]> yes Episode 374: THE BAD SLEEP WELL (1960) https://pinecast.com/guid/4ba8f9a6-2b80-40b1-bcb6-49dd583e864f Tue, 17 Mar 2026 11:00:00 -0000 01:53:26 How much Ham could a Hamlet let if a Hamlet could let Ham?

Anyway, if you know Hamlet well, you may not enjoy THE BAD SLEEP WELL as much as someone who doesn’t. Toshiro Mifune (the GOAT) is an aggrieved secretary taking on a corrupt corporation, setting in motion a complicated plot to force confessions from sleazy profiteers who pressured a colleague into committing suicide amid an embezzlement scandal.

Akira Kurosawa’s Shakespearean noir borrows the broad strokes of the Bard, but in updating the setting for postwar Japan, it makes kind of inverse conclusions about its main character (and the way it changes Hamlet’s classic tragic ending).

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Show art by Emily Csuy. Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro from THE BAD SLEEP WELL.

Timestamps

0:00 - Episode 374: THE BAD SLEEP WELL (1960)

2:10 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary

5:26 - Adapting Hamlet for the new postwar Japanese social order

19:13 - Is the anticlimactic ending good, actually?

33:50 - Another light defense of the ending

47:57 - Where’s the color and flair of the Bard?

1:00:58 - It’s not written for the groundlings

1:06:19 - The Junk Drawer

1:11:34 - To All the Loves We’ve Tried Before: 1960

1:15:47 - Cody’s Noteys: To Try; to Love (ranking animals by how much sleep they need)

1:46:13 - The results & the reveal

]]> yes Episode 373: THE INSIDER (1999) with Abbie Phelps https://pinecast.com/guid/93142a0c-036f-4f32-a947-5ab3c6f5837e Tue, 10 Mar 2026 11:00:00 -0000 01:47:39 Even in the famous glut of great movies that came out in 1999, Michael Mann’s THE INSIDER stands out because it works as a great legal thriller/biopic and as something much sadder and more compelling. Jeff Wigand (Russell Crowe) is a poindexter sitting on a story that could take down the third-largest tobacco company in the U.S., and Lowell Bergman (Al Pacino) is the 60 Minutes producer who wants to help him get it out there.

Abbie believes it’s Mann’s best (just wait ‘til she sees THIEF (1981)!) both because of its mealy newsiness and for much more textural reasons. It’s one of Mann’s last films before his jump to digital, giving him the perfect opportunity to use the beautiful tones of celluloid to close the frame around each scene, creating an increasingly claustrophobic atmosphere as the intersecting forces of Big Tobacco, government, media consolidation, government, and the court of public opinion constrict around Wigand’s masculinity, autonomy, and very life.

Find Abbie…

  • On Bluesky
  • On Letterboxd
  • On Trylove episodes about DRIVE ANGRY (2011), WAR OF THE WORLDS (2005), THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT (1999), TOUCH OF EVIL (1958), THE TRAIN (1964), MOULIN ROUGE! (2001), PHANTOM THREAD (2017), STAR WARS (1977) (with Natalie Marlin)

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Show art by Emily Csuy. Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro: “Tempest” by Lisa Gerrard, Madjid Khaladj, and Pieter Bourke from the THE INSIDER soundtrack.

]]> yes Episode 372: MICHAEL CLAYTON (2007) with Dan Nagan https://pinecast.com/guid/5e0ebd31-6480-4973-a86b-51170a9b7d62 Tue, 03 Mar 2026 12:00:00 -0000 01:36:43 With Dan Nagan!

Michael Clayton (George Clooney) is a ‘fixer’ for a big, successful law firm representing big, evil corporations. He doesn’t so much DO things as he does make it easier for the people who DO things to DO them. It’s not really an honest living, but it’s not direct enough for him to really get his hands dirty.

But when his lawyer friend snaps, vowing to expose the wrongdoings of the firm’s biggest client, Clayton’s looped into a deadly corporate cover-up — and maybe pushed to finally, actually make something happen.

Find Dan…

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Show art by Emily Csuy. Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro: 25 Dollars Worth by James Newton Howard from the MICHAEL CLAYTON soundtrack.

Timestamps

0:00 - Episode 372: MICHAEL CLAYTON (2007)

4:01 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary

6:03 - The unexpected depth of the script

10:44 - Watching it at the Trylon

15:41 - One of the best legal thrillers ever made

19:16 - The quasi-ironic ending

30:17 - “This will not solve everything”

33:31 - Who is Michael Clayton?

41:54 - George Clooney as the sadsack

1:10:11 - To All the Loves We've Tried Before: 2007

1:12:57 - Cody’s Noteys: My Cool Clay Tin (guessing the price of clay containers online)

]]> yes Episode 371: GWEN AND THE BOOK OF SAND (1985) https://pinecast.com/guid/a1bc1e33-0cda-4015-b288-01ac3ab59c0d Tue, 24 Feb 2026 12:00:00 -0000 01:55:21 Jean-François Laguionie’s GWEN AND THE BOOK OF SAND is maybe a little too strange to fully understand, but its juxtapositions and style leave help it get so much more from its 67 minutes than a lot of full-length features can manage. A young girl named Gwen joins a tribe of desert nomads in a world littered with gigantic, recognizably earth-bound objects. Gwen falls in love with Nokmoon, a boy whose strange powers get him abducted by the ethereal creature that prowls the dunes by night. Gwen and Rosaline, the tribe’s matriarch, set out across the uncharted wastes to bring back the young boy.

In this episode — our last on the Trylon’s series on ‘80s animated sci-fi/fantasy, we gush over gouache, ponder the meaning of finding meaning in a story as abstruse as this one, and play a game where we try to guess what game Cody’s even trying to get us to play.

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Show art by Emily Csuy. Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro by Pierre Alrand from the GWEN AND THE BOOK OF SAND soundtrack.

Timestamps

0:00 - Episode 371: GWEN AND THE BOOK OF SAND (1985)

2:27 - Aaron's sunglasses

6:32 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary

9:56 - A truly unique work of animation

25:41 - The departure for the city

37:39 - Gwen and Rosalie

43:16 - Post-consumerism, identity, masking, etc.

57:39 - Nokmoon’s dreams

1:00:54 - The interpolation of live-action and animation styles

1:09:37 - The best images

1:17:47 - The Junk Drawer

1:21:40 - To All the Loves We’ve Tried Before: 1985

1:27:50 - Cody’s Noteys: Gwen’s Picnic (we try to guess the rules of the game Cody makes us play)

]]> yes Episode 370: MIDNIGHT EXPRESS (1978) with Matt Clark https://pinecast.com/guid/27dd056e-478c-47cd-89b3-21fbe03c6c36 Tue, 17 Feb 2026 12:00:00 -0000 01:43:21 With Matt Clark (Kino Ventura)!

MIDNIGHT EXPRESS is mired in a good bit of targeted xenophobia. Oliver Stone apologized for adapting Billy Hayes’s memoir the way he did, but to the people of Türkiye, the damage was done. Alan Parker’s drama film, based on the true story of an American’s confinement in an Istanbul prison, dialed up the brutality to great cinematic effect, complemented by a brooding, Oscar-winning synth soundtrack by the father of disco, Giorgio Moroder.

In this episode, we discuss MIDNIGHT EXPRESS from a couple different angles: the Turkophobia on display, the movie on its own terms, the ensemble, and (of course) the score — before playing a trivia game to see who can guess the movie based on things shouted by a member of the cast during a fight. It’s another really, really specific bit from Cody (of Cody’s Noteys).

Find Matt…

  • At Kino Ventura , his blog about movies
  • Making Apache Revolver , his zine about crime films
  • On Bluesky at kinoventura
  • On Letterboxd at kino_ventura
  • On Trylove episodes about SHOGUN ASSASSIN (1980), THE LAVENDER HILL MOB (1951), NIGHT MOVES (1975), THE FRIENDS OF EDDIE COYLE (1973), THE ROCKETEER (1991)

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Show art by Emily Csuy. Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro: “(Theme from) Midnight Express (Instrumental)” by Giorgio Moroder from the MIDNIGHT EXPRESS soundtrack.

]]> yes Episode 369: THE TIME MASTERS (1982) https://pinecast.com/guid/d5d6f3ab-16d4-43a7-8aa6-56a9652468a5 Tue, 10 Feb 2026 12:00:00 -0000 01:26:45 René Laloux’s planet-hopping animated sci-fi adventure — no, not THAT one! — is in two places at once. THE TIME MASTERS wanders very Frenchly through its plot: An orphan needs saving on a weird planet, but our protagonists spend way more time witnessing the world (and freeing some mind-slaves on a completely separate planet) than worrying about the boy. But it comes across as such a genuine, heartfelt tale of camaraderie and creative vision that it doesn’t much matter.

In this episode, we discuss all the Guys in THE TIME MASTERS, the art of Mœbius (Jean Giraud), and how time travel factors in before seeing how well we can guess the runtime of movies we’ve covered on this podcast.

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Show art by Emily Csuy. Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro: “Lamprey Guzzlers” from THE TIME MASTERS.

Timestamps

0:00 - Episode 369: THE TIME MASTERS (1982)

2:44 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary

5:09 - The style and substance of Mobius in an animated feature

12:13 - Seeing this one at the Trylon

17:30 - What happens when your reach exceeds your grasp

28:15 - Why this movie NEEDS to be animation

37:11 - Richness despite a meandering plot

44:51 - Adapting Stefan Wul

47:09 - How successful is the time twist?

59:20 - The Junk Drawer

1:06:17 - To All the Loves We’ve Tried Before: 1982

1:13:49 - Cody’s Noteys: Runtime Masters (guessing the runtime of movies we’ve covered)

]]> yes Episode 82: SON OF THE WHITE MARE (1981) [feat. Sarah Seember Huisken] (Republish) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/885667867 Sat, 07 Feb 2026 12:00:00 -0000 01:47:05 Featuring special guest Sarah Seember Huisken – M… This episode was originally published in August 2020. It was republished February 7, 2026, to coincide with its run at the Trylon as part of the "The Art of Insurgence: '80s Animated Sci-Fantasy" series. Since this episode aired, Sarah spun off the Cult Film Collective's video rental arm as its own entity titled Ant Hill Video.

Featuring 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 audience’s firm grasp of form with nearly every scene change, reflecting the convulsive Hungarian social state (its original release was sandwiched between a 1956 revolt and the country’s formal shrugging of Communist rule in 1989).

With Sarah, we discuss the movie’s use of form, humor, nature, sex, soft edges, semi-traditional gender politics, and imagery both modern and primal to elevate its “heroes slay the dragons” narrative into something worth treasuring.

Find Sarah on Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/calzonewizard and online at https://sarahhuisken.com!

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Show art by Emily Csuy. Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro ambiance from SON OF THE WHITE MARE.

]]> yes Episode 368: NAUSICAÄ OF THE VALLEY OF THE WIND (1984) with Seth Zarate https://pinecast.com/guid/53dc8c9c-eae4-4cc0-9f4d-098901e0e124 Tue, 03 Feb 2026 12:00:00 -0000 01:56:31 With Seth Zarate!

It’s hard to overstate the importance of NAUSICAÄ OF THE VALLEY OF THE WIND to the Japanese animation medium, not least of which because it led to the launch of Studio Ghibli, one of its most influential producers. But it’s maybe more interesting to consider as an ur text for its creator and his proclivities: In a time of conflict between human civilization and the natural world, a strong heroine risks her life to bridge the two and bring balance. If that sounds familiar in the context of Studio Ghibli’s work, it should!

On this episode, we discuss seeing the film on an original 1984 print, comparisons to other Studio Ghibli films and Miyazaki’s sprawling Nausicaä manga, the optimism that defines NAUSICAÄ, Seth’s ranking of Ghibli movies, and our favorite little Miyazaki-isms. Then we play a trivia game based on looking at pictures of American actress Halle Berry. Podcasting is immensely difficult work.

Find Seth…

  • On Bluesky at snzarate.bsky.social

  • On Letterboxd at @snzarate

  • On Trylove episodes about THE FIFTH ELEMENT (1997), 12 MONKEYS (1995), TO LIVE AND DIE IN L.A. (1985), A GOOFY MOVIE (1995) Table Read, TIME BANDITS (1981), THE FACULTY (1998), THE SACRIFICE (1986), RUMBLE IN THE BRONX (1995), Horrorthon V: Son of Horrorthon (2021), BATMAN RETURNS (1992), TOKYO GODFATHERS (2003), THE CONVERSATION (1974), IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT (1934), LOOPER (2012), ASTEROID CITY/DIAL OF DESTINY/DEAD RECKONING/BARBIE/OPPENHEIMER (2023), THE CARS THAT ATE PARIS (1974), RETURN OF THE JEDI (1983)

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#TheArtofInsurgence80sAnimatedSciFantasy #35mm

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Show art by Emily Csuy. Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro: “Nausicaä's Requiem” by Joe Hisaishi featuring Mai Fujisawa from the NAUSICAÄ OF THE VALLEY OF THE WIND soundtrack.

Timestamps

0:00 - Episode 368: NAUSICAÄ OF THE VALLEY OF THE WIND (1984) with Seth Zarate

2:10 - An update on Lucchese-Soto, et al. v. The Criterion Collection, LLC

6:03 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary

7:21 - Seth’s thoughts

10:10 - The Hayao Miyazaki ur text

19:06 - Our experiences with NAUSICAÄ

24:00 - Building Nausicaä through the reactions of others

34:41 -  Is the NAUSICAÄ manga Miyazaki’s best work?

40:43 - Seth’s Ghibli ranking

46:32 - Optimism and relationships between worlds in NAUSICAÄ vs. MONONOKE

58:23 - A few of our favorite of Miyazaki’s favorite things

1:09:40 - The Junk Drawer

1:18:04 - To All the Loves We’ve Tried Before: 1984

1:24:01 - Cody’s Noteys: Plausibly, This is Halle When She Grinned (trivia about Halle Berry photographs)

]]> yes Episode 367: LA DOLCE VITA (1960) https://pinecast.com/guid/68c35e96-3c29-499c-8248-4bd978e94ba4 Tue, 27 Jan 2026 12:00:00 -0000 01:45:02 The Trylon’s series on the black-and-white films of Federico Fellini closes with one of his most popular films: the scandalous LA DOLCE VITA! Celebrity journalist Marcello (Marcello Mastroianni) can’t quite decide between a life of out-and-out hedonism and his more intellectual aspirations, vacillating between caring for his fiancée Jane (Yvonne Furneaux) and courting every pretty woman he meets; between poetic cocktail parties with his refined friend (Alain Cuny) and drunken bacchanalia. This being a three-hour European film, the center can, of course, not hold, bringing Marcello’s self-idolatry to a spiraling, sputtering conclusion.

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References:

#FelliniInBlackAndWhite #35mm

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Show art by Emily Csuy. Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro by Nino Rota from the LA DOLCE VITA soundtrack.

]]> yes Episode 366: EXTREME PRIVATE EROS: LOVE SONG 1974 (1974) https://pinecast.com/guid/06f5d23b-918d-4cfc-8607-8276a55c6890 Tue, 20 Jan 2026 12:00:00 -0000 01:45:42 It’s almost trite to say Kazuo Hara’s second documentary ‘crosses boundaries,’ since every documentary is on some level about the fact that it’s a documentary — forcing you to consider the author, the subject, and yourself as participants in the documentation.

That said, EXTREME PRIVATE EROS: LOVE SONG 1974 is remarkably intimate, covering the years following the director’s breakup with Miyuki Takeda as she embarks on a journey of self-discovery. As they both chart new courses in life — him with his new girlfriend and fellow filmmaker, Sachiko Kobayashi; her exploring sexuality, taboo relationships, parenthood, and many forms of self-expression — they remain the shared subject of a film so personal, so volatile, that it’s almost violent.

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References:

#TheUndiscoveredGeniusOfKazuoHara #DCP

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Show art by Emily Csuy. Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro: “I Gotcha” by Joe Tex as heard in EXTREME PRIVATE EROS: LOVE SONG 1974.

Timestamps

0:00 - Episode 366: EXTREME PRIVATE EROS: LOVE SONG 1974 (1974)

2:28 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary

3:35 - Aaron doesn’t like documentaries

12:51 - The work of Kazuo Hara

19:43 - The “point” of documentaries

24:07 - “Narrativerite” and a sense of “antagonism”

34:25 - Miyuki Takeda

41:35 - “Violence” and the “peaks” that end up on film

48:37 - LOVE SONG 1974 as a breakup movie

56:57 - How Miyuki is presented to the audience

1:05:07 - The Junk Drawer

1:12:23 - To All the Loves We’ve Tried Before: 1974

1:24:22 - Cody’s Noteys: The House of Champions: 1974 (a bracket to choose the best film of 1974)

]]> yes Episode 365: I VITELLONI (1953) https://pinecast.com/guid/859e17de-c76c-4528-99db-df6e9405dcb0 Tue, 13 Jan 2026 12:00:00 -0000 01:44:19 Five friends, no motivation, and a dead-end seaside town. Nope, it’s not this podcast! It’s I VITELLONI, Federico Fellini’s proto-slacker dramedy where tension is low and malaise is high. Moraldo’s friend Fausto knocks up Moraldo’s sister Sandra and marries her, sending the tight-knit crew of twentysomethings into a rather uneventful spiral.

We discuss Italy’s national identity during a postwar economic boom, how these guys stare actualization in the face and blink, and how many grilled cheeses and PB\&Js the average American eats in their life.

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  • @mplsmutualaid: Clearinghouse of mutual aid for our neighbors:

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  • ISAIAH, an interfaith group fighting for racial and economic justice in MN:

https://secure.everyaction.com/G8TCnxFlE0qd9zlUEYjjeg2

  • Show love to North Minneapolis families in crisis:

https://www.gofundme.com/f/show-love-to-north-minneapolis-families-in-crisis

  • Support for Renee Good’s Widow and Family:

https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-for-renee-goods-wife-and-son

References:

  • “Give to the Trylon’s

Film Forever Fund

so they never have to increase ticket prices!

#FelliniInBlackAndWhite #35mm

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Show art by Emily Csuy. Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro: “I Vitelloni” by Nino Rota from the I VITELLONI soundtrack.

Timestamps

0:00 - Episode 365: I VITELLONI (1953)

3:50 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary

5:41 - Starting thoughts

19:12 - What happens when your friends leave and comparisons to 8½ (1963)

25:01 - Moraldo and Fausto

29:12 - Fausto’s such a shithead

40:06 - Where the vitelloni find themselves situated in the fabric of Italy’s social history

51:32 - The third act and Moraldo learning to let go

58:27 - The Junk Drawer

1:07:54 - To All the Loves We’ve Tried Before: 1953

1:14:55 - Cody’s Noteys: Tryloaf (bread trivia)

]]> yes Episode 364: 8½ (1963) https://pinecast.com/guid/f865f7eb-b677-4edb-bed5-d05808b910df Tue, 06 Jan 2026 12:00:00 -0000 01:38:22 The Trylon’s series on Federico Fellini kicked off with his seminal film 8½, and it’s a hell of a way to start Trylove’s 2026! A hailed director struggles to find the determination to see his latest movie through to the end, instead spending most of his time daydreaming about his past, his present, and the various women who float through them. Then, the movie zooms out to depict THAT story as a movie production directed by the same guy, complete with its own writers, producers, critics, and cast. Whoa!

It’s kinda silly in a fun way, and it’s a pretty neat trick, especially for 1963 — but does it hold up today? Or is it a bit too clever for its own good? We’ve actually rather divided on this one, and for several different reasons! Do you expect anything less?

References:

#FelliniInBlackAndWhite #35mm

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Show art by Emily Csuy. Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters.

Timestamps

0:00 - Episode 364: 8½ (1963)

3:33 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary

5:57 - Our unique viewing experiences

16:30 - Tight directing, loose storytelling

35:57 - The ending

43:58 - What strings you along?

54:05 - Saraghina, the dancer on the beach

1:01:17 - Guido’s hero/martyr complex

1:06:14 - The Junk Drawer

1:12:43 - To All the Loves We’ve Tried Before: 1963

1:14:29 - Cody’s Noteys: 2026 Movie Resolutions

]]> yes Episode 363: The 2025 Golden Barry Awards https://pinecast.com/guid/27a6ac7d-48d3-4dcd-ba9f-cfa6677b3c17 Tue, 30 Dec 2025 12:00:00 -0000 04:27:51 Welcome back to the Golden Barrys, our annual awards ceremony, now in its seventh iteration! Jesus, really? Yeah, our first one was at the end of 2019, so I guess that lines up. Huh.

It’s an annual literal roundtable deliberation to decide the best and Barriest movies we saw this year at or through the Trylon Cinema in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It’s also one of the most fun episodes to make because we really get to wax poetic about how much this podcast and the people who listen to it mean to us, so we hope you enjoy!

References:

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Show art by Emily Csuy. Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters.

Timestamps

0:00 - Episode 363: The 2025 Golden Barry Awards

6:53 - Cody's Karaokes

7:44 - Jason’s favorite Trylon movies of 2025

14:09 - Cody’s favorite Trylon movies of 2025

22:46 - Harry’s favorite Trylon movies of 2025

31:39 - Aaron’s favorite Trylon movies of 2025

33:59 - The Best Nazi Death

47:14 - Trylove's Best Trylon Dry Run

57:23 - Trylove's Best Wet Run

1:11:20 - Break #1

1:12:33 - The Rashomonies

1:33:15 - The Best Needle Drop

1:40:39 - Highlighting 2026's Animated Programming

1:42:28 - The Best Film Series

1:57:24 - Break #2

2:00:53 - The Best Money-Maker

2:14:05 - The Best Non-Film Series Film (Best One-Off)

2:33:29 - The Best Cult Film Collective Screening

2:34:23 - The Best Director

2:49:21 - The Best Cody’s Notey

3:02:47 - Break #3

3:06:06 - The Year of the _____

3:23:27 - King of the Trylon

3:37:28 - Queen of the Trylon

3:49:11 - Break #4

3:54:06 - The Best Picture

4:20:10 - Recapping this year's winners

4:23:00 - Thanking 2025's podcast guests

]]> yes Episode 362: CASINO (1995) https://pinecast.com/guid/60a31bd2-b753-4d36-aace-f493b6246c50 Tue, 23 Dec 2025 12:00:00 -0000 01:58:13 A retread of GOODFELLAS (1990) or a nastier, meaner take on a life of crime? Our discussion (a rare in-person recording of CASINO looks inward, at the performances, embarrassments, and broken hearts that define it, and outward, at how this movie left its mark on the middle period of director Martin Scorsese’s career — and gave Sharon Stone what might be her best film role.

References:

#SharonStoneDoesn’tCareWhatYouThink #35mm

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Show art by Emily Csuy. Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro music: You know this one and I don’t wanna get in trouble.

]]> yes Episode 361: THE QUICK AND THE DEAD (1995) https://pinecast.com/guid/c89b35d7-69e6-4456-9d00-ff1104f7c8a2 Tue, 16 Dec 2025 12:00:00 -0000 01:45:39 Sam Raimi’s wild-ass Western has his signature style all over it, but from a certain perspective, it’s really Sharon Stone’s vehicle: As star and producer, she reportedly got both Raimi and Leonardo DiCaprio attached to the project, and she even contributed to creative elements like costuming and plot. What a lady!

THE QUICK AND THE DEAD was critically divisive when it came out (despite an all-star cast including Gene Hackman, Russell Crowe, and Keith David), and we weren’t much more unified in 2025: We’ve got a variety of opinions on if the ridiculous plot gets too much in the way of a real story, what the value of a good gag is in otherwise well-charted cinematic waters, and whether or not the whole thing even holds together.

References:

#SharonStoneDoesn’tCareWhatYouThink #DCP

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Show art by Emily Csuy. Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro music: “Main Theme” composed by Alan Silvestri from the THE QUICK AND THE DEAD soundtrack.

Timestamps

0:00 - Episode 361: THE QUICK AND THE DEAD (1995)

2:54 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary

6:01 - Sam Raimi, the man that you are

23:23 - Is it too patently absurd to connect emotionally?

39:56 - Does it work better as a parody?

49:36 - A deconstruction of the stoic Western persona

58:10 - The performances that stand out (and don’t)

1:06:20 - The Junk Drawer

1:14:25 - To All the Loves We’ve Tried Before: 1995

1:22:45 - Cody’s Noteys: The Quick and the Said (15 one-minute discussion topics)

]]> yes Episode 360: BASIC INSTINCT (1992) with Kelly Krantz https://pinecast.com/guid/e7df804e-16e2-4893-bb5c-30468f43d33b Tue, 09 Dec 2025 12:00:00 -0000 01:55:23 Content warning: This discussion includes references to sexual violence.

BASIC INSTINCT superfan and longtime Trylon volunteer Kelly Krantz says it is “THE erotic thriller.” And she’s probably right! But what makes the tale of Catherine Tramell (Sharon Stone) and her quarry, Nick Curran (Michael Douglas), the ultimate in a genre defined by extremes and titillating taboo? We’re here to find out!

Our discussion digs into the essential Paul Verhoeven-ness of BASIC INSTINCT, the true motivations of the two headstrong leads, who’s really the victim in their psychosexual mind games, and then close with some skunk trivia (in fitting with a “you know it smells crazy in there” motif).

Find Kelly…

  • On Twitter at @kransekage_

  • On Letterboxd at @luckyhoss

  • On Trylove episodes: WINGS OF DESIRE (1987), ARREBATO (1979), PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE (1974), REVOLVER (1973), THE DOOM GENERATION (1995), THE NIGHT PORTER (1974), REMEMBER MY NAME (1978), PLAY IT AS IT LAYS (1972), OUTLAND (1981)

References:

#SharonStoneDoesn’tCareWhatYouThink #DCP

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Show art by Emily Csuy. Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro music: “Main Theme” composed by Jerry Goldsmith from the BASIC INSTINCT soundtrack.

Timestamps

0:00 - Episode 360: BASIC INSTINCT (1992)

2:58 - The episode actually starts

6:56 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary

10:20 - Background on the erotic thriller

16:14 - A metatextual take on erotic thrillers

20:23 - Michael Douglas and Sharon Stone

26:39 - Catherine Tramell “wants to be proven wrong”

37:40 - What does Nick Curran actually want?

41:55 - The Activation of Nick Curran

45:45 - Does Nick want to BECOME Catherine?

52:57 - How this movie plays with the femme fatale trope

59:58 - Beth, the victim of two different lovers

1:08:25 - The Junk Drawer

1:27:40 - To All the Loves We’ve Tried Before: 1992

1:34:22 - Cody’s Noteys: Ba-Skunk In-Stink (skunk trivia)

]]> yes Episode 359: THE ISLAND CLOSEST TO HEAVEN (1984) https://pinecast.com/guid/3babdfb6-d519-46fd-a7ed-4715294bead5 Tue, 02 Dec 2025 12:00:00 -0000 01:38:35 The Trylon’s 2025 series on the films of HAUSU (1977) director Nobuhiko Ōbayashi comes to a close, and with it our episodes on one of the podcast’s favorite filmmakers… for now, anyway.

The series ends with THE ISLAND CLOSEST TO HEAVEN, an often overlooked gem in Ōbayashi’s significant catalogue about Mari (Tomoyo Harada), a young girl who travels to New Caledonia in search of a legendary island her father (Yukihiro Takahashi) told her about before his early death. Instead of the mythical island, Mari finds inhabitants like Taro (Ryōichi Takayanagi) with similar stories to hers: Loves lost, grief that’s filled the gap, and a hope for something new from what remains.

References:

#TheUntetheredVisionsOfNobuhikoÔbayashi #DCP

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Show art by Emily Csuy. Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro music: “The Island Closest to Heaven” composed by Hayashi Tetsuji and performed by Tomoyo Harada from the THE ISLAND CLOSEST TO HEAVEN soundtrack.

Timestamps

0:00 - Episode 359: THE ISLAND CLOSEST TO HEAVEN (1984)

4:25 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary

5:23 - Some facts about New Caledonia

7:21 - A different kind of Obayashi classic

15:55 - The real island closest to heaven was inside you all along

21:12 - You know how it ends as soon as it starts 

28:48 - The THE GREEN RAY (1986) of it all

37:20 - Mari’s journey

54:36 - People unified by grief as much as by love

59:41 - Yuuichi the lovelorn tour guide

1:02:59 - The Junk Drawer

1:08:24 - To All the Loves We’ve Tried Before: 1984

1:13:38 - Cody’s Noteys: The Island Closest to Kevin (geographic trivia related to movies starring Kevins)

]]> yes Episode 358: SCHOOL IN THE CROSSHAIRS (1981) with Kris Montello https://pinecast.com/guid/f2528fc6-edd1-4872-9aef-250d359fd5a3 Tue, 25 Nov 2025 12:00:00 -0000 02:00:43 With Kris Montello!

Just as star student Yuka (Hiroko Yakushimaru) awakens to her otherworldly powers (and her feelings for kendo athlete Koji [Ryôichi Takayanagi]), Venusian imperialist Kyogoku (Toru Minegishi) issues an ultimatum: Use her powers to force the universe into conformity and order or be flattened with the rest of it. When Yuka refuses the call, Kyogoku instead enlists transfer student Michiru (Masami Hasegawa) and begins his conquest with the student body at Yuka’s school.

It goes without saying that SCHOOL IN THE CROSSHAIRS is a visual feast. But no matter how ‘out there’ it gets, inside every Nobuhiko Ōbayashi film is an incredibly human heart animating its zanier flair. That’s what we’re here for!

Find Kris…

References:

#TheUntetheredVisionsOfNobuhikoÔbayashi #DCP

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Show art by Emily Csuy. Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro music: “I Want to Protect You” by Yumi Matsutoya from the SCHOOL IN THE CROSSHAIRS soundtrack.

Timestamps

0:00 - Episode 358: SCHOOL IN THE CROSSHAIRS (1981)

3:40 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary

4:37 - Digging deeper on Ōbayashi

11:16 - Where Ōbayashi’s tendencies show in SCHOOL IN THE CROSSHAIRS

22:21 - The world of the young and the world of the old

31:37 - What if you could control your growth?

44:14 - Yuka’s struggles with her new powers

50:26 - The second act

58:10 - The craft

1:03:17 - Ōbayashi’s oeuvre

1:15:50 - What Ōbayashi wanted us to understand about the future

1:18:10 - The Junk Drawer

1:23:51 - To All the Loves We’ve Tried Before: 1981

1:31:53 - Cody’s Noteys: Trying Down the Love (trivia for movies with five-syllable titles)

]]> yes Episode 357: DOWN BY LAW (1986) https://pinecast.com/guid/27dac50c-a93f-4ad5-8d6c-27351e14a61d Tue, 18 Nov 2025 12:00:00 -0000 01:33:58 It doesn’t take long for DOWN BY LAW to switch modes, from a grimy, somewhat self-serious noir to an acerbic, straight-faced prison break comedy. Radio DJ Zack (Tom Waits) and low-rent pimp Jack (John Lurie) share a cell in Louisiana after being framed for separate crimes. Instead of really coming together, they both kinda stick to their tough guy personas until Roberto (Roberto Benigni), a silly Italian manslaughterer, makes them an unlikely trio.

References:

#TomWaitsForNoMan #35mm

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]]> yes Episode 63: HIS MOTORBIKE, HER ISLAND (1986) (Republished) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/804046753 Sun, 16 Nov 2025 13:00:00 -0000 01:29:58 Become wind. Republished 11/16/2025 (originally published on April 19, 2020, as "'Trylove in the Time of Corona' Episode 4")

  • In April 2020, at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, HAUSU (1977) director Nobuhiko Ōbayashi passed away from lung cancer. With the Trylon closed for public safety, we took the opportunity to diverge from our typical format and cover one of the director's least-seen films: HIS MOTORBIKE, HER ISLAND. The film eventually played at the Trylon in November 2025 during an Ōbayashi film series, so we've republished our original episode to mark the occasion. The original description is as follows with updated credits and references.

In 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 a movie about falling for someone so deeply that the differences between seasons, between selves, between fantasy and reality, cease to matter – and then carry that thesis through every element of the film's production.

References:

— Harry Mackin's essay on HIS MOTORBIKE, HER ISLAND for Perisphere, the Trylon blog

by Jake Rudegair for Perisphere, the Trylon blog

Give to the Trylon’s

Film Forever Fund

so they never have to increase ticket prices!

#TheUntetheredVisionsOfNobuhikoÔbayashi #DCP #TryloveInTheTimeOfCorona #Republish

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]]> yes Episode 356: THE GIRL WHO LEAPT THROUGH TIME (1983) https://pinecast.com/guid/68d0f8f6-8277-4600-98e4-9077b47c5980 Tue, 11 Nov 2025 12:00:00 -0000 01:42:49 In Nobuhiko Ôbayashi’s time-traveling teen movie, there’s nothing to be fixed about the past. After staying late at school one day to help clean up, Yoshiyama (Tomoyo Harada) sniffs the wrong lavender potion in the chem lab and gets caught in a time loop. (Whom among us?) As she gains awareness of her new ‘ability’(?), she sometimes helps her friend Goro (Toshinori Omi) stay out of danger; but most of the time, she spends the extra time growing increasingly conflicted about her growing feelings about her childhood friend Fukamachi (Ryōichi Takayanagi).

Its lack of focus on science fiction is just one of the ways THE GIRL WHO LEAPT THROUGH TIME is unlike other time travel movies. It’s got the characteristic Ôbayashi touch, veering between overwhelming sincerity and knowing absurdity, depending on how he wanted his audience to feel. In this episode, we discuss how Ôbayashi put his own spin on Yasutaka Tsutsui’s original novel, how to make young people nostalgic for things they’ve never experienced for themselves, and try to remember Cody’s trivia questions from previous episodes.

References:

#TheUntetheredVisionsOfNobuhikoÔbayashi #DCP

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Show art by Emily Csuy. Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro music: “Toki wo Kakeru Shojo” composed by Yumi Matsutoya and performed by Tomoyo Harada from the THE GIRL WHO LEAPT THROUGH TIME end credits.

Timestamps

0:00 - Episode 356: THE GIRL WHO LEAPT THROUGH TIME (1983)

7:43 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary

10:22 - Seeing this as an Ōbayashi fan

19:36 - Ōbayashi’s unique interest in the mechanics of time travel

25:45 - The timey wimey stuff matters, but not in the way you think

29:31 - The stylistic development of the movie

38:13 - Emotional idealism vs. realist cynicism

49:35 - The ending and the grandparents

1:08:01 - The Junk Drawer

1:15:53 - Cody's Noteys: The Love that Leapt Through Tryme (trivia from previous Trylove episodes)

]]> yes Episode 355: NIGHT OF THE JUGGLER (1980) https://pinecast.com/guid/9f776a08-42e0-4809-89a4-8d389a86301d Tue, 04 Nov 2025 12:00:00 -0000 01:48:14 Robert Butler’s NIGHT OF THE JUGGLER is not what the title makes it sound like.

It sounds like some kind of bizarro New York neo-noir fairytale, like STREETS OF FIRE (1984) or AFTER HOURS (1985), but it’s far more grounded than that: An ex-cop (James Brolin)’s daughter (Abby Bluestone) is kidnapped by a troubled New Yorker with a grudge against the developers who razed the Bronx neighborhood where he grew up. Problem is, that guy? The Juggler (Cliff Gorman)? He went and grabbed the wrong guy’s little girl!

Anyway, absolutely zero juggling takes place in its 100-odd minutes. Instead, it’s a fascinating display of the Big Apple at the end of the ‘70s — an odyssey from Central Park to the South Bronx — replete with mouthy cabbies (Mandy Patinkin), roving gangs in flamboyant fits, Dan Hedaya with a shotgun, porno peep shows, harried lieutenants, violent gentrification, and virulent racism.

Join us on our journey across DA GREATEST CITY ON OITH as we discuss the simple joys of a simple protagonist, how much sympathy we can really have for someone like The Juggler, and then end up talking about juggalos (of course).

References:

#OtherProgramming #DCP

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Show art by Emily Csuy. Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro music by Seawind from the NIGHT OF THE JUGGLER end credits.

Timestamps

0:00 - Episode 355: NIGHT OF THE JUGGLER (1980)

4:22 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary

11:38 - James Brolin as Sean Boyd

16:57 - Mostly a movie about New York

35:11 - The NYC on display in the frenetic chase scene

43:23 - Sympathy for the Juggler

1:08:15 - The Junk Drawer

1:16:00 - To All the Loves We’ve Tried Before: 1980

1:22:34 - Cody’s Noteys: Night of the Juggalo (juggalo-adjacent trivia)

]]> yes Episode 354: THE EXORCIST (1973) https://pinecast.com/guid/cf9c4bb6-834e-484c-a009-1fb9d14f470a Tue, 28 Oct 2025 11:00:00 -0000 01:55:33 It’s the big kahuna of demonic possession movies, and honestly, a big fish in the pond of horror cinema in general: THE EXORCIST remains an absolute stone-cold classic more than 50 years after its release. Harry even wrote a Perisphere blog about seeing it as a lapsed Catholic!

But how does it stay dreadful when nothing scary is happening? Why is it important that Chris MacNeil is an actress by trade? If Lankester Merrin is Batman, does that make Pazuzu the Joker? All that and more, plus a ghostly appearance from THE EXORCIST superfan Blake Hester (@metallicaisrad)!

References:

#NixonlandHorrorInTheVietnamEra #DCP

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Show art by Emily Csuy. Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro music: “Tubular Bells” by Mike Oldfield from the THE EXORCIST soundtrack.

0:00 - Episode 354: THE EXORCIST (1973)

4:51 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary

7:35 - A word from Trylove guest and THE EXORCIST megafan Blake Hester

15:56 - Harry’s Perisphere piece and the reputation of this movie

25:03 - What makes THE EXORCIST so lean and mean today

30:32 - The Version You’ve Never Seen

36:50 - Why it’s important that Chris MacNeil is an actress

47:20 - What the demon reveals about our protagonists

54:22 - The surprising, emotionally confounding ending

1:12:14 - How much the behind-the-scenes stuff actually matters for our opinions of the movie

1:23:47 - The Junk Drawer

1:30:39 - To All the Loves We've Tried Before: 1973

1:37:58 - Cody’s Noteys: The Exercist (military fitness regimen trivia)

]]> yes Episode 353: THE WICKER MAN (1973) with Dan Nagan https://pinecast.com/guid/0fec6763-af85-4988-856c-3152a1f3f784 Tue, 21 Oct 2025 11:00:00 -0000 01:47:11 Wicker Dan the Birthday Man is back to specifically NOT talk about the bees!

THE WICKER MAN isn’t the folk horror you’d assume based on the movies it inspired (including the 2006 remake). It’s more about a square who just can’t hang, the free-loving society he invades, and the reveal that maybe that society isn’t so free, after all.

Find Dan…

References:

#NixonlandHorrorInTheVietnamEra #DCP

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Show art by Emily Csuy. Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro music: “Corn Rigs” composed by Paul Giovanni and performed by Magnet from the THE WICKER MAN soundtrack.

]]> yes Episode 352: ROSEMARY'S BABY (1968) with Louis Gagnon https://pinecast.com/guid/ed5a667b-6070-402f-9170-16ecef10873f Tue, 14 Oct 2025 11:00:00 -0000 02:07:23 Content warning: This episode contains discussions of sexual violence, including as depicted in ROSEMARY’S BABY and as perpetrated by director Roman Polanski.

We’re jazzed to welcome Louis Gagnon, a Trylon volunteer and fellow film fella, to continue our coverage of NixonLand at the Trylon! ROSEMARY’S BABY is rightly considered one of the greatest horror movies ever made, weaving the story of a woman envisioning herself as a mother with the unctuous interlopers who would usurp her uterus for unseemly uses.

Find Louis on Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/PikedDogfish/

References:

#NixonlandHorrorInTheVietnamEra #35mm

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Show art by Emily Csuy. Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro music: "Lullaby" by Krzysztof Komeda from the ROSEMARY'S BABY soundtrack.

]]> yes Episode 351: THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE (1974) https://pinecast.com/guid/2651fc9d-2005-4827-b370-3c8b50d073e9 Tue, 07 Oct 2025 11:00:00 -0000 01:41:25 THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE is one of the most important American movies ever made. There, we said it!

It’s hot, it’s gross, it’s tense, and it’ll test your patience — Tobe Hooper’s cult classic set the table for literally every slasher movie ever made, but it still holds its own among the horror heavy hitters in any generation since.

On this episode, the Boys (each with varying degrees of familiarity with the series) discuss the main themes of THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE, the morbid beauty of American decline, Nixon, and dinosaur parts.

References:

#NixonlandHorrorInTheVietnamEra #DCP

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Show art by Emily Csuy. Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro music by Tobe Hooper and Wayne Bell from THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE.

