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Tim Burton's debut feature feels a little bit like a filmmaker finding his footing. At the same time, it's a trial by fire for Paul Reubens and Phil Hartman as they brought their creation, the capricious Pee-Wee Herman, to the big screen. It paid off, of course, cementing Pee-Wee as an icon of character comedy and a mainstay of American children's programming. Depending on your history with the character, you could find in PEE-WEE'S BIG ADVENTURE a constant, dull, childish annoyance or a charming work of self-aware bliss. “Things You Shouldn't Understand, Things You Couldn't Understand: A Love Letter to the Cast of Pee-wee's Big Adventure” by Sohpie Durbin for Perisphere, the Trylon blog: https://www.perisphere.org/2024/01/07/things-you-shouldnt-understand-things-you-couldnt-understand-a-love-letter-to-the-cast-of-pee-wees-big-adventure/ “I Lived It: The Joy of Pee-wee's Big Adventure” by Alex Kies for Perisphere, the Trylon blog: https://www.perisphere.org/2024/01/07/i-lived-it-the-joy-of-pee-wees-big-adventure/ “Pee-wee Herman- Unedited Interview (Big Adventure) 1985 [Reelin' In The Years Archives]”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4X4KbsLuzY #OtherProgramming #35mm This film was presented at the Trylon by the Cult Film Collective: https://cultfilmcollective.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 audio: "Breakfast Machine" by Danny Elfman from the PEE-WEE'S BIG ADVENTURE soundtrack.. Timestamps 0:00 - Episode 261: PEE-WEE'S BIG ADVENTURE (1985) 3:35 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary 5:11 - Our mileage with Pee-Wee 18:01 - Unpacking what the joke is 29:21 - When the nuance started to hit 42:23 - The disappearing “character” in comedy 45:30 - When the bits go on too long 49:51 - Our favorite bits 55:40 - The Junk Drawer 59:24 - Other Loves We've Tried: 1985 1:01:32 - Cody's Noteys: IMDB's Dig and Then Search (shared cast and crew trivia)

We're kicking off 2024 (THE YEAR OF THE #BIG #BALLER - "Let your nuts hang!") with William Richert's gonzo political paranoia thriller WINTER KILLS! It's kind of funny, but not funny enough to be a laugh-out-loud comedy. It's kind of serious, but not serious enough to demand attention. Riding behind the unluckiest motorcade in American history, WINTER KILLS pitches Jeff Bridges as Nick Kegan, the half-brother of the late president, who's suddenly clued into a vast conspiracy – and then promptly given the run-around from literally everyone. Along his circuitous route to the truth, he meets the archetypal figures: The lusty femme fatale, the omniscient information broker, the trenchcoat Italians, the horny capitalist dad who couldn't POSSIBLY be pulling the strings. Depending on your point of view, it's either a unique parody or kind of boring – but nobody can say it doesn't try. This film was presented at the Trylon by the Cult Film Collective: https://cultfilmcollective.com/ “Slapstick for Paranoids” by Cole Seidl for Perisphere, the Trylon blog: https://www.perisphere.org/2023/12/29/slapstick-for-paranoids/ “Winter Kills: If You're Not Paranoid, You're Not Paying Attention” by Bob Aulert for Perisphere, the Trylon blog: https://www.perisphere.org/2024/01/04/winter-kills-if-youre-not-paranoid-youre-not-paying-attention/ 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: Just the whole original trailer for the theatrical release of WINTER KILLS. Timestamps 0:00 - Episode 260: WINTER KILLS (1979) + Aaron is hungover 11:11 - The episode actually starts + the Apologia Corner 14:23 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary 16:13 - Biting satire or garbage? 27:39 - Sublime comedic sensibility or debilitating cynicism? 40:28 - The MGS2ification of WINTER KILLS 55:15 - The Junk Drawer 1:05:31 - Good Grief, Give Me a GIF! 1:12:42 - Cody's Noteys: 2024 Movie Resolutions

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

Content warning: Discussions of sexual assault. Twenty years after a string of murders in rural South Korea, Bong Joon-ho made a movie about the people who tried to catch the country's first serial killer. What resulted was a harrowing chronicle of a trail slowly going cold, people who were unequipped for the heuristic exercise of catching a home-grown monster, and a government that cared more about defeating unrest than protecting its citizens – all told with the director's signature balance of light, dark, and the humanity that contains both. Get tickets to THE FIFTEENTH FILM NOIR FESTIVAL: NEO-NOIR (Dec 2023 - Feb 2024 at the Trylon and the Heights Theater): https://www.trylon.org/films/category/neo-noir/ 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 music: "Memories of Murder" by Taro Iwashiro from the MEMORIES OF MURDER soundtrack. Timestamps 0:00 - Episode 258: MEMORIES OF MURDER (2003) 3:30 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary (under exclusive license from AG Enterprises, Ltd.) 4:54 - Watching and rewatching MEMORIES OF MURDER 11:04 - An explicitly political movie 12:45 - Intense watchability despite dense cultural context 21:58 - Small towns and a rot at the heart of a country 40:55 - The ending and a stare that implicates us all 59:18 - The Junk Drawer 1:07:38 - Other Loves We've Tried: 2003 1:09:37 - Good Grief, Give Me a GIF! 1:16:35 - Cody's Noteys: Love Joon-ho (Bong Joon-ho movie trivia)

Juzo Itami's “ramen western” TAMPOPO is… just a delight. The lines that separate class, sex, and generations are broken through the lens of food in vignettes that surround a sweet, satisfying A plot. The mundane and universal is elevated to indulgence through the presumption of taboo, with each character's indulgence – a meddling supermarket crone, a wealthy, browbeaten elder, a gangster's hedonist escape – building them as more human than caricature. 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 music: "Sonata for Bassoon and Cello in B-Flat Major, K. 292-196c - III. Rondo (Allegro)" by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart from the TAMPOPO soundtrack. Timestamps 0:00 - Episode 257: TAMPOPO (1985) 4:01 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary 13:26 - The vignettes 21:45 - A movie about indulgence 27:17 - The silly and the serious living together 32:31 - The gangster subplot and life as a short film you watch at death 45:12 - Treating everything with respect, whether silly or profane or deadly serious 48:29 - The birth of the “ramen western” 53:44 - The Junk Drawer 57:41 - Other Loves We've Tried: 1985 59:47 - Good Grief, Give Me a GIF!

With returning guest and Perisphere senior editor Finn Odum! Alejandro Jodorowsky's best-known film, THE HOLY MOUNTAIN, is a psychedelic hero's journey from rags to riches, from shit to gold, and from iniquity to enlightenment. It follows “The Thief” as he gives up his search for material wealth to join a cast of sinful sages on their way up the titular mountain and, hopefully, beyond the boundaries of human mortality. Its provocative antics and theatrics have made it a staple of arthouse cinema, and its never-ending jabs at every corner of taboo give it a provenance few other movies have shared. Joined by returning guest Finn Odum, we dive right in with a discussion of what “works,” what “doesn't,” what “matters,” and what might be quietly brooding under Jodorowsky's loud, panicked, off-the-rails storytelling style. “iPhones Will Also Be Sex Vibrators: An Ode to Little Freaks” by Finn Odum for Perisphere, the Trylon blog: https://www.perisphere.org/2023/12/01/iphones-will-also-be-sex-vibrators/ Find Finn… - On Twitter at https://twitter.com/Finnematic - On Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/finnofthedead/ - On Trylove episodes about THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD (1951), DIABOLIQUE (1955), and CON AIR (1997) 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 music: "The Tarot Will Teach You" by Alejandro Jodorowsky from the THE HOLY MOUNTAIN soundtrack. Timestamps 0:00 - Episode 256: THE HOLY MOUNTAIN (1979) 2:51 - The episode actually starts 4:45 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary 6:26 - Jodorowsky and the Panic Movement 9:58 - A movie that rewards broad interpretation 18:55 - Cynicism and sacrilege 24:13 - The planets as flawed and penitent people 31:13 - The ending 37:56 - The provenance of this movie vs. the reality of watching it 49:16 - What's gonna stick with us from THE HOLY MOUNTAIN? 53:43 - The Junk Drawer 58:50 - Other Loves We've Tried: 1973 1:00:33 - Good Grief, Give Me a GIF!

