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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...

“If it was necessary to climb down into hell and wrestle a film out of the claws of the devil,” Werner Herzog once said, “I would do so.” If it was necessary. In FITZCARRALDO, a man whose dream to host opera in the jungle leads him to risk and lose indigenous lives on a harebrained scheme to drag a boat over a mountain – all so he can steal natural resources to fund his manic vision. Its productio...

Klaus Kinski again appears as That Freaky Guy Who Insists On Going To The Jungle, this time portraying Francisco Manoel da Silva (better known by his outlaw codename, “Cobra Verde”), who’s chased there by his plantation owner boss who has no interest in being his father-in-law after Francisco impregnates the baron’s three teenage daughters. Oops! Cobra Verde’s attempts to kickstart the cold engine...

You don’t have to squint to see what AGUIRRE, THE WRATH OF GOD is saying about European imperialists hunting for an imaginary city of riches in South America in 1560. It’s saying they’re evil! And stupid! And in that disarming straightforwardness, it’s making an interesting point about what people expect of fiction – of what they expect from movies – and how sometimes, there’s only one right way t...

A strikingly stylized reimagining of the classic creature figure, NOSFERATU THE VAMPYRE indicts the driven for the death of passion. Following the broad strokes of F.W. Murnau’s 1922 expressionist horror film, Werner Herzog’s late-70s take on the myth paints the titular non-human as a pathetic figure marked more by his maudlin, passionless philosophies than his bloodlust. “Give me some of your lov...

Featuring returning guest Seth Zarate (https://twitter.com/snzarate)! It’s that time of year again: Four of us hit up the fifth annual all-night Horrorthon at the Trylon! Featuring only horror movie sequels, Horrorthon V: Son of Horrorthon was a surprise collection of some real wild choices: PSYCHO II (1983), PHANTASM II (1988), HALLOWEEN III: SEASON OF THE WITCH (1982), DAY OF THE DEAD (1985), CR...

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 stag...

It’s impossible to deny the charm of HARVEY, because if you do, you’re choosing ‘smart’ over ‘pleasant.’ Of those two, you know which we’d recommend. The titular non-character might be described as an invisible, six-foot-three-and-a-half-inch, anthropomorphic rabbit, but Harvey is so much more than a “benign but mischievous creature”: it’s a highlight of the inherent value of personhood, an appeal...

Featuring special guest Seth Zarate (https://twitter.com/snzarate)! With one eye on Chinese martial arts and one eye on American ‘tude, RUMBLE IN THE BRONX was Jackie Chan’s breakout Western hit. There’s dirtbike gangs in the streets, diamond-peddling crime syndicates, a hoverboat – everything you’d expect from an American action comedy, just with 100% more Jackie Chan. More violent, more outspoke...

Featuring special guest Chris Polley (https://twitter.com/qhrizpolley) of Film Trace (https://linktr.ee/filmtrace)! Sure, SHERLOCK, JR. is a century-old masterwork of performance, direction, and editing that still rouses today – but it also demonstrates an awareness of its audience that’s been rarely seen since. In many ways, it democratized physical comedy and stunt craft in general, which is par...

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 ho...