Timestamps

0:00 - Episode 351: THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE (1974)

2:38 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary

5:04 - Why THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE still feels “important”

8:54 - THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE as a franchise

19:26 - Preying on a primal fear of the Other

29:36 - The movie’s three main themes

37:12 - The hitchhiker and how we get sucked into this world

52:20 - Tropes, screaming, bodies, meat, and the ending

1:10:19 - The Junk Drawer

1:16:20 - To All the Loves We’ve Tried Before: 1974

1:21:40 - Cody’s Noteys: T-Rex’s Brain, Claw, Ass, and Fur (T-rex biology trivia)

]]> yes Episode 350: THE KEEP (1983) with Tony Wagner https://pinecast.com/guid/7635033b-8be3-4541-83b6-c9df64c64093 Tue, 30 Sep 2025 11:00:00 -0000 01:24:21 Mann boy Tony Wagner returns to discuss another “compromised” movie!

Eerie, violent, and hacked to bits by the studio, the supernatural horror mystery THE KEEP would be an oddity in any director’s career. In a remote Romanian village during World War II, Nazis (Jürgen Prochnow, Gabriel Byrne) occupy a foreboding stone citadel feared and revered by the locals (Robert Prosky, W. Morgan Sheppard). Tempted and terrorized by an unknowable presence inside, they relocate a Jewish historian (Ian McKellen) and his daughter (Alberta Watson) from a concentration camp to uncover its secrets. Also, an altogether average and unremarkable Greek gentleman (Scott Glenn) arrives to make sure things don’t get too out of hand (he is measurably less than successful).

Originally planned as a 3.5-hour epic, Paramount Pictures demanded cut after cut until audiences were left with a kind of incomprehensible 98 minutes of… something. As a result, Michael Mann has all but disowned THE KEEP, leaving behind a weird, complex monolith to his unrealized vision. Kind of like a certain The Keep I know!

In this brisk discussion, Tony helps us figure out what there is to THE KEEP, despite there being so little of its creator’s original vision in the end product. Is it a dreamy admonition of the all-consuming power of wrath that keeps the viewer at a tantalizing arm’s length? Or is it a goofy, cheesy stage play with only glimpses of the greatness that could’ve been?

Is THE KEEP actually the movie it’s supposed to be out of the box, or is the actual thing obscured behind the sticky slime trail of studio interference? You’ll hear arguments for both sides on this lively episode!

Find Tony…

  • On Twitter at @tonydwagner
  • On Letterboxd at @tonydwagner
  • On the Trylove episode about ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY (2016)

References:

#NazisWeHateTheseGuys #DCP

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Show art by Emily Csuy. Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro music: “It Ends” (an arrangement of “Walking in the Air” composed by Howard Blake) arranged and performed by Tangerine Dream from the THE KEEP soundtrack.

Timestamps

0:00 - Episode 350: THE KEEP (1983)

3:19 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary

5:28 - A broken, odd, “compromised” movie that runs on vibes

19:29 - The fumbled unfolding of the mystery

27:55 - A movie where Mann reckons with his Jewish identity

31:53 - What this movie meant for Mann’s career

53:55 - The Nazi kills

57:07 - The Junk Drawer

1:03:37 - To All the Loves We’ve Tried Before: 1983

1:07:18 - Cody’s Noteys: Try Your Own Advent-Love (a choose-your-own-adventure through the titular Keep)

]]> yes Episode 349: THE DIRTY DOZEN (1967) https://pinecast.com/guid/034aabfb-3316-461d-ae3f-790af9b44619 Tue, 23 Sep 2025 11:00:00 -0000 01:34:10 Robert Aldrich’s iconic ensemble action movie is brimming with testosterone, redemption arcs, and more little gags than you would probably guess. Lee Marvin uses 12 no-hope inmates’ basic distrust of authority as glue to bind them, wind them up, and whips them into Nazi-slaughtering shape on a suicide mission. For some, freedom and redemption hang in the balance; for others, nothing much at all.

Let’s take it apart: Its struggle to balance so many Guys, cynicism about who really wins wars, why the hell Maggott is even here, the crappy TV sequels, and more.

References:

#NazisWeHateTheseGuys #DCP

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Show art by Emily Csuy. Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro music: “The Bramble Bush” by Trini Lopez from the THE DIRTY DOZEN soundtrack.

Timestamps

0:00 - Episode 349: THE DIRTY DOZEN (1967)

3:08 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary

7:29 - It's a lot of guys

12:28 - A movie with less action than training

25:47 - The Dozen’s total commitment to the mission

33:22 - The length, the pacing, the training segment with Breed’s team

41:47 - The complicated Major Reisman (Lee Marvin)

51:31 - Maggott…

1:02:06 - The Junk Drawer

1:09:25 - To All the Loves We’ve Tried Before: 1967

1:13:57 - Cody’s Noteys: The Bird-y Dozen (ornithological terminology trivia)

]]> yes Episode 348: THE LAST DETAIL (1973) https://pinecast.com/guid/680172c9-0ad6-48fb-a08d-f46b38d8e27a Tue, 16 Sep 2025 11:00:00 -0000 02:00:13 Hal Ashby’s Navy comedy-drama THE LAST DETAIL is pretty straight on paper: Young seaman Larry Meadows stole from a charity favored by the boss’s wife, and longtimers Billy "Badass" Buddusky and Richard "Mule" Mulhall are his ferrymen to the prison where Meadows will spend the next eight years of his life (or maybe six). Before they get there, Badass and Mule are determined to show Meadows one last good time.

Jack Nicholson, Otis Young, and Randy Quaid power through a drunken odyssey trying to forget their destination — and the lives waiting for each of them after the deed is done. It’s a hugely funny, heartfelt movie that still manages to be a classic ‘70s bummer. In this discussion, we delve into the different classes each of the leads represent, the escapades they use to distract themselves, their earnest yearning to leave an impact on each other, and their doomed efforts to change a foregone conclusion.

References:

#CultFilmCollective #35mm

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Show art by Emily Csuy. Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro music: “American Patrol” composed by FW Meacham and performed by the United States Marine Band.

Timestamps

0:00 - Episode 348: THE LAST DETAIL (1973)

3:01 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary

7:55 - Stories about misuse of justice

28:58 - Mulhall, Buddusky, and race relations

33:07 - “You know what I mean?”: How the men relate to each other and civilian life

47:07 - The Nichiren Shoshu and the spiritual journey happening in parallel

1:01:02 - Meadows’s turning point

1:03:37 - The ending

1:20:01 - The Junk Drawer

1:32:23 - To All the Loves We’ve Tried Before: 1973

1:40:09 - Cody’s Noteys: Wikiloves: The Last Detail (Jack Nicholson movie trivia from Wikipedia summaries)

]]> yes Episode 347: TOP SECRET! (1984) with Luke Mosher https://pinecast.com/guid/cf3e3d9a-48a0-43d6-89db-14c0d3938ce7 Tue, 09 Sep 2025 13:00:00 -0000 01:43:05 With special guest Luke Mosher (@TinyPlanetsPod)!

TOP SECRET! was the product of creative struggle. Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, and Jerry Zucker’s creative engines were tapped after their breakout hit AIRPLANE! (1980), and its box office performance left something to be desired. But today, its impact is measured in more important ways — like its unmatched commitment to a good bit, how well it set up Val Kilmer for Hollywood, and how fucking funny that singing horse gag still is.

In this episode, we talk about our favorite jokes from TOP SECRET!, the unique relationship between the creators and the viewer, why Val Kilmer is the perfect vessel for a ridiculously incongruous character, and how fucking funny that singing horse gag STILL is.

Find Luke…

References:

#He'sOurHuckleberryTwoStarringValKilmer #DCP

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Show art by Emily Csuy. Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro music: “Skeet Surfin’” composed by Maurice Jarre and performed by Val Kilmer from TOP SECRET!

Timestamps

0:00 - Episode 347: TOP SECRET! (1984)

2:54 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary (under exclusive license from AG Enterprises, Ltd.)

4:36 - How we came to TOP SECRET! and parody movies in general

23:11 - How TOP SECRET! brings the viewer “in” on the joke

27:51 - Jokes for movie people

36:08 - A movie that’s excited to be a film

43:48 - Val Kilmer

54:16 - Our favorite jokes

1:06:24 - The Junk Drawer

1:14:24 - To All the Loves We’ve Tried Before: 1984

1:18:45 - Cody’s Noteys: Kilmer Instinct (Val Kilmer quote trivia)

]]> yes Episode 346: PATTERNS (1956) https://pinecast.com/guid/2948eb60-4c1f-46e7-bbd3-d2cc7811a73c Tue, 02 Sep 2025 17:00:00 -0000 01:57:02 In PATTERNS, engineer-turned-executive Fred Staples is excited to start his new job at the big firm that acquired his factory. But before long, he realizes he’s being groomed to replace Bill Briggs, a friendly long-timer who’s lost favor with the cruel CEO, Walter Ramsey. Rather than fire Briggs, Ramsey sabotages and humiliates him in an effort to force his resignation — and make the reticent Staples his new right-hand man.

Here, we discuss the psychological dynamics of postwar workplace dramas, the headtrip stylings of Rod “The Twilight Zone” Serling’s script, the shifting balance of power in 20th century American labor, and what kind of person our protagonist becomes — and who he THINKS he’s become — by the time the credits roll. Then, our friends and former guests write in with their burning questions about the podcast!

References:

#TwoStarkRealitiesWrittenbyRodSerling #DCP

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Show art by Emily Csuy. Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro ambience  from PATTERNS.

Timestamps

0:00 - Episode 346: PATTERNS (1956)

2:51 - The episode actually starts

5:27 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary

7:07 - The origins of PATTERNS

16:01 - How the movie sets up a really uncomfortable social and professional situation

24:12 - Where the psychology comes in

29:15 - How the Briggs/Staples situation plays out in the office

36:34 - Who Fred Staples is — and who he becomes

47:30 - How the ending changes our opinion of Staples

1:02:58 - White collar power plays and alienation from labor

1:10:09 - The ending and who Staples thinks he is now

1:17:11 - The Junk Drawer

1:21:26 - To All the Loves We’ve Tried Before: 1956

1:24:28 - Cody’s Noteys: The Trylove Mailbag (questions from previous Trylove guests)

]]> yes Episode 345: BOY (1969) https://pinecast.com/guid/ca7dc3cb-0985-4005-952c-6f7502020356 Tue, 26 Aug 2025 11:00:00 -0000 01:34:49 That’s right — three of your favorite boys talkin’ BOY!

A preteen boy living on the streets of Tokyo pulls scams to provide for his dysfunctional family. It takes a toll on his body and his mind: He and his stepmom take turns throwing themselves in front of moving vehicles and extorting innocent motorists by threatening to go to the police. The scores keep getting bigger and the opportunities keep shrinking until it seems there’s no way out of the vicious cycle — not with a wounded vet for a dad, a toddler to care for, and another baby on the way.

In this episode, we tug at threads about growing wealth disparities during Japan’s “economic miracle,” the boy’s internal fantasies and external realities, and where in the world our friend Aaron Grossman went. References:

#TwoFamilyTraumasbyNagisaŌshima #35mm

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Show art by Emily Csuy. Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro music: by Hikaru Hayashi from the BOY soundtrack.

Timestamps

0:00 - Episode 345: BOY (1969)

2:54 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary (under exclusive license from AG Enterprises, Ltd.)

6:59 - The overall experience of watching BOY

10:33 - The work of Nagisa Ōshima and criticism of postwar Japanese society

15:48 - Where this story chooses to focus its attention

29:13 - The family roles and who’s ‘responsible’ for their situation

44:46 - The crazy editing choices

54:57 - The ending and the boy’s growing sense of responsibility

1:08:28 - The Junk Drawer

1:16:48 - To All the Loves We’ve Tried Before: 1969

1:19:51 - Cody’s Noteys: Where in the World is Aaron Grossman? (Trivia about people named Aaron Grossman)

]]> yes Episode 344: HEAVENLY BODIES (1984) with Dan Nagan https://pinecast.com/guid/2823d098-3ed1-4948-a472-11b81e48e466 Tue, 19 Aug 2025 11:00:00 -0000 01:42:59 With Dan Nagan (@aDapperDanMan)!

HEAVENLY BODIES is a 1984 drama film directed by Lawrence Dane and written by Dane and Ron Base. Cynthia Dale plays Samantha, the lead instructor of a dance fitness studio called Heavenly Bodies whose career takes off just as her relationship with football player Steve (Richard Rebiere) starts to take root. She gets her own TV show and her club keeps growing, but Sam’s struggle to balance her career ambition with her personal life deepens when a rival fitness club moves to take over their space.

HEAVENLY BODIES bombed with critics and at the box office. The soundtrack did spawn a few modest hits, and it was apparently a ubiquitous rerun on Canadian television and, anecdotally, a home video success, which is where it languished for about 40 years until it was restored in 2024 and rereleased by Fun City Editions.

Today’s discussion touches on Dan’s fandom for HEAVENLY BODIES, whether or not the broken plot and editing really matter, and this movie’s ‘quantum superposition’ on the spectrum of “cash grab-versus-passion project”!

Find Dan…

References:

#OtherProgramming #DCP

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Show art by Emily Csuy. Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro music: "Breaking Out Of Prison" by Sparks from the HEAVENLY BODIES soundtrack.

Timestamps

0:00 - Episode 344: HEAVENLY BODIES (1984)

5:16 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary (under exclusive license from AG Enterprises, Ltd.)

9:06 - Why this movie blows Dan’s mind

17:41 - Conflict, earnestness, cynicism

37:47 - Why’d we cover this instead of CASABLANCA (1942)?

41:19 - Cynthia Dale, sports movies, and the leadup to the competition

48:02 - The final competition and Samantha’s anime moment

59:33 - Exploitation and sexuality

1:08:48 - Where Jack Pearson fits into Samantha’s journey

1:16:48 - The Junk Drawer

1:22:16 - To All the Loves We’ve Tried Before: 1984

1:26:47 - Dan’s Detour: Try-bo (exercise/aerobics craze movies quiz)

]]> yes Episode 343: THE ROCKETEER (1991) with Matt Clark https://pinecast.com/guid/71e548cf-eacc-4e6e-9f02-30d39f666374 Tue, 12 Aug 2025 11:00:00 -0000 01:48:47 Matt Clark steps out of his crime film wheelhouse to chat about… a comic book movie???

THE ROCKETEER failed to stand out from the growing crowd of comic book adaptations and superhero franchises hitting their stride in the early ‘90s. But it had all the pieces of a genuine swashbuckler: Handsome leads, a sense of humor, fun action, and punchable Nazis. The Trylon’s “Nazis… We Hate These Guys” series gives us the benefit of hindsight, so we’re tackling it on its own terms and in its modern context!

In this episode, we lean heavily on Matt’s knowledge of film history to diagnose the flyboy’s failure to launch for ourselves. Was it just bad timing? An unfortunate combination of development issues? Did people not want another pulp fiction-inspired hero? Of course, we also cook up a few of our own takes, from its balance of tropes and how it ties technology and Hollywood to what it’s saying about American tolerance of fascism before World War II.

Find Matt…

  • At Kino Ventura, his blog about movies
  • Making Apache Revolver, his zine about crime films
  • On Bluesky at kinoventura
  • On Letterboxd at kino_ventura
  • On Trylove episodes about SHOGUN ASSASSIN (1980), THE LAVENDER HILL MOB (1951), NIGHT MOVES (1975), THE FRIENDS OF EDDIE COYLE (1973)

References:

#NazisWeHateTheseGuys #DCP

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Show art by Emily Csuy. Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro music: “Rocketeer to the Rescue/End Title” composed by James Horner from the THE ROCKETEER soundtrack.

Timestamps

0:00 - Episode 343: THE ROCKETEER (1991)

2:44 - An update on Lucchese-Soto, et al. v. The Criterion Collection, LLC

4:22 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary (under exclusive license from AG Enterprises, Ltd.)

6:02 - The aesthetic sense and production it gets “so so right”

11:49 - A big, comic book-y movie (but not in the MCU way)

16:40 - Stumbling across it during the pandemic

21:51 - The behind-the-scenes

26:46 - How THE ROCKETEER landed in the backlog of comic book cinema

35:29 - Source material, making PG, and where this movie ‘zags’ into comic bookiness

44:04 - How much this movie hates Nazis

55:42 - How would you feel if THE ROCKETEER came out today?

1:06:49 - The Junk Drawer

1:18:49 - To All the Loves We’ve Tried Before: 1991

1:25:01 - Cody’s Noteys: Who Wants to Be a Rocketeer? (personality quiz)

]]> yes Episode 342: NIGHTSHIFT (1981) https://pinecast.com/guid/c46f3d01-6be1-46f3-9464-4e95583aa4d9 Tue, 05 Aug 2025 11:00:00 -0000 01:17:23 Robina Rose’s bewitching NIGHTSHIFT invites viewers into the private rooms of a surreal London hotel in the 1980s during the wee hours of the night. An enigmatic receptionist (London artist, model, and counter-culture icon Jordan) is the go-between, performing a nearly wordless ritual of check-ins, sorting, prepping, tidying, and bearing witness to her tenants’ idiosyncrasies.

NIGHTSHIFT’s 4K restoration brought it to the Trylon, giving Jason and Harry the perfect reason to shine a halogen bulb right at its pallid, smirking face and see what’s underneath the stony visage! (That means we talk about it for almost as long as the movie actually is.)

References:

#OtherProgramming #DCP

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Show art by Emily Csuy. Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro music: “Cutting Branches For A Temporary Shelter” by Penguin Cafe Orchestra from the NIGHTSHIFT soundtrack.

Timestamps

0:00 - Episode 342: NIGHTSHIFT (1981)

3:11 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary

5:42 - What NIGHTSHIFT is "about"

10:30 - The Portobello Hotel as a real place

21:30 - A movie about performance, construction, and maintenance of the self

25:50 - Pamela Rooke/Jordan as the audience lens and a surreal character of her own

29:58 - The strange lodgers and the worlds they inhabit

37:17 - That song the receptionist keeps playing

42:47 - What do we make of the world waking up?

52:46 - The Junk Drawer

1:01:26 - To All the Loves We’ve Tried Before: 1981

1:07:04 - The Harry Hotel (hotel-adjacent movie trivia)

]]> yes Episode 341: MERRILY WE GO TO HELL (1932) https://pinecast.com/guid/1dc6d3b5-55dc-42f5-b1af-2353ab1a630d Tue, 29 Jul 2025 17:29:02 -0000 01:36:26 We don’t often get the chance to cover pre-Hays Code movies on this podcast, but when we do, we make sure that a former Catholic gets at least 30% of the airtime. MERRILY WE GO TO HELL wasn’t the most salacious rule-flouting film of its day — but even its title was enough to raise the hackles of 1930s Hollywood. By putting salacious topics front and center, like non-monogamy (gasp!), hedonism (scandalous!) and people dealing with moral quandaries (my pearls!!!), queer female director Dorothy Arzner took risks no other woman in Hollywood was willing to.

In this episode, we talk about how nothing really prepares you for the complicated feelings MERRILY WE GO TO HELL elicits, where some narrative refinement could’ve made its norm-challenging story land a bit harder, and differing perspectives on how we’re supposed to read the admittedly bleak ending.

References:

#DorothyArznerPreCodeCynic #35mm

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Show art by Emily Csuy. Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro music: End credits music from MERRILY WE GO TO HELL.

Timestamps

0:00 - Episode 341: MERRILY WE GO TO HELL (1932)

2:50 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary (under exclusive license from AG Enterprises, Ltd.)

5:41 - The Hays Code

15:10 - The turn from rom-com to something more bleak

29:25 - Would it be better if it were told entirely from Joan’s POV?

40:29 - Joan's dedication and the ending

1:02:08 - The Junk Drawer

1:11:38 - To All the Loves We’ve Tried Before: 1932

1:13:05 - Tryal by Fire (trivia for movies with iconic “go to hell” quotes)

]]> yes Episode 340: DONNIE DARKO (2001) with Finn Odum https://pinecast.com/guid/6ba7fc2e-9114-4861-b932-04428194e501 Tue, 22 Jul 2025 11:00:00 -0000 01:43:49 Sure, it launched Richard Kelly and Jake Gyllenhaal’s careers, but DONNIE DARKO also cemented a cultural touchstone of upper-middle class teen alienation that’s only been burnished by time and rewatches. In a sense, Donnie is the average white suburbanite kid — but against the backdrop of a changing America and an aging boomer generation, basic empathy and self-awareness turn out to be a literal superpower.

Finn Odum has a long history with DONNIE DARKO, making them a perfect fit for this extra-special episode! Harry hasn’t seen it since high school; Jason is afraid to find out if he still likes it after being bewitched by it as a kid; and Aaron hates teen movies. And… scene!

Find Finn…

References:

#OtherProgramming #35mm

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Show art by Emily Csuy. Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro music: “Liquid Spear Waltz” by Michael Andrews from the DONNIE DARKO soundtrack.

Timestamps

0:00 - Episode 340: DONNIE DARKO (2001)

5:48 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary

7:45 - Finn’s essay and attachment to DONNIE DARKO

14:50 - “The best movie about being a teenager”

25:03 - Where the scientific explanations start to distract from the point of the movie

36:18 - A white boy who wanted to change the world

46:22 - The fear/love spectrum and boomer cope

58:21 - Teens will literally go to therapy and save the world

1:04:12 - The montage at the end

1:07:57 - How this movie moves, sounds, and feels

1:14:32 - The performances

1:20:50 - The Junk Drawer

1:26:35 - To All the Loves We’ve Tried Before: 2001

1:31:12 - Finn's Facts

]]> yes Episode 339: INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE (1989) https://pinecast.com/guid/7a32bb6d-0ac9-4774-ad01-ae65c4c7687a Tue, 15 Jul 2025 11:00:00 -0000 02:00:11 It’s definitely not the best movie starring Indiana Jones, but it’s okay if it’s your favorite. For INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE — a movie on which the boys of the podcast are somewhat split — we’re talking what works and what doesn’t, daddy issues, the shadow self, and how this one stacks up to Indy’s best.

References:

#NazisWeHateTheseGuys #DCP

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Show art by Emily Csuy. Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro music: “Scherzo for Motorcycle and Orchestra” by John Williams from the INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE soundtrack.

Timestamps

0:00 - Episode 339: INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE (1989)

2:46 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary (under exclusive license from AG Enterprises, Ltd)

5:40 - Our thoughts, from “not an Indy guy” to “#1 U.S. QuizUp Indiana Jones Trivia Master”

18:15 - A movie that’s just the sum of its parts

40:08 - How this movie thinks about itself

45:49 - A movie that defrocks the myth of Indiana Jones

1:12:51 - How comedy sets you up for the emotional pull

1:28:19 - The Junk Drawer

1:35:22 - To All the Loves We’ve Tried Before: 1989

1:41:03 - Cody’s Noteys: Ford Explored (tagline trivia for Harrison Ford movies)

]]> yes Episode 338: THE GREAT DICTATOR (1940) https://pinecast.com/guid/7bdece5f-2fe1-4c39-8cdd-058607250d1a Tue, 08 Jul 2025 11:00:00 -0000 01:42:29 Anyone else think this guy looks familiar???

Charlie Chaplin’s first non-silent movie, THE GREAT DICTATOR, was both a sidesplitter and a rallying cry for a world at war. It’s best remembered for its closing monologue — a clear-eyed and impassioned call to reject the hatred and moral emptiness of the tide of fascism rising across the world at the time of its release — but it’s full of great bits and sight gags, too, all in the interest of defanging the leader of the Nazi party. Whether he’s embroiled in a game of one-upsmanship with uneasy allies, coughing his way through boisterous addresses, or having a bit of a musical theater moment with his bouncy globe, Chaplin’s Hitler analogue was explicitly created to make the world laugh at one of the most dangerous men in modern history.

In this episode, we discuss what its success as a talkie owes to Chaplin’s mastery of the silent film form, figure out how much there is to love versus what you’ve just gotta respect, review Chaplin’s troubled relationship with the U.S. government, and interrogate what the world learned (or didn’t) from Chaplin’s prescient exercise in slapstick propaganda.

References:

#NazisWeHateTheseGuys #35mm

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Show art by Emily Csuy. Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro music: “Main Title” by Meredith Willson from the THE GREAT DICTATOR soundtrack.

Timestamps

0:00 - Episode 338: THE GREAT DICTATOR (1940)

2:49 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary

4:19 - What ‘works’ and doesn’t for us in Chaplin’s first sound film

10:56 - The tension of satire vs. “important” cinema, and whether or not you could make something like this today

24:23 - Corollary villains and real-world victims

32:23 - The plottiness, meandering focus, and payoff

44:31 - The real legacy of THE GREAT DICTATOR and what an explicitly political movie did for Chaplin’s career

53:32 - The best bits and gags

1:03:54 - The Junk Drawer

1:12:38 - To All the Loves We’ve Tried Before: 1940

1:16:44 - Cody’s Noteys: The Great Quick Tater (french fry trivia)

]]> yes Episode 337: RETURN OF THE JEDI (1983) with Seth Zarate https://pinecast.com/guid/2fa16839-f0aa-44ab-a859-08d580e51d9b Tue, 01 Jul 2025 11:00:00 -0000 02:15:39 Seth Zarate is back to help us tackle RETURN OF THE JEDI, the sixth of nine (nice) numbered films in the main STAR WARS canon!

This episode, we’re talkin’ about it all: Fathers, sex, spicy teddy bears, how differently this movie hits as an adult, the virtue of landing a plane as big as STAR WARS without crashing, and how the end of the world’s most-watched saga may be to blame for the whole mess it’s become in the decades since.

Find Seth…

  • On Bluesky at snzarate.bsky.social
  • On Letterboxd at @snzarate
  • On Twitter (barely) at @snzarate
  • On Trylove episodes about THE FIFTH ELEMENT (1997), 12 MONKEYS (1995), TO LIVE AND DIE IN L.A. (1985), A GOOFY MOVIE (1995) Table Read, TIME BANDITS (1981), THE FACULTY (1998), THE SACRIFICE (1986), RUMBLE IN THE BRONX (1995), Horrorthon V: Son of Horrorthon (2021), BATMAN RETURNS (1992), TOKYO GODFATHERS (2003), THE CONVERSATION (1974), IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT (1934), LOOPER (2012), ASTEROID CITY/DIAL OF DESTINY/DEAD RECKONING/BARBIE/OPPENHEIMER (2023), THE CARS THAT ATE PARIS (1974)

References:

#StarWars #DCP

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Show art by Emily Csuy. Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro music: “Victory Celebration” composed and conducted by John Williams and performed by the London Symphony Orchestra from the RETURN OF THE JEDI soundtrack.

Timestamps

0:00 - Episode 337: RETURN OF THE JEDI (1983)

4:37- Overall evaluations of RETURN OF THE JEDI

17:06 - How Jabba’s Palace sets the stage for the rest of STAR WARS

31:55 - It’s nice to have a movie that feels like a direct continuation

39:48 - Endor and focusing almost exclusively on Luke

50:32 - Luke is an ewok. You are an ewok. We are all ewoks.

1:05:07 - The ending and “What is Best in STAR WARS?”

1:15:09 - The Junk Drawer

1:33:23 - To All the Loves We’ve Tried Before: 1983

1:41:06 - Cody’s Noteys: Puff Puff MoviePass (two things we like and one thing we don’t from 2025 movies)

]]> yes Episode 336: THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK (1980) with Luke Mosher https://pinecast.com/guid/9e9f2098-a0fa-446a-a8fa-e2831a6501aa Tue, 24 Jun 2025 11:00:00 -0000 01:38:24 With special guest and Trylon blog author Luke Mosher!

THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK is the best STAR WARS movie. I mean, come on. It’s got it all! Everything except a beginning and an ending. Like all the best stories! Lol!

Since Cody’s out and we couldn’t find anyone else who prefers STAR WARS to EMPIRE, we’ve welcomed first-time guest Luke Mosher to unload about this series high point! Together, we talk about what makes EMPIRE special, how it relates and compares to the 1977 starting point, and find out what it’s like to be a STAR WARS fan named Luke. (Apparently, it’s pretty awesome.)

Find Luke…

References:

#StarWars #DCP

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Show art by Emily Csuy. Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro music: “The Imperial March (Darth Vader’s Theme)” composed and conducted by John Williams and performed by the London Symphony Orchestra from the THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK soundtrack.

Timestamps

0:00 - Episode 336: THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK (1980)

1:41 - Luke and his history with the Trylon

15:06 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary (under exclusive license from AG Enterprises, Ltd.)

17:04 - What it’s like to be a STAR WARS fan named Luke

24:46 - Actually discussing THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK

40:18 - Is this movie a miracle?

42:40 - The handshake between STAR WARS (1977) and EMPIRE

47:46 - A deeper focus on character and tone

1:01:45 - Yoda, Obi-Wan, and the limited usefulness of tradition

1:09:49 - The Junk Drawer

1:28:24 - To All the Loves We’ve Tried Before: 1980

]]> yes Episode 335: STAR WARS (1977) with Abbie Phelps and Natalie Marlin https://pinecast.com/guid/33811489-ea32-4889-839d-7118c785f351 Tue, 17 Jun 2025 11:00:00 -0000 02:27:50 The fact that STAR WARS is so much more than a movie makes it a little tough to talk about as, like, just a movie. But with Natalie and Abbie, we’re actually strapped in for the best discussion of STAR WARS on the internet.

In this wide-ranging discussion, we touch on the balance of intentionality and blind ambition on the part of George Lucas, STAR WARS as a corrective to the New Hollywood wave, and of course, dive into a lot of little STAR WARS trivia, ephemera, and plain useless knowledge. Like I said: best on the ‘net.

Find Abbie…

  • On Bluesky
  • On Letterboxd
  • On Trylove episodes about DRIVE ANGRY (2011), WAR OF THE WORLDS (2005), THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT (1999), TOUCH OF EVIL (1958), THE TRAIN (1964), MOULIN ROUGE! (2001), PHANTOM THREAD (2017)

Find Natalie…

  • On Twitter and Bluesky
  • On Letterboxd at @framingthepic
  • In the byline for Noise Music, a forthcoming entry in Genre: A 33 ⅓ Series book about the noise genre and its influences on and intersections with culture
  • On Trylove episodes about THE THIRD MAN (1949), CHESS OF THE WIND (1979), RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD (1985), MAD MAX: FURY ROAD (2015), MILLENNIUM MAMBO (2001), THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT (1999), LONG DAY’S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT (2018), ZARDOZ (1974), NOSTALGHIA (1987), SECONDS (1966), THERE WILL BE BLOOD (2007), THE HEARTBREAK KID (1972)

References:

#StarWars #DCP

Follow us on Twitter at @trylovepodcast, Bluesky at @trylovepodca.st, and email us at trylovepodcast@gmail.com to get in touch!

Show art by Emily Csuy. Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro music: “Star Wars Main Theme” composed and conducted by John Williams and performed by the London Symphony Orchestra from the STAR WARS soundtrack.

Timestamps

0:00 - Episode 335: STAR WARS (1977)

3:29 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary (under exclusive license from AG Enterprises, Ltd.)

4:34 - How do you approach STAR WARS as a movie and not just a phenomenon?

23:48 - The world STAR WARS was born in, postmodern takes, and rewatching this as a Movie Adult

44:16 - George Lucas’s earnest intentionality and wanton ambition

51:31 - Why it seems like this movie sometimes barely holds together

57:26 - Luke and Han Solo as Lucas and Coppola

1:02:59 - John Williams and the legendary score

1:18:17 - Luke’s journey and “The Force of Others”

1:33:20 - The Junk Drawer

1:57:32 - To All the Loves We’ve Tried Before: 1977

1:59:37 - Cody’s Noteys: Star Lores: A New Pope (Pope Leo XIV trivia)

]]> yes Episode 334: ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY (2016) with Tony Wagner https://pinecast.com/guid/8fe738e2-a698-434e-88cb-ef2158899353 Tue, 10 Jun 2025 11:00:00 -0000 01:48:32 Shortly before the deluge of Disneyslop, ROGUE ONE tried to give moviegoing audiences a different perspective on the far, far away world of STAR WARS. Series fan and podcaster Tony Wagner joins the podcast to talk about his close personal friend Admiral Raddus the time Star Wars went World War II, the Los Angeles Dodgers, godless CGI, and the guiding power of myth.

Find Tony…

References:

#StarWars #DCP

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Show art by Emily Csuy. Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro music: "Jyn Erso & Hope Suite" by Michael Giacchino from the ROGUE ONE soundtrack.

Timestamps

0:00 - Episode 334: ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY (2016)

5:14 - Solid mechanics and a plethora of good ideas

17:53 - A pivot from cynicism and gritty realism to hope and myth-making

31:08 - The new ideas and newly spun old ideas

35:54 - The little arcs the characters have

40:35 - How do we reclaim ROGUE ONE?

51:22 - Callbacks, CGI, and the cheaper STAR WARS connections

1:06:06 - The Junk Drawer

1:14:33 - To All the Loves We’ve Tried Before: 2016

1:17:36 - Cody’s Noteys: Haiku-SO (writing haikus one word at a time)

]]> yes Episode 333: OUTLAND (1981) with Kelly Krantz https://pinecast.com/guid/97eceaaf-d77b-4ac8-b309-e3ee08d46f5e Tue, 03 Jun 2025 11:00:00 -0000 01:51:31 Whether you think it’s an ALIEN (1979) ripoff, a HIGH NOON (1952) pastiche, or a pretty fun action flick, you’re probably right about OUTLAND! In a rare turn, Kelly’s back in the guest chair for a movie she’d never seen before. Does she like what she finds? Do we? Do you? Did anybody?

In this episode, we’re talking exploding heads, screenwriting 101, the two halves of OUTLAND, ridiculous German names, and miniature sets so good you forgive a lot of nonsense just to see more of them.

Find Kelly…

  • On Twitter at @kransekage_
  • On Letterboxd at @luckyhoss
  • On Trylove episodes: WINGS OF DESIRE (1987), ARREBATO (1979), and PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE (1974), REVOLVER (1973), THE DOOM GENERATION (1995), THE NIGHT PORTER (1974), REMEMBER MY NAME (1978), PLAY IT AS IT LAYS (1972)

References:

#TheCantankerousPeterBoyle #35mm

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Show art by Emily Csuy. Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro music: “Leisure Club” by Michael Boddicker and Ganymede from the OUTLAND soundtrack

Timestamps

0:00 - Episode 333: OUTLAND (1981)

2:40 - The episode actually starts

5:20 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary

7:53 - What brings us to OUTLAND

10:29 - Sci-fi, westerns, frontierism, and the collective vs. the individual

25:43 - What separates OUTLAND from ALIEN (1979), HIGH NOON (1952), and its frequent comparisons

41:21 - What does polydichloric euthimal actually do lol

45:07 - Sean Connery as the vessel for this character

53:00 - The Cantankerous Peter Boyle

01:02:45 - The Junk Drawer

01:20:11 - To All the Loves We’ve Tried Before: 1981

01:25:46 - Cody’s Noteys: Moon-Struck (moon trivia)

]]> yes Episode 332: YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN (1974) with Bob Buel https://pinecast.com/guid/9637c7b9-4bd7-455f-bf7b-22560f1221a7 Tue, 27 May 2025 11:00:00 -0000 01:59:32 This episode is… ALIVE!!!

With Bob Buel, creator and host of 99 Questions (and first-time Trylove guest), we’re getting (re)animated about Mel Brooks and Gene Wilder’s timeless blend of piss-taking, homage-paying parody in YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN. It’s a great discussion where people who’ve seen it dozens of times (Bob) help explain what makes it sticky, while new-ish-comers (Jason, Cody) look at it with fresh, doting eyes.

Worlds collide! Sparks fly! Trenchant Weird Al references abound! The word “horny” is said five times (which is fewer than you might think given this group of people and this specific movie)!

Find Bob…

References:

#TheCantankerousPeterBoyle #DCP

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Show art by Emily Csuy. Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro music: “Main Theme” by John Morris from the YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN soundtrack.

Timestamps

0:00 - Episode 332: YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN (1974)

8:05 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary

9:47 - Our histories with this movie

15:16 - Do you need to care about the source material to find this riff funny?

40:15 - How Frederick’s untethering affects the structure of the movie

45:28 - The genius supporting cast

55:19 - YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN in context of parody films

1:07:26 - The Junk Drawer

1:21:35 - To All the Loves We’ve Tried Before: 1974

1:25:33 - Cody’s Noteys: Frankenstein’s Noteys (multi-thematic trivia)

]]> yes Episode 331: THE FRIENDS OF EDDIE COYLE (1973) with Matt Clark https://pinecast.com/guid/0131b13f-aa58-436d-bcda-d92c30e5b42d Tue, 20 May 2025 12:00:00 -0000 01:36:21 Peter Yates’s Robert Mitchum vehicle THE FRIENDS OF EDDIE COYLE is an unglamorous picture of a rough way of life and the rough people who live it (on both sides of the law).

With friend of the show and noted crime (movie) enthusiast Matt Clark, we pull back the grimy edges of this unromantic “anti-thriller” to expose the fragile, human narrative at its core — brought to life in part by the cantankerous Peter Boyle, who also lends his name to the trivia segment that closes the episode.

Find Matt…

References:

#TheCantankerousPeterBoyle #DCP

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Show art by Emily Csuy. Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro music: “The Friends of Eddie Coyle Theme” by Dave Grusin from the THE FRIENDS OF EDDIE COYLE soundtrack.

Timestamps

0:00 - Episode 331: THE FRIENDS OF EDDIE COYLE (1973)

2:58 - The Patented Harry Mackin Summary (not to be confused with The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary, the syndication rights to which are held exclusively and in perpetuity by AG Enterprises, Ltd.)

4:58 - Opening thoughts

10:23 - THE FRIENDS OF EDDIE COYLE as a movie of two modes

22:07 - The banality of working class crime

30:54 - Cynicism and Eddie Coyle's fatal flaw

37:55 - The Cantankerous Peter Boyle

47:56 - Robert Mitchum and the film's written dialogue

56:28 - Coyle's last grasp at the American Dream

1:04:01 - The Junk Drawer

1:13:25 - To All the Loves We've Tried Before: 1973

1:18:20 - Cody's Noteys: The Friends of Peter Boyle (Peter Boyle trivia)

]]> yes Episode 330: THE HEARTBREAK KID (1972) with Natalie Marlin https://pinecast.com/guid/50d9ee49-a310-471b-b7fb-bdceb16e192e Tue, 13 May 2025 11:00:00 -0000 01:45:38 Too funny to be drama and too dark to be comedy, Elaine May’s THE HEARTBREAK KID is instead a vehicle for comedic disgust — something all too rare in the New Hollywood era 1970s into which it was born. Charles Grodin is Lenny, running out on his somewhat annoying wife Lila (Jeanette Berlin) for the exciting unknown of Kelly (Cybill Shepherd). The premise is straightforward, but the way it plays out is anything but.

In this episode, Natalie Marlin joins to talk about the movie’s unique proto-cringe comedic language, how it leverages its actors in their time, where the third act went, and the gut-punch ending.

Find Natalie…

  • On Twitter and Bluesky
  • On Letterboxd at @framingthepic
  • In the byline for Noise Music, a forthcoming entry in Genre: A 33 ⅓ Series book about the noise genre and its influences on and intersections with culture
  • On Trylove episodes about THE THIRD MAN (1949), CHESS OF THE WIND (1979), RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD (1985), MAD MAX: FURY ROAD (2015), MILLENNIUM MAMBO (2001), THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT (1999), LONG DAY’S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT (2018), ZARDOZ (1974), NOSTALGHIA (1987), SECONDS (1966), THERE WILL BE BLOOD (2007)

References:

#LaughUntilYouCryTwoComediesbyElaineMay #Digital

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Show art by Emily Csuy. Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro music: “Close To You” by Burt Bacharach with lyrics by Hal David from the THE HEARTBREAK KID soundtrack.

Timestamps

0:00 - Episode 330: THE HEARTBREAK KID (1972)

2:29 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary (under exclusive license from AG Enterprises, Ltd.)

5:05 - An indelible, essential “bitterness” to THE HEARTBREAK KID

22:04 - Is this the first cringe comedy?

33:19 - New Hollywood and comic disillusionment with the 1970s

36:32 - Charles Grodin as Lenny

49:46 - Editing, framing, and the ending

1:00:32 - The Junk Drawer

1:12:04 - To All the Loves We’ve Tried Before: 1972

1:14:29 - Cody’s Noteys: Am I KID-ding? (Trivia about movies with kid-related titles)

]]> yes Episode 329: THE BURMESE HARP (1956) https://pinecast.com/guid/bd650435-7691-4965-a57b-7c011b572673 Tue, 06 May 2025 11:00:00 -0000 01:33:30 Kon Ichikawa’s postwar drama looks wistfully at the Japan that WAS before World War II, suspiciously at the Japan that would be rebuilt, and begs consideration of the legitimacy of either. Retreating through Burma during World War II, Private Mizushima (Shoji Yasui) discovers his gift for the harp (saung) just before Japan surrenders. Captain Inouye (Rentarō Mikuni) tasks the young soldier with delivering the news to Japanese soldiers still fighting in the mountains.