Takahide Hori's one-man masterpiece-in-the-making is fun, sweet, and terrifying. In the distant future, after losing a war to the synthetic life forms they created, humans who've lost the ability to reproduce in a viral pandemic launch a last-ditch effort to correct the course of their species. Parton – a lonely prole who lives a vicarious, virtual existence – enlists in the effort to find a cure from the denizens of the depths… before catching a missile on the way down, losing his body and memory in the process. Adrift with a mission to secure humanity's future, Parton finds himself instead audience to the weird, rich lives of the creatures below the surface. Watch JUNK HEAD (2017) on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyCCWHhH6R4 “Move It, Take a Shot, Easy: The DIY Magic of Takehide Hori's Junk Head” by Luke Mosher for Perisphere, the Trylon blog: https://www.perisphere.org/2023/11/24/move-it-take-a-shot-easy-the-diy-magic-of-takehide-horis-junk-head/ 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 music from the JUNK HEAD soundtrack. Timestamps 0:00 - Episode 255: JUNK HEAD (2017) 1:46 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary 3:08 - Takahide Hori, MAD GOD (2022), and worldbuilding 21:43 - Disney, Dreamworks, Laika, Ghibli, and JUNK HEAD on the animation landscape 35:55 - Toyetic characters in a terrifying world 46:08 - Ideas tackled vs. what's shown 57:31 - Alexander, Francis, Julian, and the ending 1:05:35 - Nico 1:10:06 - Other Loves We've Tried: 2017 1:10:20 - The Junk Drawer 1:13:42 - Good Grief, Give Me a GIF! 1:17:33 - Cody's Noteys: Sci-love (2017 sci-fi movie trivia)

With special guest and former Trylon volunteer Celia Mattison! In the small town of Bomont, dancing and rock music are illegal – but on this podcast, they're literally our favorite things. FOOTLOOSE positions dance as not just a metaphor for self-expression, but the act itself. With writer Celia Mattison, we put our Sunday shoes back ON to discuss the place of FOOTLOOSE in the dance movies landscape, Reverend Shaw (John Lithgow) as the antagonist-turned-sidekick, and the and fear of the future that binds two opposing generations in common confusion. Find Celia… - On Twitter at https://twitter.com/CeliaMattison - On her Substack, “Deeper Into Movies”: https://deeperintomovies.substack.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 music: "Footloose" by Kenny Loggins from the FOOTLOOSE soundtrack. Timestamps 0:00 - Episode 254: FOOTLOOSE (1984) 1:56 - A bit about Celia, the Trylon, and dance movies 6:13 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary 8:33 - Celia's mileage with FOOTLOOSE 11:47 - Our entry points into FOOTLOOSE 25:18 - John Lithgow, Shaw, and the Bomont theocracy 45:44 - Ren x Willard 57:52 - Ariel, the music box, and a bridge between generations 1:05:43 - Other Loves We've Tried: 1984 1:06:45 - The Junk Drawer 1:15:22 - Good Grief, Give Me a GIF! 1:19:43 - Cody's Noteys: Trylog (Kenny Loggins-adjacent trivia)

TWILIGHT (nope!) can be considered in the same conversation as other works of slow cinema, but György Fehér's detective story has a bit more of a direct, even darkly comic, edge to it. A girl is found violently murdered in the woods, kicking off a slow-but-frenzied search for the perpetrator. In this discussion, we talk about how TWILIGHT leverages the slow cinema toolkit (slow pans, long takes, minimal action) to what Fehér called the “ridiculous contrast” between the search for justice and the eternity of nature. “Waiting for Something to Happen: György Fehér's Twilight” by Luke Mosher for Perisphere, the Trylon blog: https://www.perisphere.org/2023/11/10/waiting-for-something-to-happen-gyorgy-fehers-twilight/ 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 music: "Main Theme" from the TWILIGHT soundtrack. Timestamps 0:00 - Episode 253: TWILIGHT (1990) 3:21 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary 7:41 - “It's always giving us something, even when it's giving us nothing” 21:15 - Shots so slow they eradicate meaning 29:44 - Detective Felügyelõ and what the movie wants to focus on 39:59 - Perpetrators, victims, and small moments that implicate 43:48 - Voyeurism 51:57 - Viewing notes (or, Everyone Gets Mad at Jason) 1:00:41 - The Junk Drawer 1:12:04 - Other Loves We've Tried: 1990 1:14:03 - Good Grief, Give Me a GIF! 1:18:57 - Cody's Noteys: Twi-love - TWILIGHT (series) trivia

Francis Ford Coppola's war epic coasts from the formulaic to the surreal so smoothly, it's almost hard to pinpoint the point of no return. On its face, it's obviously anti-war; in the director's own words, it's “anti-lie”; and in many ways, it excoriates Hollywood portrayals of war themselves. The Final Cut, as discussed on this episode, puts a finer point on the film's specific criticisms of the imperialism and colonialism that resulted in the war in Vietnam while streamlining its most visceral sights and sounds for maximum dreamlike effect. 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 music: Not from this movie, but spiritually in it. Timestamps 0:00 - Episode 252: APOCALYPSE NOW (1979) 2:37 - The episode actually starts 6:23 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary 10:35 - The many directions you could take discussing APOCALYPSE NOW 30:41 - “One of the best-looking films to watch” 42:50 - The visual communication of information and theme 58:55 - What Kurtz “represents” 1:14:46 - Chief, Mr. Clean, race, and the “asshole of the world” 1:22:58 - Other Loves We've Tried: 1979 1:24:24 - The Junk Drawer 1:32:22 - Good Grief, Give Me a GIF! 1:36:44 - Cody's Noteys: Try-pocalypse Love (famous movie quotes trivia)

One of Brian De Palma and Robert De Niro's earliest features (a big movie for famous guys with “De” in their last names) is a De Mented, De Praved, De Tached experimental film that De Tails (I'm done) voyeurism, vicarity, and white liberal apologia in the Civil Rights era. When Vietnam vet Jon Rubin (De Niro) fails to convey his desire for authenticity through both filming porn and marrying one of his subjects, he trades in his 8mm camera for a TV set (see, he's no longer just the one who SEES, but the one who is SEEN in return!). That puts him on the trail of a black theater troupe engaged in the interactive piece “Be Black, Baby!”, which, through De Palma's shaky, uncut, hurried lens, reaches an extreme fever pitch that seems to accept the limits of white American storytelling without settling for ‘not saying anything.' “Hi Mom!: Smile for the Camera” by Nick Kouhi for Perisphere, the Trylon blog: https://www.perisphere.org/2023/10/27/hi-mom-smile-for-the-camera/ “Turn Your Gaze Upon This Wretched Thing: The Schismatic Spectacle of Brian DePalma's Hi, Mom!” by Courtney Kowalke for Perisphere, the Trylon blog: https://www.perisphere.org/2023/10/27/turn-your-gaze-upon-this-wretched-thing-the-schismatic-spectacle-of-brian-depalmas-hi-mom/ “Coercive Theater” by Philippa Snow for Artforum: https://www.artforum.com/columns/philippa-snow-on-brian-de-palmas-_hi-mom_-1970-242133/ Check out more Cult Film Collective screenings at the Trylon: https://www.trylon.org/films/category/cult-film-collective/ 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. "Main Theme” by Eric Kaz from the HI, MOM! soundtrack. Timestamps 0:00 - Episode 251: HI, MOM! (1970) 3:17 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary 5:42 - Blunt, effective transgression 12:41 - A membranous meta humor on top of ‘serious' topics 19:11 - De Palma's voyeuristic drive 23:45 - Jon Rubin's pursuit of… what, exactly? 39:11 - The “Be Black, Baby!” middle act and De Palma's frustrated filmmaking 57:31 - The Junk Drawer 1:04:18 - Good Grief, Give Me a GIF! 1:08:10 - Cody's Noteys: Trylibs – Mommies

