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This week on The X-Files, Aubrey is a town not a person, John Locke is using the pseudonym “Brian” to be a real dickbag around town, Mulder debates nurture vs nature using the hard-to-argue-with cronch of a sunflower seed, we learn that even women named BJ can be treated poorly, and we witness a stunningly accurate doodle of the Trylon and Perisphere. It's S2E12, “Aubrey.” Producer LaToya Ferguson gives this episode a scary ranking of 2.375/5 Mutator Genes That Have Activated Previously Dormant Genes IN-SHOW LINKS Volcano Hazards Program | U.S. Geological Survey (usgs.gov). OUR BOOK! OUR BOOK! OUR BOOK IS UP FOR PRE ORDER! bufferingcast.com/book CHECK OUT OUR FIRST-EVER VIRTUAL BUFFY PROM THROUGH JUNE 29! bufferingcast.com/live LOCATE YOUR HOSTS UPON THE INTERNET Jenny Owen Youngs | @jennyowenyoungs; jennyowenyoungs.com Kristin Russo | @kristinnoeline; kristinnoeline.com Buffering: A Rewatch Adventure | @bufferingcast on socials MUSIC | Theme song and jingles composed and performed by Jenny Owen Youngs | bufferingcast.com/music PATREON | patreon.com/bufferingcast MERCH | bufferingthevampireslayer.com/shop X-FILES ABACUS | bufferingcast.com/abacus PODCAST SCHEDULE | bufferingcast.com/jennycalendar Produced by: Kristin Russo, Jenny Owen Youngs, and LaToya Ferguson Edited & Mixed by: John Mark Nelson and Kristin Russo Logo: Devan Power We acknowledge that we and our team are occupying unceded and stolen lands and territories. Kristin occupies the Lenape territories of the Esopus Lenape Peoples. Jenny occupies the Wabanahkik territory of the Abenaki and Pennacook Peoples. Learn more about Land Acknowledgments + our continued anti-racist efforts at bufferingthevampireslayer.com/justkeepfighting Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
This week on The X-Files, Aubrey is a town not a person, John Locke is using the pseudonym “Brian” to be a real dickbag around town, Mulder debates nurture vs nature using the hard-to-argue-with cronch of a sunflower seed, we learn that even women named BJ can be treated poorly, and we witness a stunningly accurate doodle of the Trylon and Perisphere. It's S2E12, “Aubrey.” Producer LaToya Ferguson gives this episode a scary ranking of 2.375/5 Mutator Genes That Have Activated Previously Dormant Genes IN-SHOW LINKS Volcano Hazards Program | U.S. Geological Survey (usgs.gov). OUR BOOK! OUR BOOK! OUR BOOK IS UP FOR PRE ORDER! bufferingcast.com/book CHECK OUT OUR FIRST-EVER VIRTUAL BUFFY PROM THROUGH JUNE 29! bufferingcast.com/live LOCATE YOUR HOSTS UPON THE INTERNET Jenny Owen Youngs | @jennyowenyoungs; jennyowenyoungs.com Kristin Russo | @kristinnoeline; kristinnoeline.com Buffering: A Rewatch Adventure | @bufferingcast on socials MUSIC | Theme song and jingles composed and performed by Jenny Owen Youngs | bufferingcast.com/music PATREON | patreon.com/bufferingcast MERCH | bufferingthevampireslayer.com/shop X-FILES ABACUS | bufferingcast.com/abacus PODCAST SCHEDULE | bufferingcast.com/jennycalendar Produced by: Kristin Russo, Jenny Owen Youngs, and LaToya Ferguson Edited & Mixed by: John Mark Nelson and Kristin Russo Logo: Devan Power We acknowledge that we and our team are occupying unceded and stolen lands and territories. Kristin occupies the Lenape territories of the Esopus Lenape Peoples. Jenny occupies the Wabanahkik territory of the Abenaki and Pennacook Peoples. Learn more about Land Acknowledgments + our continued anti-racist efforts at bufferingthevampireslayer.com/justkeepfighting Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Join me in interviewing Evan Robinson, CEO of Perisphere, as he discusses the origins of his real estate tech company and the vision behind it. With a background in politics and consulting, Evan stumbled upon the idea of creating a platform that would disrupt the real estate industry.Perisphere aims to tackle the issue of unaffordability in the market by empowering consumers and cutting out unnecessary costs. Through the use of advanced technology like computer vision and AI, Perisphere is rethinking the entire home buying and selling process.Stay tuned for the release of their innovative product and be part of the revolution!Join our facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/263033709360071/