Unsuccessful, Mizushima comes back down the mountain changed, living as a monk among the Burmese while his countrymen await departure in a POW camp in the same village. Mizushima pledges to bury the Japanese littering the countryside, unable to move past the horrible evidence of senseless death. His company pledges to bring him back home, unable to imagine the new Japan without all of their countrymen in tow.

This episode features more discussion of the THE LORD OF THE RINGS series (2001–2003) than you might imagine. It’s not much, but it’s more than you’d think.

References:

#KonIchikawaUndertheFlagoftheRisingSun #DCP

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Show art by Emily Csuy. Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro from THE BURMESE HARP.

Timestamps

0:00 - Episode 329: THE BURMESE HARP (1956)

2:11 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary

3:54 - Our top-level thoughts of THE BURMESE HARP

14:23 - Triangle Mountain and what it does for Mizushima

29:03 - Why Mizushima as the mediator here?

48:26 - The Japan that was and the Japan that will never be

51:58 - Cinematography

1:06:10 - The Junk Drawer

1:11:46 - To All the Loves We’ve Tried Before: 1956

1:14:11 - Cody’s Noteys: Harp-e Diem (harp trivia)

]]> yes Episode 328: DEMOLITION MAN (1993) with Dan Nagan https://pinecast.com/guid/ec89f5cf-41f9-4f2c-a92e-fb434b878c72 Tue, 29 Apr 2025 11:00:00 -0000 01:42:13 With Dan Nagan (@aDapperDanMan)!

Mellow greetings! DEMOLITION MAN, Marco Brambilla’s only major motion picture credit is a bit of a chimera, both a fun action movie and a sort of sardonic parody of the genre. Sylvester Stallone and Wesley Snipes are literal relics in a world gone soft: Snipes is there to terrorize it with old-fashioned chaos, and Stallone is there to rein him in with… old-fashioned machismo. It’s kind of Verhoeven-lite (or maybe even post-Verhoeven) in its jeering disdain for politics, its attempt at centrist polemics, and who it blames for the decline of American civilization.

On this episode, we talk about the soupy politics of DEMOLITION MAN, Snipes’s progression from unwitting hero to one of the better The Jokers out there, the woke mind virus, and who actually made this movie. Then, Dan takes us through almost an entire Jeopardy board of Trylove-related trivia. (Seriously, what’s his boggle?)

References:

#DontMessWithWesleySnipes #35mm

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Show art by Emily Csuy. Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro: “Museum Dis Duel” by Elliot Goldenthal from the DEMOLITION MAN soundtrack.

Timestamps

0:00 - Episode 328: DEMOLITION MAN (1993) with Dan Nagan

05:57 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary

07:59 - Dan’s thoughts

12:01 - The camp and political nose-thumbing of DEMOLITION MAN

22:30 - The signifiers of this future

33:29 - Stallone, Spartan, and self-awareness

41:56 - The world building

45:21 - Wesley Snipes as Simon Phoenix

58:24 - Favorite writing and bits

1:03:19 - The Junk Drawer

1:11:24 - Dan’s Detour: Trypardy (Trylove-themed Jeopardy)

]]> yes Episode 327: PASSENGER 57 (1992) https://pinecast.com/guid/b2e008ea-b7cf-4efe-a5cd-cafc55d9eeee Tue, 22 Apr 2025 11:00:00 -0000 01:10:19 Wesley Snipes got his big action break in Kevin Hooks’ PASSENGER 57, an airplane heist movie about a security specialist and recent widower pulled back into the job to thwart an international terrorist’s airborne escape plan. Snipes seems really comfortable as not-Bruce Willis, punching and kicking his way through bad guys in the clouds and on the ground alike.

In this episode, we chat about Snipes’s performance, the blackness of his unwilling hero John Cutter, the cast (including Michael Horse, Elizabeth Hurley, and Bruce Payne) and how nice it is when a movie clearly knows its lane.

References:

#DontMessWithWesleySnipes #35mm

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Show art by Emily Csuy. Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters.

Timestamps

0:00 - Episode 327: PASSENGER 57 (1992)

2:40 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary (under exclusive license from AG Enterprises, Ltd.)

5:49 - The virtues of being a DIE HARD (1988)-lite

13:52 - Wesley Snipes’s performance and the “blackness” of John Cutter

33:57 - The pacing

46:05 - The Junk Drawer

54:38 - To All the Loves We’ve Tried Before: 1992

56:12 - Cody's Noteys: The Trylove Movie Draft: 1992

]]> yes Episode 326: TO WONG FOO, THANKS FOR EVERYTHING! JULIE NEWMAR (1995) with Matt Yost https://pinecast.com/guid/a7a19e25-7ec3-407f-90c6-012afc387ad3 Tue, 15 Apr 2025 11:00:00 -0000 01:41:14 TO WONG FOO, THANKS FOR EVERYTHING! JULIE NEWMAR is remembered as the first depiction of drag queens as non-gag main characters in a major Hollywood production. Vida Boheme (Patrick Swayze), Noxeema Jackson (Wesley Snipes), and Chi Chi Rodriguez (John Leguizamo) are California-bound New York drag queens who find themselves sidetracked in a rural Midwestern(?) town. They find some of the locals intolerant, some just ignorant, and some in desperate need of a makeover.

It’s not really what movies from the 2000s, 2010s, and 2020s have led you to expect: While there’s some friction, it’s not a movie about the knock-down drag-out social struggles of drag queens. In fact, it’s a bit of a refutation of that archetype: A narrative near-weightlessness gives the leads the freedom to heighten the reality around the subject matter and, put simply, camp it the hell up.

In this episode, we welcome longtime friend of the pod Matt Yost to explore how TO WONG FOO exists inside and outside the queer struggle of its time, reflect on its provenance today, discuss its metatextual layers, and call out some of our favorite lines in this astonishingly funny script. Plus, Cody reverse-engineers a super solid trivia segment from one of his strongest puns yet.

Find Matt…

  • On Bluesky at @mattyost.bsky.social
  • On Letterboxd at @mattyost_
  • On Trylove episodes about BLACK CHRISTMAS (1974), a table read of A GOOFY MOVIE (1995), and CABARET (1972)

References:

#DontMessWithWesleySnipes #35mm

Follow us on Twitter at @trylovepodcast, Bluesky at @trylovepodca.st, and email us at trylovepodcast@gmail.com to get in touch!

Show art by Emily Csuy. Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters.

Timestamps

0:00 - Episode 326: TO WONG FOO, THANKS FOR EVERYTHING! JULIE NEWMAR (1995)

3:47 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary (under exclusive license from AG Enterprises, Ltd.)

6:18 - A “camp fantasy”

17:29 - The dynamics between the leads and how the actors approached their roles

29:26 - How the structure of the movie responds to the fantastic lifestyles of its main characters

37:54 - Julie Newmar herself and the flawed pursuit of “perfect femininity”

51:15 - The ending

1:01:21 - Our favorite bits

1:08:29 - The Junk Drawer

1:14:37 - To All the Loves We’ve Tried Before: 1995

1:20:53 - Cody’s Noteys: Nestlé Snipes (Nestlé food product name trivia)

]]> yes Episode 325: BEAU TRAVAIL (1999) https://pinecast.com/guid/30a90291-89ea-40d7-951a-c14256c44cf9 Tue, 08 Apr 2025 11:00:00 -0000 01:22:20 Claire Denis’s moving, poetic portrait of repression in the armed forces might be one of the best movies of all time.

In the French Foreign Legion, there are beautiful, elegant young men; there’s their goblinish commander; and there’s nowhere else to go for any of them. The group’s leader, Galoup (Denis Lavant), is hopelessly in thrall to his own superior, Forestier (Michel Subor) — so when young newcomer Sentain (Grégoire Colin) starts to court attention from Forestier, Galoup resorts to subterfuge and abuse of authority to keep Sentain in line with the rest of his section.

A masterpiece of visual storytelling and queer cinema, BEAU TRAVAIL is a sordid story of jealousy, externalized repression, and the struggle to find oneself beneath layers of oneself.

References:

#LaSauvagerieetBeautédeClaireDenis #DCP

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Show art by Emily Csuy. Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters.

Timestamps

0:00 - Episode 325: BEAU TRAVAIL (1999)

2:29 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary

4:02 - People who are what (or are in places where) they shouldn’t be

18:47 - Counterpoint of image and story, visual and narrative

27:54 - Beautiful boys, colonialism, homoeroticism, and heteronormativity

35:07 - Galoup’s attempt to externalize his hatred of expression

47:48 - The all-timer ending scene

56:20 - The Junk Drawer

1:01:33 - To All the Loves We’ve Tried Before: 1999

1:03:29 - Cody’s Noteys: The House of Champions: 1999 (deciding the best movie from 1999)

]]> yes Episode 324: THERE WILL BE BLOOD (2007) with Natalie Marlin https://pinecast.com/guid/0b66002f-2a13-4f30-a669-aa64c067f94b Tue, 01 Apr 2025 11:00:00 -0000 02:00:21 With Natalie Marlin!

Just like the earth he exploits, there’s something roiling under the surface of the wheel-and-dealing Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day-Lewis): A devilish, almost cartoonishly villainous veneer conceals a deep self-hatred. And like all good capitalists, he uses it to fuel the next great pain he can inflict on the people and world around him, from the local preacher of a podunk town to his specious, long-lost brother to his own adopted son.

THERE WILL BE BLOOD kicked off a hell of a run for Paul Thomas Anderson, so for our last episode on his films, we’re happily welcoming Natalie back to the mic for a bit of show-and-tell on when this movie entered our lives, the impact of seeing it as a teen film lover in the mid-aughts, and the crusty layers it reveals more than a decade later.

Plus, why THERE WILL BE BLOOD would be a great 4DX movie, the inevitable porn parody jokes, and say doesn’t Jason’s moustache look a little familiar now?

Find Natalie…

  • On Twitter and Bluesky at @NataliesNotInIt
  • On Letterboxd at @framingthepic
  • In the byline for Noise Music, a forthcoming entry in Genre: A 33 ⅓ Series book about the noise genre and its influences on and intersections with culture
  • On Trylove Episode 162: THE THIRD MAN (1949), Episode 182: CHESS OF THE WIND (1979), Episode 197: RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD (1985), Episode 210: MAD MAX: FURY ROAD (2015), Episode 239: MILLENNIUM MAMBO (2001), Episode 249: THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT (1999), LONG DAY’S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT (2018), ZARDOZ (1974), NOSTALGHIA (1987), SECONDS (1966)

References:

#TheMasterworksofPaulThomasAnderson #35mm

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Show art by Emily Csuy. Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro music: "Proven Lands" by Jonny Greenwood from the THERE WILL BE BLOOD soundtrack.

Timestamps

0:00 - Episode 324: THERE WILL BE BLOOD (2007)

3:47 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary

5:39 - Our histories with this movie (or lack thereof)

21:51 - Daniel Plainview, the cartoon villain afraid of his own insides

28:30 - Daniel Plainview, the cartoon villain afraid of his own insides

43:02 - How Daniel reflects the fragile human systems of the era

49:23 - The performative relationships Daniel has with H.W. (and everyone)

54:52 - Eli Sunday and the fraught relationship between organized faith and capital

1:03:30 - “Pathetic” depictions of violence

1:14:13 - The language of Jonny Greenwood’s score

1:20:36 - The Junk Drawer

1:27:04 - To All the Loves We’ve Tried Before: 2007

1:33:15 - Cody’s Noteys: When Will There Be Blood? (trivia about when blood first appears in the runtime of various films)

]]> yes Episode 323: PHANTOM THREAD (2017) with Abbie Phelps https://pinecast.com/guid/ca20e43d-6ae6-4eae-8c47-619f109a4b9f Tue, 25 Mar 2025 11:00:00 -0000 01:36:24 Reynolds Woodcock (Daniel Day-Lewis) and Alma Elson (Vicky Krieps) are caught in a cycle: Reynolds’s obsession with his dressmaking craft and his deceased mother send him dithering between immense sweetness and crass irritability, with Alma often on the receiving end of both his affection and his aloofness. But while Alma’s not the first to suffer Reynolds’s mercurial temperament, she’s the first who seems ready to do something about it.

We’ve welcomed returning guest Abbie Phelps to pull at the stitches of PHANTOM THREAD! It got its flowers when it was released to critical acclaim, dozens of nominations, and plenty of industry awards, but we’re taking advantage of nearly a decade of discussion around it to see if we can’t provide some more depth to the discussion around Paul Thomas Anderson’s period drama.

In this episode, we discover how the power dynamic of PHANTOM THREAD’s central relationship isn’t as one-sided as you might first assume; prod at the psychological forces that have taken root in the aging craftsman Woodcock; and consider just how seriously we should take that ending!

Find Abbie…

  • On Bluesky
  • On Letterboxd
  • On Trylove episodes about DRIVE ANGRY (2011), WAR OF THE WORLDS (2005), THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT (1999), TOUCH OF EVIL (1958), THE TRAIN (1964), MOULIN ROUGE! (2001)

References:

#TheMasterworksofPaulThomasAnderson #35mm

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Show art by Emily Csuy. Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro music: "House of Woodcock" by Jonny Greenwood from the PHANTOM THREAD soundtrack.

Timestamps

0:00 - Episode 323: PHANTOM THREAD (with Abbie Phelps)

2:51 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary

4:02 - Our collective mileage with PHANTOM THREAD and Paul Thomas Anderson

14:19 - Constructing Reynolds and Alma, two ridiculous people

20:25 - Mapping PHANTOM THREAD against PTA's history of bonkers characters

27:53 - Are we on board with Reynolds's and Alma's quests for self-actualization?

37:06 - Influences from Gothic literature (among other places) (or guy who’s recently into the Bronte sisters: “Getting a lot of Bronte vibes from this”)

47:11 - How Cyril fits into the film's power structures

57:20 - "Jonny Greenwood is that bitch": how PHANTOM THREAD sounds and looks

1:04:53 - The Junk Drawer

1:14:23 - To All the Loves We've Tried Before: 2017

1:17:39 - Cody's Noteys: PTA ETA (guessing the runtime of various Paul Thomas Anderson films)

]]> yes Episode 322: THE MASTER (2012) https://pinecast.com/guid/ca05612d-31f6-40c1-829e-a62f9eb5c374 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 11:00:00 -0000 01:49:51 After making a movie that actually got a Best Picture nomination, Paul Thomas Anderson wrote and directed another that famously didn’t: THE MASTER, a psychological examination of postwar trauma and peacetime opportunism. In this episode, we try to go past the easy read of THE MASTER as simple corollary for cult dynamics, heap an appropriate amount of praise on Philip Seymour Hoffman and Amy Adams, cast a suspicious glance in Joaquin Phoenix’s direction, and press a button that says “PIG FUCK” more than a few times.

References:

#TheMasterworksofPaulThomasAnderson #DCP

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Show art by Emily Csuy. Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro music: "On A Slow Boat to China" by Frank Loesser as performed by Peggy Lee and Bing Crosby.

Timestamps

0:00 - Episode 322: THE MASTER (2012)

5:25 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary

8:20 - Contemporary takes on THE MASTER

20:49 - Why “it’s a movie about Scientology” feels old hat

25:10 - Freddie, Dodd, and what makes The Cause so appealing to wealthy white Americans in 1950

39:15 - Contradictions

57:21 - Peggy Dodd (or Paul Thomas Anderson’s use of gender here)

1:12:34 - The Junk Drawer

1:23:26 - To All the Loves We’ve Tried Before: 2012

1:29:05 - Cody’s Noteys: All Calm Guess Spanned Works In (shared cast & crew trivia for THE MASTER and other movies)

]]> yes Episode 321: MAGNOLIA (1999) https://pinecast.com/guid/e013fcd5-ae99-4431-b81d-1c491d9b1226 Tue, 11 Mar 2025 11:00:00 -0000 01:27:43 Three podcasters watched a movie and recorded their conversation about it afterward… and I would like to think this was only a matter of chance.

Our Paul Thomas Anderson series keeps a-rollin’ with MAGNOLIA, his “blank check” movie after the success of BOOGIE NIGHTS (1997). The intention was to make something he’d never get the chance to make again — something big and strange and audacious. Is the resulting three-hour opus a work of idiosyncratic genius? Or was this one of those times PTA just got a bit big for his britches?

References:

#TheMasterworksofPaulThomasAnderson #35mm

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Show art by Emily Csuy. Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro music: “Wise Up” by Aimee Mann as performed in MAGNOLIA.

]]> yes Episode 320: BOOGIE NIGHTS (1997) with Blake Hester https://pinecast.com/guid/4c83ef6c-1fbc-4f69-9256-20a34a05324d Tue, 04 Mar 2025 12:00:00 -0000 01:42:45 With Blake Hester!

Paul Thomas Anderson’s retrospective dramatization of the ‘70s porn industry isn’t exactly rosy, but it’s certainly not dour, either. It’s kind of situated between those poles, balancing hangout vibes and deeply depressing shit to keep it right where you want a movie to be — tragic, fun, and eminently watchable.

Find Blake…

References:

#TheMasterworksofPaulThomasAnderson #35mm

Follow us on Twitter at @trylovepodcast, Bluesky at @trylovepodca.st, and email us at trylovepodcast@gmail.com to get in touch!

Show art by Emily Csuy. Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro from BOOGIE NIGHTS.

Timestamps

0:00 - Episode 320: BOOGIE NIGHTS (1997)

6:03 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary

7:55 - Where we’re coming at this movie from

15:55 - Precision

22:36 - Dread for the ‘80s

27:08 - Flexible people who have the space to become their “true” selves

34:41 - The 1980s and the artifice of the pornography industry

37:44 - Long tracking shots and a pivot to a bittersweet ending

1:01:40 - To All the Loves We’ve Tried Before: 1997

1:05:38 - The Junk Drawer

1:17:10 - Cody's Noteys: Trylove Nose Best ("boogie" trivia)

]]> yes Episode 319: THE LOST WEEKEND (1945) https://pinecast.com/guid/9d0e0a9a-1709-4f4f-ba68-0613390bd9b6 Tue, 25 Feb 2025 12:00:00 -0000 01:30:24 THE LOST WEEKEND is a weird movie to talk about 80 years after it came out. It’s a drama directed by Billy Wilder about an alcoholic writer who keeps trying and failing to kick the habit, so you can see why you might have to give it a touch of grace for its various… depictions. In 1945, it was a beacon of empathy for the addict’s struggle, the first time an alcoholic was portrayed as more than an incompetent or a villain in a big-budget Hollywood movie. It even won Best Picture at the 18th Academy Awards!

But how does it work in 2025? That’s just one topic of discussion as we dive into THE LOST WEEKEND, along with its side cast, its striking score, and what the hell a “gin and vermouth” is if not a martini. Plus, Cody has kidnapped The Weeknd and is leaving us THE SNOWMAN (2017)-like clues to find him before time runs out.

References:

#DialMforMilland #DCP

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Show art by Emily Csuy. Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro: “The Walk” composed by Miklós Rózsa from the THE LOST WEEKEND soundtrack.

Timestamps

0:00 - Episode 319: THE LOST WEEKEND (1945)

5:39 - The episode actually starts

8:50 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary

10:08 - What worked and what didn't

19:10 - Aaron plays devil’s advocate because he liked it more than the rest of us

33:57 - The freaky hospital scene and Bim Nolan

36:27 - Can a movie have “too much sympathy” for its main character?

45:23 - Helen, Gloria, and characters who reflect Don back at himself

52:41 - How would you have preferred it end?

59:05 - The Junk Drawer

1:02:02 - To All the Loves We’ve Tried Before: 1945

1:04:39 - Cody’s Noteys: The Lost Weeknd (The Weeknd has gone missing, and we have to follow Cody’s riddles to find him)

]]> yes Episode 318: MESHES OF THE AFTERNOON (1943) https://pinecast.com/guid/1336ad19-2bd1-470b-bc56-384ff7f2b5af Tue, 18 Feb 2025 12:00:00 -0000 01:39:11 A touchstone of visual storytelling, an example of the power of short-form film, and an inspiration to surrealist storytellers like David Lynch, Maya Deren’s MESHES OF THE AFTERNOON pulls big philosophical questions out of simple materials.

Through visual substitution, object manipulation, arrhythmic editing, and all sorts of narrative trickery, a surreal dream outlines one woman’s fruitless pursuit of ‘true’ identity and her struggle to self-define against the social roles bestowed upon her.

At just 14 minutes long, MESHES OF THE AFTERNOON rocks, no matter which way you watch it. Our recommendation? Turn off the sound, lean in, and pay close attention.

References:

#OtherProgramming #DCP

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Show art by Emily Csuy. Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro: “Schiele” by ten thousand lakes, which accompanied the Trylon’s screening of MESHES OF THE AFTERNOON in February 2025.

Timestamps

0:00 - Episode 318: MESHES OF THE AFTERNOON (1943)

2:14 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary

4:57 - Versions of this movie and how it changes based on what you watched

11:12 - Is there a consistent thread to grab here? Or is it free association?

26:19 - Subjectivity, objects that change upon perception, and identities that shift without your consent

37:18 - How much of it is “real”? How much is “a dream”? How much of that “matters”?

42:34 - The hooded figure, Maya Deren’s socialism, and violent revelations of the unconscious

45:56 - Form: Looping, duplication, space, and “emotive immediacy”

1:05:49 - The Junk Drawer

1:09:40 - To All the Loves We've Tried Before: 1943

1:10:35 - Cody’s Noteys: Truth or Deren (truth or dare but the dare triggers an open trivia question)

]]> yes Episode 317: BLUE COLLAR (1978) https://pinecast.com/guid/5977be9a-f1ac-4f00-8b0e-7962b706a9c2 Tue, 11 Feb 2025 12:00:00 -0000 01:32:32 Paul Schrader’s directorial debut isn’t a tale of a fearless crew punching up at their company overlords and the corrupt union that’s supposed to protect them. Instead, it’s a tale of compromise. The kind you make, and the kind that gets made for you. The kind you desperately hope means something in the end, anyway.

In this episode, we discuss the excellent casting; how it’s great that Richard Pryor, Harvey Keitel, and Yaphet Kotto kind of get to be in their own movies here; the forces that pit men who should stand in solidarity against one another; and how it’d be pretty cool to have a life where you work hard, clock out, hit the bar, and go bowling with your pals on the weekend.

**References: **

#CultFilmCollective #35mm

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Show art by Emily Csuy. Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro: “Hard Workin’ Man” composed by Jack Nitzsche with lyrics by Jack Nitzsche, Ry Cooder, and Paul Schrader and performed by Captain Beefheart from the BLUE COLLAR soundtrack.

Timestamps

0:00 - Episode 137: BLUE COLLAR (1978)

4:59 - The episode actually starts

6:26 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary

7:18 - Politics, smoothness, anger, performances, and Schrader

19:45 - The cast

27:08 - How the movie highlights weariness with comedy

42:10 - The virtue of a nuanceless movie

48:13 - The moment that suddenly pits Zeke, Jerry, and Smokey against each other

55:01 - What the movie does and doesn’t show us, and what that does for the feeling of the movie

1:04:32 - The Junk Drawer

1:10:01 - To All the Loves We’ve Tried Before: 1978

1:11:36 - Cody’s Noteys: Boo, Call Her! (trivia for movies with impassioned speeches)

]]> yes Episode 316: XANADU (1980) https://pinecast.com/guid/4a59b761-9d5e-4bc1-a9c6-d1b396804500 Tue, 04 Feb 2025 12:00:00 -0000 01:12:30 XANADU is a musical fantasy film released in 1980 directed by Robert Greenwald. It stars Olivia Newton-John as Kira, Michael Beck as Sonny Malone, and Gene Kelly as Danny McGuire. Sonny is an artist toiling away painting album covers for a living. Danny is a has-been song and dance man resigned to retirement after a career in construction. Kira is an immortal muse sent from a mythological plane to bring Sonny and Danny together so they can create a performing arts roller skating club called XANADU.

XANADU sucks.

Famously.

It’s well understood to be one of the worst movies ever made. It helped invent the Golden Raspberry Awards. We don’t have much nice to say about it, either — we think it’s embarrassing at best. But we, the Xanadudes, down two hosts this week, still try to pull apart what does and doesn’t work and why in this strange misstep of a musical.

**References: **

#MichaelBeck #35mm

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Show art by Emily Csuy. Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro: “Whenever You're Away from Me” composed by John Farrar and performed by Gene Kelly and Olivia Newton-John from the XANADU soundtrack.

Timestamps

Coming soon! Maybe. I’m trying, okay?

]]> yes Episode 315: MOULIN ROUGE! (2001) with Abbie Phelps https://pinecast.com/guid/58fad5f8-9719-4474-99e0-846608ad7c95 Tue, 28 Jan 2025 12:00:00 -0000 01:53:45 With Abbie Phelps!

Baz Luhrmann’s musical mashup is a ravishing, jarring, occasionally annoying wakeup call to the modern movie musical. How did we get from the freneticism of MOULIN ROUGE! — one shot per second, Ewan McGregor as a twee poet musician with a flair for the burlesque, Nicole Kidman as a diseased courtesan overperforming horniness, John Leguizamo as a little person with a lisp — to something like THE GREATEST SHOWMAN (2017) or WICKED (2024)?

Abbie is one of MOULIN ROUGE!’s biggest fans, so who better to help us answer those critical questions? Along the way, we discuss the trade-off of cohesiveness for sincerity, possible parallels with THE RED SHOES (1948), and whether or not MOULIN ROUGE! is kind of insulated from criticism.

Find Abbie…

  • On Bluesky
  • On Letterboxd
  • On Trylove episodes about DRIVE ANGRY (2011), WAR OF THE WORLDS (2005), THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT (1999), TOUCH OF EVIL (1958), THE TRAIN (1964)

**References: **

#NicoleKidmansFearlessPerformances #DCP

Follow us on Twitter at @trylovepodcast, Bluesky at @trylovepodcast.bsky.social, and email us at trylovepodcast@gmail.com to get in touch!

Show art by Emily Csuy. Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro: “The Pitch” from the MOULIN ROUGE! soundtrack.

Timestamps

Coming soon!

]]> yes Episode 314: EYES WIDE SHUT (1999) https://pinecast.com/guid/de2c9705-ab42-4a5a-b828-6783ec93899e Tue, 21 Jan 2025 12:00:00 -0000 01:39:54 EYES WIDE SHUT is a 1999 psychosexual thriller film starring Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise and directed by Stanley Kubrick in his final feature film. After New York City doctor Bill Hartford (Tom Cruise) and his wife Alice (Nicole Kidman) attend a Christmas party hosted by one of Bill’s patients, Alice reveals to Bill in a stoned haze that she’s fantasized about having sex with other men. The revelation sends Bill reeling, and his wandering eventually leads to him infiltrating a masked orgy in a secluded mansion outside the city. His meddling puts him on the radar of a dangerous secret society and down a paranoid rabbit hole, driven all the while by visions of Alice in the arms of another man.

In this episode — our first on Kubrick! — we wander the twisting pathway to the heart of EYES WIDE SHUT, stopping along the way to remark on everything from the movie’s leering gaze and its dark humor to Bill’s remarkable ineptitude and Jacob Frey’s weird balls.

References: 

#NicoleKidmansFearlessPerformances #35mm

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Show art by Emily Csuy. Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro: “Musica Ricercata, II (Mesto, rigido e cerimoniale)” composed by György Ligeti and performed by Dominic Harlan from the EYES WIDE SHUT soundtrack.

Timestamps

0:00 - Episode 314: EYES WIDE SHUT (1999)

2:21 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary (under exclusive license from AG Enterprises, Ltd.)

4:49 - When we first got eyes on EYES WIDE SHUT

10:42 - Casting Tom Cruise as Bill

27:32 - The veil of clinicality Bill hides behind

35:33 - “An episode of The Twilight Zone for perverts”

45:40 - Angles, shot composition, lighting, and how the story is framed

51:57 - Will Bill ever belong?

58:29 - Alice doesn’t have very much to do, but she doesn’t have to do very much

1:04:47 - Cody’s uncanny impression of Aaron

1:08:33 - How the score parallels the worlds Bill straddles

1:15:56 - The Junk Drawer

1:21:23 - To All the Loves We’ve Tried Before: 1999

1:27:29 - Cody’s Noteys: Treyes Wide Shut (guessing sound clips from movies we’ve covered)

]]> yes Episode 313: THE OTHERS (2001) https://pinecast.com/guid/38517062-8af6-4ada-a325-1ee4eb03572d Tue, 14 Jan 2025 12:00:00 -0000 01:34:18 Alejandro Amenábar’s surprise hit THE OTHERS turns the tables on the ghost story. And a couple decades after its release, it’s still a really fun, watchable movie! But is it more than its inspirations? Furthermore, is it more than a twist on its inspirations?

In this episode, we consider the ways THE OTHERS inverts gothic horror tropes, how it makes the grandeur of a Jersey mansion seem so lifeless, and how to pronounce the name Fionnula.

References:

#NicoleKidmansFearlessPerformances #DCP

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Show art by Emily Csuy. Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro: “Reunion” composed by Alejandro Amenábar, conducted by Claudio Ianni, and performed by The London Session Orchestra from the THE OTHERS soundtrack.

Timestamps

0:00 - Episode 313: THE OTHERS (2001)

2:40 - The episode actually starts

4:35 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary

6:18 - Is THE OTHERS already a classic?

19:47 - How THE OTHERS and its performances invert gothic horror trappings and tropes

29:54 - A battle with the house

50:28 - The houseworkers

58:04 - Grace’s eventual acceptance of doubt

1:05:16 - Charles Stewart (Christopher Eccleston) and the 'rules' of death

1:05:16 - The Junk Drawer

1:12:41 - To All the Loves We’ve Tried Before: 2001

1:18:50 - Cody’s Noteys: Fuck, Marry, Kidman (FMK with Nicole Kidman movies)

]]> yes Episode 312: DOGVILLE (2003) https://pinecast.com/guid/102dafb8-6ed9-4819-81c9-620e733113b9 Tue, 07 Jan 2025 12:00:00 -0000 01:53:04 Content warning: This episode includes references to and discussion of sexual assault.

Happy first episode of 2025! Here’s a discussion of a movie where a series of horrendous things happen.

In Lars von Trier’s DOGVILLE, Nicole Kidman plays a stranger seeking escape from gangsters in the Rocky Mountains. Luckily for her — or not — the humble town of Dogville provides ample refuge, and Tom (Paul Bettany) is enticed by the opportunity to inject some new blood and prove there’s more to his town than the rest of the world thinks. Dogville’s modest inhabitants warily allow her two weeks to prove her value before they decide whether or not to send her packing.

A minimally staged, occasionally grueling examination of good and evil, of desire and impulse, of worldliness and provinciality, DOGVILLE is either a masterpiece or a pretentious stinker. Listen in to find out which we think it is!

**References: **

#NicoleKidmansFearlessPerformances #DCP

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Show art by Emily Csuy. Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro music: “Happy at Work - Concerto for Oboe in D Major” composed by Tomaso Albinioni, conducted by Allan Wilson, and performed by The English Concert Orchestra from the DOGVILLE soundtrack.

Timestamps

0:00 - Episode 312: DOGVILLE (2003)

2:26 - Chapter 1: The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary

5:24 - Chapter 2: Tom the podcaster

22:09 - Chapter 3: The townspeople and Tom’s “moral experiment”

33:21 - Chapter 4: Grace as audience stand-in, as bait, as object of desire and derision

44:21 - Chapter 5: Why there are no sets

54:33 - Chapter 6: Americanness, puritanical Christianity, and what Dogville “wants”

1:17:57 - Chapter 7: The Junk Drawer

1:30:46 - Chapter 8: To All the Loves We’ve Tried Before: 2003

1:34:00 - Chapter 9: Cody’s Noteys: Our 2025 Movie Resolutions

]]> yes Episode 311: The 2024 Golden Barry Awards https://pinecast.com/guid/e86fb137-4095-4589-afad-6b22c6af51bf Tue, 31 Dec 2024 12:00:00 -0000 04:30:46 𝐼𝑡’𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑜𝑠𝑡 𝑤𝑜𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑓𝑢𝑙 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑦𝑒𝑎𝑟…

Time for us to rank, rate, and re-evaluate the films we saw at the Trylon in 2024, as well as the episodes we made about them!

The Barrys can be a pretty grueling tradition — hours spent re-litigating discussions we’ve already had about movies we’ve already talked about — but who are we kidding, we love going back to the well. Sit back, relax, cue up “Stacy’s Mom,” and sink into the 2024 Golden Barrys to commemorate The Year of the Riddle of Steel! (That’ll make sense when you listen to the episode.)

**References: **

Follow us on Twitter at @trylovepodcast, Bluesky at @trylovepodcast.bsky.social, and email us at trylovepodcast@gmail.com to get in touch!

Show art by Emily Csuy. Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Timestamps

0:00 - Episode 311: The 2024 Golden Barry Awards

5:07 - This year's Barry-oke singalong

8:16 - Jason's personal picks

13:37 - Cody’s personal picks

21:17 - Harry’s personal picks

29:09 - Aaron’s personal picks

33:18 - Trylove’s Best Dry Run

49:21 - Trylove’s Best Wet Run

1:04:42 - The Rashomonies

1:11:01 - Best Animated Feature

1:12:59 - Best Film Series at the Trylon

1:31:50 - Best Money-Maker

1:45:59 - Best Non-Series Film (Best One-Off)

1:56:30 - Best Cult Film Collective Screening

1:57:34 - Best Long Take

2:31:35 - Best Director

2:50:59 - Best Cody’s Notey

2:58:42 - 2024: The Year of the ___

3:23:33 - King of the Trylon

3:40:38 - Queen of the Trylon

3:51:57 - Best Picture

4:18:14 - Recapping this year's winners

]]> yes Episode 310: AN AUTUMN AFTERNOON (1962) with Kris Montello https://pinecast.com/guid/e68e3371-47d2-431e-8e8b-2644c2102f6f Tue, 24 Dec 2024 12:00:00 -0000 02:15:06 With returning guest Kris Montello, Programming Director for the Asian-American International Film Festival and programmer for the Slamdance Film Festival!

Yasujirō Ozu didn’t intend for AN AUTUMN AFTERNOON (1962) to be his final film, but it feels like it. Chishū Ryū is Shuhei Hirayama, an aging salaryman, widower, and father who’s slowly coming to grips with the realities of growing older — primarily the fact that his only daughter Michiko (Shima Iwashita) is spending the best years of her life making dinner and cleaning house for him. Over conversations, reunions, baseball games, and too many drinks, Shuhei’s friends, family, colleagues, and even strangers gently (and not-so-gently) remind him of the life he’s not letting her lead.

In this episode, we call on Kris’s Ozu expertise and a lifetime of love for his films to highlight the special cozy intensity of AN AUTUMN AFTERNOON, theorize the commonalities and connections among Ozu’s works, and study the portrait it paints of a man getting ready for a lonely end to a full life.

Find Kris…

**References: **

#YasujiroOzuInColor #35mm

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Show art by Emily Csuy. Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro music: “Theme/Polka/Finale” by Takanobu Saitô (as Kojun Saito) from the AN AUTUMN AFTERNOON soundtrack.

Timestamps

0:00 - Episode 310: AN AUTUMN AFTERNOON (1962)

2:47 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary (under exclusive license from AG Enterprises, Ltd.)

5:46 - A definitive Ozu film

16:20 - How Ozu characters present and communicate

23:39 - Stories that seem to naturally emerge from their conditions

27:11 - Putting the thing the movie’s ABOUT behind the thing the movie IS

42:35 - What Shuhei’s guides teach him about the incoming loneliness

57:47 - The navy buddy (Daisuke Katō) and the dead wife doppelganger (Kyōko Kishida)

1:12:39 - Characters who reveal Shuhei’s new grief and guilt

1:22:51 - The Junk Drawer

1:43:54 - To All the Loves We’ve Tried Before: 1962

1:48:29 - Cody’s Noteys: Taiyo-love (Japanese baseball trivia)

]]> yes Episode 309: ON DANGEROUS GROUND (1951) https://pinecast.com/guid/c37ef26c-468e-47b1-9649-dd9b74fb47b7 Tue, 17 Dec 2024 12:00:00 -0000 01:14:14 Can you make things better? Can you make yourself better? What’s the difference between that and wanting to make things better for someone else?

Jim Wilson (Robert Ryan) is a troubled cop. Misanthrope, former football star, loose cannon cop — he struggles to reconcile the stated altruism of his job with the ineffectual brutality that makes him so good at it. After he disables one witness and fails to protect another, it’s no surprise he’s sent upstate to investigate some small-time murder in some nowhere town.

But the three feet of snow isn’t the only thing he’s unprepared for: Mary Malden (Ida Lupino), a blind woman with knowledge of the crime, is a mirror for what Jim hopes is good in him. That’s put to the test when Jim and a grieving father are finally put on the trail of the killer they’re after.

References:

#IdaLupinoTripleThreat #DCP

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Show art by Emily Csuy. Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro music: "The Death Hunt" by Bernard Hermann from the ON DANGEROUS GROUND soundtrack.

Timestamps

0:00 - Episode 309: ON DANGEROUS GROUND (1951)

0:45 - GLADIATOR II (2024) chat

5:14 - The episode actually starts

7:38 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary

9:12 - Plot pacing, police politics, and a portrait of “a guy re-finding his soul”

18:23 - A story that “starts in the pits of hell”

28:18 - What changes when Jim goes upstate and meets Mary?

39:13 - Jim, Mary, and Danny’s shared “existential frustration”

49:58 - Danny Malden and the third act

56:57 - The debatable reality of the ending

1:05:37 - The Junk Drawer

1:09:00 - To All the Loves We’ve Tried Before: 1951

]]> yes Episode 308: GOOD MORNING (1959) https://pinecast.com/guid/ec1a408e-bdf6-4fd4-b405-c347240e462c Tue, 10 Dec 2024 12:00:00 -0000 01:22:21 Arguably Yasujirō Ozu’s masterpiece, GOOD MORNING (1959) has more going on than its simple plot would have you believe. World War II is fully in the rearview in a quiet, out-of-the-way town. Instead of wartime anxieties, nosy neighbors gossip about their friends’ lifestyles; punkish kids covet the new TV set next door; men teach boys how to fart on command. They’re bound together more by niceties than a particular commonality — to Ozu, life is indeed about the attachments we build, the favors we don’t collect on, and the stupid shit we say on the way to work every morning.

In GOOD MORNING, the most disposable interactions are the most human, both lubricant for socializing and the glue that holds the community together. From his iconic camera angle, stooped low to the ground, Ozu insists it’s through small talk — not despite it — that we learn to be people.

References:

#YasujiroOzuInColor #35mm

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Show art by Emily Csuy. Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro music: “Radio Exercises No. 1” composed by Hidemaro Yanagawa and Saburo Okubo.

Timestamps

0:00 - Episode 308: GOOD MORNING (1959)

2:03 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary

3:12 - Our expOZUre to Ozu

8:37 - The narrative conveyed by Ozu’s ‘tatami shot’ camera angles

22:41 - Uplifting the mundane, rural niceties, and attempts to hide genuineness

36:06 - A movie about the necessity of smalltalk

41:15 - Get societypilled, idiot (or, Converse Jokerfication)

54:47 - New vectors, same drive to relate to (or against) one another

1:01:36 - Why the hip urban couple moves away

1:08:11 - To All the Loves We’ve Tried Before: 1959

1:11:13 - The Junk Drawer

]]> yes Episode 307: AMERICAN PSYCHO (2000) https://pinecast.com/guid/1325e329-465e-4f81-9043-c5e1d17983d2 Tue, 03 Dec 2024 12:00:00 -0000 01:34:46 Bret Easton Ellis’s original novel featured vivid descriptions of depraved acts, but Mary Harron’s film adaptation of AMERICAN PSYCHO has a slithering unctuousness all its own. Christian Bale is Patrick Bateman, a Wall Street VP by day and a murderer at large by night. Problem is, those two things don't stay separate for long.

Despite the heft of its subject matter and the “unfilmability” of its source material, its 2000 release garnered critical acclaim rivaled only by its cultural divisiveness: Women’s advocacy groups took particular umbrage with the film’s portrayal of extreme violence against women.

In this episode, we reflect on AMERICAN PSYCHO with years (or mere days) of perspective, marvel at how a movie like this even “works,” compare its narrative tools to those of the book, and wonder what gets lost in the gulfs between what people say and what people hear.

**References: **

#EatTheRichBretEastonEllis #DCP

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Show art by Emily Csuy. Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro music: "Suicide" by John Cale from the AMERICAN PSYCHO soundtrack.

Timestamps

0:00 - Episode 307: AMERICAN PSYCHO (2000)

3:20 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary

5:46 - First watch thoughts and the “one-dimensionality” of AMERICAN PSYCHO

9:55 - How the “unfilmable” film goes down this smoothly

25:36 - The space for interpretation left open by Bateman’s mixed reality

32:41 - The narrative effect of a movie where nobody’s paying attention to anything

38:08 - Jean

48:15 - Is Patrick the LEAST psychopathic person in his world?