Content warning: Depictions of abuse and violence toward women and transgender people. The atrocities committed by Buffalo Bill, a serial killer known for skinning his victims, make up only some of the injustices outlined in THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS, director Jonathan Demme's adaptation of Thomas Harris's novel. Among the others: Stunted actualization, systemic removal of agency, and a culture-wide lack of empathy. In this episode, we discuss the motivations of Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins in his most iconic role) as he shepherds Clarice Starling (a thoroughly empathetic Jodie Foster) along the path to Buffalo Bill (Ted Levine in plurality). In achieving full actualization – a comprehensive marriage of form and theme – THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS casts a stylized and sensational, pointed and restrained (but not always fair or friendly) eye toward the people who are ‘allowed' to capital-B Become and those who must do it the hard way. “A Farewell to Horses” by Natalie Marlin for Perisphere, the Trylon blog: https://www.perisphere.org/2023/10/22/a-farewell-to-horses/ 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. "Goodbye Horses" by Q Lazzarus as featured in THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS. Timestamps 0:00 - Episode 250: THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS (1991) 2:00 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary (under exclusive license from AG Enterprises 3:17 - Humanizing 8:59 - Film mechanics in concert with its themes 14:57 - Learning about the monster(s) with a sense of restraint 20:59 - Recognizing agency (or the absence of it) in others 39:21 - Clarice Starling 50:52 - Mom said it's my turn on the Actualization 58:12 - The Junk Drawer 1:05:31 - Good Grief, Give Me a GIF! 1:11:57 - Cody's Noteys: Darlove, a Movie Poo-dcast (Darla the acting Bichon Frise trivia)

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… - On Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/corndogmaddy/ - On Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/kaijumaddy/ Find Emma… - On Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/quiltedquads/ - Volunteering at the Trylon every other Friday - On Trylove Episode 220: WATERSHIP DOWN (1978) Find Abbie… - On Twitter at https://twitter.com/goodhunterabbie - On Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/goodhunterabbie/ - On Trylove Episode 184: DRIVE ANGRY (2011), Episode 209: WAR OF THE WORLDS (2005) 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), Episode 197: RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD (1985), Episode 210: MAD MAX: FURY ROAD (2015), Episode 239: MILLENNIUM MAMBO (2001) Get tickets to “The Nightmarish Nineties” (October 2023 at the Trylon): https://www.trylon.org/films/category/the-nightmarish-nineties/ “Horror without Borders: My Blair Witch Project” by Chris Ryba-Tures for Perisphere, the Trylon blog: https://www.perisphere.org/2023/10/13/horror-without-borders-my-blair-witch-project/ “From Sundance to Box Office Gold: The Story of The Blair Witch Project” by Kevin Maher for Perisphere, the Trylon blog: https://www.perisphere.org/2023/10/14/from-sundance-to-box-office-gold-the-story-of-the-blair-witch-project/ 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

Who would you be if not for destiny? What kind of person are you holding yourself back from becoming? George Sluizer's psychological thriller is best known for its morbidity and shock ending, but on this episode of Trylove, we focus on the stuff in the middle. At its heart, THE VANISHING is two parallel tales of men driven to pursue a new version of themselves: An aggrieved ex-husband and a sociopath who takes a leap into the unthinkable. Watch THE VANISHING on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6BTffFzrHc Get tickets to “The Nightmarish Nineties” (October 2023 at the Trylon): https://www.trylon.org/films/category/the-nightmarish-nineties/ “Gothic, Dull and Sharp: George Sluizer's The Vanishing” by MH Rower for Perisphere, the Trylon blog: https://www.perisphere.org/2023/10/07/gothic-dull-and-sharp-george-sluizers-the-vanishing/ “Golden Eggs Flying Through Space: The Horrific Dream Logic at the Heart of The Vanishing” by Sophie Durbin for Perisphere, the Trylon blog: https://www.perisphere.org/2023/10/07/golden-eggs-flying-through-space-the-horrific-dream-logic-at-the-heart-of-the-vanishing/ 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 the THE VANISHING soundtrack by Henny Vrienten. Timestamps 0:00 - Episode 248: THE VANISHING (1988) 1:50 - The episode actually starts 2:00 - Nevermind it's Aaron's Twitter Update 5:47 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary 11:13 - A cold, bleak, comedic tone 23:30 - Form, mechanics, and its “matter-of-fact” framing 33:24 - What is Rex REALLY in pursuit of? 42:06 - The ending, nihilism, and humor in the face of death 52:50 - The Junk Drawer 59:34 - Good Grief, Give Me a GIF!

Turns out there's still a bunch to say about SCREAM, the movie that saved the horror genre by one of the guys who almost killed it. Go figure! From generational moral panic to metacommentary on slasher media to the impact of consumer technology on the way movies tell stories, this episode unpacks Wes Craven's third wall-breaking classic that started a scary movie revolution. Get tickets to “The Nightmarish Nineties” (October 2023 at the Trylon): https://www.trylon.org/films/category/the-nightmarish-nineties/ “You Can't Get Rid of the Telephone” by ​​Chelli Riddiough for Perisphere, the Trylon blog: https://www.perisphere.org/2023/09/29/you-cant-get-rid-of-the-telephone/ “It's All Just One Big Movie: I Always Had a Thing For You, Scream” by Jake Rudegeair for Perisphere, the Trylon blog: https://www.perisphere.org/2023/09/29/its-all-just-one-big-movie-i-always-had-a-thing-for-you-scream/ 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: "[Don't Fear] The Reaper" by Blue Öyster Cult from the SCREAM soundtrack. Timestamps 0:00 - Episode 247: SCREAM (1996) 2:22 - The episode actually starts 4:59 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary 18:17 - SCREAM as slasher metacommentary 31:10 - The opening scene as tone-setter 38:08 - Generational moral panic and teen coming-of-age 51:33 - It's ‘cause you be always on that damn cordless phone 58:29 - The Gay Shit 1:01:34 - The characters and performances 1:05:02 - The Junk Drawer 1:10:50 - Good Grief, Give Me a GIF! 1:15:04 - Cody's Noteys: Mostface Filler (shared cast + crew trivia)

Content warning: This episode includes references to sexual violence as discussed in PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK. Public reaction to three missing schoolgirls and their teacher during a field trip to Hanging Rock – a prehistoric monolith – ranges from shock to guilt to pocket-watching. But how the citizens of Victoria react sometimes belies their true feelings: The girls who were spared their classmates' fate are giddy with drama; the police fear what their inability to solve the incident means for their authority; and headmistress Ms. Appleyard may harbor more jealousy than guilt over the girls' freak disappearance. This episode delves into the colonial, historical, sexual, and gender-centric throughlines of Peter Weir's PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK, focusing on Ms. Appleyard as a vector for the girls' frivolous nature, their austere environment, and the imposition of British rule over the First Nations of Australia. Watch PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK on the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/picnic-at-hanging-rock-1975 “The Loss of Posture in Picnic at Hanging Rock” by Yuval Klein for Perisphere, the Trylon blog: https://www.perisphere.org/2023/09/24/the-loss-of-posture-in-picnic-at-hanging-rock/ “The Presence of Romantic Absence in Picnic at Hanging Rock” by Sophie Durbin for Perisphere, the Trylon blog: https://www.perisphere.org/2023/09/22/the-presence-of-romantic-absence-in-picnic-at-hanging-rock/ Roger Ebert's 1998 review of PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK: https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-picnic-at-hanging-rock-1975 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: 'Doina Sus Pe Culmea Dealului' (Main Theme) by Gheorghe Zamfir from the PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK soundtrack. Timestamps 0:00 - Episode 246: PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK (1975) 2:54 - The episode actually starts 5:36 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary 24:57 - How PICNIC foregrounds its tone to resist a clear reading 37:45 - Mrs. Appleyard 52:37 - The ending 1:00:20 - The Junk Drawer 1:08:10 - Good Grief, Give Me a GIF! 1:12:52 - Cody's Noteys: The Try is Out There

Part FITZCARRALDO (1982), part APOCALYPSE NOW (1979), part Lord of the Flies, THE MOSQUITO COAST was Harrison Ford's wily villainous turn and one of Peter Weir's most cynical movies to that point in his career. Allie Fox's Nicaraguan sojourn – an ill-conceived plot to bring ice to the jungle – is cut short by his hubris, his family's increasing skepticism, and the harsh realities of jungle living that put a cap on his seemingly limitless madman optimism. On this episode, we talk about America's self-sabotaging right-wing movement, whether or not the movie begs our empathy for Allie's detachment from reality, and the unflappable resolve of those who would see the world built in their image. “Mosquito Coast: Or, Man Absolutely Loses it in a Hardware Store” by Michael Wellvang for Perisphere, the Trylon blog: https://www.perisphere.org/2023/09/15/mosquito-coast-or-man-absolutely-loses-it-in-a-hardware-store/ “Ice is Back With My Brand New Invention” by Lucas Hardwick for Perisphere, the Trylon blog: https://www.perisphere.org/2023/09/15/ice-is-back-with-my-brand-new-invention/ “A Harrison Ford filmography: The actor looks back at some pivotal roles” in Entertainment Weekly: https://ew.com/article/1992/06/12/harrison-ford-filmography/ 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: "Allie's Theme" by Maurice Jarre from the THE MOSQUITO COAST soundtrack.