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
Discover how AI and GPTs are transforming the real estate industry in this engaging podcast episode. Join host Ariel Herrera as she interviews Illya Nayshevsky, the CTO of Perisphere, a proptech company providing a zero commission listing platform for homeowners. Illya shares his unconventional journey from a chemist to an AI engineer and discusses the inefficiencies in acquiring and marketing data about homes. Learn how Perisphere leverages AI models and GPTs to analyze property profiles, incorporate multimodal data, and provide insights to homeowners. Find out how Perisphere plans to revolutionize the real estate market with an end-to-end platform for property valuation, data acquisition, and listings.Join our facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/263033709360071/
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)
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
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)
Here's The Thing: In our final episode of SILVER SCREAMS, join Mysterious Goings On host Alex Greenwood and film critic Lucas Hardwick as they invite you to their JOHN CARPENTER'S THE THING watchalong. You'll get trivia, laffs, and slightly tipsy commentary about this film and the other two "Things." So, get some J&B with plenty of ice, and set your streaming and/or DVD player on pause until the guys give the word. Let's celebrate Halloween in style--and isolation--with John Carpenter's The Thing. Read Lucas Hardwick's review of THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD, In Soviet Russia, Carrot Eats YOU! on Perisphere here. The Thing: John Carpenter Weighs in on Who's Human in the Film's Ending Get the John Carpenter Masterpiece here! BUY The Thing 3-Movie Collection HERE! WE WANT TO KNOW WHAT YOU THINK! Click here and use the contact form: https://mgopod.com/about-the-show OR leave a voice mail via Spotify here: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/j-alexander-greenwood/message + + + + "All the Fits That's News": Alex's Substack (Free) Alex Greenwood on Medium: https://a-greenwood.medium.com/ (Subscription) Follow him on X/Twitter: @A_Greenwood Follow him on Threads: https://www.threads.net/@alexginkc Catch Alex's True Crime Show: GOING TO KILLING CITY. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and wherever you get your pods! Listen in to CHICA AND THE MAN. Enjoyed the episode? Please leave us a review on your podcast platform of choice, and don't forget to subscribe for more literary journeys! LEAVE A REVIEW ON APPLE PODCASTS For show notes and more, visit the show website at MGOPod.com. This Mysterious Goings On Podcast episode was recorded and mixed at Green Shebeen Studios in beautiful Kansas City, Missouri. Copyright 2023, all rights reserved. No reproduction, excerpting, or other use without written permission. We are an Amazon Associates seller, and some of our links may earn us a commission. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/j-alexander-greenwood/message
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.
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)
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!
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)
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.