57:18 - Reagan, self-awareness, and LinkedIn

1:02:22 - The Junk Drawer (Bale, Dafoe, and the business card scene)

1:12:02 - To All the Loves We’ve Tried Before: 2000

1:14:24 - Cody’s Noteys: Trylove Movie Draft (roster-building with films from the year 2000)

]]> yes Episode 306: KING OF CHINATOWN (1939) https://pinecast.com/guid/48eeda08-6817-47d1-b7b4-0280e7758233 Tue, 26 Nov 2024 12:00:00 -0000 01:19:57 Shortly after announcing a sweeping shakedown, Chinatown gangster Frank Baturin (Akim Tamiroff) is targeted by his right-hand man in a vicious power play. When the hit fails, Baturin’s life is left in the hands of Mary (Anna May Wong), a one-in-a-million surgeon — and daughter of a Chinatown medicine shop owner — who nurses Baturin back to health. While her friendship with the King deepens, Mary’s altruist streak calls her back to China, putting her in a bind as Baturin’s capos crack down on Chinatown harder than even Baturin.

KING OF CHINATOWN gives Anna May Wong less to do than in DAUGHTER OF SHANGHAI (1937), and less time to do it in. In this episode, we talk about her endlessly captivating screen presence, the 57-minute rush to tell a story that could’ve easily been 90 minutes, and the “All-American”-izing even progressive movies used to do with their minority leads.

Also, we recorded this in person at Harry’s apartment, so it sounds a bit different. Also, Jason had hiccups for a lot of it, so we have some fun with that, too.

References:

TheDefiantRolesofAnnaMayWong #35mm

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Show art by Emily Csuy. Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro music from the KING OF CHINATOWN soundtrack.

Timestamps

0:00 - Episode 306: KING OF CHINATOWN (1939)

3:57 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary

5:26 - Seeing KING OF CHINATOWN on 35mm at the Trylon

9:32 - Frank Baturin as “an Agatha Christie character”

13:35 - What Baturin is after

19:38 - Mike and the Professor

28:14 - What this movie maybe could’ve been with more time

32:46 - Anna May Wong in this movie

42:43 - It’s kind of a lot of different movies

55:56 - The Junk Drawer

1:00:55 - To All the Loves We’ve Tried Before: 1939

1:03:15 - Cody’s Noteys: Panorama May Wong (Anna May Wong trivia)

]]> yes Episode 305: DAUGHTER OF SHANGHAI (1937) https://pinecast.com/guid/54603231-b989-4501-a24c-6baa050b6c97 Tue, 19 Nov 2024 12:00:00 -0000 01:17:49 After her father is killed for refusing to be extorted by the leaders of a human trafficking operation, Yan Ling (Anna May Wong) and Kim Lee (Phillip Ahn) jet across the islands of Puerto Rico on their way to the ringleader.

When Anna May Wong starred in Robert Florey’s DAUGHTER OF SHANGHAI, it was hailed as a milestone in Hollywood’s progress toward a more inclusive, diverse industry: An Asian-American actress commanded the screen in an exciting, globe-hopping adventure without being relegated to outright stereotype.

The same year, German actress Luise Rainer won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her portrayal of a Chinese slave in a film adaptation of “The Good Earth” — a role Wong herself was denied.

Such is the cognitive game you’ve got to play when considering a work like DAUGHTER OF SHANGHAI. Its lens is pointed at an acute angle at two similar subjects: First, at the machinations of Hollywood that kept minority stars at the sidelines for decades; and second, at the intersection of that machine and American imperial power, forever prioritizing the hegemony first codified by the white slave-owning class at the nation’s founding.

References:

#TheDefiantRolesofAnnaMayWong #35mm

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Show art by Emily Csuy. Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro music by Boris Morros from the DAUGHTER OF SHANGHAI soundtrack.

Timestamps

0:00 - Episode 305: DAUGHTER OF SHANGHAI (1937)

2:19 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary

4:32 - How Anna May Wong’s star power and activism led to DAUGHTER OF SHANGHAI

15:47 - How DAUGHTER OF SHANGHAI digs deeper on Asian immigrant narratives

26:31 - The plot contrivances it does and doesn’t indulge in

41:36 - Does the frenzied pacing help or hurt DAUGHTER OF SHANGHAI?

56:17 - To All the Loves We’ve Tried Before: 1937

56:34 - Cody’s Noteys: Cody’s Floateys (flotation device trivia)

]]> yes Episode 304: IT'S SUCH A BEAUTIFUL DAY (2012) https://pinecast.com/guid/c581ac0f-f913-4758-879e-3f1ea591ed08 Tue, 12 Nov 2024 12:00:00 -0000 02:03:29 Don Hertzfeldt’s creative, experimental animation style is almost universally acclaimed. His early short works helped him bridge the gap (albeit accidentally) from festival darling into a filmmaker synonymous with pre-YouTube online video culture. His first feature film, IT’S SUCH A BEAUTIFUL DAY, tells the story of Bill, a man defined by his neurotic observations about the world around him.

In part, IT’S SUCH A BEAUTIFUL DAY is a parade of awkward interactions with strangers, bizarre family histories, and non-sequiturs narrated by Hertzfeldt himself. But a strain of melancholy runs in parallel to the cute, simplistic aesthetic: Bill is losing his mind, his memories, and most of his faculties.  Through a medley of formally innovative sequences, the movie’s depiction of Bill’s decline creates a unique tension: Mixing animation, photography, distortion, and destruction, extends the effects of Bill’s internal condition onto his two-dimensional world, the narrative, the narrator, and the audience itself.

References:

#OtherProgramming #DCP

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Show art by Emily Csuy. Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro music: "Das Rheingold Scene 1: Vorspiel & Weia! Waga! Woge, du Welle!" (Excerpt) composed by Richard Wagner, performed by the Wiener Philharmoniker, and conducted by Sir Georg Solti from the IT’S SUCH A BEAUTIFUL DAY soundtrack.

Timestamps coming soon! I know I’ve said that about other recent episodes and then not provided them, but I super pinky promise swear I’m gonna do it for this one.   : )

]]> yes Episode 303: BEIJING WATERMELON (1989) https://pinecast.com/guid/32328920-b722-406c-8324-c4c9ad90079a Tue, 05 Nov 2024 12:00:00 -0000 01:48:42 We’re no strangers to the work of Nobuhiko Obayashi. A visionary and an auteur, almost all of his work centers the human experience, especially through the media of film. Shared emotion, his filmography says, is the most important thing a human can feel. Can choose to feel.

Based on a true story, BEIJING WATERMELON is no exception: Shunzo (Bengal), a humble grocer befriends the Chinese students living near his store, helping them adjust to Tokyo life. Though it comes at a personal cost to his marriage to his wife Michi (Masako Motai), his family life, and his business, Shunzo finds in the exercise an increased capacity for empathy in even the modest routine of his life.

At the same time, the film also bears the scars of its production fiasco: The student protests and subsequent massacre at Tiananmen Square in Beijing interrupted filming for key scenes near the end of the story. But BEIJING WATERMELON wears those scars proudly, shifting into pseudo-documentary style to call attention to the power of film to inspire empathy and its inherent lack of immediacy.

As the actor playing Shunzo says during one of the film’s out-of-character cutaways, “Sometimes, reality is more powerful than movies.”

References:

#OtherProgramming #DCP

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Timestamps

0:00 - Episode 303: BEIJING WATERMELON (1989)

5:27 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary

8:22 - The “project” of Obayashi’s 43-year career and his impact on cinema

26:02 - The packaging of time in BEIJING WATERMELON

35:13 - How Shunzo is changed through his friendship with the Chinese students

40:18 - The humanist lean and fourth wall-breaking tendencies

50:28 - How essential is the metatextual stuff to the point of the movie?

1:00:03 - What did Obayashi ‘learn’ between HAUSU (1977) and BEIJING WATERMELON?

1:09:04 - The Junk Drawer

1:21:44 - To All the Loves We’ve Tried Before: 1989

1:27:06 - Cody’s Noteys: Pay-jing Watermelon (US grocery price trivia)

]]> yes Episode 302: THE EVIL DEAD (1981) https://pinecast.com/guid/ba8b610b-cd1f-492e-bd21-7a02b6c7da05 Tue, 29 Oct 2024 12:35:59 -0000 01:32:31 Something’s waiting in the woods! THE EVIL DEAD is a masterwork of budget filmmaking, and it kick-started a genre all its own. In this discussion, we look back at the movie as the origin of comedy-horror cinema, as a rebuke of classic Hollywood horror style, and as a damn fun crowd-pleaser.

References:

#MotorCityNightmares #35mm

Follow us on Twitter at @trylovepodcast and email us at trylovepodcast@gmail.com to get in touch! Podcast art by Emily Csuy. Intro theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro music: "Skin" by Joseph LoDuca from the THE EVIL DEAD soundtrack.

Timestamps

0:00 - Episode 302: THE EVIL DEAD (1981)

7:23 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary

9:17 - Our histories with THE EVIL DEAD and a short tour into isekai

20:01 - The platonic ideal of low-budget horror

32:49 - Bruce Campbell as Ash

44:37 - Baiting the audience with classic tropes before turning things up to a “soft 11”

55:06 - The moments of peak craft

1:04:17 - The Junk Drawer

1:12:34 - To All the Loves We’ve Tried Before: 1981

1:14:35 - Cody’s Noteys: Snare the Scare (horror movie taglines trivia)

]]> yes Episode 301: BARBARIAN (2022) with Dan Nagan https://pinecast.com/guid/2092c0d0-99a8-458c-a93c-a7918dde1e83 Tue, 22 Oct 2024 11:00:00 -0000 02:32:49 With returning guest Dan Nagan!

A double-booked Airbnb in a rundown Detroit neighborhood is much, much more than it seems. It’s better as a surprise, so we won’t spoil anything with this description, but you should know BARBARIAN is ultimately a story about control: Over narratives, land, culture, and personhood itself.

**References: **

Find Dan…

Follow us on Twitter at @trylovepodcast and email us at trylovepodcast@gmail.com to get in touch! Podcast art by Emily Csuy. Intro theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro music: "Riki Tiki Tavi" by Donovan from the BARBARIAN soundtrack.

Timestamps coming soonish! Jason’s on vacation. Sue me. (Don’t sue me.)

]]> yes Episode 300: KILLER BEAN FOREVER (2008) https://pinecast.com/guid/966249dc-043e-450c-9636-fef4757f7d0a Tue, 15 Oct 2024 11:00:00 -0000 01:52:54 KILLER BEAN FOREVER is an independently created animated feature about Killer Bean, a vigilante anthropomorphized coffee bean with a chip on his shoulder and a bitter rivalry with the troublesome gangs of Beantown. Claiming inspiration from classic action cinema, particularly the work of gun fu genre pioneer John Woo, the idiosyncratic KILLER BEAN FOREVER became a cult hit some 10 years after its original release, racking up dozens of millions of YouTube views.

As we embark on another 100 episodes, we decided to take an episode to cover a movie that we’re fairly completely certain will never play at the Trylon Cinema (at least, not officially). In this episode, we also touch on our recent experience at the 2024 Trylon Horrorthon, discuss how seriously we should take the effort of KILLER BEAN series creator/director/writer/animator Jeff Lew, and even do a bit of soul-searching about the very nature and purpose of Trylove, a Movie Podcast.

Long live Trylove.

**References: **

Follow us on Twitter at @trylovepodcast and email us at trylovepodcast@gmail.com to get in touch!

Podcast art by Emily Csuy. Intro theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro music: "Dance Party" by Justin R. Durban and Jeff Lew from the KILLER BEAN FOREVER soundtrack.

Timestamps

0:00 - Episode 300: KILLER BEAN FOREVER (2008)

4:32 - Cheers to 300 episodes

11:46 - HORRORTHON VIII: DRINK THE BLOOD OF HORRORTHON

27:34 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary

35:42 - A passion project and honing 30 years of craft for one purpose

50:21 - Genuineness, irony, and the trash/camp line

58:40 - Our favorite bits, idiosyncrasies, and details

1:06:26 - What drove the 299 episodes before this

1:10:27 - Creating a sense of place

1:20:08 - The Junk Drawer

1:26:33 - To All the Loves We’ve Tried Before: 2008

1:27:29 - Cody’s Noteys: Killer 3ean (trivia on movies we watched by Discord stream)

]]> yes Episode 299: PULP FICTION (1994) https://pinecast.com/guid/9a2357e5-32de-422d-b97c-e80cfbc9680d Tue, 08 Oct 2024 11:00:00 -0000 01:50:46 It defined an entire era of filmmaking. It recontextualized the tropes and narratives that came before. It festoons college dorm rooms across the world. It played at the Trylon on a newly struck 35mm print in 2024. Quentin Tarantino’s sophomore feature PULP FICTION is still “that movie”, whatever that means.

An all-star cast stretched across three interlocking stories shows people in a period of adaptation, transition, growth, and moving on — or not.

In this episode, we discuss the inimitable style with which editing imbues PULP FICTION’s narrative; its use of violence to simplify characters; the true depth of its pop culture references; and the parallel arcs each character takes to realize truer versions of themselves (whether that’s wandering the earth, getting out of Dodge, or dying in a stranger’s bathtub).

References:

#OtherProgramming #35mm

Follow us on Twitter at @trylovepodcast and email us at trylovepodcast@gmail.com to get in touch!

Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro music: "Son of a Preacher Man" by Dusty Springfield from the PULP FICTION soundtrack.

Timestamps

0:00 - Episode 299: PULP FICTION (1994)

5:09 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary

8:04 - Chaos, genre inspirations, and where PULP FICTION sits with us today

17:00 - A movie with a clear moral stance

20:34 - Choices, moral guidelines, and what drives these characters

29:00 - Heightened style and nonreality

34:55 - Violence, power, and how characters respond to circumstance

50:17 - Americana, references, and pop culture as more than aesthetic

1:01:37 - Dialogue, character-building, and huge performances

1:17:38 - The Junk Drawer

1:25:02 - To All the Loves We’ve Tried Before: 1994

1:27:40 - Cody’s Noteys: Pulp Fiction or Pulp Nonfiction?

]]> yes Episode 298: THE TRAIN (1964) with Abbie Phelps https://pinecast.com/guid/521ac457-34ea-45ab-8557-79d70cf14d3c Tue, 01 Oct 2024 11:00:00 -0000 01:46:37 With special guest Abbie Phelps (@GoodHunterAbbie)!

THE TRAIN is a fantastic Burt Lancaster vehicle, a showcase for supporting performers Paul Scofield and Jeanne Moreau, and, in a career dotted with bangers, one of director John Frankenheimer’s finest.

With the Nazi occupation of France coming to an end, railway supervisor Paul Labiche (Lancaster) is tasked by Colonel Von Waldheim (Scofield) with escorting a steam locomotive out of the country carrying a cache of priceless French paintings. Realizing their importance to French cultural identity, the French Resistance lobbies Labiche to delay the train as it makes its way to the German border.

Labiche reluctantly agrees, coordinating with resistance fighters across the country to reroute, sabotage, and otherwise impede the train’s progress while they wait for Allied support to reclaim the region. The deadly clashes between Nazi forces and occupied civilians, including the widowed innkeeper Christine (Moreau), lead Labiche to consider with increasing skepticism whether the essentiality of art justifies the necessary loss of the human life it’s meant to enrich.

Find Abbie…

  • On Twitter at @goodhunterabbie
  • On Letterboxd at @goodhunterabbie
  • On Trylove episodes about DRIVE ANGRY (2011), WAR OF THE WORLDS (2005), THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT (1999), TOUCH OF EVIL (1958)

**References: **

#JohnFrankenheimers1960s #DCP

Follow us on Twitter at @trylovepodcast and email us at trylovepodcast@gmail.com to get in touch! Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro music: "Main Theme" composed by Maurice Jarre from THE TRAIN soundtrack.

Timestamps

0:00 - Episode 298: THE TRAIN (1964) with Abbie Phelps

5:43 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary

7:45 - A masterpiece of war cinema… and Frankemheimer’s masterpiece?

16:15 - How THE TRAIN inverts action movie pacing

21:44 - Labor on-screen and off

31:24 - How brutality forwards the movie’s narrative

35:12 - Nationalism, hopelessness, and cynicism

39:45 - Christine, the reluctant resistance fighter

54:41 - The ending and the problem with “was it worth it?” hand-wringing

1:06:44 - The Junk Drawer

1:20:16 - To All the Loves We’ve Tried Before: 1964

1:22:03 - Cody’s Noteys: Railyard Sale ($9 to spend on our 5-star movies)

]]> yes Episode 297: KEN (1964) https://pinecast.com/guid/d72a2046-73f0-4904-a5c8-26bd5f70064e Tue, 24 Sep 2024 11:00:00 -0000 01:36:44 Kokubu (Raizô Ichikawa), captain of his university's kendo team, is a mystery to those who know him: An ascetic dedicated to a point of obsession with the simplicity and beauty of the sword arts. Kagawa (Yūsuke Kawazu), a promising but arrogant kendo student, is attracted to Kokubu's devout leadership but kept at a distance by his standoffish nature. With the national championships fast approaching, the pair clash as Kokubu drives his students with increasingly rigorous training and Kagawa tests Kokubu's grip on the class.

It’s almost painfully obvious that KEN is an adaptation of a Yukio Mishima story: The stoic, conflicted protagonist; the object of perfect beauty over which he obsesses; the clash of tradition and modernity embodied in his inability to connect with his peers. What director Kenji Misumi brings is an air of objectivity, following Kokubu’s rise and fall through his eyes, those of his fellow kendo students, and those of his greatest rival.

References:

#KenjiMisumisSamuraiSixties #DCP

Follow us on Twitter at @trylovepodcast and email us at trylovepodcast@gmail.com to get in touch! Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro music from the KEN soundtrack by Sei Ikeno.

Timestamps

0:00 - Episode 297: KEN (1964)

2:26 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary

4:59 - Chambara expectations vs. Mishima reality

24:27 - Sports movies are great places to bake in endemic nationalism

32:19 - Balancing myth and mortality in Kokubu

35:39 - What Kokubu learns (and doesn’t learn) from his kendo master

44:01 - “He's a normal man after all”: How Kagawa tries to change Kokubu

53:53 - Is KEN a tragic call to arms or a warning about festering fascist sympathies?

1:05:47 - The Junk Drawer

1:10:55 - To All the Loves We’ve Tried Before: 1964

1:13:50 - Cody’s Noteys: KEN? We Fans! (examining ratings from Letterboxd profiles with KEN in their Top 4)

]]> yes Episode 296: SECONDS (1966) with Natalie Marlin https://pinecast.com/guid/14ba06ef-2ece-460d-9299-ab07fc122353 Tue, 17 Sep 2024 11:00:00 -0000 01:54:05 With returning guest Natalie Marlin!

SECONDS is a 1966 film directed by John Frankenheimer from the original novel by David Ely. Past-his-prime New York banker Arthur Hamilton (John Randolph) elects to undergo a procedure to give himself a new face and a new life.

The Company, the shady organization that offers this service, completely reconstructs Arthur, altering every detail of his identity (his face, his body, his voice, his backstory) to build Tony Wilson (Rock Hudson) — a handsome bachelor who lives on the beach in Malibu. But the change isn’t all it’s cracked up to be, and before long, Tony finds himself falling victim to the same habits that plagued his life as Arthur.

When he learns that his new community, including the free-spirited Nora (Salome Jens), is made up of Company cronies and other “reborns” like him, Tony seeks another do-over — a second second chance in the hopes of “beginning again”, as Tony puts it — restarting his original life with the benefit of hindsight, rather than abandoning it entirely. To “begin again”, as Tony puts it. The Company is happy to oblige — for a price.

Despite being nominated for the Palme d’Or at Cannes and an Oscar for cinematography, it was a box office bomb, and has since come to be regarded as a cult classic, with particular praise directed at the cinematography by James Wong Howe and Rock Hudson’s performance as Tony.

References:

Find Natalie…

  • On Twitter and Bluesky at @NataliesNotInIt
  • On Letterboxd at @framingthepic
  • Hosting Pod Hero in the Indieheads Podcast feed
  • In the byline for Noise Music, a forthcoming entry in Genre: A 33 ⅓ Series book about the noise genre and its influences on and intersections with culture
  • On Trylove Episode 162: THE THIRD MAN (1949), Episode 182: CHESS OF THE WIND (1979), Episode 197: RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD (1985), Episode 210: MAD MAX: FURY ROAD (2015), Episode 239: MILLENNIUM MAMBO (2001), Episode 249: THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT (1999), LONG DAY’S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT (2018), ZARDOZ (1974), NOSTALGHIA (1987)

#JohnFrankenheimers1960s #DCP

Follow us on Twitter at @trylovepodcast and email us at trylovepodcast@gmail.com to get in touch!

Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro music: “Main Title” from the SECONDS soundtrack composed by Jerry Goldsmith.

Timestamps

0:00 - Episode 296: SECONDS (1966) with Natalie Marlin

7:22 - The episode actually starts

7:45 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary

10:15 - How SECONDS came to resonate for Natalie

20:48 - Advertising, pacing, and paranoia

31:02 - The intersection of metatextual threads: Advertising & queer self-determination

50:15 - Tony’s new life and Rock Hudson’s Hollywood assimilation

1:04:58 - The evolution of Jerry Goldsmith’s score from dissonant dysphoria to structured harmony

1:17:04 - The Junk Drawer

1:25:50 - To All the Loves We’ve Tried Before: 1966

1:28:26 - Cody’s Noteys: The House of Champions (Seconds!) – 1966

]]> yes Episode 295: KIRU (1962) https://pinecast.com/guid/834dc2f4-c620-451a-975d-3d92773cae2a Tue, 10 Sep 2024 11:00:00 -0000 01:23:21 KIRU (also known as DESTINY’S SON) is a 1962 samurai film directed by Kenji Misumi and written by Kaneto Shindo, based on a novel by Renzaburo Shibata. The film stars Raizo Ichikawa as Shingo, the secret son of an assassin executed for the crime of killing her lord’s concubine.

Shingo learns of his true nature after a rival family massacres his adoptive father and sister for denying the secret of Shingo’s birth. After exacting revenge on the killers, Shingo visits his father, who was also his mother’s executioner, before embarking on a journey as a wandering ronin.

**References: **

#KenjiMisumisSamuraiSixties #DCP

Follow us on Twitter at @trylovepodcast and email us at trylovepodcast@gmail.com to get in touch!

Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro music from the ending of KIRU.

Timestamps coming soon!

]]> yes Episode 294: GOODFELLAS (1990) with Dan Nagan https://pinecast.com/guid/b3c2aace-4cbb-4b74-b77f-817420f65900 Tue, 03 Sep 2024 11:00:00 -0000 02:32:30 With Danny “Bagadonuts” Nagan, a real-life good fella and cohost of the Everything We Learned podcast!

I mean, it’s GOODFELLAS. If you haven’t seen it, you kinda already have. But you should absolutely still see it (take it from Jason).

Despite his status as an Irish-Italian-American, Henry Hill (Ray Liotta) is a fish IN water among the most powerful mafia family of Brooklyn. From middle school, Henry fast ingratiates himself with aspiring made man Tommy (Joe Pesci), fellow mixed-blood gangster Jimmy (Robert De Niro), and local capo Paulie (Paul Sorvino), eventually earning enough clout to bring Karen (Lorraine Bracco), a Jewish woman with a thing for bad goys, into the “family” as his wife. As he ascends the linguine ladder, though, Henry finds himself increasingly exposed: to the diminishing returns of mafia life; to the self-serving ambitions of his brothers in crime; and before the waning influence of Italian organized crime with the decline of labor power in the 1980s.

Inside the “pit of vipers mob movie” structure is a tale of self-preservation at the expense of decency, bonds broken as quickly and as explosively as they were forged, and the ever-churning machine of capital that has robbed, will rob, is robbing the modern American of their basic dignity. My dignity. Your dignity.

**References: **

Find Dan…

#TheLongTake #DCP

Follow us on Twitter at @trylovepodcast and email us at trylovepodcast@gmail.com to get in touch!

Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro music: “Sincerely” by The Moonglows from the GOODFELLAS soundtrack.

Timestamps

0:00 - Episode 294: GOODFELLAS (1990) with Dan Nagan

3:36 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary

5:14 - Dan’s incomplete, anti-filmbro first viewing

17:27 - Scorsese’s 1980s spent juggling pop appeal and experimental ambition

27:41 - Schoonmaker, editing, the long take, and what’s just under the surface

36:38 - Glorifying violence and adopting an outsider perspective

1:04:13 - Karen and the 1980s

1:24:21 - The final shot

1:34:12 - To All the Loves We’ve Tried Before: 1990

1:36:36 - The Junk Drawer

1:47:33 - Cody’s Noteys: Woodfellas (wood figurine pricing estimates)

1:50:10 - First woodfella

1:54:04 - Second woodfella

1:58:10 - Third woodfella

2:01:59 - Fourth woodfella

2:06:17 - Dan’s Detour: Tryfellas (GOODFELLAS trivia)

]]> yes Episode 293: PLAY IT AS IT LAYS (1972) with Kelly Krantz https://pinecast.com/guid/1af9d06c-c0a5-4e45-8ff6-fa3199eb1239 Tue, 27 Aug 2024 11:00:00 -0000 01:39:46 With Trylonteer and Perkins superfan Kelly Krantz (@kransekage_)!

PLAY IT AS IT LAYS is a 1972 drama film directed by Frank Perry from a novel and screenplay by Joan Didion. The movie stars Tuesday Weld as Maria Wyeth, a depressed actress stuck in an unhappy separated marriage with director Carter Lang (played by Adam Roarke), and Anthony Perkins as BZ, a gay movie producer and friend of Maria’s who’s also unhappily married as cover for his homosexuality to a woman named Helene (played by Tammy Grimes).

Maria and Carter have decided to institutionalize their daughter, Kate, who suffers from an unspecified issue with her brain. It’s implied it was more of Carter’s decision than Maria’s — one of many things that create friction between them, along with Carter’s frequent affairs and attempts to control her, Maria’s own mental decline, his avoidance of Maria’s growing resentment with the West Coast bourgeois lifestyle in which she feels trapped. The movie follows Maria through an increasingly depressed journey as she seeks to escape Carter’s orbit, define herself, and pursue a life with her daughter on the way to being institutionalized herself.

The movie was critically divisive due to its general malaise and frenetic pacing and editing, with praise directed at Weld and Perkins’s performances (Weld won Best Actress at the Italian Film Critics Awards and was nominated for Golden Globe for her performance). It’s gone on to be recognized as a cult classic of American drama in the vein of New Hollywood, as well as an exemplary adaptation of Didion’s New Journalism style and the Californian culture of the 1970s.

**References: **

Find Kelly…

  • On Twitter at @kransekage_
  • On Letterboxd at @luckyhoss
  • On Trylove episodes: WINGS OF DESIRE (1987), ARREBATO (1979), and PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE (1974), REVOLVER (1973), THE DOOM GENERATION (1995), THE NIGHT PORTER (1974), REMEMBER MY NAME (1978)

#TuesdayWeldAndAnthonyPerkins #35mm

Follow us on Twitter at @trylovepodcast and email us at trylovepodcast@gmail.com to get in touch! Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro music: “Heart Is Like A Wheel” by McKendree Spring.

Timestamps

0:00 - Episode 293: PLAY IT AS IT LAYS (1972) with Kelly Krantz

3:58 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary (under exclusive license from AG Enterprises, Ltd.)

6:13 - Kelly’s thoughts, Weld & Perkins, and what made this a “bucket list screening”

17:06 - “Life feels very fragmented” into moments both manic and tender

22:25 - As an adaptation and where its visual ambition lies

31:42 - The scene with the abortion doctor’s assistant in the Camaro

36:54 - Maria’s search for an answer paralleled in the filmic experience

49:29 - The disaffected and the affected

57:26 - The final tragic (or hopeful?) scenes

1:01:01 - Is Maria in a better place in an asylum?

1:05:44 - To All the Loves We’ve Tried Before: 1972

1:06:53 - The Junk Drawer

1:13:36 - Cody’s Noteys: Play It As It Lay’s (potato chip-tangent trivia)

]]> yes Episode 292: CHILDREN OF MEN (2006) https://pinecast.com/guid/5a8ca23b-0e4e-4920-9944-371b8d3e65ff Tue, 20 Aug 2024 11:00:00 -0000 01:26:19 20 years after the world’s last baby was born, revolutionary-turned-working stiff Theo Faron (Clive Owen) is content to coast until the end catches up to the world — until his former lover and the mother of his dead son Julian (Julianne Moore) wrangles him into a plan to escort expecting mother Kee (Clare-Hope Ashitey) to safety.

Remembered (and heavily cribbed) for its effective worldbuilding and the immediacy of its handheld long takes, Alfonso Cuarón’s post-apocalyptic tale feels purpose-built to reawaken dormant empathy. This podcast also features the last white man who hadn’t seen CHILDREN OF MEN until 2024.

References:

#TheLongTake #DCP

Follow us on Twitter at @trylovepodcast and email us at trylovepodcast@gmail.com to get in touch! Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro music: "Song Of The Angel" composed by John Tavener from the CHILDREN OF MEN soundtrack.

Timestamps

0:00 - Episode 292: CHILDREN OF MEN (2006)

3:52 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary

5:54 - The relationship of CHILDREN OF MEN to the things it inspired later

17:15 - The spirit of the long take and “democratizing the frame”

32:39 - How the world is built to shape Theo

44:33 - Luke, Julian, and the politics of radicalization

1:08:32 - The Junk Drawer

1:19:35 - To All the Loves We’ve Tried Before: 2006

]]> yes Episode 291: SAILOR SUIT AND MACHINE GUN (1981) with Blake Hester https://pinecast.com/guid/f0bdddc9-eb25-40a0-9dcf-e8bdbaec1984 Tue, 13 Aug 2024 11:00:00 -0000 01:15:29 With special guest Blake Hester!

When a secretive businessman passes away before he can be crowned chairman of a local yakuza family, his daughter — a precocious, disaffected schoolgirl — is suddenly thrust into the role. Surprised by her coronation but determined to restore the group’s good name, Izumi (Hiroko Yakushimaru) reluctantly assumes control of the once-great Medaka Family to close the power vacuum and fend off power plays from other local gangs with one thing in their sights: A missing bindle of heroin worth millions last held by Izumi’s father.

At first blush, Shinji Sōmai’s debut feature has all the makings of a fun, charismatic, compelling spin on yakuza stories. So why did it leave us wanting? It has a lot to do with the movie’s marketing, sure, but something tells us that our expectations weren’t the worst of its issues.

Find Blake…

References:

OtherProgramming #DCP

Follow us on Twitter at @trylovepodcast and email us at trylovepodcast@gmail.com to get in touch! Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro music: "Sailor Suit and Machine Gun (セーラー服と機関銃)" performed by Hiroko Yakushimaru from the SAILOR SUIT AND MACHINE GUN soundtrack.

Timestamps

0:00 - Episode 291: SAILOR SUIT AND MACHINE GUN (1981) with Blake Hester

6:16 - The episode actually starts

7:52 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary

9:29 - Whatever you’re expecting this movie to be, it’s not quite

22:31 - vs. pinku and other, more successful forms of Japanese exploitation cinema

26:53 - Hiroko Yakushimaru as Izumi

30:49 - The disconnect at the heart of this movie, focusing on futile masculinity, etc.

37:17 - The final act and where the movie really baffles

39:28 - What a “more successful” version of this movie might look like

52:09 - Why does this movie have such a cult following?

58:53 - To All the Loves We’ve Tried Before: 1981

1:01:29 - The Junk Drawer

]]> yes Episode 290: 15 Years of the Trylon Followed by Fall Films with John Moret https://pinecast.com/guid/4cb59b9b-bcbc-4d7b-90af-67386c29871b Tue, 30 Jul 2024 11:00:00 -0000 01:11:16 The Trylon turns 15 this year! That means it’s been five years since we first welcomed Trylon Film Programmer John “Mo’ Retta Blues” Moret to the podcast for a 10th anniversary interview.

With five years of history to look back on and an extra-long, banger-laden Fall 2024 calendar to discuss, we sat down again with John in the hallowed lobby of the Trylon to get the full scoop. (And talk about video games, reminisce on the Trylon series we’ve loved, and FINALLY land on a suitable nickname for John.)

Note: The audio quality on this one isn’t quite as good as our usual episodes. What do you want from me? It was one Blue Yeti USB mic in the middle of an open, air-conditioned lobby on a blistering Saturday afternoon while a movie was playing in the auditorium next door. This podcast is free to listen to.

Check the calendar, preview upcoming series, and buy tickets at https://www.trylon.org/

Contribute to Perisphere, the Trylon blog: https://www.perisphere.org/perisphere-blog-post-guidelines/

Follow us on Twitter at @trylovepodcast and email us at trylovepodcast@gmail.com to get in touch!

Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro music: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma.

Timestamps

0:00 - Episode 290: 15 Years of the Trylon Followed by Fall Films

9:58 - The episode actually starts

15:32 - Nicknaming John

19:11 - How new projection capabilities have changed what the Trylon plays

24:16 - How the people have changed (volunteers, audiences, etc.)

34:03 - What else has shaped John’s approach to programming

44:50 - The impact of the Trylon Club

48:28 - One hopeful thing from the past 5 years

57:03 - The schedule for Fall 2024

1:08:56 - Why the Trylon now puts “in 35mm” on its movie listings

]]> yes Episode 289: BIRTH (2004) https://pinecast.com/guid/fa47f0d4-e8df-4c4d-9243-3ba237933d89 Tue, 23 Jul 2024 12:35:59 -0000 01:15:11 In Jonathan Glazer’s BIRTH, one woman’s inability to move past the death of her husband brings only more tragedy to her life when she’s forced to confront a version of him she never knew. When a 10-year-old boy named Sean (Cameron Bright) claims to be the reincarnation of Anna (Nicole Kidman)’s husband of the same name, the soon-to-be-remarried widow slowly but surely finds herself falling in love with the man she thinks she sees inside — regardless of who he is on the outside. Kinda makes you want to crawl out of your skin, doesn’t it?

In this episode, we discuss the movie’s surreal plot, how it depicts the blinding effect of class divisions, trying to see the feeling behind the action, and its empathy ‘trick’.

References:

Contribute to Perisphere, the Trylon blog: https://www.perisphere.org/perisphere-blog-post-guidelines/

#TheLongTake #35mm

Follow us on Twitter at @trylovepodcast and email us at trylovepodcast@gmail.com to get in touch! Buy tickets and support the Trylon at trylon.org.

Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro music: “The Rendez-vous” by Alexandré Desplat from the BIRTH soundtrack.

Timestamps

0:00 - Episode 289: BIRTH (2004) and cicada chat

4:18 - The episode actually starts

8:42 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary

9:22 - Pervasive discomfort and being ‘tricked’

18:14 - A woman’s inability to deal with grief

24:24 - How class blinds Anna and Kid Sean

44:36 - The “is Sean really reincarnated” question

48:44 - Competing opinions on the ending

56:42 - The Junk Drawer

1:09:27 - To All the Loves We’ve Tried Before: 2004

]]> yes Episode 288: ONE CUT OF THE DEAD (2017) with Benjamin Savard https://pinecast.com/guid/96eddb97-c104-4c4b-9ba1-15218892b860 Tue, 16 Jul 2024 11:00:00 -0000 01:45:56 You’ve never seen a zombie movie like Shinichirou Ueda’s cult hit ONE CUT OF THE DEAD. It’s best if I don’t type anything more about it here, actually, just in case you haven’t seen it. (Little peek behind the curtain in keeping with the theme of the movie: It’s also because your editor is typing this on his lunch hour at his day job.) Suffice to say it’s one of the most clever takes on the genre we’ve seen, and a fun, heartwarming tale on its own.

Regardless, returning guest Benjamin Savard was, like the rest of us, rather taken with this weird, warm darling of a movie, so we’ve welcomed him back to the show to discuss it! We talk anime, the psychology of movie-watching, “making of making of making ofs,” the value of a great in-joke with your audience, and Ben’s favorite René Descartes joke. (I assume there’s more than one.)

References:

Find Ben…

  • On Twitter at @ItBenjaminScott
  • On Trylove episodes about himself, CHRISTINE (1983), CRUISING (1980), THE PLAYER (1992)
  • At the Trylon, where he volunteers regularly

Contribute to Perisphere, the Trylon blog: https://www.perisphere.org/perisphere-blog-post-guidelines/

#TheLongTake #DCP

Follow us on Twitter at @trylovepodcast and email us at trylovepodcast@gmail.com to get in touch! Buy tickets and support the Trylon at trylon.org.

Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro music: “Keep Rolling (映画『カメラを止めるな！』主題歌)” by kensonlovers feat. MAYUMI YAMAMOTO from the ONE CUT OF THE DEAD soundtrack.

Timestamps

0:00 - Episode 288: ONE CUT OF THE DEAD (2017) with Benjamin Savard

6:06 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary

7:55 - What we think makes ONE CUT OF THE DEAD special

17:36 - A movie that trains you to deepen your appreciation for filmmaking

22:44 - “First as tragedy, then as farce”

32:34 - Taking on the human side of zombie survival stories in a unique way

35:11 - Is it rewatchable?

41:29 - First-act moments that get recontextualized in the middle act

53:22 - Complicating what it “teaches” you about watching the movie

58:18 - The Junk Drawer

1:10:57 - To All the Loves We’ve Tried Before: 2017

1:13:01 - Cody’s Noteys: Haiku of the Dead

]]> yes Episode 287: NOSTALGHIA (1983) with Natalie Marlin https://pinecast.com/guid/dc2affdf-4fb3-404c-8548-b47d1bcb8784 Tue, 09 Jul 2024 11:00:00 -0000 01:54:36 Impenetrable musing or Tarkovsky’s best? NOSTALGHIA is one of the Russian director’s most personal, maybe his single most personal, but that’s not the only lens (or even the most interesting one) to look at it through. In this discussion of her first and only Tarkovsky (so far), Natalie joins to help us see this one more clearly through a new lens!

References:

Find Natalie…

  • On Twitter and Bluesky at @NataliesNotInIt
  • On Letterboxd at @framingthepic
  • Hosting Pod Hero in the Indieheads Podcast feed
  • In the byline for Noise Music, a forthcoming entry in Genre: A 33 ⅓ Series book about the noise genre and its influences on and intersections with culture
  • On Trylove Episode 162: THE THIRD MAN (1949), Episode 182: CHESS OF THE WIND (1979), Episode 197: RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD (1985), Episode 210: MAD MAX: FURY ROAD (2015), Episode 239: MILLENNIUM MAMBO (2001), Episode 249: THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT (1999), LONG DAY’S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT (2018), ZARDOZ (1974)

Contribute to Perisphere, the Trylon blog: https://www.perisphere.org/perisphere-blog-post-guidelines/  #TheLongTake #DCP

Follow us on Twitter at @trylovepodcast and email us at trylovepodcast@gmail.com to get in touch! Buy tickets and support the Trylon at trylon.org.

Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro music: "Kumushki" (traditional Russian folk song) by an unknown artist from NOSTALGHIA.

]]> yes Trylove Episode 286: REMEMBER MY NAME (1978) with Kelly Krantz https://pinecast.com/guid/6b537cd5-53bc-4f9c-a2ef-6f4fa7d98b49 Tue, 02 Jul 2024 11:00:00 -0000 01:18:30 Geraldine 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), and a soundtrack by resurgent blues artist Alberta Hunter, REMEMBER MY NAME would have all the pieces of a ‘70s stunner — but for the distinct twist it puts on its plot.

Emily (Chaplin) stalks Neil (Perkins) and Barbara (Berenson) obsessively following her release from prison. Whether Emily’s looking for revenge, closure, or just terror isn’t clear at the start, but her meek demeanor hides a steely, sturdy resolve to confront Neil — an interaction she rehearses word-for-word as she makes her way closer to Neil’s heart. But the confrontation isn’t the explosive, sordid, climactic endeavor you might imagine. In its casualness, it’s way, way more upsetting.

References:

Find Kelly…

  • On Twitter at @kransekage_
  • On Letterboxd at @luckyhoss
  • On Trylove episodes about WINGS OF DESIRE (1987), ARREBATO (1979), and PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE (1974), REVOLVER (1973), and THE DOOM GENERATION (1995), THE NIGHT PORTER (1974)

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Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro music: "Remember My Name" by Alberta Hunter from the REMEMBER MY NAME soundtrack.

Timestamps

0:45 - Episode 286: REMEMBER MY NAME (1978)

2:43 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary (under exclusive license from AG Enterprises, Ltd.)

4:05 - What the movie seems like it’ll be vs. what it actually is

11:10 - Geraldine Chaplin as Emily

19:32 - Costuming and styling

21:58 - Anthony Perkins, Berry Berenson, and real-world subtext

33:26 - Alberta Hunter’s soundtrack and a world internalizing discontent

41:46 - This movie’s relationship to blackness

49:07 - The jail cell scene and the anti-climax

1:08:28 - The Junk Drawer

1:14:57 - To All the Loves We’ve Tried Before: 1978

]]> yes Episode 285: THE EARRINGS OF MADAME DE... (1953) https://pinecast.com/guid/b0a97d09-6d6d-4258-9591-4c9360896057 Tue, 25 Jun 2024 11:00:00 -0000 01:36:56 Layers 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 for THE EARRINGS OF MADAME DE… by director Max Ophüls. With each changing of hands (and ending up back in Louise’s), the earrings — once practically worthless to Louise — become the essential icon of her emotional independence beyond the material trappings of her opulent lifestyle.