With returning guest Seth Zarate! Listening note: This episode sounds different from our usual productions. Cody, Seth, and Jason were all in a room together, while Aaron joined remotely. Jason had precious little editing time. Our apologies for any disruptions. One of Peter Weir's earliest feature length films, THE CARS THAT ATE PARIS bears some of his hallmarks (genre-mixing, dualities, subcultures, cars cresting hills menacingly) and also some surreal, batshit filmmaking in the same conversation as MAD MAX (1979) (obviously) and DEATH RACE 2000 (1975) and PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE (1974) – and also the movies of the Coen Brothers? Check it out! Find Seth… - On Twitter at https://twitter.com/snzarate - On Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/snzarate - On Trylove episodes about ASTEROID CITY/DIAL OF DESTINY/DEAD RECKONING/BARBIE/OPPENHEIMER (2023), LOOPER (2012), IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT (1934), THE CONVERSATION (1974), TOKYO GODFATHERS (2003), BATMAN RETURNS (1992), Horrorthon V: Son of Horrorthon (2021), RUMBLE IN THE BRONX (1995), THE SACRIFICE (1986), THE FACULTY (1998), TIME BANDITS (1981), A GOOFY MOVIE (1995) Table Read, TO LIVE AND DIE IN L.A. (1985), 12 MONKEYS (1995), and THE FIFTH ELEMENT (1997) “The Cars That Ate Paris and the Bone-Shaking Consequences of the Past” by Chris Ryba-Tures for Perisphere, the Trylon blog: https://www.perisphere.org/2023/09/08/the-cars-that-ate-paris-and-the-bone-shaking-consequences-of-the-past/ “Dude, Where's My Car? Car Culture Examined in The Cars That Ate Paris” by Matthew Lambert for Perisphere, the Trylon blog: https://www.perisphere.org/2023/09/08/dude-wheres-my-car-car-culture-examined-in-the-cars-that-ate-paris/ Watch THE CARS THAT ATE PARIS on the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/the-cars-that-ate-paris-1974 Get tickets to the Peter Weir series at the Trylon: https://www.trylon.org/films/category/peter-weir/ 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 Bruce Smeaton from the THE CARS THAT ATE PARIS soundtrack.

Content warning: This episode contains references to sexual violence as discussed in THE PLUMBER. Peter Weir's 1979 made-for-TV 16mm creeper is a short parable about two people from the same part of the world but two different parts of society (a lower-middle-class plumber and a member of the liberal intellectual elite) becoming the worst versions of themselves to survive the other. Max is the itinerant tradesman making frequent uninvited appearances at the home of Jill, an anthropologist without a job. A combative, highly suggestive relationship forms between the two: Jill dreads Max's very presence, especially while her husband Brian is away pursuing his career; Max, entitled and bullish, leaves a trail of shattered tiles and bent pipes in his wake; and with the lines so clearly drawn, chances of reconciliation between the two sit comfortably at zero while the pressure builds in the small flat. Watch THE PLUMBER on the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/the-plumber-1978 Get tickets to the Peter Weir series at the Trylon: https://www.trylon.org/films/category/peter-weir/ 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'm Me, Babe” from THE PLUMBER (1979). Timestamps 0:00 - Episode 243: THE PLUMBER (1979) 3:23 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary (under exclusive license from AG Enterprises, Ltd.) 4:18 - Harry saw this movie because of his job! 12:03 - The Cowpers and threats to the liberal intellectual class 25:29 - The movie monster vs. the modern woman 37:10 - Predatory dynamics 44:51 - Class 50:04 - The ending and a wry turning of the tables 1:09:39 - The Junk Drawer 1:17:52 - Good Grief, Give Me a GIF! 1:24:28 - Cody's Noteys: Maybe the Trylove Ate Your Baby

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)

It's not quite like the Jackie Chan movies you might be expecting. It's more bizarre and slightly less martial arts-focused – but once you get on its wavelength, it's truly a joy of a screwball action comedy. Watch TWIN DRAGONS (English subs) on the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/jackie-chans-twin-dragons-full-movie-english-sub 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: "In Ancient Times" by Shirley Kwan and performed by Maggie Cheung from the TWIN DRAGONS soundtrack. Timestamps 5:15 - The episode actually starts 8:00 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary 9:55 - The Jackie Chan charming asshole spectrum 16:28 - Where it departs from other Jackie Chan movies 26:34 - The double climax 30:31 - Aaron's Proustian experience with TWIN DRAGONS and THE TUXEDO (2002) 35:35 - The one where Jason directs TWIN DRAGONS 42:14 - Where TWIN DRAGONS decides to lean in and where it doesn't 50:27 - TWIN DRAGONS underrated? 52:34 - The Junk Drawer 1:00:31 - Good Grief, Give Me a GIF!

The opposition leader is dead, clubbed in the city square for all to see – and the ruling dictatorship does everything it can, which is literally everything, to deny responsibility. Z is a fictional account of the real, state-conducted assassination of a Greek leftist politician, but its satire achieves a degree of incisiveness rarely seen in the modern political thriller. By showing the audience the planning, execution, and cover-up, Z is less about the mystery and more about the mechanics of dictatorial hegemony: With the crime plain as day, the plot follows the denial, coercion, censorship, retaliation, and suppression they leverage to pretend their power is still in the shadows. 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 Title (O Andonis)" by Mikis Theodorakis from the Z soundtrack. Timestamps 0:00 - Episode 240: Z (1969) 3:32 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary 7:26 - Cynicism and the edge political thrillers have lost since Z 21:22 - How the plot lulls the audience into believing everything's gonna be okay 30:57 - The dictatorship's rhetoric 43:23 - An opposition party defined as much by what they don't do as what they do 45:32 - The ending 51:00 - The Junk Drawer 57:18 - Good Grief, Give Me a GIF!

Featuring Natalie Marlin (https://twitter.com/NataliesNotInIt)! Even though MILLENNIUM MAMBO shows us a vivid portrait of Vicky, a woman struggling with personal change at the dawn of the millennium, it's arguably not REALLY about that. It's almost more about her relationship to herself – rather, to the version of herself who makes those choices – as narrated by Vicky 10 years in the future. Vicky's hushed voiceover and swallowed admissions build a narrative of her recursive patterns in 2001: Her tumultuous relationship with the manipulative Hao Hao, her would-be partnership with kindhearted criminal Jack, her run-ins with the Taipei nightclub scene, and her frequent returns to snowy Hokkaido. At the same time, they're calling attention to the wants and desires of 2011 Vicky, calling into question how inescapable some loops really are. “Millennium Fades” by Natalie Marlin for Perisphere, the Trylon blog: https://www.perisphere.org/2023/08/04/millennium-fades/ 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), Episode 197: RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD (1985), and Episode 210: MAD MAX: FURY ROAD (2015) The tweet about the Helsinki pallas cat Jason mentions at the top of the episode: https://twitter.com/NoNameGirl8686/status/1689794141033463808 Watch MILLENNIUM MAMBO on the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/qian-xi-man-po-aka-millennium-mambo-2001 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 Pure Person" by Lim Giong from the MILLENNIUM MAMBO soundtrack. Timestamps 0:00 - Episode 239: MILLENNIUM MAMBO (2001) 4:32 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary 6:06 - New understandings through rewatch 13:16 - Narration and Vicky's compassion for herself 32:00 - Color and the “ultra saturated” millennium 37:50 - Yubari and the bookending the movie with ellipses 52:54 - #NewYearNewMe and seeing different versions of yourself 1:00:50 - The soundtrack and the power of leitmotif 1:05:28 - The Junk Drawer 1:09:13 - Good Grief, Give Me a GIF!

