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THE CONVERSATION is remembered as one of the greatest films of all time, and it is. There’s so much to say about it, we welcomed Seth Zarate (https://twitter.com/snzarate) back to help us sift through our thoughts, hands on the dials, focusing on the juiciest nuggets from Francis Ford Coppola’s masterpiece. Gene Hackman’s Harry Caul is a man defined by his ignorance, believing he can observe and r...

Bob Rafelson’s third film, THE KING OF MARVIN GARDENS, plays out differently than you may think. For the most part, it moves like series of disconnected examples, testing characters like David (Jack Nicholson) and Sally (Ellen Burstyn) as Jason (Bruce Dern), David’s brother, leads them on a doomed plot through post-settling, pre-gambling Atlantic City to get rich quick by buying an island off the...

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...

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 reall...

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 distillat...

In a body of work that defined a subgenre, Satoshi Kon’s PAPRIKA is something like a culmination. His final feature film realizes some of his longest-brewing concepts (identity, community, connection, division, reality, fiction) so well that it leaves others feeling somewhat unfulfilled – like the director’s own career after his death at just 46 years old. As certified Konheads, we discuss PAPRIKA...

Featuring special guest Finn Odum (https://twitter.com/Finnematic)! DIABOLIQUE’s gothic vibes, feminist undertones, iconic imagery, and twist ending are all great ways to remember this psycho-sexual-horror-noir classic. A husband’s murder by his wife and mistress goes off the rails, sending the killers spinning looking for an explanation when the body goes missing after the deed’s been done. The t...

Featuring special guest Seth Zarate (https://twitter.com/snzarate)! When three homeless people – aging dad Gin, trans self-exile Hana, and confused young Miyuki – discover an abandoned baby in the trash on Christmas, the stage is set to reunite the child with its real parents. Before that, however, the unlikely family learns more about each other through their threatened attempts to care for the c...

“Theft is good, actually.” – Cody FILIBUS is a 1915 Italian silent film directed by Mario Roncoroni and written by Giovanni Bertinetti. It features Valeria Creti as Baroness Troixmonde and the titular Filibus, an Italian sky pirate and infamous burglar. In an attempt to cast off suspicion after her recent heist of the International Bank, the baroness enters a competition to find the culprit and fr...

Cody’s away, so we spend like 10 minutes talking about video games at the top of this episode. The last of Kurosawa’s samurai epics, RAN recontextualizes King Lear, widening the scope of Shakespeare’s text to show the effect of karma on the world, not just its tragic players. In this episode, we discuss what it’s like to know this is one of the greatest films ever made while also knowing it’s not...

Featuring special guest Natalie Marlin (https://twitter.com/NataliesNotInIt)! THE THIRD MAN is often cited as one of the greatest movies of all time, an expressionist noir that mixes style, form, and zeitgeist to paint postwar Vienna with sharp chiaroscuro that spotlights wanton interventionist masculinity and hides sinister motivations in the shadows. It is also an incredibly entertaining watch t...

Listening note: Live audio from the Trylon lobby. With masks on. Socially distanced. Great conversation, suboptimal audio quality. The Trylon is hosting a showcase of 8 animated short films, all on 16mm film, on March 3. We sat down with Trylon film programmer John Moret and asked about their plans for showing more 16mm, where he got all this weird stuff, and whether or not becoming a registered f...

Featuring special guest Peter Hogenson (https://twitter.com/phogenson)! Kurosawa’s KAGEMUSHA – “shadow warrior” – is more than a tale of double identity. It’s an examination of the politics of identity, who we become when we assume social positions, and the absurdities of class, all with a distinctly Kurosawa touch. For this episode, we’re joined by filmmaker Peter Hogenson, whose experience with...

Content warning: This episode contains a brief discussion of attempted suicide. Coming later in Kurosawa’s career and after his storytelling was thought to have gone out of vogue, DERSU UZALA is a comment on man’s relationship with nature, himself, and the world around him. Based on a Russian memoir and shot on 70mm, it’s a beautiful example of the humanist narratives for which Kurosawa became kno...

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 stat...

DEVIL IN A BLUE DRESS is a movie about the path to power, the systematized utility of racial identity, the people wielding it in postwar Los Angeles, and the color of everyone’s skin. When Ezekiel “Easy” Rawlins gets caught up in a white man’s business of “favors for friends,” he finds himself a pawn in sordid political race politics, a tool of the colonizing class, and a weapon to be wielded by t...

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 wor...

Released the same year as the better-remembered DOUBLE INDEMNITY (1944), LAURA is an evocative noir that both plays in and interrogates the femme fatale trope so crucial to the genre. In death, Laura Hunt is remembered by the people in her life as kind, beautiful, generous, powerful – just about everything a lover (or a friend, a fraud, or a cop) could ask for. But when the truth comes out, the au...

Content warning: Discussions of domestic and sexual violence, miscarriage, and self-harm. Featuring special guest and Game Informer senior associate editor Blake Hester (https://twitter.com/metallicaisrad)! “Cursed”; “uncomfortable”; “bizarre”; “hopeful”? POSSESSION has been furrowing brows for more than 40 years with its intimately surreal depiction of a dissolving marriage. In the process, it’s...

It’s the most highly anticipated event in podcasting. The most prestigious ceremony in the history of film. The most sought-after award by creators and contributors alike. The 𝒢𝑜𝓁𝒹𝑒𝓃 𝐵𝒶𝓇𝓇𝓎. Enjoy our sometimes enlightening, sometimes bloody, sometimes annoying, always fun discourse as we recap the movies, makers, planners, back-row back-chat, and on-mic discussions from The Year That Was 2021 At T...

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 o...

A series on Éric Rohmer’s films of the 1980s closes with THE GREEN RAY (1986), winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival and one of the best-known films in his Comedies and Proverbs series. When her fiance calls off their summer vacation, Delphine is left adrift, bouncing from apartment to summer home to atelier in the hope she can quell her loneliness. Her baggage makes her feel like...

Episode two of Éric Rohmer’s 1980s at the Trylon takes us to suburban Paris with a small cohort of young lovers who change each other little by little, chipping away at their self-image like sculptors looking in the mirror. Parisian twentysomethings Lea and Blanche are almost complementary in their romantic desires. Lea is a creature of whimsy, testing her boyfriend with little “games” to see if h...

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 he...

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 fi...