In this episode, we discuss the movie’s contemporary reaction (which seems facile in retrospect), the misdirection that keeps the twisting plot moving, and its context as a movie set during France’s Belle Époque that was released just as French society realized it was entering the rearview.

References:

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Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. “L’amour m’emporte” composed by Oscar Straus with lyrics by Louis Ducreux and performed by Danielle Darrieux.

Timestamps

0:00 - Episode 285: THE EARRINGS OF MADAME DE... (1953)

3:36 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary

6:32 - Recapping the winding plot

10:52 - The Belle Époque and the roles of high society

25:34 - Lubitsch-adjacency and the soft bigotry of “different” expectations

30:48 - The charm of the bourgeoisie

36:16 - Mirrors, the earrings, and the semiotics of objects given and received

49:08 - Dirty Donati

50:51 - The long take and cinematography that “misdirects”

1:00:10 - The ending

1:04:54 - The Junk Drawer

1:13:50 - To All the Loves We’ve Tried Before: 1953

1:15:24 - Cody’s Noteys: The Peer Flings of Madame de… (actor/actress pairings trivia)

]]> yes Episode 284: THE PLAYER (1992) with Benjamin Savard https://pinecast.com/guid/d5e543e9-55ba-4497-b4bc-e09dfc3b18a0 Tue, 18 Jun 2024 11:00:00 -0000 01:33:12 With 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 artistic integrity. A series of threatening postcards from a disgruntled reject sends Mill into a tailspin, testing the limits of his paranoia, calling into question his loyalty to the moviemaking craft, and the malleability of his very moral center.

The worst part? It’s all got a happy ending.

In this special guest episode with recent Minneapolis repatriate Benjamin Savard, we discuss the artistic politics at the heart of THE PLAYER, the essentiality of the film version, and how much fun there is to be had at the surface level of the movie that turned Robert Altman’s career around. Oh, and Popeye Village.

Find Ben…

  • On Twitter at @ItBenjaminScott
  • On Trylove episodes about himself, CHRISTINE (1983), and CRUISING (1980)
  • At the Trylon, where he volunteers regularly

References:

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Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Closing music: "The Player" by Thomas Newman from the THE PLAYER soundtrack.

Timestamps

0:00 - Episode 284: THE PLAYER (1992) with Benjamin Savard

3:49 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary

6:04 - Ben’s connections to THE PLAYER

14:54 - Reflecting on THE PLAYER as Altman’s cynical return to Hollywood

28:59 - Portraying the gross, money-driven world of American moviemaking

34:24 - Tim Robbins as Griffin and “softening the turn” from affable businessman to greasy corpo

46:29 - The fun on top of the metatext

55:46 - And more metatext

1:04:54 - The Junk Drawer

1:26:20 - To All the Loves We’ve Tried Before: 1992

]]> yes Episode 283: TOUCH OF EVIL (1958) with Abbie Phelps https://pinecast.com/guid/d42e76e1-ef3b-4903-81fc-dcda7866f024 Tue, 11 Jun 2024 11:00:00 -0000 01:42:35 With 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 Quinlan’s years of abusing authority. Janet Leigh as Susie, Vargas’s American wife, goes from standing up against the notorious cartel family that owns the border to just being kidnapped and becoming another reason for Vargas to continue his virtuous crusade.

Abbie Phelps is a big fan of Welles, so there’s nobody else we’d rather have on this episode! With Abbie, we talk about the striking cinematography, the moments of accidental genius that came to characterize the movie, how the movie paints a sardonic portrait of noir with big, broad characters, and why it took four decades to release the version of TOUCH OF EVIL its creator wanted you to see.

Find Abbie…

  • On Twitter at @goodhunterabbie
  • On Letterboxd at @goodhunterabbie
  • On Trylove Episode 184: DRIVE ANGRY (2011), Episode 209: WAR OF THE WORLDS (2005), and THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT (1999)

References:

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Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Closing music: “Main Theme” by Henry Mancini from the TOUCH OF EVIL soundtrack.

Timestamps

0:00 - Episode 283: TOUCH OF EVIL (1958) with Abbie Phelps

3:33 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary

5:21 - Opening thoughts on style and subversion

12:41 - Touch of Welles

21:25 - How expressive camerawork brings the audience into the vibe of each moment

28:57 - A piss take of traditional noir detective stories

33:11 - The characters

43:54 - Uncle Joe Grandi

50:54 - The ending, the brownface, and what it was all for

57:15 - Susie… poor Susie

1:05:29 - The Junk Drawer

1:13:06 - To All the Loves We’ve Tried Before: 1958

1:15:22 - Cody’s Noteys: Touching Evil (trivia about movies with cursed objects)

]]> yes Episode 282: LA CASA LOBO (THE WOLF HOUSE) (2018) with Finn Odum https://pinecast.com/guid/f839a0d6-2d49-4ab8-8258-3471f7ab7a0e Tue, 04 Jun 2024 11:00:00 -0000 01:44:52 With 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 and outside its shifting walls.

Created by Chilean artists Joaquín Cociña and Cristóbal León, LA CASA LOBO is inspired by Colonia Dignidad, the real colony in Chile where German fugitives conducted extensive human rights abuses while governments looked the other way. We’re proud to welcome Finn Odum, editor at Perisphere, the Trylon blog, back to the podcast to discuss this intense, enthralling, unrelenting story, told using some of the most viscerally creative stop-motion animation you’ll ever see.

Find Finn…

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Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. I’m not gonna tell you what we used as the closing audio because I don’t want to get sued.

Timestamps

0:00 - Episode 282: LA CASA LOBO (THE WOLF HOUSE) (2018) with Finn Odum

1:14 - The episode actually starts

3:03 - The Patented Cody Narveson Summary

6:20 - The film's importance to Chile as well as within a repertory film lineup

11:18 - Kicking off the roundtable discussion

18:53 - Making sense of LA CASA LOBO's visual style

26:34 - Chile and the cycle of exploitation

37:05 - The titular house as a living refraction of the film's “Us vs. Them” mentality

54:07 - Why now?

1:06:12 - The Junk Drawer

1:11:57 - To All the Loves We've Tried Before: 2018

1:13:57 - Cody's Noteys: The House of Champions 2018

]]> yes Episode 281: THE VERDICT (1982) https://pinecast.com/guid/60d85000-0a8c-4739-96dd-8aef71062843 Tue, 28 May 2024 11:00:00 -0000 01:06:36 Frank 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 desperate affair feels less like an underdog success story and more like a hard-won battle with the self; maybe it’s in the misogynist implications of David Mamet’s script (particularly with regard to Charlotte Rampling as Laura).

On this episode, we look at THE VERDICT as a product of its time AND with the benefit of hindsight and come to different conclusions about its makers’ intentions, the means by which they get there, and what the film has to show for its effort after the gavel falls.

References:

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Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Closing audio: “The Bottom” by Johnny Mandel from the THE VERDICT soundtrack.

Timestamps

0:00 - Episode 281: THE VERDICT (1982)

6:01 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary

8:05 - Not the feel-good underdog story the marketing might lead you to believe

21:02 - What a messy version of justice this is

30:27 - Charlotte Rampling as Laura and where we end up in the finale

47:04 - The Junk Drawer

51:07 - To All the Loves We’ve Tried Before: 1982

52:00 - Cody’s Noteys: The Verdictionary (definitions applied to cast names)

]]> yes Episode 280: ZARDOZ (1974) with Natalie Marlin https://pinecast.com/guid/20d9c7a1-ded7-4de7-8c17-c885628e1b51 Tue, 21 May 2024 11:00:00 -0000 02:08:18 With 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 at. But when you step back, it’s got way more going under the hood; in fact, some of us are convinced it’s an iconoclast warning signal for the era of the blockbuster, releasing just a year before JAWS (1975) and three before STAR WARS (1977).

Go on this inter-Vortex journey with us as we welcome Natalie to go inside the big stone head, down the yellow brick road, and to the very heart of ZARDOZ!

References:

Find Natalie…

  • On Twitter and Bluesky at @NataliesNotInIt
  • On Letterboxd at @framingthepic
  • In the byline for "Noise Music," a forthcoming entry in Genre: A 33 ⅓ Series book about the noise genre 
  • On Trylove Episode 162: THE THIRD MAN (1949), Episode 182: CHESS OF THE WIND (1979), Episode 197: RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD (1985), Episode 210: MAD MAX: FURY ROAD (2015), Episode 239: MILLENNIUM MAMBO (2001), Episode 249: THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT (1999), and LONG DAY’S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT (2018)

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Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Closing audio: "Symphony No.7 in A major op.92 - II, Allegretto" composed by Ludwig van Beethoven, conducted by Eugen Jochum, and performed by the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra from the ZARDOZ soundtrack.

Timestamps

0:00 - Episode 280: ZARDOZ (1974)

3:06 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary

4:28 - The provenance of ZARDOZ

18:01 - What “versions” of science fiction it’s referencing/playing on

25:30 - The visual communication vs. long stretches of dialogue

29:06 - The fourth wall-breaking setup

38:59 - Aaron FINALLY gets his freak on

41:03 - A sci-fi piss-take that occasionally reads straight

46:18 - Zed’s “base” existence vs. the bored, infallible upper caste

1:04:59 - Where the movie ends up thematically

1:11:00 - An allegorical warning for the future of movies

1:21:16 - The Junk Drawer

1:29:33 - To All the Loves We’ve Tried Before: 1974

1:31:49 - Cody’s Noteys: The Zar-dossier (ZARDOZ-adjacent trivia)

]]> yes Episode 279: THE NIGHT PORTER (1974) with Kelly Krantz https://pinecast.com/guid/413ecdaa-5a95-42bf-a1f6-f5f6c1ee5598 Tue, 14 May 2024 11:00:00 -0000 01:19:51 With 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! Hence the reputation. But we’re not convinced it’s the irresponsible exploitation film it’s been remembered as. On this episode, we explain why by focusing on the lead characters’ psychology, what brings them together, and what dooms them from the start.

References:

Find Kelly…

  • On Twitter at @kransekage_
  • On Letterboxd at @luckyhoss
  • On Trylove episodes about WINGS OF DESIRE (1987), ARREBATO (1979), and PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE (1974), REVOLVER (1973), and THE DOOM GENERATION (1995)

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Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Closing audio: "Sonata 1950" by Daniele Paris from the THE NIGHT PORTER soundtrack.

Timestamps

0:00 - Episode 279: THE NIGHT PORTER (1974)

5:05 - Starting THE NIGHT PORTER with context

17:24 - Mistaking this movie for exploitation cinema

22:20 - Max’s perverse self-denial

37:46 - Lucia, Charlotte Rampling, voyeurism, transgression, and performance

41:26 - The power Max and Lucia have in their relationship

55:23 - The ending

1:02:50 - The Junk Drawer

1:13:10 - To All the Loves We’ve Tried Before: 1974

]]> yes Episode 278: NORTH BY NORTHWEST (1959) https://pinecast.com/guid/1b2b5456-f07a-41d0-80d1-99091487b033 Tue, 07 May 2024 11:00:00 -0000 01:34:58 NORTH 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 appreciated in context of Hitchcock’s previous films. After all, screenwriter Ernest Lehman said he wanted to write “the Hitchcock film to end all Hitchcock films”! To that end, it’s kind of a greatest hits collection, a suspenseful road movie keeping the tension high all the way from NYC to Mount Rushmore. What’s amazing is that it actually works totally on its own, too. Our discussion touches on the delightful sense of playfulness the movie has, Cary Grant as the perfect avatar of lovable pissantism, the cultural and political implications Hitchcock did not want us thinking about it, and how the auteur’s finely tuned filmmaking sensibilities serve his eighth-to-last film.

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Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Closing audio: “Main Theme” by Bernard Hermann from the NORTH BY NORTHWEST soundtrack.

Timestamps

0:00 - Episode 278: NORTH BY NORTHWEST (1959)

3:01 - The episode actually starts

6:44 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary

9:47 - How NORTH BY NORTHWEST plays to Hitchcock’s well-rounded filmmaking style

23:38 - Hitchcock looking back

45:43 - Critique of masculinity, nations, Cold War politicking

52:47 - Balancing critique and lighthearted fun

1:01:33 - The Junk Drawer

1:13:04 - To All the Loves We’ve Tried Before: 1959

1:14:21 - Cody’s Noteys: Trylove Movie Draft

]]> yes Episode 277: LEGEND (1985) https://pinecast.com/guid/4e88c035-5306-4224-b0aa-98ccbd8ea354 Tue, 30 Apr 2024 11:00:00 -0000 01:43:07 LEGEND 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 order of the universe”. The encounter creates an opportunity for goblin emissaries of the Lord of Darkness (played by Tim Curry) to poison one of the unicorns, steal its horn (alicorn), capture the other unicorn and enslave Princess Lily, threatening to plunge the world into darkness — unless Jack, the pure-hearted hero, can return the unicorn’s horn and avoid everlasting darkness.

It’s an arrow-straight premise with promise for more underneath — but after more than a dozen screenplay revisions and numerous cuts, LEGEND comes out the other end feeling rather hollow. So we’re reading WAY too far into it to see what we can get out of it beyond what it shows us!

On this episode, we also talk about the magical production design, marvel at Tim Cunty’s — er, Curry’s — sassy, satanic swagger; Tom Cruise’s tooth/teeth; and guess how tall two Tom Hardys are toe-to-tip when you stack them on top of each other.

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Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Closing audio: "The Dance" by Tangerine Dream from the LEGEND soundtrack.

Timestamps

0:00 - Episode 277: LEGEND (1985)

2:16 - The episode actually starts

3:18 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary

8:08 - Starting thoughts

16:17 - TC’s CT

18:40 - The power of nostalgia in evaluating movies like LEGEND

33:31 - Rich visuals and a hollow story

42:47 - How Lily’s sexual awakening would bring this story together

1:07:41 - The Junk Drawer

1:16:53 - To All the Loves We’ve Tried Before: 1985

1:19:40 - Cody’s Noteys: L’edging (legend-adjacent movie trivia)

]]> yes Episode 276: THE BEASTMASTER (1982) https://pinecast.com/guid/7847073f-5eb0-48c0-8d6b-5df3c00daad5 Tue, 23 Apr 2024 11:00:00 -0000 01:52:53 THE 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, and a couple of us even struggled to find much joy in it at all. But it still makes for a great discussion, including an evaluation of the movie on its own terms and plenty of comparisons with its (much better) contemporary, CONAN THE BARBARIAN (1982). Plus, what animal familiar would we pick? What’s the largest animal we could beat in single combat? (My money’s on Harry and the kangaroo.)

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#OfSwordsAndSorcery #DCP

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Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Closing audio: "Main Theme" by Lee Holdridge from THE BEASTMASTER soundtrack.

Timestamps

0:00 - Episode 276: THE BEASTMASTER (1982)

3:42 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary (under exclusive license from AG Enterprises, Ltd.)

10:38 - It’s not very good, is it? Or maybe it’s just boring

28:17 - Things that kind of make no sense

43:34 - CONAN-parisons

57:27 - The frustratingly un-pullable threads of this movie

1:05:35 - Our favorite bits of animal acting

1:13:24 - The Junk Drawer

1:17:42 - To All the Loves We’ve Tried Before: 1982

1:19:24 - Cody’s Noteys: Phy-love (animal-adjacent questions)

]]> yes Episode 275: SAMURAI REINCARNATION (1981) with Kris Montello and Blake Hester https://pinecast.com/guid/aec81d31-7051-4cbd-bbd6-0c81870ab81d Tue, 16 Apr 2024 11:00:00 -0000 01:28:39 Featuring 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 resurrect the dead and assembles a team of the aggrieved undead to execute his plans, including disgraced samurai wife Gracia Hokusawa (Akiko Kano), the lustful monk Inshun Hozoin (Hideo Murota), legendary swordsman Miyamoto Musashi (Ken Ogata), and young ninja Kirimaru Iga (Hiroyuki Sanada). The movie follows Shiro’s group as he amasses a demonic force, pursued by Musashi’s rival, Jubei Yagyu (played by Sonny Chiba).

With noted Fukasaku Freak Blake Hester (of Something Rotten) and Kris Montello (filmmaker, Programming Manager for the Asian-American International Film Festival, and programmer for the Slamdance Film Festival), we’re picking apart this tokusatsu samurai freakout with a fine-toothed comb. How well does it work as an action movie? How do its historical origins make its transgressive violence hit even harder? How does it use Judeo-Christian imagery to tap into a specific Japanese social context? What does Fukasaku’s no-holds-barred iconoclasm bring to a demonic fantasy setting? That’s all in here!

Find Kris…

Find Blake…

Also do these things:

#OfSwordsAndSorcery #DCP

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Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Closing audio: “Illusion” by Hozan Yamamoto from the SAMURAI REINCARNATION soundtrack.

Timestamps

0:00 - Episode 275: SAMURAI REINCARNATION (1981)

7:06 - What is it about Fukasaku?

12:19 - Militarized power and the historical context of SAMURAI REINCARNATION

20:34 - No good guys or bad guys — just a struggle for power

28:21 - How Fukusaku robs powerful institutions of their ‘honor’

42:23 - Where the movie slows down and how well it actually works as an action movie

57:22 - Japanese cultural context of Judeo-Christian imagery

1:02:59 - To All the Loves We’ve Tried Before: 1981

1:06:34 - The Junk Drawer

]]> yes Episode 274: CONAN THE BARBARIAN (1982) with Celia Mattison https://pinecast.com/guid/21c7a712-673f-464b-94d3-e231c6edb45c Tue, 09 Apr 2024 11:00:00 -0000 01:40:14 Noted 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 barbarism, and the different paths men can go after they become self-aware.

#OfSwordsAndSorcery #35mm

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Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Closing audio: "Anvil of Crom" by Basil Poledouris from the CONAN THE BARBARIAN soundtrack.

Timestamps

0:00 - Episode 274: CONAN THE BARBARIAN (1982) with Celia Mattison

4:20 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary

6:10 - A movie about conquering and being conquered

10:12 - A more moody, epic, anti-theist movie than you might assume

15:46 - How much character is there to Conan?

23:55 - Mythologization of the self as a man’s man

31:32 - “The opposite of ego death”

36:13 - Conan’s moral compass, such as it is

45:46 - How Thulsa Doom is cast in contrast to Conan

54:07 - How the ending foregrounds the action figure movies of the '80s

1:02:57 - The Junk Drawer

1:10:21 - To All the Loves We’ve Tried Before: 1982

1:13:30 - Cody’s Noteys: Conan the Parnassian (Conan-themed haikus)

]]> yes Episode 273: THE DUELLISTS (1977) https://pinecast.com/guid/aabb49d6-9c48-43e3-94aa-31a54aeb29aa Tue, 02 Apr 2024 11:00:00 -0000 01:36:54 Two 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 the course of almost two decades, Feraud and d’Hubert orbit concepts of honor, loyalty, and the essence of servitude as each hones their blade on the other’s ego.

In this discussion, we talk about how some of the movie’s ideas feel far ahead of their time; how the movie deflates and then glorifies the art of honorable single combat; how important a love story really is in a movie like this; and how THE DUELLISTS serves as something of a codex for almost 50 years of Ridley Scott’s directorial endeavors.

#TheSimmeringFuryOfHarveyKeitel #35mm

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Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Closing audio: “Main Theme” by Howard Blake from the THE DUELLISTS soundtrack.

Timestamps

0:00 - Episode 273: THE DUELLISTS (1977)

3:50 - The episode actually starts

6:37 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary

11:18 - It’s goofy until it’s not

16:22 - The DNA of Ridley Scott’s filmmaking

19:36 - Modern-feeling characters in a movie set during the Age of Enlightenment

23:53 - Ridley Scott’s strengths and how he adapted to the constraints of this project

33:34 - Managed doses of Harvey Keitel vs. Keith Carradine, the doofus

43:23 - Laura and the point of d’Hubert’s romantic subplot

59:38 - The ending

1:10:22 - The Junk Drawer

1:19:23 - To All the Loves We’ve Tried Before: 1977

1:21:06 - Cody’s Noteys: Spot the Scott (Ridley Scott tagline trivia)

]]> yes Episode 272: NOTHING BUT A MAN (1964) https://pinecast.com/guid/a2ade0ef-c56c-4bda-8cc6-82f27badd411 Tue, 26 Mar 2024 11:00:00 -0000 01:44:58 There 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 settle down with Josie (Abbey Lincoln), a well-to-do schoolteacher. Duff’s pride – in his independence, in his manhood, in his blackness – attracts Josie, but rankles the black community around him, who’ve adapted to leaving well enough alone in the deep Southern town they call home. Duff’s chief critics include the aggressive white populace and Josie’s father, a black preacher and community organizer sitting comfortably under the thumb of the town’s white movers and shakers.

Written and directed by a German Jew who left the country at the start of World War II and released just months after the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the movie was critically lauded but underpromoted, underseen, and misunderstood at the time of its release. Its 1993 U.S. rerelease brought it back to the world stage, with its reevaluation cementing it as a forerunner of a storytelling and filmmaking style that wouldn’t find its footing until arguably the 2000s. In this episode, we discuss the semi-autobiographical nature of Roemer’s story, its contemporary appraisal, its show-stealing performances, stage-play blocking, inventive cinematography, and the implications of its ambivalent ending.

#TooFarInFront #35mm

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Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Closing audio: "(Love Is Like A) Heat Wave" by Martha Reeves & The Vandellas from the NOTHING BUT A MAN soundtrack.

Timestamps

0:00 - Episode 272: NOTHING BUT A MAN (1964)

4:44 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary

8:06 - How ahead of its time it really is

12:42 - How Roemer managed to “get it”

19:03 - Key performances

22:10 - Locking eyes vs. avoiding each other’s gaze

25:05 - Materialism for the marginalized and the need to feel like a man

31:02 - Surviving in a world that requires you to be more perfect than perfect

37:55 - The precariousness of these people’s way of life

49:56 - The climax of the movie

1:00:50 - What makes Lee the key to Duff’s decision to come back to Josie

1:05:06 - The ending

1:12:36 - The Junk Drawer

1:23:15 - To All the Loves We’ve Tried Before: 1964

1:25:31 - Cody’s NO-teys: When Was This Photo of Jason Dafnis Taken?

1:27:58 - The first photo

1:31:12 - The second photo

1:33:16 - The third and final photo

]]> yes Episode 271: A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH (1946) https://pinecast.com/guid/6cbd075d-8ea4-45b0-ab91-484b2c440543 Tue, 19 Mar 2024 12:00:00 -0000 01:24:14 Sweet, 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 to collect his soul (Marius Goring as the foppish Parisian Conductor 71), leaving the lovestruck Lancaster pilot in the lurch, legally speaking: Does his passion for a woman he met minutes before his intended death warrant a stay of execution? Or should he be sentenced to serve out the term of his miscarried doom?

Going two for two on the Trylon’s Spring 2024 highlight of Powell and Pressburger’s production company The Archers, we discuss A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH from several angles on this episode: As postwar comfort cinema; as a visual piece astonishingly ahead of its time; as a consideration of the value of human emotion in the face of celestial stakes; and as a singular mixture of the comic, the tragic, and the existential.

#TwoByTheArchers #DCP

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Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Closing audio: "Opening Sequence" composed by Allan Gray and performed by the Queen Hall Light Orchestra from the A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH soundtrack.

Timestamps

0:00 - Episode 271: A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH (1946)

4:09 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary

6:30 - Did they EVER make ‘em like this?

16:23 - Fearlessness, experimentation, and creativity

24:37 - The controlled scattershot of ideas and how it wins you over again and again

31:38 - What works and doesn’t in the courtroom third act

54:16 - Our favorite shots

1:01:03 - The Junk Drawer

1:05:39 - Cody’s Noteys: A Platter of Life and Death (poisoned food dish movies trivia)

]]> yes Episode 270: BLACK NARCISSUS (1947) https://pinecast.com/guid/aff90469-dd57-4dfe-8c14-d6d415bb5625 Tue, 12 Mar 2024 12:00:00 -0000 01:57:46 Five 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 misnomer as a “haunted house” movie; its cultural implications in the wake of the British empire’s slipping stranglehold over India post-World War II; and how the film’s art, direction, and performances highlight its masterful double-dip into both “high” and “low” art.

Donate to help our friend and previous guest Nick Ransbottom get life-saving cystic fibrosis care: https://www.gofundme.com/f/get-nick-lifesaving-cystic-fibrosis-care

“Why Black Narcissus is a Haunted House Movie” by Sophie Durbin for Perisphere, the Trylon blog: https://www.perisphere.org/2024/03/03/why-black-narcissus-is-a-haunted-house-movie/

“Black Narcissus” by Dave Kehr for The Current (2001): https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/94-black-narcissus

"‘Black Narcissus,' British Study of Missionary Nuns, Starring Deborah Kerr, Bill at Fulton -- Based on Novel by Godden” for The New York Times (1947): https://www.nytimes.com/1947/08/14/archives/black-narcissus-british-study-of-missionary-nuns-starring-deborah.html

#TwoByTheArchers #DCP

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Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Closing audio: "Opening Theme" by Brian Easdale from the BLACK NARCISSUS soundtrack.

Timestamps

0:00 - Episode 270: BLACK NARCISSUS (1947)

5:59 - The episode actually starts

8:03 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary

10:05 - He’s a whore

12:29 - Location, ‘haunted house,’ and orientalism

20:15 - The movie’s construction and our mileage with BLACK NARCISSUS

25:35 - Irreverence, manipulative cinematography, and use of Technicolor

38:42 - Using heightened reality to reflect a certain perspective

44:12 - Mr. Dean, the holy man Sir Krishna Rai, and counterbalancing the nuns

54:02 - Striking scene-setting and an introduction to Mopu as a character

59:37 - The ending of the movie and why Cody muted the phrase “BLACK NARCISSUS” on Twitter

1:12:48 - The Junk Drawer

1:24:27 - To All the Loves We’ve Tried Before: 1947

1:26:50 - Cody’s Noteys: Pack of Narcissists (trivia about people who excel in their fields)

]]> yes Episode 269: Interview with Bret Berg, Creator/VJ/“Mad Scientist” of the Museum of Home Video https://pinecast.com/guid/2f119ac7-87ec-437e-a904-1964c55c0d45 Mon, 11 Mar 2024 12:00:00 -0000 01:04:30 With 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 with us to chat about the project, his work, and the state of download culture.

In this special interview episode, we discuss...

  • The makings of a found footage showcase
  • Meeting the Trylon's John Moret and Barry Kryshka a decade ago
  • How you find the humanity in thousands of hours of strange, torrented content
  • Young Sheldon
  • What all this must be doing to Bret’s brain

Find the Museum of Home Video’s streams at https://www.museumofhomevideo.com/

Follow the Museum of Home Video on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/museumofhomevideo/

Get tickets to RING, RING: A DOORBELL CAM FANTASIA and THE MUSEUM OF HOME VIDEO’S GUIDE TO INFOMERCIALS (March 15-17 at the Trylon): https://www.trylon.org/film/the-museum-of-home-video-live-and-in-person/all/

#OtherProgramming #DCP

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Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Closing audio: “Hit It and Quit It” by Funkedelic (heard in the RING, RING: A DOORBELL CAM FANTASIA promotional video).

Timestamps

0:00 - Interview with Bret Berg, Creator/VJ/“Mad Scientist” of the Museum of Home Video

2:56 - Why people come back to the Museum of Home Video

5:23 - How Bret knows the Trylon

7:26 - What attracts Bret to film distribution

12:10 - Becoming a “mad scientist” to put on a good show

14:50 - Appointment viewing and “being people’s Tuesday night”

17:01 - RING, RING and why Bret’s showing this stuff at the Trylon

18:20 - Timely inspirations

21:02 - RING, RING in context of the Museum’s usual fare

24:18 - What it’s like to sift through lifetimes of torrented media

28:14 - Finding the uniting humanity in disparate content and the AI question

32:14 - Using contemporary content in the Museum

37:26 - Repertory cinema vs. download culture

40:45 - Joe Dante’s THE MOVIE ORGY (1968)

44:34 - What keeps Bret coming back to the Museum

46:43 - Bret’s favorite things that he’s put into the Museum of Home Video

50:35 - What is all this shit doing to Bret’s brain? (Also some Dune chat)

53:49 - Dumb Questions (SOUTHLAND TALES and other weird content Bret’s seen)

]]> yes Episode 268: DROP DEAD GORGEOUS (1999) with Drew Tenenbaum https://pinecast.com/guid/30887d3b-d3f6-4b85-a9e2-478d6ef3c8aa Tue, 05 Mar 2024 16:16:11 -0000 01:45:44 With 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 shared satirical nostalgia we feel for the uniquely “Minnesota-ness” of DROP DEAD GORGEOUS.

Find Drew…

“I Want All the Bisexuals To Know: If I Can Edit a Film Blog, You Can Too” by Finn Odum for Perisphere, the Trylon blog: https://www.perisphere.org/2024/02/16/i-want-all-the-bisexuals-to-know-if-i-can-edit-a-film-blog-you-can-too/

#OnlySkinDeep #DCP

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Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Closing audio: "Love is All Around" by Joan Jett and the Blackhearts from the DROP DEAD GORGEOUS soundtrack.

Timestamps

0:00 - Episode 268: DROP DEAD GORGEOUS (1999)

3:22 - The episode actually starts

5:06 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary

6:59 - Drew’s background with DROP DEAD GORGEOUS – a jolt of Minnesota memories

18:53 - Earning “cult film" status

25:56 - Infusion of class adversity

40:10 - The comedy of DROP DEAD GORGEOUS

57:11 - An ode to endearingly awkward pacing

1:04:46 - The Junk Drawer

1:13:51 - To All the Loves We’ve Tried Before (f.k.a. "Other Loves We've Tried"): 1999

1:15:45 - Cody’s Noteys: Miss Trylove 2024

]]> yes Episode 267: LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT (2018) with Natalie Marlin https://pinecast.com/guid/40129159-1390-4f1b-bf9f-aec895f10472 Tue, 27 Feb 2024 13:00:00 -0000 02:03:12 With 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 closes the film, LONG DAY’S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT uniquely mixes the concrete drive of emotion with the fleeting nature of memory. In this episode, we talk about how the first half sets up the second, the protagonist’s intentional unreliability as narrator, the mechanical and narrative achievement of its dreamy long-take ending, and have a little fun picking out the first-act callbacks in the second half of the movie.

“Lost in the Dream” by Natalie Marlin for Perisphere, the Trylon blog: https://www.perisphere.org/2024/02/13/lost-in-the-dream/

Find Natalie…

  • On Twitter and Bluesky at @NataliesNotInIt
  • On Letterboxd at @framingthepic
  • On Trylove Episode 162: THE THIRD MAN (1949), Episode 182: CHESS OF THE WIND (1979), Episode 197: RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD (1985), Episode 210: MAD MAX: FURY ROAD (2015), Episode 239: MILLENNIUM MAMBO (2001), Episode 249: THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT (1999)

#NoirFestival #DCP

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Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Closing audio: “Opening” (开场) by Lim Giong and Chih-Yuan Hsu from the LONG DAY’S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT soundtrack.

Timestamps

0:00 - Episode 267: LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT (2018)

3:50 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary

5:01 - Tang Wei pretty

6:00 - Why Natalie keeps coming back to this movie

14:59 - The “trap” of the second half

24:03 - The power and rhythm of the first half

41:06 - Abstraction and looking at Luo through a noir lens

47:02 - Everything is always about to happen

55:56 - Luo, Zuo, and dualism

59:43 - The cathartic 59-minute long-shot dream sequence

1:08:22 - Luo reconstructing a version of himself in the subconscious

1:12:42 - Cyclical loop-closing

1:32:55 - LONG DAY’S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT Ending Explained

1:42:26 - The Junk Drawer

]]> yes Episode 266: MIAMI BLUES (1990) https://pinecast.com/guid/d85a2da8-57a0-48fd-ba92-78ec0c712dee Tue, 20 Feb 2024 13:00:00 -0000 01:30:02 Based 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, the movie’s comparison to a more typical noir, the pieces of this story that don’t fit, and why it’s better for them.

MIAMI BLUES review by Roger Ebert (April 20, 1990) https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/miami-blues-1990

Review/Film: Cop, Thief and Prostitute in Miami by Janet Maslin for The New York Times (April 26, 1990) https://www.nytimes.com/1990/04/20/movies/review-film-cop-thief-and-prostitute-in-miami.html

#NoirFestival #DCP

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Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Closing audio: “Spirit in the Sky" by Norman Greenbaum from the MIAMI BLUES soundtrack.

Timestamps

0:00 - Episode 266: MIAMI BLUES (1990)

3:39 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary

4:38 - The movie’s left turn from neo-noir to dark comedy

8:17 - Favorite parts/shooting style

14:41 - The pieces that don’t fit become the point

26:14 - Junior’s main character magnetism

33:50 - What Junior wants vs. how he acts around it

43:43 - Junior, Susie, and wearing the consequences of your actions

47:59 - Susie, disillusionment, and seducing the audience

56:23 - The Junk Drawer

1:02:22 - Other Loves We’ve Tried: 1990

1:05:47 - Cody’s Noteys: Miami Haikus

]]> yes Episode 265: BLOW OUT (1981) https://pinecast.com/guid/ba7421db-eb60-414f-968f-ad834a43d7f3 Tue, 13 Feb 2024 13:00:00 -0000 01:56:42 The 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 story, he needs the help of Sally (Nancy Allen), a survivor of the crash, to prove what he saw. Unfortunately for Jack and Sally, they’re both loose ends caught in the increasingly dangerous machinations of political rivals, a hitman gone rogue, and a media machine that thrives on the first thing it can call “truth”.

Watch BLOW OUT on the Internet Archive

Get tickets to THE FIFTEENTH FILM NOIR FESTIVAL: NEO-NOIR (Winter at the Trylon & the Heights)

“Paranoia, Failure, and Female Representation: Brian De Palma’s Blow Out” by Penny Folger for Perisphere, the Trylon blog

“Do You Hear What I Hear?: The Salacious Self-Flagellation of Brian De Palma’s Blow Out” by Chris Polley for Perisphere, the Trylon blog

“Blow Out: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Gadgeteer” by Pauline Kael (originally for The New Yorker in 1981, republished by The Criterion Collection in 2011)

#NoirFestival #35mm

Follow us on Twitter at @trylovepodcast and email us at trylovepodcast@gmail.com to get in touch! Buy tickets and support the Trylon at trylon.org . Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Closing audio: “Main Theme” by Pino Donaggio from the BLOW OUT soundtrack.

Timestamps

0:00 - Episode 165: BLOW OUT (1981)

2:18 - The episode actually starts (ARGYLLE (2024) chat)

3:44 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary

7:00 - A prescient, paranoid political thriller?

18:48 - A manipulative movie about media manipulation

27:37 - Counterpoint: Selling the “bigness” of the conspiracy at the heart of BLOW OUT

38:53 - Collaging “truth” through character ideologies

48:55 - A call to be more affected by the real traumas of the world

1:09:12 - The romantic mechanics of sound design and sound editing

1:15:34 - John Lithgow as Burke

1:24:16 - Other Loves We’ve Tried: 1981

1:26:48 - The Junk Drawer

1:36:04 - Cody’s Noteys: Trylove Feud (Family Feud but with movies that have a niche genre tag on Letterboxd)

]]> yes Episode 264: WERCKMEISTER HARMONIES (2000) https://pinecast.com/guid/6cadc45d-0df1-42f5-a239-3e059d2bc41b Wed, 07 Feb 2024 13:00:00 -0000 01:57:30 In 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 the strings of the circus – enrapture his imagination while things fall apart, until János himself becomes its victim.

Whether you see optimism, pessimism, the unfeeling cosmos, or just a reflection of yourself in the eyes of the impotent carcass rotting at the center of the town and its story, WERCKMEISTER HARMONIES positions itself among Tarr’s most watchable films – an enigma opting to expose rather than instruct.

“A Whale of a Tale: Béla Tarr’s Werckmeister Harmonies” by Luke Mosher for Perisphere, the Trylon blog

#DCP #OtherProgramming

Follow us on Twitter at @trylovepodcast and email us at trylovepodcast@gmail.com to get in touch! Buy tickets and support the Trylon at trylon.org . Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Closing audio: "Old" by Mihály Vig from the WERCKMEISTER HARMONIES soundtrack.

Timestamps

0:00 - Episode 264: WERCKMEISTER HARMONIES (2000)

4:54 - The episode actually starts

7:47 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary

10:51 - Scaling expectations of Béla Tarr and slow cinema in general

23:56 - Visual and non-visual framing devices

34:07 - The film’s expression of recognizable, universal themes

41:13 - János as our “way in” to WERCKMEISTER HARMONIES

52:22 - Grappling with the humanism of Béla Tarr

1:03:01 - The symbolism of the whale and the ending of the movie

1:14:34 - The Junk Drawer

1:19:41 - Other Loves We’ve Tried: 2000

1:22:22 - Back 2 the Junk Drawer 4 a Sec

1:24:06 - Cody’s Noteys: Whalemeister Harmonies (whale-related movie trivia)

]]> yes Episode 263: BURST CITY (1982) with Blake Hester https://pinecast.com/guid/50faea25-dfb5-45d8-9737-4cf0382df64d Tue, 30 Jan 2024 13:00:00 -0000 01:35:57 With 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…

Nuclear Punks Run Amok: Gakuryu Ishii’s “Burst CIty” by Margaret Barton-Fumo for Metrograph: https://metrograph.com/nuclear-punks-run-amok-gakuryu-ishiis-burst-city/

“REVIEW: Burst City (1982)” by Grant Watson for Fiction Machine: https://fictionmachine.com/2021/11/15/review-burst-city-1982/

DCP

Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/trylovepodcast and email us at trylovepodcast@gmail.com 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. Closing audio: “Wild Supermarket” by The Rockers from the BURST CITY soundtrack.

Timestamps

0:00 - Episode 263: BURST CITY (1982)

00:45 - Poop talk, video game movies

10:12 - The episode actually starts

14:49 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary

17:49 - Ishii and the Japanese cyberpunk cinema movement

23:30 - BURST CITY’s inspirations

25:11 - Appreciating BURST CITY vs. enjoying it

34:24 - BURST CITY as deconstructive cacophony

40:06 - American cyberpunk vs. Japanese cyberpunk

50:40 - Japanese appropriation of Western punk in BURST CITY

56:55 - BURST CITY as a cultural document

1:03:46 - Blake’s pairing recommendations

1:08:42 - Other Loves We’ve Tried: 1982

1:10:48 - The Junk Drawer

1:16:08 - Cody’s Noteys: Splurge City (movie-buying ultimatum)

1:31:34 - Good Grief, Give Me a GIF!

]]> yes Episode 262: HARD EIGHT (1996) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1724890545 Tue, 23 Jan 2024 13:00:00 -0000 01:20:13 You’ve seen movies like Paul Thomas Anderson’s 19… You’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 preserve the fiction he’s built so he can stay the person he thinks he is – the person he wants John and Clementine to see.

In this Dry Run discussion, we compare and contrast different takes about what HARD EIGHT is trying to ‘say,’ if anything, and the value of a frictionless story if it’s competently told.

“Meet Sydney: On Paul Thomas Anderson’s Hard Eight (1996)” by MH Rowe for Perisphere, the Trylon blog: https://www.perisphere.org/2024/01/14/meet-sydney-on-paul-thomas-andersons-hard-eight-1996/

Get tickets to “THE FIFTEENTH FILM NOIR FESTIVAL: NEO-NOIR” (Winter 2024 at the Trylon and the Heights Theater): https://www.trylon.org/films/category/neo-noir/

NoirFestival #DCP

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Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Closing audio: “Sydney’s Work Walk” by Jon Brion and Michael Penn from the HARD EIGHT soundtrack.