What if Toshirô Mifune was a little bit more of a churlish bastard – but what if that didn't make you like him any less? You might get something like Hideo Gosha's jidaigeki action film SAMURAI WOLF! It's a fun, contemporary take on some of Kurosawa's best movies and the tropes they codified, with a wandering ronin taking on the cause of the underdog and finding more of his own humanity in the people he's aiding – but also being kind of terrified of that discovery. Hired to aid a valuable rural shipping outpost deliver 30,000 pieces of gold for the regional shogun, Kiba Okaminosuke is challenged by the roving clans bandit clans who claim the nearby town, a shadowy ronin with far fewer scruples than Kiba himself, and the affection of a blind widow with some skeletons of her own. Get tickets to “HIDEO GOSHA: WANDERING RONIN” (Aug 2023 at the Trylon): https://www.trylon.org/films/category/wandering-ronin/ SAMURAI WOLF was shown at the Trylon with support from the Japan America Society of Minnesota https://www.mn-japan.org/ 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 composed by Toshiaki Tsushima from the SAMURAI WOLF soundtrack. Timestamps 0:00 - Episode 238: SAMURAI WOLF (1966) 2:25 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary (under exclusive license from AG Enterprises, LLC) 4:40 - A shaggy-dog version of YOJIMBO 18:25 - Kiba's spin on the wandering ronin archetype 25:14 - Sanai and the corruption of desire 32:25 - The ending and running from growing up 45:34 - The Junk Drawer 52:46 - Good Grief, Give Me a GIF! 1:01:20 - Cody's Noteys: Awooo, Try-wolves of Love-don (wolf-related movie trivia)

A self-sentenced prisoner in Plato's cave, Marcello Clerici thinks he chooses the shadows. Marcello doesn't want to be a fascist. He doesn't want to be an anti-fascist, either. He doesn't want to be an academic, an assassin, a husband, son, straight, or gay. He wants to be normal. He wants to be nothing. THE CONFORMIST is a dizzying psycho-political thriller that digs into the motivations that lead worms like Marcello to follow fascist ideology (or any ideology). Watch THE CONFORMIST for free on the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/the.-conformist.-1970.-italian.-1080p.-blu-ray.-h-264.-aac-vxt Use IMDb Collaborations, the tool Cody uses in this episode's Cody's Noteys segment: https://www.imdb.com/search/common/ “Animula Vagula Blandula: (Un)Masking Clerici in The Conformist” by Chris Ryba-Tures for Perisphere, the Trylon blog: https://www.perisphere.org/2023/07/21/animula-vagula-blandula-unmasking-clerici-in-the-conformist/ “The Conformist: Finding Purpose in a Fascist State” by Eli Holm for Perisphere, the Trylon blog: https://www.perisphere.org/2023/07/21/the-conformist-finding-purpose-in-a-fascist-state/ 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: "Chi è più felice di me" composed by Cesare A. Bixio and arranged by Georges Delerue from the THE CONFORMIST soundtrack. Timestamps 0:00 - Episode 237: THE CONFORMIST (1970) 2:34 - The episode actually starts 3:50 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary (under exclusive license from AG Enterprises, Ltd.) 5:41 - Adapting fascist ideology into daily society 14:09 - “The physical movement of a political movement” 18:47 - The hidden depth of the ‘allegory of the cave' scene 26:36 - How Manganiello counters Marcello's better angels 29:47 - The myth of the “new Italian” and complete self-erasure 46:13 - Anna and Luca in Paris 52:30 - The Junk Drawer 56:32 - Good Grief, Give Me a GIF! 1:07:17 - Cody's Noteys: The Common-formist (shared cast + crew trivia)

We're back with some relatively rapid-fire thoughts on a few of the biggest movies of the summer! ASTEROID CITY is sentimental bliss, DIAL OF DESTINY uses and abuses nostalgia, DEAD RECKONING's villain is megastupid, BARBIE is a good-natured romp, and OPPENHEIMER is by turns awe-inspiring and embarrassing. 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/. Music: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"What I've Done" by Linkin Park. Timestamps 0:00 - Puff Puff MoviePass: ASTEROID CITY, DIAL OF DESTINY, DEAD RECKONING, BARBIE, OPPENHEIMER (2023) 2:37 - ASTEROID CITY 16:04 - INDIANA JONES AND THE DIAL OF DESTINY 33:24 - MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – DEAD RECKONING PART 1 50:54 - BARBIE 1:08:33 - OPPENHEIMER

In the first half, he's a hero – in the second, he's losing his mind. T.E. Lawrence is the conflicted figure who inserts himself into the Arab Revolt during World War I, only to find his reputation, sanity, and very identity hanging in the balance. LAWRENCE OF ARABIA is one of the best regarded movies of all time. Normally, that raises an eyebrow, but in this case, we find it's absolutely still true. It's a multifaceted portrait not just of the soldier-turned-diplomat thrillseeker but of the entire British insertion into the Arabian Peninsula. Its strength is in its scope: Impossibly wide vistas frame four men sitting in a tent as broadly as entire tribes, rarely letting a single face speak for itself. LAWRENCE OF ARABIA is interested not in iconoclasm or image rehabilitation – only a complex, awesome portrait of a complex, awesome event and the people who shaped it. 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: "Overture" from the LAWRENCE OF ARABIA soundtrack by Maurice Jarre. Timestamps 0:00 - Episode 236: LAWRENCE OF ARABIA (1962) 1:38 - The episode actually starts 3:06 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary (under exclusive license from AG Enterprises, Ltd.) 6:45 - Expectations of LAWRENCE OF ARABIA vs. the reality 14:43 - Broadening the scope beyond Lawrence 24:50 - The Lawrence we meet in the first half vs. the Lawrence we know in the second half 39:27 - The allegory of Lawrence 50:25 - The Junk Drawer 52:57 - Good Grief, Give Me a GIF! 58:37 - Cody's Noteys: Try-Lawrence of Arabi-love

The reasons why some critics decried SUPER FLY on its release aren't ours to criticize (but we make that mistake on this episode a couple times anyway), but they're important to understanding its long-term impact. The bone it picks with the aftermath of the Civil Rights movement – that many of its victories were pyrrhic, and that America still has far to go before it can claim racial equity – makes it feel ahead of its time and very much of its time. Its actual function as a movie may have aged less than beautifully (it's not actually that much fun to watch or follow along with), but its combination of style (hello The Curtis Mayfield Experience) and cynicism give SUPER FLY an outsized cultural influence that precedes itself. Listen to an episode of Jason's other podcast, CrossFade, where he and Matt Helgeson discussed the music of SUPER FLY (and Rush's 2112) with video game composer Jason Graves: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/curtis-mayfield-vs-rush-feat-jason-graves/id1501267072?i=1000524248893 “I'll Let You Trip for Awhile: Curtis Mayfield's Super Fly” by Jay Ditzer for Perisphere, the Trylon blog: https://www.perisphere.org/2023/07/07/ill-let-you-trip-for-awhile-curtis-mayfields-super-fly/ Five Super Fly Hip-Hop Samples” by Matthew Tchepikova-Treon for Perisphere, the Trylon blog: “https://www.perisphere.org/2023/07/07/five-super-fly-hip-hop-samples/ 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 throughout from the SUPER FLY soundtrack by Curtis Mayfield. Timestamps 0:00 - Episode 235: SUPER FLY (1972) 3:26 - The episode actually starts 5:56 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary 9:13 - The sound of SUPER FLY, moralizing, and Priest's self-determinism 29:42 - Contextualizing the 1972 critical response 39:47 - Was Sig Shore hip enough? 44:01 - Scenes that have no place in this movie 50:01 - The Junk Drawer 55:26 - Good Grief, Give Me a GIF!