]]> yes Episode 261: PEE-WEE'S BIG ADVENTURE (1985) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1717612008 Thu, 18 Jan 2024 00:00:00 -0000 01:31:05 Tim Burton’s debut feature feels a little bit lik… yes Episode 260: WINTER KILLS (1979) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1712060211 Thu, 11 Jan 2024 00:00:00 -0000 01:33:55 We’re kicking off 2024 (THE YEAR OF THE #BIG #BAL… yes Episode 259: The 2023 Golden Barry Awards tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1705608477 Thu, 04 Jan 2024 00:00:00 -0000 04:19:32 Dozens of movies. Hundreds of hours of talking. F… Dozens 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 trylovepodcast@gmail.com 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. Timestamps 0:00 - Episode 259: The 2023 Golden Barry Awards 6:59 - The episode actually starts 11:52 - Jason’s personal favorites of 2023 16:40 - Harry’s personal favorites of 2023 22:30 - Aaron’s personal favorites of 2023 28:23 - Cody’s personal favorites of 2023 35:15 - Trylove’s Best Dry Run 54:59 - Trylove’s Best Wet Run 1:06:48 - The Rashomonies 1:11:19 - The Best Animated Feature 1:27:29 - The Best Film Series at the Trylon 1:43:22 - The Best “The” Film 2:02:23 - The Best Non-Series Film 2:07:33 - The Best Cult Film Collective Screening 2:14:44 - The Best Director 2:20:33 - The Best Cody’s Notey 2:28:51 - The Year of the ___ 2:52:17 - The King of the Trylon 3:03:33 - The Queen of the Trylon 3:21:12 - The Best Picture 2023 4:08:00 - Recapping the winners 4:12:05 - Thanking our guests

]]> yes Episode 258: MEMORIES OF MURDER (2003) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1698130926 Thu, 28 Dec 2023 00:00:00 -0000 01:38:44 Content warning: Discussions of sexual assault. … yes Episode 257: TAMPOPO (1985) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1689894807 Thu, 21 Dec 2023 00:00:00 -0000 01:04:35 Juzo Itami’s “ramen western” TAMPOPO is… just a d… yes Episode 256: THE HOLY MOUNTAIN (1973) with Finn Odum tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1687012551 Thu, 14 Dec 2023 00:00:00 -0000 01:11:00 With returning guest and Perisphere senior editor… yes Episode 255: JUNK HEAD (2017) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1682395464 Thu, 07 Dec 2023 00:00:00 -0000 01:45:08 Takahide Hori’s one-man masterpiece-in-the-making… yes Episode 254: FOOTLOOSE (1984) with Celia Mattison tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1676037285 Thu, 30 Nov 2023 00:00:00 -0000 01:49:57 With special guest and former Trylon volunteer Ce… yes Episode 253: TWILIGHT (1990) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1670430771 Thu, 23 Nov 2023 00:00:00 -0000 01:41:08 TWILIGHT (nope!) can be considered in the same co… yes Episode 252: APOCALYPSE NOW (1979) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1664196699 Thu, 16 Nov 2023 00:00:00 -0000 01:50:14 Francis Ford Coppola’s war epic coasts from the f… yes Episode 251: HI, MOM! (1970) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1657535292 Tue, 07 Nov 2023 13:00:04 -0000 01:28:06 One of Brian De Palma and Robert De Niro’s earlie… yes Episode 250: THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS (1991) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1652986758 Thu, 02 Nov 2023 00:00:00 -0000 01:34:44 Content warning: Depictions of abuse and violence… yes Episode 249: THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT (1999) with Women tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1647855552 Thu, 26 Oct 2023 00:00:00 -0000 01:22:34 With Maddy Sheehy, Emma Youndtsmith, Abbie Phelps… With 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…

Find Emma…

Find Abbie…

Find Natalie…

Get tickets to “The Nightmarish Nineties” (October 2023 at the Trylon): https://www.trylon.org/films/category/the-nightmarish-nineties/

Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/trylovepodcast and email us at trylovepodcast@gmail.com 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: "Draining Faces" by Skinny Puppy from Josh's Blair Witch Mix, the official soundtrack accompaniment to the release of THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT.

Timestamps 0:00 - Episode 249: THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT (1999)

2:36 - The Patented Abbie Phelps Summary

4:18 - Maddy’s thoughts

5:47 - Emma’s thoughts

6:55 - Natalie’s thoughts

9:28 - Abbie’s thoughts

11:16 - The use of negative space and avant garde framing choices

17:36 - Learning – and breaking – the rules of filmmaking

19:13 - Daytime sequences

27:22 - The performances and building tension through conflict

37:25 - What makes Heather a complicated female character

40:47 - Comparing THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT to other found footage horror movies

46:23 - The BLAIR WITCH version of reality

54:46 - CURSE OF THE BLAIR WITCH and the moral implications of lying to your audience

1:02:00 - Where the cast is today

1:04:21 - Final thoughts

]]> yes Episode 248: THE VANISHING (1988) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1641412092 Wed, 18 Oct 2023 00:00:00 -0000 01:07:03 Who would you be if not for destiny? What kind of… yes Episode 247: SCREAM (1996) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1636617390 Thu, 12 Oct 2023 00:00:00 -0000 01:38:48 Turns out there’s still a bunch to say about SCRE… yes Episode 246: PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK (1975) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1630130559 Thu, 05 Oct 2023 00:00:00 -0000 01:40:17 Content warning: This episode includes references… yes Episode 245: THE MOSQUITO COAST (1986) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1625807250 Thu, 28 Sep 2023 00:00:00 -0000 01:39:48 Part FITZCARRALDO (1982), part APOCALYPSE NOW (19… yes Episode 244: THE CARS THAT ATE PARIS (1974) with Seth Zarate tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1617668817 Thu, 21 Sep 2023 00:00:00 -0000 01:08:01 With returning guest Seth Zarate! Listening note… yes Episode 243: THE PLUMBER (1979) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1614504159 Tue, 12 Sep 2023 13:56:19 -0000 01:38:50 Content warning: This episode contains references… yes Episode 242: WITNESS (1985) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1608196950 Thu, 07 Sep 2023 00:00:00 -0000 01:34:23 Inside its genre ‘guardrails,’ WITNESS tells the … Inside 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://www.trylon.org/films/category/peter-weir/ “Harrison Ford and the Power of Star Persona in Witness and The Mosquito Coast” by John Blair for Perisphere, the Trylon blog: https://www.perisphere.org/2023/08/25/harrison-ford-and-the-power-of-star-persona-in-witness-and-the-mosquito-coast/ Roger Ebert’s 1985 review of WITNESS: https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/witness-1985 “Peter Weir’s ‘Witness’: A Deep, Subtle and Complex Social Comment Disguised as a Police Thriller” by Sven Mikulec for Cinephilia & Beyond (containing an excerpt of Virginia Campbell’s interview with Peter Weir for Movieline in 1998): https://cinephiliabeyond.org/peter-weirs-witness-deep-subtle-complex-social-comment-disguised-police-thriller/ Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/trylovepodcast and email us at trylovepodcast@gmail.com 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: “Main Theme” by Maurice Jarre from the WITNESS soundtrack. Timestamps 0:00 - Episode 242: WITNESS (1985) 3:05 - The episode actually starts 9:15 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary 11:20 - First reactions to WITNESS and its ‘guardrail moments’ 21:52 - Is WITNESS too married to its genre inspirations? 43:00 - Peter Weir’s rewritten ‘hopeless’ ending 53:29 - The Junk Drawer 1:05:01 - Good Grief, Give Me a GIF! 1:09:48 - Cody’s Noteys: Bearing WITNESS (August trivia through the years)

]]> yes Episode 241: TWIN DRAGONS (1992) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1603218267 Thu, 31 Aug 2023 00:00:00 -0000 01:08:20 It’s not quite like the Jackie Chan movies you mi… yes Episode 240: Z (1969) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1598579373 Thu, 24 Aug 2023 00:00:00 -0000 01:07:07 The opposition leader is dead, clubbed in the cit… yes Episode 239: MILLENNIUM MAMBO (2001) with Natalie Marlin tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1593224847 Thu, 17 Aug 2023 00:00:00 -0000 01:19:51 Featuring Natalie Marlin (https://twitter.com/Nat… yes Episode 238: SAMURAI WOLF (1966) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1586885767 Wed, 09 Aug 2023 00:00:00 -0000 01:17:42 What if Toshirô Mifune was a little bit more of a… yes Episode 237: THE CONFORMIST (1970) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1579452471 Thu, 03 Aug 2023 00:00:00 -0000 01:25:13 A self-sentenced prisoner in Plato’s cave, Marcel… yes Puff Puff MoviePass: ASTEROID CITY, DIAL OF DESTINY, DEAD RECKONING, BARBIE, OPPENHEIMER (2023) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1577675310 Mon, 31 Jul 2023 00:00:00 -0000 01:34:37 We’re back with some relatively rapid-fire though… yes Episode 236: LAWRENCE OF ARABIA (1962) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1572876730 Thu, 27 Jul 2023 00:00:00 -0000 01:15:12 In the first half, he’s a hero – in the second, h… yes Episode 235: SUPER FLY (1972) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1567660267 Thu, 20 Jul 2023 00:00:00 -0000 01:02:40 The reasons why some critics decried SUPER FLY on… yes Episode 234: THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD (1951) with Finn Odum tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1561518253 Thu, 13 Jul 2023 00:00:00 -0000 01:24:36 With returning guest and Perisphere senior editor… yes Episode 233: SYMPATHY FOR MR. VENGEANCE (2002) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1555325359 Thu, 06 Jul 2023 00:00:00 -0000 01:24:44 SYMPATHY FOR MR. VENGEANCE doesn’t ask for much o… yes Episode 232: DAZED AND CONFUSED (1993) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1549981159 Thu, 29 Jun 2023 00:00:00 -0000 01:25:14 "But when I became a man, I put away childish thi… yes Episode 231: WAITING FOR GUFFMAN (1996) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1544993176 Thu, 22 Jun 2023 00:00:00 -0000 01:29:01 WAITING FOR GUFFMAN does something The Office and… yes Puff Puff MoviePass: FAST X, ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE, TRANSFORMERS: RISE OF THE BEASTS (2023) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1541290429 Sun, 18 Jun 2023 00:00:00 -0000 01:13:45 Sometimes, you just gotta feed the content monste… yes Episode 230: THE DOOM GENERATION (1995) with Kelly Krantz tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1538690908 Thu, 15 Jun 2023 00:00:00 -0000 01:26:10 With special guest Kelly Krantz (https://twitter.… yes Episode 229: LADY SNOWBLOOD (1973) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1530833275 Thu, 08 Jun 2023 00:00:00 -0000 01:24:01 Content warning: Depictions of sexual assault and… Content warning: Depictions of sexual assault and suicide. During the Meiji period, Japanese society was seemingly split between those who desired the modernization that came with Western influence and those who insisted on upholding a “pure” Japan marked by tradition and classical thought – all in the borders of one country. LADY SNOWBLOOD is two things, too: It’s a stylish manga adaptation about a demonic daughter exacting revenge for her family’s suffering AND it’s a finger in the eye of both ideals against which Japanese society was measured at the turn of the century. And yeah, it inspired KILL BILL (2003), but I haven’t seen that, so let’s talk about it more on its own terms, okay? Get tickets to A DISH BEST SERVED COLD (June 2023 at the Trylon): https://www.trylon.org/films/category/a-dish-best-served-cold/ Read “The Sound & Fury of Lady Snowblood” by MTT, lecturer at the University of Minnesota, on Perisphere, the Trylon blog: https://www.perisphere.org/2023/05/29/the-sound-fury-of-lady-snowblood/ Watch LADY SNOWBLOOD on the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/lady-snowblood-1973_202211 Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/trylovepodcast and email us at trylovepodcast@gmail.com 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: "The Flower of Carnage (修羅の花)” composed by Masaaki Hirao and performed by Meiko Kaji from the LADY SNOWBLOOD soundtrack. Timestamps 0:00 - Episode 229: LADY SNOWBLOOD (1973) 2:52 - Chapter 1: THE STORY SO FAR, FROM THE LIPS OF ONE WHO WAS THERE 4:46 - Chapter 2: MATERNAL BLOODLUST AND INK INSPIRATION 16:08 - Chapter 3: FIRST SIGHT OF THE RED SNOW MURDER MAIDEN 21:18 - Chapter 4: DEATH SPIRAL ON A BLOOD-SOAKED BUTTERFLY WING 26:02 - Chapter 5: A DEMON CURSED TO CLEAVE PAST AND FUTURE 34:18 - Chapter 6: EXPECTATIONS UNDERCUT ONCE MORE? 42:15 - Chapter 7: STYLE AND SUBSTANCE SINGING IN CHORUS 50:21 - Chapter 8: A HIDDEN CONTAINER CAN HOLD ONLY HIDDEN CHAOS 54:04 - Chapter 9: WITH NO GIF TO GIVE, WHO IS LEFT TO REMEMBER? 1:00:21 - Chapter 10: NOTES FROM CODY: THE BLOODLESS BROTHERLY FEUD

]]> yes Episode 228: THE GETAWAY (1972) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1525616041 Fri, 02 Jun 2023 00:00:00 -0000 01:36:18 Content warning: Depictions of domestic violence … yes Episode 227: THE HEROIC TRIO (1993) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1515007477 Thu, 18 May 2023 00:00:00 -0000 01:26:42 Highly stylized, dark, and often gross, THE HEROI… yes Episode 226: BRING ME THE HEAD OF ALFREDO GARCIA (1974) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1509288946 Thu, 11 May 2023 00:00:00 -0000 01:25:47 Content warning: Discussions of attempted sexual … yes Episode 225: THE PRINCESS BRIDE (1987) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1504260082 Thu, 04 May 2023 00:00:00 -0000 01:21:10 Another entry in the “what do you even say about … yes Episode 224: THE TRIAL (1962) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1500293134 Thu, 27 Apr 2023 00:00:00 -0000 01:19:26 Absurd, theatrical, and meandering, THE TRIAL is … yes Episode 223: EMPEROR OF THE NORTH (1973) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1495016650 Fri, 21 Apr 2023 00:00:00 -0000 01:19:07 EMPEROR OF THE NORTH rides (haha) a thin line bet… yes Episode 222: THE WILD BUNCH (1969) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1488533638 Thu, 13 Apr 2023 00:00:00 -0000 01:44:39 It turns out there’s no fence-sitting at the end … yes Episode 221: RATCATCHER (1999) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1484602312 Thu, 06 Apr 2023 00:00:00 -0000 01:38:04 In RATCATCHER, everything is someone’s fault, but… yes Episode 220: WATERSHIP DOWN (1978) with Emma Youndtsmith tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1479111382 Thu, 30 Mar 2023 00:00:00 -0000 01:27:20 Special guest Emma Youndtsmith joins Trylove for … yes Episode 219: YI YI (2000) with Aaron Grossman tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1470788545 Thu, 23 Mar 2023 00:00:00 -0000 02:00:19 In YI YI, the sudden illness of the matriarch in … In YI YI, the sudden illness of the matriarch in a three-generation household sends the lives of its inhabitants spiraling. In the emotional chaos, NJ, his wife Min Min, his daughter Ting Ting, and his son Yang Yang find themselves reckoning with the end of a generation and at the crossroads of many versions of themselves. In our discussion of director Edward Yang’s final film, we discuss the big ideas he hints at in everyday scenes: generational baggage and a struggle to move forward; the struggle to maintain identity amid changing circumstances; and the inability to control the world’s perceptions of you while you figure out who you want to be. - Get tickets to EDWARD YANG, GIANT OF TAIWANESE CINEMA (March 2023 at the Trylon): https://www.trylon.org/films/category/edward-yang-giant-of-taiwanese-cinema/ Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/trylovepodcast and email us at trylovepodcast@gmail.com 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 is another that might get me in trouble so idk, Google it or something. Timestamps 0:00 - Episode 219: YI YI (2000) 5:01 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary 7:48 - Da best Yang yet? 22:21 - The unifying ideas of YI YI 28:53 - Distance & alienation 34:42 - Tying setting and scene to theme 40:21 - Yang Yang & a changing world 46:48 - Grandma & generational tension 1:00:35 - Little moments where theme is expressed in form 1:09:50 - Readings of the ending 1:15:22 - The Junk Drawer 1:28:16 - Good Grief, Give Me a GIF! 1:36:53 - Cody’s Noteys: Trylove Feud – The Most Popular Movies on Letterboxd from the 2000s

]]> yes Episode 218: TAIPEI STORY (1985) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1468365706 Thu, 16 Mar 2023 00:00:00 -0000 01:40:58 TAIPEI STORY dives again into Edward Yang’s musin… TAIPEI STORY dives again into Edward Yang’s musings on the modern Taiwanese experience, juxtaposing the past with the future against a concrete-and-glass background of 1980s economic disparities. Childhood sweethearts Chin and Lung meet again later in life, when neither of them is quite ready to make anything happen. Debts, missed opportunities, and baseball fill the space between them – and as their relationship enters its quiet death throes, they find themselves helpless to prevent the entropy that drives them apart. - Get tickets to EDWARD YANG, GIANT OF TAIWANESE CINEMA (March 2023 at the Trylon): https://www.trylon.org/films/category/edward-yang-giant-of-taiwanese-cinema/ Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/trylovepodcast and email us at trylovepodcast@gmail.com 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 is a song I think might get me in trouble (even though it appears in the song), so just take a listen for yourself. Timestamps 0:00 - Episode 218: TAIPEI STORY (1985) 2:38 - The episode actually starts 4:29 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary (under exclusive license from AG Enterprises, LLC) 7:02 - Baseball 17:12 - Gwan, exposition & pity instead of love 20:50 - Putting characters in meaningful context 27:58 - A dichotomy between future and past 32:08 - Who Chin is to Lung and the other men in her life 37:36 - Embodying the future/past dichotomy through characters 49:49 - The precarity of modern living 1:00:41 - The Aaron Grossman Edward Yang Filmed Apartment Quality Index (AGEYFAQI) 1:02:59 - The Junk Drawer 1:08:29 - Good Grief, Give Me a GIF! 1:14:04 - Cody’s Noteys: Frank White Story (baseball trivia)

]]> yes Episode 217: A BRIGHTER SUMMER DAY (1991) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1463077339 Thu, 09 Mar 2023 00:00:00 -0000 01:41:52 Si’r and the other rebel youths of 1959 Taipei ar… Si’r and the other rebel youths of 1959 Taipei aren’t misguided – they just aren’t guided. In A BRIGHTER SUMMER DAY, Taiwanese director Edward Yang investigates the broadly social and intensely personal conditions that might’ve led to a teenage murder that occurred during his youth. Si’r and his friends (and his enemies) exist in the vacuum of identity between nations and generations, between warring street gangs, between seasons – searching always for themselves, or something they can call it. - Get tickets to EDWARD YANG, GIANT OF TAIWANESE CINEMA (March 2023 at the Trylon): https://www.trylon.org/films/category/edward-yang-giant-of-taiwanese-cinema/ Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/trylovepodcast and email us at trylovepodcast@gmail.com 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 ambience from A BRIGHTER SUMMER DAY. Timestamps 0:00 - Episode 217: A BRIGHTER SUMMER DAY (1991) 2:58 - The episode actually starts 3:45 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary (under exclusive license from AG Enterprises, Ltd.) 6:19 - Investigating what leads youth like Si’r to violence 23:21 - Honey, hauntology & Western idealism 34:04 - Nighttime as a place where anything can happen 42:30 - Misheard lyrics, our memories, our selves 49:21 - Lighting, staging & the pain of the teenage experience 58:06 - Stewing in people’s problems 1:10:37 - The Junk Drawer 1:13:21 - Good Grief, Give Me a GIF! 1:18:42 - Cody’s Noteys: Our Four Hours (four hours-themed trivia)

]]> yes Episode 216: CHAN IS MISSING (1982) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1457597650 Thu, 02 Mar 2023 00:00:00 -0000 01:26:47 Jo and Steve need their $4,000 back from their ca… Jo and Steve need their $4,000 back from their cab licensing go-between. What they get instead is a tour through San Francisco’s Chinatown, with stops at some of its most charismatic and enigmatic Chinese-American residents. Each person they meet holds up a kaleidoscope to the Chinese-American experience, muddying their picture of Chan and of their very culture. - “Chan is Missing: Reflecting on an Unsolved Mystery” by Andrea Bruiser on Perisphere, the Trylon blog: https://www.perisphere.org/2023/02/17/chan-is-missing-reflecting-on-an-unsolved-mystery/ - EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: WAYNE WANG (Oct. 2008) on Jesther Entertainment: http://jestherent.blogspot.com/2008/10/interview-wayne-wang.html Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/trylovepodcast and email us at trylovepodcast@gmail.com 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: "忍" by Sam Hui from the CHAN IS MISSING soundtrack. Timestamps 0:00 - Episode 216: CHAN IS MISSING (1982) 7:42 - A complex picture of disjointed identity 16:57 - Unique characters & their forced assimilation 26:03 - San Francisco as a haven and a prison 29:02 - Describing, not prescribing, the Chinese American experience 32:36 - Bullshit “accept the mystery” takes about this movie 39:21 - How CHAN IS MISSING uses noir tropes 58:18 - Good Grief, Give Me a GIF! 1:02:44 - Where is the Trylove/Where’s the Trylove (missing persons movie trivia)

]]> yes Episode 212: LOOPER (2012) with Seth Zarate tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1435384243 Thu, 02 Mar 2023 00:00:00 -0000 01:44:02 The Man Hunos Bruno, our resident Bruce Willis au… yes Episode 215: REVOLVER (1973) with Kelly Krantz tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1454605519 Sun, 26 Feb 2023 00:00:00 -0000 01:25:18 A kidnapping, a political murder, a prison break … A kidnapping, a political murder, a prison break – it was supposed to be simple. Prison warden Vito barters with the mob to exchange his stolen wife for Milo, a low-level thug locked up in Vito’s prison. Vito’s decision to keep Milo until the handoff proves wise: Not only is the mob in no hurry to let loose ends stay loose, but Vito begins to develop a certain consideration for Milo during their time on the lam. Find Kelly… - On Twitter at https://twitter.com/kransekage_ - On Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/luckyhoss/ - On Trylove episodes about WINGS OF DESIRE (1987), ARREBATO (1979), and PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE (1974) “Some disorganized thoughts about poliziotteschi films” by John Moret for Perisphere, the Trylon blog: https://www.perisphere.org/2023/02/06/some-disorganized-thoughts-about-poliziotteschi-films-from-the-trylon-programmer/ Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/trylovepodcast and email us at trylovepodcast@gmail.com 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: "Un amico (Titoli)" by Ennio Morricone from the REVOLVER soundtrack. Timestamps 0:00 - Episode 215: REVOLVER (1973) with Kelly Krantz 2:18 - The episode actually starts 6:10 - Kelly’s thoughts 9:00 - The first half and poliziotteschi as pulp for the masses 14:17 - Where REVOLVER falls on the poliziotteschi landscape 18:55 - The movie’s pacing & pieces falling into place 26:18 - Integrity and the push/pull of Vito and Milo 56:21 - Good Grief, Give Me a GIF! 1:04:58 - Cody’s Noteys: Revolv-age Sale

]]> yes Episode 214: CONFESSIONS OF A POLICE CAPTAIN (1971) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1446291949 Thu, 16 Feb 2023 00:00:00 -0000 01:29:34 While lacking some of the exploitation panache in… yes Episode 213: EDGE OF TOMORROW (2014) with Dan Nagan tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1441443118 Thu, 09 Feb 2023 00:00:00 -0000 01:57:21 Welcome Dan Nagan of Everything We Learned (https… yes Episode 211: Salvaging 'Accidental Art' with Dan Halsted of the Hollywood Theatre [Interview] tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1433809312 Sat, 28 Jan 2023 00:00:00 -0000 01:05:17 Dan Halsted is one of the premier film programmer… Dan Halsted is one of the premier film programmers in the United States. In addition to his role as head programmer for the historic Hollywood Theatre in Portland, OR, Dan has amassed a collection of some of the most vital kung fu and exploitation films in existence. He’s salvaged the only known prints of several classics, he holds one of a small handful of many more, and he’s attracted the company of figures like Quentin Tarantino and RZA along the way. We talked to Dan just before AN EXPLOITATION EXTRAVAGANZA, an exhibition of several such prints in February 2023, including one film (Joseph Kuo’s 1977 kung fu classic 7 GRANDMASTERS) and a bunch of old trailers on film. In this conversation, we chat about the program, how Dan came to know and love the Trylon, the shifting demographics for film screening, and what it’s like to look back on a career of rescuing films firsthand before they’re lost forever. Get tickets to AN EXPLOITATION EXTRAVAGANZA (Feb 3-5, 2023 at the Trylon): https://www.trylon.org/films/category/an-exploitation-extravaganza/ Get tickets to GOLD DIGGERS OF 1933, presented by film programmer Chantell Halsted (Feb 5 at the Trylon): https://www.trylon.org/film/gold-diggers-of-1933/ Visit the Hollywood Theatre in Portland, OR: https://hollywoodtheatre.org/ Support the Hollywood Theatre’s goal of purchasing two Norelco AAIIs to ensure they can keep showing film well into the future: https://prod3.agileticketing.net/websales/pages/info.aspx?doninfo=742~5f969332-ec94-41af-822d-5c7ec8f2ca2b&epguid=78f97749-fa19-4772-a914-f346d99cc5f3& Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/trylovepodcast and email us at trylovepodcast@gmail.com 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: "Magic Fly" by Space from the SNAKE IN THE EAGLE'S SHADOW (1978) soundtrack. Timestamps 0:00 - Episode 211: Salvaging Film History with Dan Halsted of the Hollywood Theater [Interview] 1:53 - Bringing one-of-a-kind film prints to the Trylon 6:06 - Why’s 7 GRANDMASTERS (1977) so special? 9:01 - Showing grindhouse trailers at the Trylon 17:20 - Dan’s connection to the Trylon 19:28 - What it’s like to program at the Hollywood Theatre 23:56 - What makes Portland a “movie-watching town” 30:09 - Showing 70mm at the Hollywood 35:16 - Why Gen Z audiences are drawn to film 37:55 - The growth of interest in film during the pandemic 43:06 - Outreach & getting people to come out for film 46:12 - Dan’s film programming white whales 50:17 - How it feels to be one of the most notable film programmers in the US 57:30 - What’s next for Dan

]]> yes Episode 210: MAD MAX: FURY ROAD (2015) with Natalie Marlin tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1431101443 Thu, 26 Jan 2023 00:00:00 -0000 01:49:20 Featuring Natalie Marlin (https://twitter.com/Nat… Featuring Natalie Marlin (https://twitter.com/NataliesNotInIt)! For some, MAD MAX: FURY ROAD was an amusement. For others, it shattered growing cynicism. It’s an epic in the classic sense, thrilling and regaling with focused sights and sounds and craft so impactful it seems like wizardry. At the same time, it’s a bountiful narrative that works with the barest materials – neologisms, post-consumer weaponry, and roving bands of apocalyptic automobiles abound – to tell a rich story of redemption, reclamation, hope, and escape. “The Art of the Car Crash: Mad Max: Fury Road” by Trylon volunteer and Trylove guest Finn Odum: https://www.perisphere.org/2023/01/13/the-art-of-the-car-crash/ “Ride the Brutal Euphoria Wave with Angel Electronics” by Natalie Marlin for Bandcamp Daily: https://daily.bandcamp.com/features/angel-electronics-ultra-paradise-interview Moo: https://mmfrconfessions.tumblr.com/post/125295076648/you-know-that-bit-when-rictus-erectus-drinks-some Find Natalie… On Twitter at https://twitter.com/NataliesNotInIt On Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/framingthepic/ On Trylove Episode 162: THE THIRD MAN (1949), Episode 182: CHESS OF THE WIND (1979), and Episode 197: RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD (1985) Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/trylovepodcast and email us at trylovepodcast@gmail.com 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: "Chapter Doof" by Tom Holkenborg from the MAD MAX: FURY ROAD soundtrack. Timestamps 0:00 - Episode 210: MAD MAX: FURY ROAD (2015) with Natalie Marlin 3:43 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary 5:13 - Rewatching this movie for the umpteenth time 22:38 - The little moments & how FURY ROAD is paced 40:27 - The movie's smart storytelling 58:56 - You can't run 1:03:51 - The technical achievements of MAD MAD: FURY ROAD 1:06:06 - Back 2 da politics 1:09:24 - The Junk Drawer 1:13:21 - Good Grief, Give Me a GIF! 1:18:23 - Cody’s Noteys: Mad Maxes

]]> yes Episode 209: WAR OF THE WORLDS (2005) with Abbie Phelps tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1424942458 Thu, 19 Jan 2023 00:00:00 -0000 01:23:49 Featuring Abbie Phelps (https://twitter.com/goodh… yes Episode 208: PULSE (2001) with Blake Hester tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1420411201 Wed, 11 Jan 2023 00:00:00 -0000 01:24:01 Featuring Blake Hester (https://twitter.com/metal… yes Episode 207: GHOST IN THE SHELL (1995) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1414917517 Thu, 05 Jan 2023 00:00:00 -0000 01:30:34 The philosophical wanderings of GHOST IN THE SHEL… The philosophical wanderings of GHOST IN THE SHELL are exactly what give its plot – occasionally convoluted and hard to follow – a safe cushion on which to land. The conclusions it draws about the creation and maintenance of identity are mirrored in Motoko, a cybernetic humanoid perfected by the Japanese government, and the Puppet Master, the sentient amalgam of networked information she’s tasked with hunting down. Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/trylovepodcast and email us at trylovepodcast@gmail.com 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: “Chant I - Making of Cyborg” by Kenji Kawai from the GHOST IN THE SHELL soundtrack. Timestamps 0:00 - Episode 207: GHOST IN THE SHELL (1995) 2:34 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary 5:11 - What the movie chooses to (and not to) focus on 21:47 - The movie as a vessel for ideas 27:43 - Motoko as narrative lens 34:53 - The music & upending your expectations of anime 47:14 - New Port City & Motoko 1:01:00 - The Junk Drawer 1:11:01 - Cody’s Noteys: 2023 Movie Resolutions

]]> yes Episode 206: The 2022 𝓖𝓸𝓵𝓭𝓮𝓷 𝓑𝓪𝓻𝓻𝔂 Awards tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1411988062 Sun, 01 Jan 2023 00:00:00 -0000 03:13:49 The Golden Barrys return and they’re as contentio… yes Episode 205: SULLIVAN'S TRAVELS (1941) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1406146579 Thu, 22 Dec 2022 00:00:00 -0000 01:42:00 Dedicated to the “mountebanks” and “clowns” who p… Dedicated to the “mountebanks” and “clowns” who produced lighthearted escapist fare during World War II, SULLIVAN’S TRAVELS was director Preston Sturges’s attempt to make the fun of that genre the message of his own entry. Elitist film director John Sullivan seeks authenticity in his own high-minded cinema, insisting on ‘earning’ the right to make ‘true’ stories of the downtrodden by living in the gutters, shelters, and train cars of the western United States. Instead, he always finds himself rejected by the world of the impoverished. It’s a bit tourism and a bit colonizing and it all ends with a hopeful smile. PROTOTYPES FOR THE ROM-COM (Dec 2022 at the Trylon): https://www.trylon.org/films/category/prototypes-for-the-rom-com/ As of this recording, SULLIVAN’S TRAVELS is available to stream on The Criterion Channel. If you don’t have that or don’t want to use it, click here: https://archive.org/details/sullivans-travels Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/trylovepodcast and email us at trylovepodcast@gmail.com 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: Title credits theme by Charles Bradshaw and Leo Shuken from the SULLIVAN’S TRAVELS soundtrack. Timestamps 0:00 - Episode 205: SULLIVAN'S TRAVELS (1941) 3:27 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary (under exclusive license from AG Enterprises) 5:49 - You can’t make a movie that is about the movie you’re making 17:03 - Leading into the third act 24:23 - Gravity 36:27 - Aggressive awareness & the chain gang scenes 41:59 - The church scenes 48:50 - Poverty’s lack of a voice 57:16 - Veronica Lake is an afterthought 1:00:41 - The Junk Drawer 1:09:44 - Cody’s Noteys: Trylove’s Travels (Ride the Bus but with AFI movies)

]]> yes Episode 204: IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT (1934) with Seth Zarate tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1401436978 Wed, 14 Dec 2022 00:00:00 -0000 01:07:39 Returning guest Seth Zarate grabs his trumpet to … yes Episode 203: THE PHILADELPHIA STORY (1940) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1396941142 Thu, 08 Dec 2022 00:00:00 -0000 01:20:03 Socialite divorcee Tracy Lord is engaged again to… yes Episode 202: BATMAN (1966) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1392636970 Wed, 30 Nov 2022 00:00:00 -0000 01:18:50 With a BANG, POW, THWAP, and ZAKOW – it’s the ori… yes Episode 201: THE LAST DRAGON (1985) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1387913653 Wed, 23 Nov 2022 00:00:00 -0000 01:16:22 Listening note: Zencastr fucked up Harry’s track … yes Episode 200: Oops! All Noteys tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1383616321 Thu, 17 Nov 2022 00:00:00 -0000 01:36:57 Here we are, old friends. 200 published episodes … yes Episode 199: MAD GOD (2021) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1378204009 Thu, 10 Nov 2022 00:00:00 -0000 01:24:24 𝙼𝙰𝙳 𝙶𝙾𝙳 𝚍𝚊𝚍 𝚋𝚘𝚍 𝚋𝚊𝚍 𝚙𝚘𝚍. In pr… yes Episode 198: ROADGAMES (1981) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1373090929 Thu, 03 Nov 2022 00:00:00 -0000 01:22:41 Content warning: Discussions of sexual violence. … Content warning: Discussions of sexual violence. ROADGAMES is about an American man hauling meat through the Australian outback who REAR WINDOW (1954)s himself into believing he’s seen evidence of a murder. It’s also about the feeling of coming back to a community after identifying yourself against it for so long. It’s a bit goofy, a bit spooky, sometimes pretty trippy, and often a lot of fun. Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/trylovepodcast and email us at trylovepodcast@gmail.com 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: Main theme from ROADGAMES by Brian May from the ROADGAMES soundtrack. Timestamps 0:00 - Episode 198: ROADGAMES (1981) 2:05 - The episode starts 3:48 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary 17:44 - Jason - Quid’s headspace & the community of the road 27:43 - “Jones or Smith” and the final act 36:50 - Quid & Hitch 53:16 - The Junk Drawer 58:20 - Cody’s Noteys: Trylove Feud

]]> yes Episode 197: THE RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD (1985) with Natalie Marlin tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1369799077 Wed, 26 Oct 2022 00:00:00 -0000 01:28:24 It’s a horror comedy, so we simply had to know wh… yes Episode 196: PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE (1974) with Kelly Krantz tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1365531670 Tue, 18 Oct 2022 00:00:00 -0000 01:03:45 PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE is maybe the freakiest mo… yes Episode 195: IL DEMONIO (1963) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1359878335 Wed, 12 Oct 2022 00:00:00 -0000 01:17:34 Content warning: Discussions of sexual violence. … Content warning: Discussions of sexual violence.

Purificazione isn’t really a witch. The spell she casts on Antonio, a man promised to another woman, doesn’t really have any magic to it. But that doesn’t stop him from creating a narrative that leads to Purif being blamed for the whims of the cosmos (the death of a child, the richness of the soil, etc.).

But as the village becomes more and more contemptful of her, it becomes clear that the demon isn’t an external force invading her body or soul – it’s the conservative norms of the society she lives in that afflict Purif, causing her to doubt her sanity and act irrationally.

Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/trylovepodcast and email us at trylovepodcast@gmail.com 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: “Sabba Fantastico” by Piero Piccioni from the IL DEMONIO soundtrack.

Timestamps

0:00 - IL DEMONIO (1963)

2:11 - The episode actually starts

4:38 - The ‘true story’ setup

13:44 - Tradition, folk horror, and Purif’s place in the community

18:02 - Dahlia Lavi as Purif

25:18 - Salvatore and the tension between Purif’s view and the audience’s view

37:38 - The possession scene and creating multiple understandings of the self

53:30 - The Junk Drawer

1:00:05 - Cody’s Noteys: Teemin’ with Demons

]]> yes Episode 194: ROPE (1948) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1355533072 Thu, 06 Oct 2022 00:00:00 -0000 01:20:24 Look past the false one-take! Look deeply into th… yes Episode 193: GIRLS OF THE NIGHT (1961) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1351538626 Thu, 29 Sep 2022 00:00:00 -0000 00:54:21 Content warning: Discussions of sex work, abuse, … yes Episode 192: LOVE LETTER (1953) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1347350899 Tue, 20 Sep 2022 00:00:00 -0000 01:22:56 WWII veteran Reikichi ghostwrites letters for Jap… yes Episode 191: BAMBI (1942) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1342666486 Thu, 15 Sep 2022 00:00:00 -0000 01:18:16 In Disney’s fifth animated feature, nature mainta… yes Episode 190: FOREVER A WOMAN (1955) (aka THE ETERNAL BREASTS) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1337667163 Tue, 06 Sep 2022 00:00:00 -0000 01:27:53 Falling in the middle of actress-turned-director … yes Episode 187: SMOOTH TALK (1985) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1328377708 Thu, 01 Sep 2022 00:00:00 -0000 01:11:19 Content warning: This episode includes mention of… Content warning: This episode includes mention of sexual assault. Joyce Chopra’s haunting narrative debut follows Connie, a 15-year-old on summer vacation who slowly and unintentionally lands in the orbit of a man who calls himself Arnold Friend (“a friend”). Amid the throes of family drama, discovering her own burgeoning sexuality, and under the increasingly intense gaze of the men around her, Connie receives her first exposure to the social roles to which patriarchal systems relegate women in a thrilling, terrifying, surreal encounter with Friend. Links: - Siskel & Ebert review (1986): Salvador, Smooth Talk, Crossroads & Turtle Diary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4C8FBIFf170 - NYFF58 Talk: Smooth Talk with Laura Dern, Joyce Chopra, and Joyce Carol Oates: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOrTW2dLYCo Buy tickets to “NIC CAGE, NATIONAL TREASURE” (June - Aug 2022 at the Trylon): https://www.trylon.org/films/category/national-treasure/ THE RARE PERFECTION OF LUCRECIA MARTEL (Aug 26-28 at the Trylon): https://www.trylon.org/films/category/the-rare-perfection-of-lucrecia-martel/ CRACKING OPEN THE DISNEY VAULT (Sept at the Trylon): https://www.trylon.org/films/category/cracking-open-the-disney-vault/ Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/trylovepodcast and email us at trylovepodcast@gmail.com 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. Timestamps 0:00 - Episode 187: SMOOTH TALK (1985) 5:06 - The episode actually starts 9:16 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary 11:01 - How SMOOTH TALK sets up its striking final act 21:50 - Connie’s relationship with her family 28:05 - ​​Gender roles and Reagan era symbols 34:43 - Aaron’s workout corner 36:34 - The A. Friend scene 1:00:55 - Where Connie is at the very end of the movie

]]> yes Episode 189: MANDY (2018) with Dan Nagan tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1333801624 Wed, 31 Aug 2022 00:00:00 -0000 01:43:27 Featuring guest Dan Nagan of Everything We Learne… yes Episode 188: LA CIÉNAGA (2001) with Nick Kouhi tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1332822595 Mon, 29 Aug 2022 00:00:00 -0000 01:19:08 Featuring guest Nick Kouhi (​​https://twitter.com… yes Episode 186: ELECTRA, MY LOVE (1974) with Nazeeh Alghazawneh tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1324545781 Tue, 16 Aug 2022 00:00:00 -0000 01:08:38 With writer and former Trylon volunteer Nazeeh Al… yes Episode 185: ACROSS 110th STREET (1972) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1319694652 Wed, 10 Aug 2022 00:00:00 -0000 01:16:38 When $300,000 goes missing in New York City – a n… yes Episode 184: DRIVE ANGRY (2011) with Abbie Phelps tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1315358713 Thu, 04 Aug 2022 00:00:00 -0000 01:19:27 Featuring special guest Abbie Phelps (https://twi… Featuring 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 Heard) is honestly just kind of caught up in it, but eventually she makes it her sworn mission to help Milton. If at this point in the summary, you get stuck on questions like “why,” maybe it’s not for you. That’s okay. Links: - Find Abbie on Twitter at https://twitter.com/goodhunterabbie - Find your local abortion fund at https://abortionfunds.org/funds/ - “NIC CAGE, NATIONAL TREASURE” (June - Aug 2022 at the Trylon): https://www.trylon.org/films/category/national-treasure/ - “GENE TIERNEY” (July 2022 at the Trylon): https://www.trylon.org/films/category/gene-tierney/ - “YAPHET KOTTO” (Aug 2022 at the Trylon): https://www.trylon.org/films/category/yaphet-kotto/ Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/trylovepodcast and email us at trylovepodcast@gmail.com 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: "Alive" by Mark Campbell and performed by Meatloaf from the DRIVE ANGRY soundtrack. Timestamps 0:00 - Episode 184: DRIVE ANGRY (2011) with Abbie Phelps 3:10 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary 6:22 - Why this movie sticks despite its stupidity 13:39 - ​​Casting & other unconventional choices 19:43 - ​​Hell Dudes Rock: The Movie 27:08 - ​​Flavors of exploitation 34:45 - How 2010s this movie is 50:58 - The Junk Drawer 57:13 - Cody’s Noteys: Drivelove (driving movies trivia)

]]> yes Episode 183: SANTA SANGRE (1989) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1310996140 Wed, 27 Jul 2022 00:00:00 -0000 01:02:21 Content warning: Discussions of sexual violence a… yes Episode 20: RAISING ARIZONA (1987) with Eric Leith (Republished 7/19/22) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/634174161 Wed, 20 Jul 2022 00:00:00 -0000 01:25:40 *** Note: This episode was originally recorded a… *** 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! Aren't we all H.I. "Hi" McDunnough, trying to prove to ourselves and those we care about that we can change despite all odds? Fighting against the ghosts of our past while squaring with the geist of our present, occasionally scraping our knuckles on the popcorn ceiling of prescriptive social rhetoric? And whom among us can claim to not be former cop Edwina "Ed" McDunnough, whose career and lifestyle ambitions seem increasingly at odds with the realities afforded to her in the shadow of late stage capitalism? It's a comedy. This episode is the third in a short series on a selection of Coen Brothers films screened at the Trylon Cinema in 2019. Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters.