With returning guest and Perisphere senior editor Finn Odum! THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD might be the precursor to John Carpenter's THE THING (1982), but the creature feature uses its tale of a plant-based alien invader to a vastly different end. Instead of honing in on the slow creep of bellicose masculinity, THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD instead takes the opportunity to pound its chest at the Communist threat Capitalist America had come to fear during the Red Scare and continue to fight during the Cold War. With Finn, we talk about the movie's tendency to Other, its reliance on military might and imperialist common sense, and the mid-century shift in science fiction from fantastical, barely imaginable tales to a conservative, Earth-vs-outsiders worldview. Stick around for a first-ever extra-special bit: Finn's Facts! Find Finn… On Twitter at https://twitter.com/Finnematic On Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/finnofthedead/ On Trylove episodes about DIABOLIQUE (1955) and CON AIT (1997) “In Soviet Russia, Carrot Eats YOU!” by Lucas Hardwick for Perisphere, the Trylon blog: https://www.perisphere.org/2023/06/30/in-soviet-russia-carrot-eats-you/ Listen to Trylove Episode 40: THE THING (1982) wherever you get podcasts Watch THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD (1951) and also a Pingu stop-motion homage to THE THING (a.k.a. “THINGU”) on the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/01-the-thing-from-another-world 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 Titles" from the THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD soundtrack by Dimitri Tiomkin.

SYMPATHY FOR MR. VENGEANCE doesn't ask for much of its titular compassion – instead, it uses director Park Chan-wook's sense of style and space to tell complementary stories of grief. By separating intent and action through a series of salacious plot twists, Park unites the players in grief across classes: deaf-mute laborer Ryu and his corporate superior Dong-jin and the left-wing terrorist Yeoung-mi and organ-stealing mobster families (and and and…) by reminding the audience that socioeconomic context initiates the snowball effect that drives a series of calamitous accidents, actions, and reactions. 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: "복수는 나의 것” (“Vengeance is Mine”) by 어어부 프로젝트 (The Uhuhboo Project) from the SYMPATHY FOR MR. VENGEANCE soundtrack. Timestamps 0:00 - Episode 233: SYMPATHY FOR MR. VENGEANCE (2002) 4:39 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary (under exclusive license from AG Enterprises, LLC) 6:28 - Balance of comedy and cruelty 19:53 - A fatalist world that feels larger than its inhabitants 37:43 - How it brings the audience into that world 40:44 - Dong-jin + intent vs. effect 52:22 - The Junk Drawer 59:24 - Good Grief, Give Me a GIF! 1:06:27 - Cody's Noteys – Trylibs: Vengeance (Madlibs)

"But when I became a man, I put away childish things." - 1 Corinthians 13:11 Richard Linklater's breakthrough film is a cultural touchstone not for the 1970s, but how people who grew up in the 1970s remembered the 1970s in the 1990s. It's a little bit preservationist and a little bit precious, but it's remembered as a fun portrait of teenagehood post-Summer of Love and pre-Reagan – whatever that was like. 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: "Slow Ride” by Foghat from the DAZED AND CONFUSED soundtrack. Timestamps 0:00 - Episode 232: DAZED AND CONFUSED (1993) 2:24 - The episode actually starts 6:00 - What resonates and what doesn't 13:48 - A movie more about the ‘90s than about the ‘70s 22:35 - Linklater's personal take on his stories 29:09 - Seeing real characters through the sentimental lens 33:26 - Pink as a subversion of the typical HS quarterback 39:28 - Cycles and the “intimate authority” of older generations 54:09 - The Junk Drawer 1:04:02 - Good Grief, Give Me a GIF! 1:07:49 - Cody's Noteys: Try-lost in the Woods (Frederick Forrest trivia)

WAITING FOR GUFFMAN does something The Office and Parks and Recreation could not: It walks a line between mocking life in Blaine, Missouri, and memorializing it without getting all sentimental. In this episode, we cut away for a few talking head segments that dive into the mockumentary's pacing, focus, and empathy for the weirdos whose talent is outweighed by their desire to be somebody. “For The Love of Small-Town Community Theater” by Lucas Vonasek for Perisphere, the Trylon blog: https://www.perisphere.org/2023/06/09/for-the-love-of-small-town-community-theater/ “Sisyphus, Make Way for Corky's New Philosophy of Failure” by Veda Lawrence for Perisphere, the Trylon blog: https://www.perisphere.org/2023/06/09/sisyphus-make-way-for-corkys-new-philosophy-of-failure/ Parker Posey's deleted audition scene from WAITING FOR GUFFMAN: https://youtu.be/7jQ0SbWYdgQ “Waiting for Guffman movie review” by Roger Ebert: https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/waiting-for-guffman-1997 Get tickets to ALL HAIL PARKER POSEY (June 2023 at the Trylon): https://www.trylon.org/films/category/all-hail-parker-posey/ 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 composed by Harry Shearer, Christopher Guest, and Michael McKean and performed by Christopher Guest, Eugene Levy, Fred Willard, Catherine O'Hara, Parker Posey, and the Blaine Community Orchestra (Jean Fuller, Paul Robertson, Richard Macowell, Johnny Reno, Tracy Rosenkrans, Jeffery C.J. Vanston, and Tony Edwards) from the WAITING FOR GUFFMAN soundtrack. Timestamps 0:00 - Episode 231: WAITING FOR GUFFMAN (1996) 2:56 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary 3:59 - Our experiences in community theater 5:31 - The pointlessness-cum-pride of Blaine 15:27 - Poking fun without delving into the hateful 21:45 - How GUFFMAN skirts the cloying sentimentality of mockumentary TV series 33:34 - The dumbest, purest version of Waiting for Godot 44:51 - The inverse relationship of desire and talent 45:56 - The Junk Drawer 58:09 - Good Grief, Give Me a GIF! 1:04:33 - Cody's Noteys: Waiting for Prop-man (movie memorabilia trivia)

Sometimes, you just gotta feed the content monster… ‘cause he's got the freakin' MUNCHIES! Join us for a fun experiment in covering current-run movies – just stuff all three of us saw within the last month or so. Cody's the only one who actually saw any of them with MoviePass, so the pun still works. 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/. Music: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"What I've Done" by Linkin Park. Timestamps 0:00 - Puff Puff MoviePass: FAST X, SPIDER-MAN: ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE, + TRANSFORMERS: RISE OF THE BEASTS (2023) 3:15 - Why are we doing this? 6:35 - FAST X 21:36 - SPIDER-MAN: ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE 46:15 - TRANSFORMERS: RISE OF THE BEASTS 1:08:10 - Our MoviePass diaries

With special guest Kelly Krantz (https://twitter.com/kransekage_)! You may love THE DOOM GENERATION for its gonzo mix of sexploitation, comic violence, overacting, and non-comic violence, or you may hate it for… exactly the same reasons! Director Gregg Araki says he makes films “for” queer folks – and in this episode, we dig into what that means for a movie where people are getting their limbs blown off, their convenience stores robbed, and worse. 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), and REVOLVER (1971) “Apocalypse Then: Gregg Araki on the queer chaos of newly restored The Doom Generation” by Mitchell Beaupre for Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/journal/apocalypse-then-gregg-araki-doom-generation-restoration/ Get tickets to ALL HAIL PARKER POSEY (June 2023 at the Trylon): https://www.trylon.org/films/category/all-hail-parker-posey/ 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: "Alison” by Slowdive from the THE DOOM GENERATION soundtrack. Timestamps 0:00 - Episode 230: THE DOOM GENERATION (1995) with Kelly Krantz 0:45 - Quadlove (quadball talk) (Cody won his series) 2:58 - The episode actually starts 5:02 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary 6:34 - Kicking off the discussion 26:21 - Who Gregg Araki makes movies “for” 28:18 - The punk rock grating is the point 43:04 - The sights and sounds of THE DOOM GENERATION 51:21 - The Junk Drawer 58:29 - Good Grief, Give Me a GIF! 1:04:01 - Cody's Noteys: The Doom-Trylove-ation (THE DOOM GENERATION cast trivia)

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

Content warning: Depictions of domestic violence and suicide. THE GETAWAY follows a pretty conventional structure. Depending on how you look at it, that might flatten it a little bit or it might make its jagged edges a little more interesting! Either way, it's worth examining as Sam Peckinpah's most commercially successful movie – and another weird example of his incisive take on toxic masculinity as told through the conceit of a high-stakes heist. 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: "Love Theme" by Quincy Jones from the THE GETAWAY soundtrack. Timestamps 0:00 - Episode 228: THE GETAWAY (1972) 3:25 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary 6:42 - THE GETAWAY and Peckinpah's career-long obsessions 14:05 - The intro sequence 22:47 - A movie told in implied chapters 27:45 - The Cuckening of Harold Clinton 52:06 - Casting and WWII veteran tropes 57:33 - The Junk Drawer 1:06:48 - Good Grief, Give Me a GIF! 1:12:25 - Cody's Noteys: Trylove to Get Away for a Little While (getaway trivia)