]]> yes Episode 182: CHESS OF THE WIND (1979) with Natalie Marlin tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1302929833 Thu, 14 Jul 2022 00:00:00 -0000 01:28:43 Featuring special guest Natalie Marlin (https://t… yes Episode 181: CON AIR (1997) with Finn Odum tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1299248950 Thu, 07 Jul 2022 00:00:00 -0000 01:43:22 With returning guest and Trylon volunteer Finn Od… yes Episode 180: THE TRIPLETS OF BELLEVILLE (2003) with Sarah Huisken tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1294874632 Wed, 29 Jun 2022 00:00:00 -0000 01:38:58 With returning guest Sarah Huisken of the Cult Fi… yes Episode 179: TRUE STORIES (1986) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1291152007 Thu, 23 Jun 2022 00:00:00 -0000 01:37:12 A bunch of people in Virgil, Texas, are gearing u… A 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, and the effectiveness of punching without punching down. Links: - The Escape at Dannemora tweet we reference in the Junk Drawer: https://twitter.com/bobby/status/1081971563635847168 - HomeTownNews.com, which we reference in Cody’s Noteys: https://www.hometownnews.com/home/state/tx/ - “NIC CAGE, NATIONAL TREASURE” (June - Aug 2022 at the Trylon): https://www.trylon.org/films/category/national-treasure/ - “GENE TIERNEY” (July 2022 at the Trylon): https://www.trylon.org/films/category/gene-tierney/ - “YAPHET KOTTO” (Aug 2022 at the Trylon): https://www.trylon.org/films/category/yaphet-kotto/ Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/trylovepodcast and email us at trylovepodcast@gmail.com 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. Closing song: “People Like Us (feat. John Goodman)” by Talking Heads from the TRUE STORIES soundtrack. Timestamps 0:00 - Episode 179: TRUE STORIES (1986) 4:41 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary (under exclusive license from AG Enterprises) 7:21 - David Byrne, STOP MAKING SENSE (1984), and understanding through idiosyncrasies 21:45 - Mockumentaries, political alignment, and punching without punching down 41:12 - Louis Fyne and love in a post-alienation society 49:03 - Musical numbers and the stuff between the stuff 1:00:44 - The Junk Drawer 1:12:27 - Cody’s Noteys: Try Stories (small-town TX headline trivia)

]]> yes Episode 60: FACE/OFF (1997) [feat. Dan Nagan] (Republished 6/20/22) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/773864443 Mon, 20 Jun 2022 00:00:00 -0000 01:15:17 Featuring special guest Dan Nagan (@aDapperDanMan… yes Episode 178: BRINGING OUT THE DEAD (1999) with Charlie Mackin tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1287729139 Fri, 17 Jun 2022 00:00:00 -0000 01:42:13 With returning guest Charlie Mackin (https://twit… yes Episode 176: TERROR OF MECHAGODZILLA (1975) with Michael Popham tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1277476255 Tue, 07 Jun 2022 00:00:00 -0000 01:12:23 Featuring the first appearance of writer, Trylon volunteer, Horrorthon body counter, and comms specialist Michael Popham!

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 Mechagodzilla. It’s a pretty stacked movie! It’s also the lowest-grossing Godzilla ever and it marked the end of Godzilla’s Shōwa era before a nine-year hiatus.

Somewhere in that milieu, there’s a strangely human, tender core to the story, anchored largely by Katsura Mafune (Tomoko Ai), the mad scientist’s daughter-turned-cyborg whose position in the plot. We talk about her many motivations and how her character – dutiful to her father’s cause, finding love in her enemies, possessed by her extraterrestrial overlords – reflects both the humanity in the movie’s monsters and the monstrosities of its humans.

Links:

Michael’s blog memorializing Horror Incorporated, a 1970s late-night creature-feature series from MSP: https://horrorincorporatedproject.wordpress.com/

Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/trylovepodcast and email us at trylovepodcast@gmail.com 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. Closing song: Main theme by Akira Ifukube from the TERROR OF MECHAGODZILLA soundtrack.

Timestamps

Due to producer error, the timestamps for this episode may not be entirely accurate! Sorry about it.

0:00 - Episode 176: TERROR OF MECHAGODZILLA (1975) with Michael Popham

4:19 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary

7:04 - Movie good? (Movie good.)

15:45 - Balancing the human and the alien

31:56 - Katsura as nexus between them

46:37 - The Junk Drawer (kaiju insurance, a sense of scale & more)

53:13 - Cody’s Noteys: Godzilla or Not-zilla (tagline trivia)

]]> yes Episode 177: MOONSTRUCK (1987) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1282880359 Tue, 07 Jun 2022 00:00:00 -0000 01:26:32 MOONSTRUCK is a perfect film made in 1987 by Norm… yes Episode 175: CHERRY FALLS (2000) with Audrey Callerstrom tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1273726969 Thu, 26 May 2022 00:00:00 -0000 01:24:28 Content warning: Discussions of sexual assault an… Content 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 buried horrors of the previous generation – not students, not parents, and definitely not Brittany Murphy’s toes. Links: - Audrey’s writing at MovieJawn: https://www.moviejawn.com/home/category/Audrey+Callerstrom - Trylove Episode 126: THE FACULTY (1998) (feat. Eric Leith & Seth Zarate): https://soundcloud.com/trylove-podcast/the-faculty - Buy tickets to “ISHIRÔ HONDA’S GODZILLA” (May 2022 at the Trylon): https://www.trylon.org/films/category/ishiro-hondas-godzilla/ - Buy tickets to “AGNÈS VARDA: DIEU DU CINÉMA” (May 2022 at the Trylon): https://www.trylon.org/films/category/agnes-varda-dieu-du-cinema/ - Buy tickets to “NIC CAGE, NATIONAL TREASURE” (June - Aug 2022 at the Trylon): https://www.trylon.org/films/category/national-treasure/ Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/trylovepodcast and email us at trylovepodcast@gmail.com 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. Closing song: "Fader" by Drugstore from the CHERRY FALLS soundtrack. Timestamps 0:00 - Episode 175: CHERRY FALLS (2000) with Audrey Callerstrom 4:47 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary 7:45 - Audrey’s thoughts 12:04 - Brittany Murphy 15:14 - The movie almost overloads you 18:59 - CHERRY FALLS as a post-SCREAM movie 30:26 - What makes CHERRY FALLS subversive 1:03:56 - Cody’s Noteys - Trylibs: Small Town Murders

]]> yes Episode 174: GHIDORAH, THE THREE-HEADED MONSTER (1964) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1269569971 Thu, 19 May 2022 00:00:00 -0000 01:26:09 Like much of the GODZILLA franchise, GHIDORAH: TH… yes Episode 173: GODZILLA (1954) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1265324221 Thu, 12 May 2022 00:00:00 -0000 01:21:43 The original GODZILLA is a lot more up-front abou… yes Episode 172: CLÉO FROM 5 TO 7 (1962) with Emily Csuy tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1261296343 Tue, 03 May 2022 00:00:00 -0000 01:06:38 Emily Csuy of Stoop Kidz!: A Hey Arnold! Podcast … yes Episode 171: THE CONVERSATION (1974) with Seth Zarate tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1257017800 Thu, 28 Apr 2022 00:00:00 -0000 01:07:09 THE CONVERSATION is remembered as one of the grea… yes Episode 170: THE KING OF MARVIN GARDENS (1972) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1251991504 Thu, 21 Apr 2022 00:00:00 -0000 01:19:34 Bob Rafelson’s third film, THE KING OF MARVIN GAR… yes Episode 169: ARREBATO (RAPTURE) (1979) with Kelly Krantz tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1248522487 Wed, 13 Apr 2022 00:00:00 -0000 01:23:29 Kelly Krantz (https://twitter.com/kransekage_) is… Kelly 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 closer to the dark heart of his obsession. It’s about the fulfilling, soul-sucking enterprise of doing… well, anything worth doing! It’s also a movie about preserving and reliving moments forever and, in a world already full of moments to be experienced, the inherent pull of the pause. Links: Follow Kelly on Twitter at https://twitter.com/kransekage_ and on Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/luckyhoss/ “Rapture and Relapse, Arrebató and Addiction” by Finn Odum at Perisphere, the Trylon blog: https://www.perisphere.org/2022/04/07/rapture-and-relapse-arrebato-and-addiction/ Natalie Marlin’s review of ARREBATO on Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/framingthepic/film/rapture-1979/ - Buy tickets to “DISHONORABLE DISTINCTION: BRUCE DERN’S 1970s” (April 2022 at the Trylon Cinema): https://www.trylon.org/films/category/dishonorable-distinction-bruce-derns-1970s/ Buy tickets to “AGNÈS VARDA: DIEU DU CINÉMA” (May 2022 at the Trylon): https://www.trylon.org/films/category/agnes-varda-dieu-du-cinema/ - Buy tickets to “ISHIRÔ HONDA’S GODZILLA” (May 2022 at the Trylon): https://www.trylon.org/films/category/ishiro-hondas-godzilla/ Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/trylovepodcast and email us at trylovepodcast@gmail.com 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. Timestamps 0:00 - Episode 169: ARREBATO (1979) 1:09 - The episode actually starts 2:57 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary 5:25 - Kelly’s thoughts 09:42 - On structure 17:47 - Distance, addiction, & queer attraction 23:40 - Nostalgia, Peter Pan, Stendhal syndrome, and the many readings of ARREBATO 32:48 - Is this really a horror movie? 37:25 - Empathy, the women of ARREBATO, & the ending 55:09 - Final thoughts: The goop, Almodovar, the humor, & the music 1:06:40 - Cody's Noteys (Trylibs: Rapture)

]]> yes Episode 168: Double Bill – Babysitting Adventures tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1244312545 Thu, 07 Apr 2022 00:00:00 -0000 01:37:30 We’re getting both A) loosey and B) goosey on thi… We’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 more out of them. Join us as we stir the big ol’ content pot and evaluate what delectable aromas we can express with the power of Discourse! Links: - Buy tickets to “DISHONORABLE DISTINCTION: BRUCE DERN’S 1970s” (April 2022 at the Trylon Cinema): https://www.trylon.org/films/category/dishonorable-distinction-bruce-derns-1970s/ Buy tickets to “AGNÈS VARDA: DIEU DU CINÉMA” (May 2022 at the Trylon): https://www.trylon.org/films/category/agnes-varda-dieu-du-cinema/ - Buy tickets to “ISHIRÔ HONDA’S GODZILLA” (May 2022 at the Trylon): https://www.trylon.org/films/category/ishiro-hondas-godzilla/ Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/trylovepodcast and email us at trylovepodcast@gmail.com 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: “Babysitting Blues” featuring Albert Collins from the ADVENTURES IN BABYSITTING soundtrack. Timestamps 0:00 - Episode 168: Double Bill – Babysitting Adventures 3:40 - The episode actually starts 5:26 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary (under exclusive license from AG Enterprises) 7:55 - DON’T TELL MOM THE BABYSITTER’S DEAD (1991) 39:04 - ADVENTURES IN BABYSITTING (1987) 1:16:13 - Cody’s Noteys – Under Review: Applegate & Shue (IMDb review trivia)

]]> yes Episode 167: MILLENNIUM ACTRESS (2001) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1240463416 Thu, 31 Mar 2022 00:00:00 -0000 01:30:14 We hope you’ve enjoyed our series on Kon at the ‘… We 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 life, the roles those experiences shape you into, and the person you become on the other side. It’s full of the late director’s hallmarks: realities created, fictions that replace them, and a keen awareness of its audience. At the same time, it’s an affecting love story that centers an aging actress, the world she grew up in and the ways it changed her, and the people who want to share her story through film. Links: - Buy tickets to “DISHONORABLE DISTINCTION: BRUCE DERN’S 1970s” (April 2022 at the Trylon Cinema): https://www.trylon.org/films/category/dishonorable-distinction-bruce-derns-1970s/ Buy tickets to “AGNÈS VARDA: DIEU DU CINÉMA” (May 2022 at the Trylon): https://www.trylon.org/films/category/agnes-varda-dieu-du-cinema/ - Buy tickets to “ISHIRÔ HONDA’S GODZILLA” (May 2022 at the Trylon): https://www.trylon.org/films/category/ishiro-hondas-godzilla/ Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/trylovepodcast and email us at trylovepodcast@gmail.com 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: “Chiyoko’s Theme Mode 2” by Susumu Hirawa from the MILLENNIUM ACTRESS soundtrack. Timestamps 0:00 - Episode 167: MILLENNIUM ACTRESS (2001) 2:44 - Cody gets BeanBoozled® 5:53 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary 8:52 - Cody’s BeanBoozled® check-in 11:55 - The scope & pacing of MILLENNIUM ACTRESS 29:03 - The relationship of memory, reality, and fiction in one person 35:46 - 20th century Japanese cinema and imperfect documents of history 41:05 - Genya and Kyoji and the audience 52:28 - Final thoughts & ranking Kon 59:06 - One last BeanBoozled® check-in with Cody 1:02:30 - Cody’s Noteys: Millennium Actresses (post-2000 actress trivia)

]]> yes Episode 166: PAPRIKA (2006) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1236485623 Thu, 24 Mar 2022 00:00:00 -0000 01:43:38 In a body of work that defined a subgenre, Satosh… yes Episode 165: DIABOLIQUE (1955) with Finn Odum tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1232329147 Wed, 16 Mar 2022 00:00:00 -0000 01:19:34 Featuring special guest Finn Odum (https://twitte… yes Episode 164: TOKYO GODFATHERS (2003) with Seth Zarate tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1228345708 Wed, 09 Mar 2022 00:00:00 -0000 01:43:04 Featuring special guest Seth Zarate (https://twit… yes Episode 158: FILIBUS (1915) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1207391311 Thu, 03 Mar 2022 00:00:00 -0000 01:05:00 “Theft is good, actually.” – Cody FILIBUS is a 1… yes Episode 163: RAN (1985) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1223540704 Wed, 02 Mar 2022 00:00:00 -0000 01:17:17 Cody’s away, so we spend like 10 minutes talking … yes Episode 162: THE THIRD MAN (1949) with Natalie Marlin tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1220194345 Thu, 24 Feb 2022 00:00:00 -0000 01:33:19 Featuring special guest Natalie Marlin (https://t… yes Episode 161: The 16mm Experimental Animation Showcase tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1214798395 Sat, 19 Feb 2022 00:00:00 -0000 00:20:48 Listening note: Live audio from the Trylon lobby.… yes Episode 160: KAGEMUSHA (1980) with Peter Hogenson tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1215984457 Thu, 17 Feb 2022 00:00:00 -0000 01:34:11 Featuring special guest Peter Hogenson (https://t… yes Episode 159: DERSU UZALA (1975) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1211606956 Thu, 10 Feb 2022 00:00:00 -0000 01:32:50 Content warning: This episode contains a brief di… yes Episode 157: PURPLE NOON (1960) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1203021826 Thu, 27 Jan 2022 00:00:00 -0000 01:21:38 Based on Patricia Highsmith’s novel, “The Talente… Based 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 being starts with murder and only gets more sordid from there. In this episode, we discuss how Tom’s own aspirations square against his violent behavior toward the bourgeoisie, how the movie contrasts Tom to his environment, and what it takes to live the good life – even when it’s not yours.

Links:

Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/trylovepodcast and email us at trylovepodcast@gmail.com 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 by Nino Rota from PURPLE NOON.

Timestamps

0:00 - Episode 157: PURPLE NOON (1960)

2:28 - Three years of Trylove

3:04 - SATOSHI KON AT THE TRYLON THIS IS NOT A DRILL 🚨🚨🚨

7:37 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary

9:24 - Jason’s thoughts

14:12 - Cody’s thoughts

19:02 - Harry’s thoughts

25:30 - Aaron’s thoughts

30:23 - Status, wealth, and entitlement, and what Tom Ripley really wants

36:07 - Truths hidden and revealed by people’s faces

39:30 - How the film sharpens its view of Tom over the course of the movie

47:40 - Marge

48:58 - The market scene: “Smile and be a villain”

54:08 - Final thoughts

1:01:27 - Cody’s Noteys: Color Me Trylove (color-themed movie trivia)

]]> yes Episode 156: DEVIL IN A BLUE DRESS (1995) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1198287118 Wed, 19 Jan 2022 00:00:00 -0000 01:03:41 DEVIL IN A BLUE DRESS is a movie about the path t… yes Episode 155: Building a Boutique Film Label with Jonathan Hertzberg of Fun City Editions tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1195869868 Sun, 16 Jan 2022 00:00:00 -0000 01:06:32 Here’s a special bonus episode for y’all – a wond… Here’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 of, and the comfort of knowing there’s always an audience for something. - Pre-order Fun City Editions’s January 2022 release, a 2K Blu-ray restoration of Lynn Ramsay’s MORVERN CALLAR (2002), here: https://vinegarsyndrome.com/collections/frontpage-partner-labels/products/morvern-callar-fun-city-editions - Learn more about Fun City Editions and browse the catalog on their website: https://www.funcityeditions.com/ - Shop Fun City Editions releases and merch through Vinegar Syndrome: https://vinegarsyndrome.com/collections/fun-city-editions - Follow Fun City Editions on Twitter at https://twitter.com/FunCityEdition Special thanks to John Moret, film programmer at the Trylon Cinema, for connecting us with Jonathan. Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/trylovepodcast and email us at trylovepodcast@gmail.com 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: "Opening Credits Music” from the WALKING THE EDGE soundtrack by Jay Chattaway. Timestamps 0:00 - Episode 155: Building a Boutique Film Label with Jonathan Hertzberg of Fun City Editions 4:56 - Fun City’s connections to the Trylon 6:20 - The learning curve from Kino to one-man show 8:53 - How you build film distribution relationships 11:10 - Bringing MORVERN CALLAR (2002) back to life 16:54 - The freedom of having your own niche 20:08 - How do you know a Fun City Editions film? 26:34 - Fun City’s white whale 31:50 - The right pace of releases for Fun City 35:53 - Finding an audience for older, lesser-known films 41:13 - Building branding & loyalty 47:48 - Sourcing new art for disc packaging 51:10 - How to reach younger audiences 57:46 - A little bit about WALKING THE EDGE (1985) 1:00:35 - Plugs & goodbyes

]]> yes Episode 154: LAURA (1944) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1194013129 Fri, 14 Jan 2022 00:00:00 -0000 01:38:09 Released the same year as the better-remembered D… yes Episode 153: POSSESSION (1981) with Blake Hester tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1189818802 Fri, 07 Jan 2022 00:00:00 -0000 01:43:15 Content warning: Discussions of domestic and sexu… yes Episode 152: The 2021 𝓖𝓸𝓵𝓭𝓮𝓷 𝓑𝓪𝓻𝓻𝔂 Awards tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1184984581 Fri, 31 Dec 2021 00:00:00 -0000 03:41:32 It’s the most highly anticipated event in podcast… yes Episode 151: BATMAN RETURNS (1992) Christmas Special with Logan Lafferty & Seth Zarate tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1181830747 Tue, 28 Dec 2021 00:00:00 -0000 01:36:56 Happy holidays and 𝙈𝙀𝙊𝙒, everyone! 🐈🦇🐧🎄 B… Happy 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 electric heart of Gotham. It’s bursting at the seams with so many weird bits and baubles that it’s astonishing it ever got made, let alone that it makes them all work so well. In this episode, we discuss the movie’s brash queerness, pick apart the ways it uses its aesthetic to highlight the class struggle at its heart, and compare this movie to the uneven cinematic tidal wave that superhero movies have become in the 29 years since its release. Find Logan at the following links: - https://twitter.com/mrleviathan - https://letterboxd.com/leviathan/ Find Seth online at - https://twitter.com/snzarate - https://letterboxd.com/snzarate/ Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/trylovepodcast and email us at trylovepodcast@gmail.com 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: I don’t wanna get sued so just use context clues and take your best guess. Timestamps 0:00 - Episode 151: BATMAN RETURNS (1992) and Noglove drink chat 3:17 - The episode actually starts 5:44 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary 7:29 - Logan’s thoughts & his lifelong love for the Caped Crusader 8:50 - Seth’s thoughts 10:57 - The indelible imagery of BATMAN RETURNS 12:16 - The whiplash of such zany comic elements 17:37 - A list of reasons this movie is absolutely insane 24:40 - Our favorite quotes & moments 32:16 - Satire & this movie in conversation with modern superhero cinema 37:54 - Is Michael Gough the best Alfred Pennyworth? 44:59 - Power & class politics in Tim Burton’s Gotham 52:30 - Michelle Pfeiffer’s Catwoman 56:58 - The downright artful composition of BATMAN RETURNS 1:04:29 - Final thoughts (penguin sea burials, treasure heists & more) 1:11:21 - Cody’s Noteys: Riddle Me This (Batman actor trivia)

]]> yes Episode 150: THE GREEN RAY (1986) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1180963555 Thu, 23 Dec 2021 00:00:00 -0000 01:33:13 A series on Éric Rohmer’s films of the 1980s clos… yes Episode 149: BOYFRIENDS AND GIRLFRIENDS (1987) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1176753370 Thu, 16 Dec 2021 00:00:00 -0000 01:29:36 Episode two of Éric Rohmer’s 1980s at the Trylon … yes Episode 148: THE AVIATOR'S WIFE (1981) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1173057835 Fri, 10 Dec 2021 00:00:00 -0000 01:03:47 Our first episode of Éric Rohmer’s 1980s at the T… Our 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 Anne isn’t nearly as interesting as what they learn about each other as, conversation by conversation, they carve out images of one another as complex and unpredictable as the magically charming locales in which they have them. In our discussion of this humorous, dramatic, gut-wrenching paean to young love, naïveté, and Protagonist Syndrome, we discuss how the methodical movement of characters through the city and through the day helps build them in the way your own environment shapes you – externalities creating interiority. Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/trylovepodcast and email us at trylovepodcast@gmail.com 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: “Paris m'a séduit” performed by Arielle Dombasle with Jean-Louis Valéro from the THE AVIATOR’S WIFE soundtrack. Resources Éric Rohmer’s 1980s at the Trylon https://www.trylon.org/films/category/eric-rohmers-1980s/ “In the Moment: Marie Rivière in The Aviator’s Wife” by Matías Piñeiro for Film Comment https://www.filmcomment.com/article/in-the-moment-marie-riviere-in-the-aviators-wife/ “The Aviator’s Wife” review by Janet Maslin for The New York Times (Oct. 7, 1981) https://www.nytimes.com/1981/10/07/movies/avaitor-s-wife-of-rohmer.html 0:00 - Episode 148: THE AVIATOR’S WIFE (1981) 5:00 - The episode actually starts 6:07 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary and thoughts on Rohmer from Trylon film programmer John Moret 9:32 - Thoughts on the print, paris in the 80s, & ‘anthropological’ films 15:17 - Transit as development 17:30 - Movement and pacing in a film all about dialogue 21:15 - The diner scene & slice of life vibes 25:10 - Comparisons to Wong Kar-wai, Richard Linklater, & more 30:29 - Naïveté, young love, and stages of maturity 35:25 - François and main character syndrome 43:35 - The invisible coercive forces that guide these dialogues 48:55 - How much gravity François gives his relationships 53:35 - The ending 58:37 - Final thoughts

]]> yes Episode 147: THE ENIGMA OF KASPAR HAUSER (1974) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1168943341 Sat, 04 Dec 2021 00:00:00 -0000 01:32:51 A man raised in isolation is dumped in Nuremberg … A 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 its subject, the secret to the movie’s title, the cultural implications of its treatment of language, and the real-life tragic figure who portrayed Kaspar. Then we pull the ripcord on one of the most unhinged editions of Cody’s Noteys yet. Aaron may factually [FICTIONALLY] kill [CHIDE] Cody [PARODY]. Resources “Bruno S., Street Musician Turned Lead Actor in Herzog Classics, Dies at 78” at The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/15/arts/music/15bruno.html Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/trylovepodcast and email us at trylovepodcast@gmail.com 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: “Agnus Dei” by Florian Fricke of Popol Vuh from THE ENIGMA OF KASPAR HAUSER. 0:00 - Episode 147: THE ENIGMA OF KASPAR HAUSER (1974) 2:00 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary 5:40 - A discussion of the film’s two titles 9:20 - Jason's thoughts (incl. universal struggles & where God is during all this) 13:25 - Cody's thoughts (incl. projection & self-actualization) 18:33 - Harry’s thoughts (incl. language, context & Derrida) 29:21 - Aaron’s thoughts (incl. which villagers he’d punch first) 33:05 - Is the movie looking for pity? Sympathy? Humor? Ire? 38:00 - The labels the world puts on Kaspar 46:54 - What Kaspar's dreams might mean 55:28 - Final thoughts 56:53 - Cody’s Noteys (Trylove Feud)

]]> yes Episode 146: FITZCARRALDO (1982) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1164367519 Sat, 27 Nov 2021 00:00:00 -0000 01:06:11 “If it was necessary to climb down into hell and … yes Episode 145: COBRA VERDE (1987) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1160115253 Thu, 18 Nov 2021 00:00:00 -0000 01:22:39 Klaus Kinski again appears as That Freaky Guy Who… yes Episode 144: AGUIRRE, THE WRATH OF GOD (1972) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1156597858 Fri, 12 Nov 2021 00:00:00 -0000 01:15:25 You don’t have to squint to see what AGUIRRE, THE… yes Episode 143: NOSFERATU THE VAMPYRE (1979) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1152167062 Fri, 05 Nov 2021 00:00:00 -0000 01:25:58 A strikingly stylized reimagining of the classic … yes Episode 142: Horrorthon V: Son of Horrorthon with Seth Zarate tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1148730166 Fri, 29 Oct 2021 00:00:00 -0000 01:20:07 Featuring returning guest Seth Zarate (https://tw… yes Episode 141: UNCLE BOONMEE WHO CAN RECALL HIS PAST LIVES (2010) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1144067356 Fri, 22 Oct 2021 00:00:00 -0000 01:29:50 When was the last time a movie made you consider … When 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 found on the internet. We just so happen to pick up a few ghosts along the way and leave little versions of ourselves behind – like the text you're reading or the podcast you might listen to in a few minutes. Say hello to those guys for us, would you? Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/trylovepodcast and email us at trylovepodcast@gmail.com 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. Music: “Acrophobia” by Jettamon Malayota (Penguin Villa) from the UNCLE BOONMEE WHO CAN RECALL HIS PAST LIVES soundtrack. 0:00 - Episode 141: UNCLE BOONMEE WHO CAN RECALL HIS PAST LIVES (2010) 2:19 - The episode actually starts 3:01 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary (franchised by Harry Mackin) 6:06 - Jason’s thoughts 9:54 - Cody’s thoughts 14:34 - Harry’s thoughts 20:38 - Boonmee and modes of being 34:06 - Understanding the movie’s impact on three levels 37:54 - Haunting mundanity 41:31 - The power of images 46:54 - Boonmee dies as he lived: A man 50:33 - Intentional, necessary abstraction & ambiguity 53:43 - A lamentation for the end of the film 1:03:03 - Final thoughts 1:08:43 - Cody’s Noteys: Uncle Notey (trivia)

]]> yes Episode 140: HARVEY (1950) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1139649394 Fri, 15 Oct 2021 00:00:00 -0000 01:28:24 It’s impossible to deny the charm of HARVEY, beca… yes Episode 139: RUMBLE IN THE BRONX (1995) with Seth Zarate tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1136151340 Fri, 08 Oct 2021 00:00:00 -0000 01:17:11 Featuring special guest Seth Zarate (https://twit… yes Episode 138: SHERLOCK, JR. (1924) with Chris Polley tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1132126516 Thu, 30 Sep 2021 00:00:00 -0000 01:15:20 Featuring special guest Chris Polley (https://twi… yes Episode 137: BUT I’M A CHEERLEADER (1999) with Emily Csuy & Charlie Mackin tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1128124504 Fri, 24 Sep 2021 00:00:00 -0000 01:23:32 Featuring special guests Emily Csuy (of Stoop Kid… Featuring special guests Emily Csuy (of Stoop Kidz!: A Hey Arnold! Podcast) and Charlie Mackin (https://twitter.com/charliemander13)! BUT I’M A CHEERLEADER is Jamie Babbit’s tacky, iconic entry in the history of sardonic queer cinema, panned at release but brought back as a cult classic by the queer communities it was made for. Its dire subject matter (an all-American cheerleader discovers her homosexuality by force when she’s sent to conversion therapy) is wrapped in a bubblegum aesthetic and inflammatory, comedic writing, positioning it between somewhere between “quaint queer dramedy” and “John Waters camp”. Its insistence on subverting straight symbology and queering the “traditional Western lifestyle” expands its focus beyond a singular queer girl finding herself to include conversations we’re still having today on gender expression, matrimony, queer joy, and more. Find Emily on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/emilycsuy/, listen to Stoop Kidz! wherever you get podcasts, and find the podcast on Twitter at https://twitter.com/StoopKidzPod and Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/stoopkidzpod/ Follow Charlie on Twitter at https://twitter.com/charliemander13 and Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/charliemander/ Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/trylovepodcast and email us at trylovepodcast@gmail.com 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. Music: “Glass Vase Cello Case” by Tattle Tale from the BUT I’M A CHEERLEADER soundtrack. - Learn about the anti-LGBTQ practice of conversion therapy and what you can do to help outlaw it at https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/what-is-conversion-therapy-lgbtq/ - “The new girls of summer” cover story in OUT Magazine, July 2000: https://books.google.com/books?id=oWIEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false - “Silk Chiffon” by MUNA feat. Phoebe Bridgers, a music video inspired by BUT I’M A CHEERLEADER: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhyk9rchC2c - Emily referenced “Cheerleader” by St. Vincent on her outro. It’s a good song. Listen to it here: https://youtu.be/LEY9GJAm8bA 0:00 - BUT I’M A CHEERLEADER (1999) 2:17 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary (licensed by Jason Dafnis) 4:51 - Emily’s thoughts 8:03 - Charlie’s thoughts 9:01 - Jason’s thoughts 14:07 - Cody’s thoughts 17:59 - Harry’s thoughts 22:39 - Should BUT I’M A CHEERLEADER be more transgressive? 33:59 - Shame, growth, and Megan + Graham 47:19 - The “ex-ex-gays” and finding community 52:30 - The problematic fifth step of conversion 1:00:13 - Cody’s Noteys (“But I’m a Trylover” trivia)

]]> yes Episode 136: DRUNKEN MASTER II (1994) aka THE LEGEND OF DRUNKEN MASTER (2000) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1121248471 Tue, 14 Sep 2021 00:00:00 -0000 01:28:29 DRUNKEN MASTER II, known as THE LEGEND OF DRUNKEN… yes Episode 135: WINGS OF DESIRE (1987) with Kelly Krantz tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1119399151 Wed, 08 Sep 2021 00:00:00 -0000 01:17:50 Content warnings: Suicide. This week, we’re join… Content warnings: Suicide. This week, we’re joined by Trylonteer and movie lover Kelly Krantz (https://twitter.com/kransekage_) to discuss one of Wim Wenders’ classic films: WINGS OF DESIRE! WINGS OF DESIRE tells the story of Damiel and Cassiel, angels floating above Cold War-era Berlin, studying, analyzing, and listening to our inner thoughts – but never revealing their presence. Damiel eventually pines for the inimitable “now”-ness of the human condition, embodied in Marion, a trapeze artist with the roving carnival, whom he would say he loves if he knew what love really felt like. With help from a former angel (Peter Falk, exuding some of his coziest Big Grandpa Energy), Damiel sacrifices his superhumanity (and his anonymity) to know and be known – to the human world and the woman he wants to feel it with. Follow Kelly on Twitter at https://twitter.com/kransekage_ and on Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/luckyhoss/ Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/trylovepodcast and email us at trylovepodcast@gmail.com 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. Music: “From Her to Eternity” by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds from the WINGS OF DESIRE soundtrack. 0:00 - Episode 135: WINGS OF DESIRE (1987) with Kelly Krantz 3:21 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary 5:24 - Kelly’s thoughts 6:34 - Jason’s thoughts 9:21 - Cody’s thoughts 12:18 - Harry’s thoughts 16:21 - Aaron’s thoughts 20:00 - The magic of Peter Falk 26:09 - The colorful final act of the movie 35:55 - Music, casting, and the experiential melting pot 39:03 - Cassiel 45:42 - Spare thoughts 56:05 - Cody’s Noteys (The Falk in Our Stars)

]]> yes Episode 134: SPRING BREAKERS (2012) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1115144473 Sat, 04 Sep 2021 00:00:00 -0000 01:25:07 Content warning: Explicit discussions of sexual c… yes Episode 133: KIKI’S DELIVERY SERVICE (1989) (feat. Charlie Mackin) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1110857728 Thu, 26 Aug 2021 00:00:00 -0000 01:26:04 Featuring returning guest Charlie Mackin (https:/… Featuring returning guest Charlie Mackin (https://twitter.com/charliemander13)! KIKI’S DELIVERY SERVICE is about how the journey to self-actualization, despite being an internal one, is never taken alone. Thirteen-year-old Kiki ventures off to find her own identity as a witch – whatever that may be – and learns more about herself, her talents, and how others appreciate them (or don’t) when she tries doing the thing she loves for a living. We’re known fans of Studio Ghibli’s repertoire, but KIKI’S DELIVERY SERVICE is Charlie’s favorite movie of all time, so of course we wanted to get her opinion on this anime classic. We talk about what’s held up and why, the movie’s nuanced picture of the material and spiritual exchanges of young adulthood, and what Kiki’s journey means to us as people who’ve grown up to exchange our skills for money. Follow Charlie on Twitter at https://twitter.com/charliemander13 and on Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/charliemander/ Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/trylovepodcast and email us at trylovepodcast@gmail.com 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. Music: “On a Clear Day/A Town with an Ocean View” from the KIKI’S DELIVERY SERVICE soundtrack composed by Joe Hisaishi and performed by New Japan Philharmonic World Dream Orchestra. 0:00 - Episode 133: KIKI’S DELIVERY SERVICE (1989) (feat. Charlie Mackin) 1:25 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary 4:53 - Charlie’s thoughts 7:05 - Jason’s thoughts 9:59 - Harry’s thoughts 14:42 - Aaron’s thoughts 19:22 - Miyazaki’s old man politics and the generation gap 27:00 - Kiki’s evolving motivation 31:50 - Kiki’s insecurity and seeing herself through others’ eyes 44:47 - Animation communicating theme 47:19 - The climax & why people don’t like the ending 56:44 - Dubbing differences 1:04:43 - Spare thoughts

]]> yes Episode 132: NIGHT MOVES (1975) (feat. Matt Clark) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1107251848 Fri, 20 Aug 2021 00:00:00 -0000 01:24:53 Featuring returning guest Matt Clark (https://twi… yes Episode 131: KEY LARGO (1948) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1103049313 Sat, 14 Aug 2021 00:00:00 -0000 01:27:53 KEY LARGO is a story about leaving to change thin… yes Episode 130: LADY TERMINATOR (1988) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1098416026 Wed, 04 Aug 2021 00:00:00 -0000 00:55:46 First she mates… then she terminates. Then we tal… yes Episode 129: MIRROR (1975) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1093827505 Thu, 29 Jul 2021 00:00:00 -0000 01:27:57 Warning: This podcast was recorded at 7 a.m. Cent… Warning: This podcast was recorded at 7 a.m. Central on a Sunday morning. Minor bullshit, “on one”-ness, and legitimately enlightening discussion ensue. It was stupid of me to write that THE SACRIFICE (1986) is Tarkovsky’s most personal film. That’s definitely MIRROR. Depicting stories from Tarkovsky’s own life and cognition with a dreamlike throughline, it’s a movie that seeks to explore the relationship of self and memory rather than explain it. It can be hard to even summarize, full of nonlinear scenes only loosely connected by theme: A dying poet reciting his work atop vignettes of a tortured life; the dissolution of a marriage, dying hope for the future, and the relinquishing of cultural identity; the definition of self amid the oppression of the state. It’s about how our selves get mixed in among our memories, and what place personal stories have in learning about others; it’s best approached as a whole rather than in the moment, which makes it a great movie to podcast about. Resources - “The Films of Andrei Tarkovsky: A Visual Fugue” by Vida T. Johnson & Graham Petrie: https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/films-of-andrei-tarkovsky-vida-t-johnson/1110992238 Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/trylovepodcast and email us at trylovepodcast@gmail.com 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. Music: “The Indian Queen” composed by Henry Purcell, performed by Bath Festival Orchestra, and conducted by Yehudi Menuhin from the MIRROR soundtrack. 0:00 - Episode 129: MIRROR (1975) 2:22 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary 5:04 - Jason’s thoughts 7:57 - Cody’s thoughts 12:50 - Harry’s thoughts 19:39 - Aaron’s thoughts 27:07 - The dissolution of the self in memory 33:11 - Tarkovsky, reflections, and time 41:57 - Using dreams and time to understand the self 45:43 - A confrontation with the limitations of the self 51:17 - What does it mean to be a “personal” film? 1:07:44 - Cody’s Noteys: Morning Edition (Upon Reflection… )

]]> yes Episode 128: THE SACRIFICE (1986) (feat. Seth Zarate) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1091826427 Fri, 23 Jul 2021 00:00:00 -0000 01:04:52 Featuring special guest Seth Zarate (https://twit… Featuring special guest Seth Zarate (https://twitter.com/snzarate)! Andrei Tarkovsky’s final film might also be his most personal. Through the tale of a family rendered catatonic by impending nuclear obliteration and one man’s fateful gambit to avoid disaster, he wrestles with the morality of human existence, the sin of the unnecessary, and the role of faith in determining the self. It was a first for all of us, and while we didn’t all go in with the same expectations, we all came to what we think is a pretty good understanding of a remarkably dense film. Follow Seth on Twitter at https://twitter.com/snzarate and on Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/snzarate/ Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/trylovepodcast and email us at trylovepodcast@gmail.com 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. Music: “Erbarme dich, mein Gott” from 'St Matthew Passion' (BWV 244) composed by J.S. Bach and performed by Julia Hamari, Suddeutscher Madrigalchor & Wolfgang Gonnenwein from the THE SACRIFICE soundtrack. 0:00 - Episode 128: THE SACRIFICE (1986) 2:11 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary 3:52 - Jason’s thoughts 6:45 - Harry’s thoughts 10:38 - Seth’s thoughts 13:04 - Aaron’s thoughts 13:53 - Aaron’s promise to watch every Tarkovsky movie this year 18:02 - Narcissism, philosophical dread & character development 26:46 - Movies’ problem with religious stories 35:33 - Technology and the sin of that which is unnecessary 53:27 - Spare thoughts

]]> yes Episode 127: CLAUDINE (1974) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1085793760 Wed, 14 Jul 2021 00:00:00 -0000 01:21:12 (Listening note: Harry was late, so we start the … (Listening note: Harry was late, so we start the episode by talking bullshit about Star Wars and some other stuff. Use the timestamps to skip to the good stuff.) CLAUDINE isn’t a textbook blaxploitation film, but it leans on those tropes and expectations to subvert them in a really radical way, especially in the context of its 1974 release. The story of a struggling mother on welfare finding love with a hardworking man amid the trials of life under capitalism is given a sharper edge by its script, an honest (if often ugly) window into the realities of being a Black American. Moreover, it’s a striking portrait of how those material realities remove opportunity, and what people do to find belonging, value, and worth in each other. Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/trylovepodcast and email us at trylovepodcast@gmail.com 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. Music: “The Makings of You” composed by Curtis Mayfield and performed by Gladys Knight and the Pips from the CLAUDINE soundtrack. 0:00 - Episode 127: CLAUDINE (1974) 00:45 - Pre-Harry talk (Star Wars Holiday Special & more) 9:51 - The episode actually starts 11:01 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary 12:52 - Jason’s thoughts (feat. Aaron) 18:47 - Cody’s thoughts 22:08 - Harry’s thoughts 28:01 - Aaron’s thoughts 31:37 - Falling in love under the eye of the state 38:11 - Social performance as a lens for understanding the characters 42:13 - The value of an honest, even ugly script 54:08 - Spare thoughts 59:24 - Cody’s Noteys (Games Earl Jones)

]]> yes Episode 126: THE FACULTY (1998) (feat. Eric Leith & Seth Zarate) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1082143498 Wed, 07 Jul 2021 00:00:00 -0000 01:29:25 Featuring special guests Eric Leith (https://twit… Featuring special guests Eric Leith (https://twitter.com/unintellivision) and Seth Zarate (https://twitter.com/snzarate)! THE FACULTY lifts from sci-fi and horror touchstones like ALIEN (1979), THE TERMINATOR (1984), and THE THING (1982), deconstructing classic tropes and even whole scenes in a high school context. It’s not as heady as that makes it sound, but it’s still fun and subversive in a lot of the right ways. In this episode, we discuss the movie’s sense of cheek, great creature effects, stunning cast, and its almost complete commitment to a pro-drugs, anti-authoritarian thesis. Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/trylovepodcast and email us at trylovepodcast@gmail.com 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. Music: “The Kids Aren’t Alright” by The Offspring from the THE FACULTY soundtrack. 0:00 - Episode 126: THE FACULTY (1998) 2:44 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary (In Memoriam) 4:20 - Eric’s thoughts 5:31 - Seth’s thoughts 6:22 - Jason’s thoughts 9:38 - Cody’s thoughts 13:14 - Harry’s thoughts 20:46 - Undercutting genre conventions – but at what cost? 39:16 - The garage scene & homages 46:08 - Repression of sexuality 51:26 - A deconstructive reading 54:29 - Power dynamics and why it wasn’t students vs. teachers 1:00:04 - Final thoughts (drugs and stuff) 1:09:33 - Cody’s Noteys (The U-Notey’d States)

]]> yes Episode 125: SAY ANYTHING (1989) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1077822685 Wed, 30 Jun 2021 00:00:00 -0000 01:23:58 Our Polly Platt series comes to an end with one o… yes Episode 124: BOTTLE ROCKET (1996) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1073279953 Tue, 22 Jun 2021 00:00:00 -0000 01:39:39 In BOTTLE ROCKET, Wes Anderson focuses on the mom… yes Episode 123: TERMS OF ENDEARMENT (1983) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1068526909 Wed, 16 Jun 2021 00:00:00 -0000 01:25:42 In this episode, the first non-Boggie in our Poll… yes Episode 122: THE LAST PICTURE SHOW (1971) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1063612273 Wed, 09 Jun 2021 00:00:00 -0000 01:42:03 In Peter Bogdanovich’s THE LAST PICTURE SHOW, two… yes Episode 121: TARGETS (1968) (feat. Jenny Ackerson) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1059730792 Wed, 02 Jun 2021 00:00:00 -0000 01:30:18 Featuring special guest Jenny Ackerson (https://t… Featuring special guest Jenny Ackerson (https://twitter.com/ackersonjenny)!

The directorial debut of Roger Corman protégé Peter Bogdanovich is a startling, screeching indictment of the past and future of American violence, and what it looks like when they meet in the present. Following the parallel stories of aging classic horror star Byron Orlok (Boris Karloff) and quietly disgruntled, emasculated veteran Bobby Thompson (Tim O’Kelly), TARGETS is a portrait of the low-budget, high-tension filmmaking that would come to define New Hollywood – thanks in no small part to the story ideation and dynamic production design of Polly Platt.

Follow Jenny on Twitter at https://twitter.com/ackersonjenny and on Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/jennyack/

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Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/trylovepodcast and email us at trylovepodcast@gmail.com 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. Music: “The Terror Main Theme" by Ronald Stein from the THE TERROR (1963) soundtrack.

Timestamps

00:00 - Episode 121: TARGETS (1968) (feat. Jenny Ackerson)

3:25 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary

6:09 - Jason’s thoughts

8:00 - Cody’s thoughts

11:57 - Harry’s thoughts

16:27 - Aaron’s thoughts

19:35 - Jenny’s thoughts

21:44 - How the two halves of TARGETS unfold into another

37:01 - The questions TARGETS raises about violence and myth

46:14 - Why TARGETS shows so much of the production

49:33 - The work of Polly Platt in TARGETS

55:07 - The climactic final scene

1:02:53 - Stray thoughts

1:10:07 - Jenny shoots down an offer to intro Cody’s Noteys

1:10:42 - Cody’s Noteys (Trylibs: Fading Star)

]]> yes Episode 120: PLAYTIME (1967) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1055293453 Wed, 26 May 2021 00:00:00 -0000 01:26:38 As Jacques Tati’s best-remembered film, PLAYTIME … As Jacques Tati’s best-remembered film, PLAYTIME is a technical achievement on many levels. The crew built an entire city block, complete with skyscraper façades and cardboard extras, to manufacture a grey, corporatized Paris against which to feature its many layered gags. It’s fitting, then, that the film’s third-act script-flip, which corrals us into a wonderfully chaotic nightclub, feels so freeing. But because the film is neither as pointed as MON ONCLE (1958) nor as dour as TRAFIC (1971), PLAYTIME occasionally feels as plastic as the staged city it wanders through. Support organizations and causes providing aid to the Palestinian people: - Medical Aid for Palestinians https://www.map.org.uk/donate/donate - Palestine Children's Relief Fund https://pcrf1.z2systems.com/np/clients/pcrf1/donation.jsp?campaign=342& - Palestine Appeal 2021 https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/palestineappeal2020 - HR 2590 https://act.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/a/palestinian-children-families-act - Stop Jerusalem Expulsions https://secure.everyaction.com/wUAYmd6RzEacXxN3WQuYQQ2 Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/trylovepodcast and email us at trylovepodcast@gmail.com 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. Music: “L'opéra des jours heureux (Play Time)" by Francis Lemarque from the PLAYTIME soundtrack. 00:00 - Episode 120: PLAYTIME (1967) 2:06 - The patented Aaron Grossman Summary 3:38 - Jason’s thoughts 6:32 - Cody’s thoughts 10:55 - Harry’s thoughts 14:52 - Aaron’s thoughts 20:25 - How architecture corrals society 26:38 - Elevating people above their environment 29:43 - Barbara, Hulot, and the humanity of PLAYTIME 37:20 - All that glass 47:07 - From daytime streets to nighttime interiors 48:50 - Aaron’s science fiction take 53:54 - Stray thoughts 56:44 - Ranking Tati 1:06:18 - Cody’s Noteys (Omelette du Triviá)

]]> yes Episode 119: TRAFIC (1971) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1050546880 Wed, 19 May 2021 00:00:00 -0000 01:22:01 What TRAFIC lacks in punchlines, it makes up in p… What TRAFIC lacks in punchlines, it makes up in pathos. A sidestep from the meticulous comedic craftwork that defined Tati’s masterpieces, it doesn’t feature many of the clever gags seen in MON ONCLE (1958) or LES VACANCES DE MONSIEUR HULOT (1953). It feels a little empty, actually – until you get used to its currents of anti-comedy and high-minded statements about the folly of man and the ways we get around without going anywhere. Support organizations and causes providing aid to the Palestinian people under attack by the Israeli government: - Medical Aid for Palestinians https://www.map.org.uk/donate/donate - Palestine Children's Relief Fund https://pcrf1.z2systems.com/np/clients/pcrf1/donation.jsp?campaign=342& - Palestine Appeal 2021 https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/palestineappeal2020 - HR 2590 https://act.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/a/palestinian-children-families-act - Stop Jerusalem Expulsions https://secure.everyaction.com/wUAYmd6RzEacXxN3WQuYQQ2 Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/trylovepodcast and email us at trylovepodcast@gmail.com 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. Music: “TRAFIC Theme�� by Charles Dumont from the TRAFIC soundtrack. 4:53 - The patented Aaron Grossman Summary 6:42 - Jason’s thoughts 9:44 - Cody’s thoughts 13:04 - Harry’s thoughts 18:10 - Aaron’s thoughts 21:21 - Why TRAFIC doesn’t have the warmth of Tati’s best-known movies 30:07 - The missing piece of TRAFIC’s gags 39:17 - The moon landing and the charming dysfunction of humanity 46:49 - What is the point of comedy? 53:21 - Do you pick your nose in the car? Why do hot women love Hulot? & more 1:03:31 - Cody’s Noteys (Tati Trivia)

]]> yes Episode 118: LES VACANCES DE MONSIEUR HULOT (1953) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1045782538 Wed, 12 May 2021 00:00:00 -0000 01:26:10 Maybe because it’s the debut of M. Hulot, LES VAC… yes Episode 117: MON ONCLE (1958) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1042019230 Wed, 05 May 2021 00:00:00 -0000 01:21:02 M. Hulot isn’t so much a fly in the ointment of t… yes Episode 116: POINT BREAK (1991) (Non-’Lon BoysPick #5/5) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1037669641 Tue, 27 Apr 2021 00:00:00 -0000 01:23:55 The Trylon’s playing movies we already recorded o… yes Episode 115: PINK FLOYD – THE WALL (1982) (Non-’Lon BoysPick #4/5) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1032812545 Mon, 19 Apr 2021 00:00:00 -0000 01:31:40 The Trylon’s playing movies we already recorded o… yes Episode 114: MONEYBALL (2011) (Non-’Lon BoysPick #3/5) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1028178181 Tue, 13 Apr 2021 00:00:00 -0000 01:35:50 The Trylon’s playing movies we already recorded o… yes Episode 113: PERFECT BLUE (1997) (Non-’Lon BoysPick #2/5) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1023032488 Mon, 05 Apr 2021 00:00:00 -0000 01:40:24 When we announced our "Non-'Lon" Series last week… When we announced our "Non-'Lon" Series last week, how long did you wager it'd take before one of the boys chose an anime? If you guessed "immediately," we have good news! This week, Harry selected the late great Satoshi Kon's debut feature film, PERFECT BLUE (1997), an eerily prescient psychological horror film about a J-pop idol's reality unraveling that proved so visionary and influential that Western directors like Aronofsky and Nolan made careers out of ripping it off. In this episode, we unleash our full fanboy powers on Kon's masterpiece, spending just over the actual film's runtime attacking it from as many angles as we can find. Catch us dissecting how the film speculates about the ways in which the internet will change or exaggerate human society, all while weaving an insightful critique of won't WON'T change, and how the forces of misogyny and celebrity have always robbed women of their agency. Our discussion of the film's many intersecting themes converges in a climactic (and somewhat contentious!) debate about where Mina and Rumi end up, what the movie is suggesting about the internet and the self, and, ultimately, it even means to be "yourself" when all selves are fundamentally constructed. Stay tuned for a particularly provocative episode of "Cody's Noteys," too. Or… you could just skip to it. We know why you're really here. 1:52 - Why Harry chose PERFECT BLUE 3:11 - The patented Grossman Summary 4:42 - Harry’s thoughts 8:37 - Jason’s thoughts 11:58 - Cody’s thoughts 15:02 - Aaron’s thoughts 23:06 - Satoshi Kon’s ambition pays off in PERFECT BLUE 25:09 - Where do you even start discussing PERFECT BLUE? 27:03 - Predicting the impact of the internet on culture and identity 39:22 - The scene that marks the point of no return 45:14 - Me-Mania, Rumi, Tadokoro, and the Madonna/Whore dichotomy 52:51 - PERFECT BLUE’s loose ends 1:03:25 - Terrace House, The Great British Baking Show, and the false promise of intimacy 1:08:26 - PERFECT BLUE’s ending 1:24:27 - Cody’s Noteys (“Trylibs: Identity Crisis”) 1:25:19 - Chaco’s appearance 1:32:08 - The Trylibs story Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/trylovepodcast and email us at trylovepodcast@gmail.com 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: “Ai no Tenshi (Angel of Love)” from the PERFECT BLUE soundtrack. (Lyrics by Imai Kiko; composed and arranged by Ikumi Masahiro; performed by MISA, Furukawa Emiko, and Shimizu Mie.) Ghost in the Machine by Harry Mackin: https://unwinnable.com/2019/09/24/ghost-in-the-machine-119/ RagnarRox’s YouTube essay connecting Japan’s economic bubble to otaku culture to Perfect Blue to the megacorporate leveraging of fan culture today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHWSlSyjK5c “Anchors Aweigh: The Aesthetic of Surface in the Films of Kon Satoshi” by Alexander Kirst: https://digitalcollections.wesleyan.edu/islandora/object/ir%3A675/datastream/PDF/view Spinsters by Haley O'Shaughnessy & Jordan Ligons: https://www.bluewirepods.com/podcast/spinsters

]]> yes Episode 112: RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK (1981) (Non-’Lon BoysPick #1/5) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1018748878 Mon, 29 Mar 2021 00:00:00 -0000 01:45:17 The Trylon’s playing movies we already recorded o… yes Episode 111: DAMNATION (1988) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1011885697 Tue, 23 Mar 2021 00:00:00 -0000 01:23:36 Content warning: Pubes. So much of Béla Tarr’s D… yes Episode 110: CRUISING (1980) [feat. Ben Savard] tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1006910278 Mon, 15 Mar 2021 00:00:00 -0000 01:33:50 Featuring special guest and Trylon volunteer Ben … Featuring special guest and Trylon volunteer Ben Savard (https://twitter.com/itbenjaminscott)! A crime thriller with shades of coming-of-age set in New York City on the cusp of the AIDS crisis, CRUISING’s depiction of S&M was rightly met by the skepticism and distrust of the gay community during its production and release. In retrospect, it advocates for the recognition of both the S&M and LGBTQ communities through a tragic, terrifying, ambiguous tale of loss, betrayal, and the poisonous conservatism embodied by the then-impending Reagan administration. Follow Ben at https://twitter.com/itbenjaminscott 1:13:18 - Cody’s Noteys (Our Pal Pacino) 1:24:23 - Benny’s Noteys Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/trylovepodcast and email us at trylovepodcast@gmail.com 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: “Heat Of The Moment” by Willy de Ville from the CRUISING soundtrack.

]]> yes Episode 109: TIME BANDITS (1981) [feat. Seth Zarate] tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/1000627840 Tue, 09 Mar 2021 00:00:00 -0000 01:23:49 If you squint, there’s something behind the curta… yes Episode 108: 2046 (2004) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/995206552 Tue, 02 Mar 2021 00:00:00 -0000 01:36:39 Wong Kar-wai reconciles with his own masterpiece … yes Episode 107: THE HAND (2004) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/980941267 Tue, 23 Feb 2021 00:00:00 -0000 01:13:05 CW: Discussions of sex work and abuse. In Wong K… yes Episode 106: IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE (2000) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/985125016 Sun, 14 Feb 2021 00:00:00 -0000 01:35:09 Wong Kar-wai’s masterpiece IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE i… yes Episode 105: HAPPY TOGETHER (1997) [feat. Jenny Ackerson & Aegor Ray] tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/981772186 Tue, 09 Feb 2021 00:00:00 -0000 01:32:42 CW: Depictions of sex work. The Wong Kar-watch c… yes Episode 104: FALLEN ANGELS (1995) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/977250922 Tue, 02 Feb 2021 00:00:00 -0000 01:32:00 CW: Depictions of mental illness. Just a year af… yes Episode 103: CHUNGKING EXPRESS (1994) [feat. Jenny Ackerson] tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/972772930 Tue, 26 Jan 2021 00:00:00 -0000 01:32:54 Wong Kar-wai’s “inverse stories” structure really… Wong Kar-wai’s “inverse stories” structure really hits its stride in CHUNGKING EXPRESS, illustrating love as fleeting, important, slow, and instantaneous with the not-quite-parallel stories of the blonde, the cop, the MPDG, and… the cop. Jenny is back to help us discuss one of Wong’s better-known films (and one of her favorites), which she says uses a “call and response” style and characters that embody the different ways people value time with those they love through routines and rituals – all, of course, in service of Straight-Up Vibes™. Follow Jenny on Twitter at https://twitter.com/ackersonjenny and on Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/jennyack/! 1:15:26 - Cody’s Noteys (Trylibs: Love in a City) Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/trylovepodcast and email us at trylovepodcast@gmail.com 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: “California Dreamin’” by The Mamas & The Papas from the CHUNGKING EXPRESS soundtrack.

]]> yes Episode 102: DAYS OF BEING WILD (1990) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/967389484 Tue, 19 Jan 2021 00:00:00 -0000 01:33:37 From the opening shots of Wong Kar-wai’s DAYS OF … yes Episode 101: AS TEARS GO BY (1988) [feat. Jenny Ackerson] tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/963173083 Tue, 12 Jan 2021 00:00:00 -0000 01:25:24 Are you making choices for now or for the future?… yes Episode 100: A GOOFY MOVIE (1995) Table Read [feat. Guests of Trylove Past] tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/958905322 Tue, 05 Jan 2021 00:00:00 -0000 01:28:47 We actually did it. For our 100th episode, we’re… yes The 2020 𝓖𝓸𝓵𝓭𝓮𝓷 𝓑𝓪𝓻𝓻𝔂 Awards tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/955626580 Tue, 29 Dec 2020 00:00:00 -0000 02:59:59 This is it. The definitive ranking of all things … yes Episode 98: SWORD OF DOOM (1966) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/952052254 Tue, 22 Dec 2020 00:00:00 -0000 01:27:45 CW: discussion of sexual assault as plot. As jid… yes Episode 97: REMEMBER THE NIGHT (1940) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/947644852 Tue, 15 Dec 2020 12:00:20 -0000 01:06:23 Not quite a feel-good Christmas film nor an acerb… yes Episode 96: DOUBLE INDEMNITY (1944) [feat. Jenny Ackerson & Griffin Fillipitch] tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/943370794 Tue, 08 Dec 2020 00:00:00 -0000 01:39:13 Featuring special guests Jenny Ackerson and Griff… yes Episode 95: SORRY, WRONG NUMBER (1948) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/938997628 Tue, 01 Dec 2020 00:00:00 -0000 01:34:22 Orson Welles called SORRY, WRONG NUMBER "the grea… yes Episode 94: TO LIVE AND DIE IN L.A. (1985) [feat. Seth Zarate] tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/934310449 Mon, 23 Nov 2020 00:00:00 -0000 01:25:29 Featuring special guest Seth Zarate (@snzarate)! … yes Episode 93: SORCERER (1977) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/930590656 Mon, 16 Nov 2020 00:00:00 -0000 01:18:37 If THE FRENCH CONNECTION (1971) is about the futi… yes Episode 92: THE FRENCH CONNECTION (1971) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/926393032 Tue, 10 Nov 2020 00:00:00 -0000 01:20:16 THE FRENCH CONNECTION is known for one great chas… yes Episode 91: A Conversation with Sam Waymon, GANJA & HESS Composer & Actor tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/921203476 Tue, 03 Nov 2020 00:00:00 -0000 01:35:34 On this episode, we’re thrilled to welcome Sam Wa… On 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-edition GANJA & HESS LP Soundtrack from Light in the Attic: https://lightintheattic.net/releases/3976-ganja-hess-original-1973-motion-picture-soundtrack-rsd-2018-exclusive - Follow Sam on Twitter: https://twitter.com/sam_waymon - Join the Sam Waymon Facebook Fan Club: www.facebook.com/SamWaymonFanClub - Follow Sam on Instagram: www.instagram.com/samwaymon/ - Listen to Sam’s music on Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/sam-waymon Follow us on Twitter at twitter.com/trylovepodcast and email us at trylovepodcast@gmail.com to get in touch! Buy tickets and support the Trylon at www.trylon.org/. Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro music: "You Got To Learn To Let It Go" by Sam Waymon from GANJA & HESS (1973).

]]> yes Episode 89: THE INVISIBLE MAN (1933) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/912903379 Tue, 20 Oct 2020 00:00:00 -0000 01:02:41 The titular invisible man might not be struggling… yes Episode 88: GANJA & HESS (1973) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/909626269 Tue, 13 Oct 2020 00:00:00 -0000 01:22:24 Experimental Black horror film GANJA & HESS is to… Experimental 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 an examination of the myriad identities that take shape in Black America to its focus on the intersection of faith, sexuality, and self-loathing. Follow us on Twitter at twitter.com/trylovepodcast and email us at trylovepodcast@gmail.com to get in touch! Buy tickets and support the Trylon at www.trylon.org/. Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro music: "You Got To Learn To Let It Go" by Sam Waymon from GANJA & HESS (1973). Bodies off: Ganja & Hess, Bill Gunn’s under-the-skin flick by Brad Stevens: https://www2.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/sight-sound-magazine/comment/bradlands/bodies-off-ganja-hess-under-skin-flick Bill Gunn’s Revolutionary Ganja & Hess Gets the Restoration It Deserves by April Wolfe: https://www.westword.com/film/moviegoing-experience-just-got-bigger-better-broader-in-2018-11058566 Ganja & Hess (Original 1973 Motion Picture Soundtrack) from Light in the Attic: https://lightintheattic.net/releases/3976-ganja-hess-original-1973-motion-picture-soundtrack-rsd-2018-exclusive

]]> yes Episode 87: BLACK MAGIC 2 (1976) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/905366842 Tue, 06 Oct 2020 00:00:00 -0000 01:10:57 We’re in full goofball mode for BLACK MAGIC 2, a … yes Episode 86: THE MASQUE OF THE RED DEATH (1964) [feat. Nick Ransbottom] tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/901260031 Mon, 28 Sep 2020 00:00:00 -0000 01:20:54 Featuring returning guest Nick Ransbottom (twitte… yes Episode 85: FRIDAY THE 13TH (1980) [feat. Nick Ransbottom] tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/897562504 Tue, 22 Sep 2020 00:00:00 -0000 01:38:40 Featuring returning guest Nick Ransbottom (https:… yes Episode 84: 10 THINGS I HATE ABOUT YOU (1999) [feat. Taylor Zastrow] tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/893394178 Sat, 12 Sep 2020 00:00:00 -0000 01:39:11 Featuring special guest Taylor Zastrow (@teeemoti… yes Episode 83: THE SEVENTH SEAL (1957) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/889466464 Tue, 08 Sep 2020 10:00:30 -0000 01:11:59 For better and worse, Ingmar Bergman's 1957 histo… yes Episode 81: A FISH CALLED WANDA (1988) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/881747653 Tue, 25 Aug 2020 00:00:00 -0000 01:12:54 Through the not-so-straight-laced English mouthpi… yes Episode 80: THE LAVENDER HILL MOB (1951) [feat. Matt Clark] tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/877960441 Tue, 18 Aug 2020 00:00:00 -0000 01:18:11 Featuring special guest and heist film aficionado… yes Episode 79: THE LADYKILLERS (1955) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/873669475 Tue, 11 Aug 2020 00:00:00 -0000 01:14:40 A comedy classic or a flat farce? THE LADYKILLERS… yes Episode 78: PASSPORT TO PIMLICO (1949) [feat. Jason Statham] tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/869720494 Tue, 04 Aug 2020 00:00:00 -0000 01:04:09 Featuring special guest and Hollywood film star J… Featuring 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), PASSPORT TO PIMLICO takes its central conceit a little too lightly to be a truly interesting critique, so in the absence of a grander message, we started to read a lot into it instead. Follow us at @trylovepodcast on Twitter and email us at trylovepodcast@gmail.com to get in touch! Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Closing music: "Passport to Pimlico” credits music from the eponymous film by Georges Auric.

]]> yes Episode 77: KIND HEARTS AND CORONETS (1949) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/865674004 Mon, 27 Jul 2020 00:00:00 -0000 01:14:35 CW: A racial slur appears several times toward th… yes Episode 76: AFTER HOURS (1985) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/861568258 Tue, 21 Jul 2020 00:00:00 -0000 01:15:59 CW: Discussions of suicide and sexual assault as … yes Episode 75: THE JUNIPER TREE (1990) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/857734855 Tue, 14 Jul 2020 00:00:00 -0000 01:15:49 A not-so-traditional tale of witchcraft, the sear… yes Episode 74: THE ANDROMEDA STRAIN (1971) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/853636861 Tue, 07 Jul 2020 00:00:00 -0000 01:09:45 Content warning: Discussions of onscreen depictio… yes Episode 73: ATTACK THE BLOCK (2011) [feat. John Moret] tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/849210127 Tue, 30 Jun 2020 00:00:00 -0000 00:48:44 Featuring special guest and Trylon film programme… yes 'Trylove in the Time of Corona' Episode 12: A COLT IS MY PASSPORT (1967) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/845389696 Tue, 23 Jun 2020 00:00:00 -0000 01:13:18 When hitmen Kamimura and Shun are made pawns in y… yes 'Trylove in the Time of Corona' Episode 10: SHOGUN ASSASSIN (1980) [feat. Matt Clark] tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/836648032 Tue, 09 Jun 2020 00:00:00 -0000 01:28:12 Featuring special guest Matt Clark (@themplsmatt)… yes 'Trylove in the Time of Corona' Episode 9: REBELS OF THE NEON GOD (1992) [feat. Jenny Ackerson] tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/828441499 Tue, 26 May 2020 00:00:00 -0000 01:35:03 Featuring special guest Jenny Ackerson (@Ackerson… yes 'Trylove in the Time of Corona' Episode 8: CABARET (1972) [feat. Matt Yost] tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/823353280 Wed, 20 May 2020 00:00:00 -0000 01:20:10 Featuring special guest Matt Yost (@mattyost_)! … yes 'Trylove in the Time of Corona' Episode 7: Bong Joon-ho at the Walker [feat. Charlie Mackin] tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/819202348 Tue, 12 May 2020 00:00:00 -0000 00:44:30 Featuring special guest Charlie Mackin (@charliem… yes 'Trylove in the Time of Corona' Episode 6: 12 MONKEYS (1995) [feat. Seth Zarate] tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/814252879 Tue, 05 May 2020 00:00:00 -0000 01:25:28 Featuring special guest Seth Zarate (@snzarate)! … yes 'Trylove in the Time of Corona' Episode 5: TOTAL RECALL (1990) [feat. Logan Lafferty] tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/808691197 Tue, 28 Apr 2020 00:00:00 -0000 01:31:28 Featuring special guest Logan Lafferty (@mrleviat… yes A Message From John Waters tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/804761827 Wed, 22 Apr 2020 19:10:59 -0000 00:00:17 On Saturday, February 29, 2020, John Waters perfo… yes 'Trylove in the Time of Corona' Episode 3: INSIDE MAN (2006) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/798710815 Mon, 13 Apr 2020 00:00:00 -0000 01:22:12 Though not immediately recognizable as a Spike Le… yes ‘Trylove in the Time of Corona’ Episode 2: CONTAGION (2011) [feat. Kyle Olson] tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/793073872 Tue, 07 Apr 2020 00:00:00 -0000 01:19:02 Featuring special guest Kyle Olson! To take your… yes 'Trylove in the Time of Corona' Episode 1 [feat. John Moret] tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/787711627 Mon, 30 Mar 2020 00:00:00 -0000 00:51:03 Featuring special guest John Moret! Things are t… yes Episode 59: DETOUR (1954) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/766527916 Tue, 25 Feb 2020 00:00:00 -0000 00:47:22 Emerging from the "Poverty Row" studios of 20th C… yes Episode 58: PARASITE (2019) in Conversation with Andy Smith, Founder of the Gray Duck Theater & Coffeehouse tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/762786739 Tue, 18 Feb 2020 00:00:00 -0000 01:38:12 Spoiler alert for PARASITE (2019). In this very … Listening note: The Gray Duck Theater shuttered in 2023 after four years in business. The space reopened in April 2023 under new ownership as a combination microcinema and community event space called PopsArt Theater.

Spoiler 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?

  • How does he pick which movies to screen?

  • What’s the relationship between the Trylon and Gray Duck like?

  • Why are documentaries so successful in Rochester?

  • How the hell did he get ahold of a movie only screened in New York and Los Angeles?

Find Andy on Twitter at @andy_smth, on Letterboxd at andygrayduck, and follow the Gray Duck everywhere at grayducktheater. Follow us at @trylovepodcast on Twitter and email us at trylovepodcast@gmail.com to get in touch! Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters.

]]> yes Episode 57: HARD TARGET (1993) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/758828725 Tue, 11 Feb 2020 00:00:00 -0000 01:10:57 The rich hunt the poor for sport. The cops are on… yes Episode 56: THE KILLER (1989) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/754515244 Tue, 04 Feb 2020 00:00:00 -0000 01:20:18 Despite its signature bombast, THE KILLER doesn’t… yes Episode 55: PARIS, TEXAS (1984) [feat. Jenny Ackerson] tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/751048837 Mon, 27 Jan 2020 00:00:00 -0000 02:03:23 Special guest Jenny Ackerson (@AckersonJenny) joi… yes Episode 54: THE NAKED CITY (1948) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/747409483 Tue, 21 Jan 2020 00:00:00 -0000 00:54:41 Featuring special guest Nick Ransbottom! (@TheEzi… Featuring 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 apparently every day… taking the piss out of it, New York, and all of us self-serious would-be film anthropologists in the process. After all, "there are eight million stories in New York," and maybe it is a little silly to watch them from the skyline's point of view. Follow us at @trylovepodcast on Twitter and email us at trylovepodcast@gmail.com to get in touch! Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters.

]]> yes EPISODE 53: THE WARRIORS (1979) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/743604193 Tue, 14 Jan 2020 00:00:00 -0000 01:08:40 CW: THE WARRIORS contains violence against women,… yes Episode 52: THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER (1940) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/739370758 Tue, 07 Jan 2020 00:00:00 -0000 01:12:49 “𝘏𝘦 𝘱𝘪𝘤𝘬𝘴 𝘰𝘯 𝘮𝘦, 𝘵𝘰𝘰. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘰𝘵𝘩… yes Episode 51: The 2019 Golden Barrys tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/736318879 Tue, 31 Dec 2019 00:00:00 -0000 02:02:40 Happy New Year's Eve! We’ve had a hell of a time … yes Episode 50: BLACK CHRISTMAS (1974) [feat. Matt Yost] tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/732362359 Sun, 22 Dec 2019 00:00:00 -0000 01:13:51 Featuring special guest Matt Yost (@mattyost_)! … yes Episode 49: NINOTCHKA (1939) [feat. Griffin Fillipitch] tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/728902288 Mon, 16 Dec 2019 00:00:00 -0000 01:12:38 Featuring special guest Griffin Fillipitch! In 1… yes Episode 48: TO BE OR NOT TO BE (1942) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/725808019 Mon, 09 Dec 2019 00:00:00 -0000 01:04:48 CW: discussions of portrayed suicide. For all th… yes Episode 47: RONIN (1998) [feat. Dan Nagan] tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/721889740 Sun, 01 Dec 2019 00:00:00 -0000 01:29:13 Featuring special guest Dan Nagan! Like a samura… yes Episode 46: BRUTE FORCE (1947) [feat. Nick Ransbottom] tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/718783324 Tue, 26 Nov 2019 00:00:00 -0000 01:08:06 Featuring special guest Nick Ransbottom! BRUTE F… yes Episode 45: CHRISTINE (1983) [feat. Ben Savard] tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/715373887 Mon, 18 Nov 2019 00:00:00 -0000 01:21:00 Featuring Trylon volunteer Ben Savard! 𝘐 𝘸𝘰𝘯… yes Episode 44: ENTER THE DRAGON (1973) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/711898270 Tue, 12 Nov 2019 00:00:00 -0000 01:25:12 In the final complete movie released before Bruce… yes Episode 43: Greetin' and Tweetin' – A Conversation with Trylon Volunteer Ben Savard tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/708251176 Tue, 05 Nov 2019 00:00:00 -0000 01:09:54 Media & Cultural Studies major who says he doesn’… Media & Cultural Studies major who says he doesn’t know what that means ✔️ David Lynch hater ✔️ Likes tweeting ✔️ One of our favorite things is talking to people who know the Trylon from the inside out. On today’s episode, we’re elated to share a conversation we had with Ben Savard, a Trylon volunteer and professional film editor who says that his time with the theater has helped him figure out what kind of cinema he likes, what he doesn’t, and why. Most importantly, he says that places like the Trylon can be a great equalizer, shrinking the perceived space between “prestige” and “trash” film. Check out Ben’s work at benjaminsavard.com or find Benjamin Savard on Vimeo. Follow us at @trylovepodcast on Twitter and email us at trylovepodcast@gmail.com to get in touch! Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters.

]]> yes Episode 41: CARRIE (1976) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/705343450 Wed, 30 Oct 2019 00:00:00 -0000 00:54:52 Brian De Palma is a legendary and divisive filmma… yes Episode 40: THE THING (1982) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/704329756 Tue, 29 Oct 2019 00:00:00 -0000 01:10:55 We’re all going to lose ourselves someday. The be… yes Episode 42: :̷̫̯͇̲̤̥͈ ̷͎̟̮̙͔̖H̡A̤̘̘͕͎͉̪͟U̧͚̖͚̟ͅS̹̠̻̳U͚̠̱͚̮̦ ̦͉̩͠(̗1̤̮͈͢9̳͙̮̱̜̯̬7̙̮͇̥7́)̵͎ tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/705964273 Tue, 29 Oct 2019 00:00:00 -0000 01:13:24 CW: discussions of violence. HAUSU is still a si… yes Episode 39: EVENT HORIZON (1997) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/699700594 Mon, 21 Oct 2019 00:00:00 -0000 01:00:13 Content warning: Discussions of suicide and self-… yes Episode 38: CURE (1997) [feat. Nick Ransbottom] tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/695732863 Tue, 15 Oct 2019 10:00:36 -0000 01:13:50 Everyone who runs into eccentric amnesiac Mamiya … yes Episode 37: ALIENS (1986) [feat. Eric Leith] tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/692919418 Mon, 07 Oct 2019 00:00:00 -0000 00:56:20 Welcome back Eric Leith (@biggergooseegg) for ano… yes Episode 36: ALIEN (1979) [Feat. Eric Leith] tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/689282500 Sun, 29 Sep 2019 00:00:00 -0000 01:25:29 CONTENT WARNING: Brief mention of rape and sexual… yes Episode 35: HACKERS (1995) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/685717564 Tue, 24 Sep 2019 11:00:16 -0000 01:03:53 Content warning: Discussion of problematic depict… yes Episode 34: THE THIN MAN (1934) [feat. Nick Ransbottom] tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/682052633 Tue, 17 Sep 2019 00:00:00 -0000 00:59:32 Featuring special guest Nick Ransbottom! What o… yes Episode 33: The Trylon Turns Ten – A Conversation with Trylon Film Programmer John Moret tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/678592080 Tue, 10 Sep 2019 00:00:00 -0000 01:19:02 Featuring Trylon film programmer John Moret! The… yes Episode 32: VIDEODROME (1983) [feat. Nick Ransbottom] tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/675917489 Tue, 03 Sep 2019 00:00:00 -0000 01:09:21 Featuring special guest Nick Ransbottom! VIDEODR… yes Episode 31: FANTASTIC PLANET (1973) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/671290163 Tue, 27 Aug 2019 00:00:00 -0000 01:12:23 Full of Seussian grotesqueries and allegorical sl… yes Episode 30: AKIRA (1988) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/668603597 Tue, 20 Aug 2019 00:00:00 -0000 01:45:09 Content warning: Consistent stylized violence and… yes Episode 29: THE HIDDEN (1987) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/664873205 Tue, 13 Aug 2019 00:00:00 -0000 01:17:33 THE HIDDEN is an '80s movie like many '80s movies… yes Episode 28: FAST & FURIOUS PRESENTS: HOBBS & SHAW (2019) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/661667246 Tue, 06 Aug 2019 11:00:15 -0000 01:10:15 Thicc men, thin characters. We sure as hell didn'… yes Episode 27: SUNSHINE (2007) [feat. Ben Hanson & John Carson] tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/656016014 Tue, 30 Jul 2019 11:00:05 -0000 00:57:37 Featuring special guests Ben Hanson and John Cars… yes Episode 26: POLICE STORY 2 (1988) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/654744689 Mon, 22 Jul 2019 00:00:00 -0000 00:58:46 Strap in for a second STORY about POLICE! The fol… yes Episode 25: POLICE STORY (1985) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/651412847 Tue, 16 Jul 2019 00:00:00 -0000 01:11:06 CW: some discussions of violence towards women (a… yes Episode 24: THE FIFTH ELEMENT (1997) [feat. Seth Zarate] tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/648125871 Mon, 08 Jul 2019 00:00:00 -0000 01:15:59 Featuring special guest and THE FIFTH ELEMENT sta… yes Episode 23: BARTON FINK (1991) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/643942950 Tue, 02 Jul 2019 00:00:00 -0000 01:15:47 Forget what you heard about FARGO (1996): BARTON … yes Episode 22: A SERIOUS MAN (2009) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/642092613 Wed, 26 Jun 2019 11:00:24 -0000 01:18:05 The Coen Brothers' 2009 existential dramedy A SER… yes Episode 21: MILLER'S CROSSING (1990) [feat. Eric Leith] tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/638348754 Tue, 18 Jun 2019 11:00:19 -0000 01:33:03 Featuring special guest Eric Leith! In Tom Reaga… yes Episode 19: THE MAN WHO WASN'T THERE (2001) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/630140313 Tue, 04 Jun 2019 11:00:05 -0000 01:09:40 CW: Discussions of suicide as plot. Listening adv… yes Episode 18: FARGO (1996) [feat. Emily Csuy] tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/627486918 Tue, 28 May 2019 12:00:17 -0000 01:27:05 Featuring special guest and honorary Minnesotan E… yes Episode 17: THE PLEASURE GARDEN (1925) [feat. Nabil Azzouzi] tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/623327553 Tue, 21 May 2019 11:00:07 -0000 00:51:39 Featuring Nabil Azzouzi! Just to put it out fron… yes Episode 16: POKÉMON: DETECTIVE PIKACHU (2019) [feat. Nick Ransbottom] tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/619683555 Mon, 13 May 2019 00:00:00 -0000 01:26:07 In a special, spoilery, distinctly non-Trylony ep… yes Episode 15: MCCABE & MRS. MILLER (1971) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/616735419 Tue, 07 May 2019 00:00:00 -0000 01:22:40 Content warning: This film contains depictions of… Content warning: This film contains depictions of attempted sexual assault and plenty of "period-specific" racism. Heavy on the air quotes. For all his cowboy pageantry and vague machismo, John McCabe is just a sad, insecure man (and not the kind who's rewarded for it, either). In Robert Altman's "anti-Western" MCCABE & MRS. MILLER, he's a wingless frog who keeps bumping his ass, flailing to escape the gravity of society, capitalism, and emotional vulnerability he's evaded his whole life. He's foiled by the incredibly competent Constance Miller, who deals with the same pressures like a well-adjusted adult: through companionship, self-expression, determination, and drug use. In this episode, we pore over the film's depiction of place, violence, performance, and what the hell it means to be an "anti-Western." Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters.

]]> yes Episode 14: CLUELESS (1995) [feat. Charlie Mackin & Erik Nystul] tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/613361154 Mon, 29 Apr 2019 00:00:00 -0000 01:24:07 Inside CLUELESS (1995)'s comedic portrayal of ste… yes Episode 13: SEVEN SAMURAI (1954) [feat. Nick Grossman] tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/609940092 Tue, 23 Apr 2019 11:00:14 -0000 01:39:19 Featuring Nick Grossman! Throughout our little s… yes Episode 12: STRAY DOG (1949) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/606384474 Tue, 16 Apr 2019 00:00:00 -0000 01:10:25 A straight-laced detective quickly frays when his… yes Episode 11: THE HIDDEN FORTRESS (1958) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/602875446 Tue, 09 Apr 2019 00:00:00 -0000 00:59:44 Comparisons to STAR WARS aren't necessarily a bad… yes Episode 10: RED BEARD (1965) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/599794356 Tue, 02 Apr 2019 00:00:00 -0000 01:20:53 The closeness of Toshiro Mifune and Akira Kurosaw… yes Episode 8: YOJIMBO (1961) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/595535025 Tue, 26 Mar 2019 00:00:00 -0000 01:04:39 Longtime Akira Kurosawa muse Toshiro Mifune’s gru… yes Episode 9: SANJURO (1962) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/595539861 Tue, 26 Mar 2019 00:00:00 -0000 01:10:48 (You can skip to about 10 minutes in if you want … yes Episode 7: VALLEY GIRL (1983) [feat. Emily Csuy] tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/592050594 Tue, 19 Mar 2019 06:00:09 -0000 00:57:13 Featuring Emily Csuy, Aaron Grossman, and Cody Na… yes Episode 6: THE RAID (2011) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/588433389 Tue, 12 Mar 2019 00:00:00 -0000 01:08:46 THE RAID is one of the grandest entries in the co… yes THE ELEPHANT MAN (1980) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/585060060 Tue, 05 Mar 2019 00:00:00 -0000 00:56:45 Is David Lynch's 1980 historical drama about Jose… yes Episode 4: KOYAANISQATSI (1983) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/579121617 Tue, 26 Feb 2019 00:00:00 -0000 00:57:25 On the border between earnest tragedy and pseudo-… On the border between earnest tragedy and pseudo-hippie preachiness, there's KOYAANISQATSI, a plotless documentary-slash-visual tone poem about humanity's lopsided relationship with Planet Earth and how there are some things we just can't rebuild. This episode was recorded in 2018 after a free screening of KOYAANISQATSI at the Trylon, which was put on by the Moving Image & Media Studies Graduate Group at the University of Minnesota. Check them out at mimsgg.org. Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters.

]]> yes Episode 3: WANDA (1970) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/577930953 Mon, 18 Feb 2019 00:00:00 -0000 00:59:07 The only feature-length film by writer/director B… yes Episode 2: HAUSU (1977) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/570525438 Tue, 05 Feb 2019 00:00:00 -0000 01:15:05 What started as a commercial director's fever dre… yes Episode 1: THE 400 BLOWS (1959) tag:soundcloud,2010:tracks/560420382 Tue, 08 Jan 2019 00:00:00 -0000 01:10:47 THE 400 BLOWS (1959) is François Truffaut's first… yes