Highly stylized, dark, and often gross, THE HEROIC TRIO is kind of a dark, inverted portrait of superhero movies that would come to dominate box offices in the 2000s. In this episode, we trace the impact of movies like THE HEROIC TRIO through the decades, from Tim Burton's BATMAN (1989) to Sam Raimi's DARKMAN (1990) and beyond. We also talk about the pissing kids and so much more! Get tickets to “MAGGIE CHEUNG, LUMINESCENT AND DANGEROUS” (May 2023 at the Trylon): https://www.trylon.org/films/category/luminescent-and-dangerous/ 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 Heroic Trio Theme" by Wai Lap Wu from the THE HEROIC TRIO soundtrack. Timestamps 0:00 - Episode 227: THE HEROIC TRIO (1993) 0:45 - CanTalk 4:34 - Episode starts 6:18 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary 7:59 - Pissing kids, superhero cinema, Nobuhiko Obayashi, and redemption 15:11 - Johnnie To's style and Raimi comparisons 23:43 - THE HEROIC TRIO as postmodern pop art 35:24 - The horrible finality of death 47:43 - Blood, whooshing, and tropes that rock in this movie 56:50 - The Junk Drawer 1:03:31 - Good Grief, Give Me a GIF! 1:08:27 - Cody's Noteys: To-love (Johnnie To trivia)

Content warning: Discussions of attempted sexual assault. Reprehensible and unrepentant, BRING ME THE HEAD OF ALFREDO GARCIA trades in the same extensive violence and fragility-masked-by-corruption that became a trademark of director Sam Peckinpah. Running a seedy bar in Mexico City, small-time lowlife Bennie sees a chance to elevate himself above his station when the titular job lands in his lap. His white-collar employers give him just enough rope to hang himself – and his partner, Elita – as they travel the Mexican countryside to deliver the head of a dead man to the crime boss he crossed. In this episode, we discuss seeing ALFREDO GARCIA at the Trylon after so long; Bennie's tenuous, poisonous drive to assert himself over the people and land around him; and the movie's bizarre, humorous, rage-addled final act. Watch BRING ME THE HEAD OF ALFREDO GARCIA for free on the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/bring.-me.the.-head.of.-alfredo.-garcia.-1974.-remastered.-1080p.-blu-ray.-h-264.-aac-rarbg “Scent, Sense, and Senselessness in Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia” by Sophie Durbin at Perisphere, the Trylon blog: https://www.perisphere.org/2023/04/28/scent-sense-and-senselessness-in-bring-me-the-head-of-alfredo-garcia/ “A Head's Tale: The Emotional Journey of Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia” by Lucas Hardwick at Perisphere, the Trylon blog: https://www.perisphere.org/2023/04/28/a-heads-tale-the-emotional-journey-of-bring-me-the-head-of-alfredo-garcia/ 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: "El Jefe" by Jerry Fielding from the BRING ME THE HEAD OF ALFREDO GARCIA soundtrack. Timestamps 0:00 - Episode 226: BRING ME THE HEAD OF ALFREDO GARCIA (1974) 2:46 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary 5:01 - “Unfortunately, it's a masterpiece” 13:31 - A third-act shift 23:57 - A cuck fear movie 38:13 - Commenting on the nihilism of ‘70s cinema 45:37 - Set design, privilege, and perfect ridiculous symbolism 54:37 - The Junk Drawer 1:02:58 - Good Grief, Give Me a GIF! 1:07:19 - Trylibs: Presented by Peckinpah

Another entry in the “what do you even say about that movie” category, THE PRINCESS BRIDE is a seminal fantasy comedy that came smack in the middle of director Rob Reiner's insane 1980s run. Anyway, a couple of us have incredibly strong nostalgia for it and a couple of us are more measured in our enthusiasm-cum-respect for the quirky comedy. It's literally one of our most approachable episodes ever and there's still room for a good few hot takes. Just listen for the popping before the flames! “Sick Day Story Allegory: The Princess Bride Integrates Grief on the Sly” by Jake Rudegeair for Perisphere, the Trylon blog: https://www.perisphere.org/2023/04/21/sick-day-story-allegory-the-princess-bride-integrates-grief-on-the-sly/ 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: "Storybook Love" by Mark Knopfler and Willy DeVille from the THE PRINCESS BRIDE soundtrack. Timestamps 0:00 - Episode 225: THE PRINCESS BRIDE (1987) 2:13 - The episode actually starts 4:47 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary 6:27 - False nostalgia and movies that are just in your bones 13:01 - Appreciating more than liking 18:46 - Leaving an impact by normalizing fantasy 23:47 - Why Aaron hates this movie 29:12 - What THE PRINCESS BRIDE taught movies about parody 33:12 - Da performances 42:47 - Rob Reiner's 1980s streak 44:46 - Junk Drawer 50:57 - Good Grief, Give Me a GIF! 54:34 - Cody's Noteys: The Princess Try'd (Buttercup-themed trivia)

Absurd, theatrical, and meandering, THE TRIAL is an almost faithful adaptation of Kafka's literary critique of legal bureaucracy. In this episode, we talk about the movie's lack of narrative pull, its garish monochrome palette and impressive set design, and what it says that Orson Welles changed the lens of Kafka's novel to focus on the individual – and then cast himself as the villain. Watch THE TRIAL on the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/the-trial-1962 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: "Adagio Prologue" by Jean Ledrut from the THE TRIAL soundtrack. Timestamps 0:00 - Episode 224: THE TRIAL (1962) 2:43 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary 4:25 - Orson Welles's Advocate and differences from the book 17:43 - Red Scare anger and an ego-fueled daydream 23:41 - An abstruse bureaucracy designed to prey on public guilt 34:30 - Impossible spaces 45:24 - The Junk Drawer 54:01 - Good Grief, Give Me a GIF! 58:11 - Cody's Noteys: With Franz Like These

EMPEROR OF THE NORTH rides (haha) a thin line between two distinct tracks (lmao): “Mythological self-seriousness with a sort of ironic bent” and “formulaic and cheesy early thriller fare”. Lee Marvin's A No. 1 and Keith Carradine's Cigaret face off against a cartoonishly evil Ernest Borgnine as Shack, the psychotically disgruntled company man with a hatchet (or hammer) for hobos. It's all a bit MAD MAX (1979), but not quite as fantastical or sincerely angry. It's more of a spectacle than a statement, but there's a good bit of value in that, and we try to get that engine going in this episode! Watch EMPEROR OF THE NORTH on the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/1973emperorofthenorth Get tickets to BROUGHT TO LIFE BY ERNEST BORGNINE (April 2023): https://www.trylon.org/films/category/brought-to-life-by-ernest-borgnine/ Get tickets to “BLOODY SAM” PECKINPAH (May at the Trylon): https://www.trylon.org/films/category/bloody-sam-peckinpah/ 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 Man and A Train" written by Frank DeVol and Hal David and performed by Marty Robbins from the EMPEROR OF THE NORTH soundtrack. Timestamps 0:00 - Episode 223: EMPEROR OF THE NORTH (1973) 5:09 - The episode actually starts (it's all kind of #GamesPod up until this point) 9:06 - What worked and didn't 16:21 - Physicality in EMPEROR OF THE NORTH 23:40 - Finding meaning beyond “survival” 36:05 - The joyful absurdity of EMPEROR OF THE NORTH 38:58 - Ironic mythologizing or cloying preachiness? 45:28 - The Junk Drawer 55:37 - Good Grief, Give Me a GIF! 59:12 - Jason's Hobo Vernacular Game

It turns out there's no fence-sitting at the end of the Wild West. You wouldn't call THE WILD BUNCH particularly swashbuckling, but there's a sort of uncomfortable excitement to its bandolier antics. A band of outlaws eyes one last prize near the US/Mexico border in 1913. The sociopolitical tumult of the place, and the rapid advance of the punitive system of capital at the time, threaten to derail their plans until a Mexican general hires them to steal guns from a moving train. No matter which side of the border they're on, the Wild Bunch feel their God-given right to subvert systems of power slipping with each gold piece snatched and each bullet dodged. Listen in for our thoughts on the movie that made Sam Peckinpah's career and changed how people thought of violence in movies! Subscribe to Region Free, AJ Moser and Blake Hester's podcast Jason guested on the week this episode came out: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/region-free/id1669819287 Get tickets to BROUGHT TO LIFE BY ERNEST BORGNINE (April 2023): https://www.trylon.org/films/category/brought-to-life-by-ernest-borgnine/ Get tickets to “BLOODY SAM” PECKINPAH (May at the Trylon): https://www.trylon.org/films/category/bloody-sam-peckinpah/ “The Wild Bunch: Between Companionship and Despair” by Rowan A. Smith for Perisphere, the Trylon blog: https://www.perisphere.org/2023/04/02/the-wild-bunch-between-companionship-and-despair/ “The Wild Bugs” by Brogan Earney for Perisphere, the Trylon blog: https://www.perisphere.org/2023/04/02/the-wild-bugs/ 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: "End Credits (La Golondrina)" by Jerry Fielding from the THE WILD BUNCH soundtrack. Timestamps 0:00 - Episode 222: THE WILD BUNCH (1969) 4:10 - The episode actually starts 6:18 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary 9:18 - Uncomfortable, not swashbuckling 15:51 - Individual responsibility vs. larger systems at work 21:17 - The bunch, Angel, and the end of ourselves 40:36 - The meta response to violence in THE WILD BUNCH 49:42 - Deke and survival and hope 58:19 - The Junk Drawer 1:12:38 - Good Grief, Give Me a GIF! 1:17:15 - Cody's Noteys: Crazy Gang

In RATCATCHER, everything is someone's fault, but not everyone suffers for it. “Ratcatcher: Death, Garbage, and Glimpses of Beauty in 1970s Glasgow” by Dan Howard for Perisphere, the Trylon blog: https://www.perisphere.org/2023/03/26/ratcatcher-death-garbage-and-glimpses-of-beauty-in-1970s-glasgow/ “The Eyes of Morton Are Upon You: Morvern Callar and the Art of Expression” by Natalie Marlin for Perisphere, the Trylon blog: https://www.perisphere.org/2023/03/24/the-eyes-of-morton-are-upon-you-morvern-callar-and-the-art-of-expression/ Check out our episode partially about Lynne Ramsay's MORVERN CALLAR with Fun City Editions founder Jonathan Hertzberg: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-155-building-a-boutique-film-label-with/id1449848155?i=1000547883839 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: Gassenhauer by Carl Orff. Timestamps 0:00 - Episode 221: RATCATCHER (1999) 4:37 - The episode actually starts 7:20 - Ramsay's style 17:29 - Humanizing, sympathizing, and wallowing in our own filth 31:38 - Snowball going to the moon 45:31 - Power hierarchies and targeted neglect 49:27 - The ending 54:59 - The Junk Drawer 1:00:14 - Good Grief, Give Me a GIF! 1:05:57 - Cody's Noteys: Ratlove (rat-themed movie trivia)

Special guest Emma Youndtsmith joins Trylove for the first time to discuss a classic of ‘70s animated adaptations! WATERSHIP DOWN has a reputation for ruining childhoods, with gruesome imagery and dark implications about the systems of power in the natural world. You could read it as a post-WWII allegory, as a broader indictment of fascist hegemony, or just as a journey of self-discovery. But with Emma, we tried to go further than the striking violence for which it's remembered to pull out some new insights: Why the book might be sadder than the movie, what it's saying about the nature of nature, and what makes Kehaar an all-time G. Find Emma: On Twitter at https://twitter.com/Etuni On Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/quiltedquads/ Volunteering at the Trylon every other Friday “The Rabbits of Tomorrow: Watership Down and the Evolution of Animation” by Daniel McCabe on Perisphere, the Trylon blog: https://www.perisphere.org/2023/03/17/the-rabbits-of-tomorrow-watership-down-and-the-evolution-of-animation/ 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: "Kehaar's Theme" composed by Angela Morley and performed by the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra from the WATERSHIP DOWN soundtrack. Timestamps 0:00 - Episode 220: WATERSHIP DOWN (1978) with Emma Youndtsmith 4:00 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary 5:54 - Comparisons to the book 12:37 - WATERSHIP DOWN in context of personified animal animation 18:09 - The traumatizing provenance of WATERSHIP DOWN 24:46 - The Black Rabbit 31:54 - Cowslip's warren 36:14 - Woundwort's warren and hegemony 39:39 - The worldbuilding 43:03 - Ya boi Kehaar 55:37 - The Junk Drawer 1:00:35 - Good Grief, Give Me a GIF! 1:07:50 - Cody's Noteys: Animal Kingdom

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

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)

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)

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)

The Man Hunos Bruno, our resident Bruce Willis authority, Seth Zarate (https://twitter.com/snzarate) is back and talking to his younger self on Trylove! LOOPER put Rian Johnson on the big-budget map and earned him the director's seat on a fuckin' STAR WARS movie. It's the movie that tried to convince us Bruce Willis and Joseph Gordon-Levitt could feasibly look like the same person with varying degrees of success. It's also packed to the gills with moral inquiries into the mutability of self, musings on the origin of male pain, the responsibility of men to correct their own mistakes, some really cool shotguns called blunderbusses, and Paul Dano making one specific, pitifully funny noise. Find Seth… - On Twitter at https://twitter.com/snzarate - On Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/snzarate - On Trylove episodes about IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT (1934), THE CONVERSATION (1974), TOKYO GODFATHERS (2003), BATMAN RETURNS (1992), Horrorthon V: Son of Horrorthon (2021), RUMBLE IN THE BRONX (1995), THE SACRIFICE (1986), THE FACULTY (1998), TIME BANDITS (1981), A GOOFY MOVIE (1995) Table Read, TO LIVE AND DIE IN L.A. (1985), 12 MONKEYS (1995), and THE FIFTH ELEMENT (1997) 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: “"Powerful Love" by Chuck and Mac from the LOOPER soundtrack. Timestamps 0:00 - Episode 212: LOOPER (2012) with Seth Zarate 2:34 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary 4:14 - Going back to LOOPER 11:44 - The movie's multitude of ideas 26:09 - The slow-burn second half 31:03 - Johnson's ‘gotta put a twist on it' 36:06 - Sara and the movie's gender politics 52:25 - If Rian Johnson could direct a straight genre movie 1:00:26 - The Junk Drawer 1:08:38 - Good Grief, Give Me a GIF! 1:15:49 - Cody's Noteys: Timelove (time travel movie trivia)

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

While lacking some of the exploitation panache in which the poliziotteschi revels, CONFESSIONS OF A POLICE CAPTAIN is an appropriately pulpy dive into the seedy, blood-soaked streets of ‘70s Italy amid a rash of violent crime in the years following an economic boom. A storied police captain and his naive district attorney butt heads when the attorney starts to pull the threads connecting the captain to a local crime boss-slash-construction magnate. The truth comes to light faster than you'd think in this plotty tale, leaving a back half dedicated to exploring the depths of corruption, the relative limits of justice, and the line where morals and action meet. - Get tickets to POLIZIOTTESCHI: ITALIAN CRIME FILMS IN THE YEARS OF LEAD (Feb. 2023 at the Trylon): https://www.trylon.org/films/category/poliziotteschi-italian-crime-films-in-the-years-of-lead/ - “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/ - “The Best Cop Movies You've Never Heard Of: ‘Poliziotteschi' Films Get Their Due” at IndieWire: https://www.indiewire.com/2014/06/the-best-cop-movies-youve-never-heard-of-poliziotteschi-films-get-their-due-25140/ 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 Rito Ortolani from the CONFESSIONS OF A POLICE CAPTAIN soundtrack. Timestamps 0:00 - Episode 214: CONFESSIONS OF A POLICE CAPTAIN (1971) 5:27 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary 7:02 - Thoughts on the poliziotteschi form and the place of CONFESSIONS within it 20:13 - The scene where the movie's primary tension becomes procedural 29:08 - The second act and fleshing out ideologies through Traini and Bonavia 43:54 - The late fridging of Serena 54:06 - The climax 1:06:52 - Good Grief, Give Me a GIF! 1:12:04 - Cody's Noteys: Martin's Smartins