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)
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: 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)
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
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)
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
Flushing-Meadows Corona Park in the borough of Queens is the home of the New York Mets, the U.S. Open, the Queens Zoo, the New York Hall of Science and many other recreational delights. But it will always be forever known as the launching pad for the future as represented in two extraordinary 20th century world's fairs.There is so much nostalgia today for the 1939-1940 World's Fair and its stranger, more visually chaotic 1964-65 World's Fair. And that nostalgia has fueled a thriving market for collectables from these fairs -- the souvenirs and other common household items branded with the two fairs' striking visual symbols.The Trylon and Perisphere represented the dreams of 1930s America after the Great Depression, the strange symbols of "the World of Tomorrow." A quarter century later the Unisphere depicted its theme -- "Peace Through Understanding" -- as a space-age fantasy.Millions of souvenirs were manufactured and sold at these two fairs. And those very treasured items which survive -- in the hands of collectors, at flea markets and antique shops -- are nearly all that remain of these special, ephemeral events.In this show, Greg is joined by design and cultural historian Kyle Supley, recorded at Brooklyn's City Reliquary where Supley's own collection of World's Fair has found a permanent home.How do such souvenirs allow us to visit the past? And what do they say about our world today?FURTHER LISTENING:-- The Crystal Palace: America's First World Fair-- 1939-1940 World's Fair-- 1964-65 World's Fair-- Ruins of the World's Fair (about the New York State Pavilion)_________Kyle Supley is a historian, curator and preservationist with a focus on Mid-Century American culture, consumer products, architecture, and design.He is the creator and host of the TV show Kyle Supley's Out There! on Ovation's Journy Network, a NYC tour guide for Bowery Boys Walks, and a DJ of music from the golden age of disco, at the landmarked NYC gay bar Julius' in Greenwich Village.Follow him on Instagram hereFollow the Bowery Boys Podcast on Instagram, Facebook,Twitter and Post
PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE is maybe the freakiest movie from maybe the freakiest director. It's a bit of a Brian De Palma kaleidoscope, blowing his obsession with showing you the unseen mechanics of a scene into a grand, grotesque, obscene scale. Follow Kelly on Twitter at https://twitter.com/kransekage_ and on Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/luckyhoss/ “The Hell of It: My Top 5 Favorite Songs from Phantom of the Paradise” by Kelly Krantz at Perisphere, the Trylon blog: https://www.perisphere.org/2022/10/12/the-hell-of-it-my-top-5-favorite-songs-from-phantom-of-the-paradise/ 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: “Life at Last” by Paul Williams from the PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE soundtrack. Timestamps 0:00 - Episode 196: PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE (1974) 1:43 - The episode actually starts 3:24 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary 5:52 - Why Kelly loves PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE 12:46 - Pessimism and corruption 21:46 - Beef, Swan, and performance 26:17 - “Life at Last” 29:54 - De Palma's mechanics and the movie's earned confidence 37:25 - “Nobody gets out alive”: The ending 49:25 - Who's the little freak?
Featuring guest Nick Kouhi (https://twitter.com/kouhi_nick)! The debut of Argentinian filmmaker Lucrecia Martel is hot – but in an uncomfortable, sweaty, drenched kind of way. The matriarch of a rural summer home is bedridden after a drunken poolside injury; her cousin brings her family to tend house; her children play with guns in the woods and fish with machetes; there might be a monster lurking next door; it's humid and it almost never seems to rain. Underneath the comings and goings of this middle-class morass, Martel's portrait of life in post-dictatorship Argentina is laced with a certain sense of dread – the feeling that even the ones who want to get out of the swamp are destined to twist in the mud. Find Nick at the following links: “Las Fantasmas de Lucrecia Martel” by Nick Kouhi for Perisphere, the Trylon blog: https://www.perisphere.org/2022/08/25/las-fantasmas-de-lucrecia-martel/ https://twitter.com/kouhi_nick https://whatifcinema.org/essays https://facebook.com/nick.kouhi https://instagram.com/nickkouhi/ THE RARE PERFECTION OF LUCRECIA MARTEL (Aug 26-28 at the Trylon): https://www.trylon.org/films/category/the-rare-perfection-of-lucrecia-martel/ CRACKING OPEN THE DISNEY VAULT (Sept at the Trylon): https://www.trylon.org/films/category/cracking-open-the-disney-vault/ Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/trylovepodcast and email us at trylovepodcast@gmail.com to get in touch! Buy tickets and support the Trylon at https://www.trylon.org/. Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Timestamps 0:00 - Episode 188: LA CIÉNAGA (2001) with Nick Kouhi 3:49 - Nick's background with Lucrecia Martel 7:13 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary (under exclusive license from AG Enterprises) 12:50 - The understated malice uncovered by Martel's revealing style 16:33 - The feeling that nobody can get out of the swamp 21:41 - Motion, emotion, bodies, and Bresson 24:53 - The frustration of a time bomb that just keeps ticking 36:22 - “History repeats itself” and Martel's intersectional view 44:24 - Ghost stories, Argentinian history, and what's outside the frame 57:41 - The Junk Drawer 1:00:32 - Cody's Noteys: Swamplove (Swamp Thing Trivia)
Kelly Krantz (https://twitter.com/kransekage_) is back to discuss a doozy of a movie: Iván Zulueta's enigmatic, career-ending, post-Franco, quasi-horror film ARREBATO (also known as RAPTURE)! ARREBATO focuses on Pedro and José, two filmmakers seduced by art, heroin, history, and each other. As the mystery behind Pedro's enigmatic naivete unravels – recurring “raptures” that maybe take Pedro out of his body when he watches film – José and his girlfriend Ana find themselves pulled closer and closer to the dark heart of his obsession. It's about the fulfilling, soul-sucking enterprise of doing… well, anything worth doing! It's also a movie about preserving and reliving moments forever and, in a world already full of moments to be experienced, the inherent pull of the pause. Links: Follow Kelly on Twitter at https://twitter.com/kransekage_ and on Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/luckyhoss/ “Rapture and Relapse, Arrebató and Addiction” by Finn Odum at Perisphere, the Trylon blog: https://www.perisphere.org/2022/04/07/rapture-and-relapse-arrebato-and-addiction/ Natalie Marlin's review of ARREBATO on Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/framingthepic/film/rapture-1979/ - Buy tickets to “DISHONORABLE DISTINCTION: BRUCE DERN'S 1970s” (April 2022 at the Trylon Cinema): https://www.trylon.org/films/category/dishonorable-distinction-bruce-derns-1970s/ Buy tickets to “AGNÈS VARDA: DIEU DU CINÉMA” (May 2022 at the Trylon): https://www.trylon.org/films/category/agnes-varda-dieu-du-cinema/ - Buy tickets to “ISHIRÔ HONDA'S GODZILLA” (May 2022 at the Trylon): https://www.trylon.org/films/category/ishiro-hondas-godzilla/ Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/trylovepodcast and email us at trylovepodcast@gmail.com to get in touch! Buy tickets and support the Trylon at https://www.trylon.org/. Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Timestamps 0:00 - Episode 169: ARREBATO (1979) 1:09 - The episode actually starts 2:57 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary 5:25 - Kelly's thoughts 09:42 - On structure 17:47 - Distance, addiction, & queer attraction 23:40 - Nostalgia, Peter Pan, Stendhal syndrome, and the many readings of ARREBATO 32:48 - Is this really a horror movie? 37:25 - Empathy, the women of ARREBATO, & the ending 55:09 - Final thoughts: The goop, Almodovar, the humor, & the music 1:06:40 - Cody's Noteys (Trylibs: Rapture)
Featuring special guest Finn Odum (https://twitter.com/Finnematic)! DIABOLIQUE's gothic vibes, feminist undertones, iconic imagery, and twist ending are all great ways to remember this psycho-sexual-horror-noir classic. A husband's murder by his wife and mistress goes off the rails, sending the killers spinning looking for an explanation when the body goes missing after the deed's been done. The twisting tale that follows calls into question nearly everyone's motives, leading to one of the best-remembered twist endings Hitchcock never directed. With Minneapolis writer and Trylon-teer Finn Odum, we remember it through its characters (both on-screen and off) and all the ways we wish this story would've ended. Links: Follow Finn on Twitter at https://twitter.com/Finnematic and on Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/finnofthedead/ - Finn's cinema blog, Finnematic: http://finnematic.blogspot.com/ - “The Other Clouzot: Vera Clouzot's Impact on LES DIABOLIQUES” by Finn Odum at Perisphere, the Trylon blog: https://www.perisphere.org/2022/03/12/the-other-clouzot-vera-clouzots-impact-on-les-diaboliques/ - Buy tickets to “Anime's Great Genius: Satoshi Kon” (March 2022 at the Trylon Cinema): https://www.trylon.org/films/category/animes-great-genius-satoshi-kon/ - Buy tickets to “Ishirô Honda's Godzilla” (May 2022 at the Trylon Cinema): https://www.trylon.org/films/category/ishiro-hondas-godzilla/ Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/trylovepodcast and email us at trylovepodcast@gmail.com to get in touch! Buy tickets and support the Trylon at https://www.trylon.org/. Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro music: Title Theme by Georges Van Parys from the DIABOLIQUE soundtrack. Timestamps 0:00 - Episode 165: DIABOLIQUE (1955) with Finn Odum 5:11 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary 8:14 - Finn's thoughts 11:54 - Jason's thoughts 14:28 - Cody's thoughts 17:37 - Harry's thoughts 22:55 - Aaron's thoughts 27:15 - Vera Clouzot is indestructible ruins 32:59 - Paul Meurisse as Michel Delasalle 36:42 - The endings we would've written 51:06 - Final thoughts 1:00:27 - Cody's Noteys (Trylibs: Spooky Crime)
“Theft is good, actually.” – Cody FILIBUS is a 1915 Italian silent film directed by Mario Roncoroni and written by Giovanni Bertinetti. It features Valeria Creti as Baroness Troixmonde and the titular Filibus, an Italian sky pirate and infamous burglar. In an attempt to cast off suspicion after her recent heist of the International Bank, the baroness enters a competition to find the culprit and frame investigating detective Kutt-Hendy (played by Giovanni Spano) himself as Filibus. The film follows the pirate's exploits staging new crimes to pin on the detective while disguised as a young nobleman, using her wits and various gadgets to maintain stay just one step ahead of the investigator – all while courting his sister Leonora (played by Cristina Ruspoli) in disguise. FILIBUS is often cited as an early pioneer of feminist fiction as well as queer representation, cross-dressing, genderfluidity, and science fiction. It played at the Trylon and was accompanied by a live score by pianist Katie Condon and was shown with the assistance of the University of Minnesota's Imagine Fund as part of the Twin Cities Silent Film Project. Links: - “Filibus (Re)Introduces Us to the Wild, Weird Women of 1910s Cinema” by Daniel Lawrence Aufmann for Perisphere, the Trylon blog: https://www.perisphere.org/2022/01/23/filibus-reintroduces-us-to-the-wild-weird-women-of-1910s-cinema/ - Buy tickets to “Elegy for a Master: Late Kurosawa” (February 2022 at the Trylon Cinema): https://www.trylon.org/films/category/elegy-for-a-master-late-kurosawa/ - Buy tickets to “Anime's Great Genius: Satoshi Kon” (March 2022 at the Trylon Cinema): https://www.trylon.org/films/category/animes-great-genius-satoshi-kon/ - Buy tickets to “Ishirô Honda's Godzilla” (May 2022 at the Trylon Cinema): https://www.trylon.org/films/category/ishiro-hondas-godzilla/ Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/trylovepodcast and email us at trylovepodcast@gmail.com to get in touch! Buy tickets and support the Trylon at https://www.trylon.org/. Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro music by Mont Alto Motion Picture Orchestra and Donald Sosin from the FILIBUS rerelease trailer. Timestamps 0:00 - Episode 158: FILIBUS (1915) 2:14 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary (under exclusive license from AG Enterprises, LLC) 4:12 - Jason's thoughts 8:54 - Cody's thoughts 13:49 - Harry's thoughts 19:16 - How foregrounding makes FILIBUS more fun 28:39 - What it's like to see (scare quotes) “contemporary” themes in a century-old movie 33:07 - Staging and framing 1910s Italy 38:56 - Final thoughts 45:48 - Cody's Noteys (Song Line or Tagline?)
“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 production, including the real-life towing of a real-life boat over a real-life mountain in Peru, was similarly plagued by injury, death, and exploitation. Herzog's biggest movie makes you feel like you're falling into a trap. Can the value of a dream realized outweigh the cost of realizing it? No. The answer's no. That's why FITZCARRALDO can be hard to swallow: It's a monumental Movie-movie about the persistence of the human spirit that is itself an example of how the products of pointless dreams – fame, riches, opera in the jungle, a movie about fame and riches and opera in the jungle – crumble in comparison to the sacrifices made to realize them. In this episode, we discuss how we feel FITZCARRALDO's hubris, imperialist undercurrents, and literal loss of life (both on-screen and behind the camera) all but rob the movie of its essential point and reason for being. Resources “Making Films, Taking Lives: How the Present Looms Large in Herzog's Fitzcarraldo” by Chris Polley for Perisphere, the Trylon blog: https://www.perisphere.org/2021/11/16/making-films-taking-lives-how-the-present-looms-large-in-herzogs-fitzcarraldo/ Werner Herzog promoting FITZCARRALDO on Late Night with David Letterman, October 11, 1982: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruY1FrVW9KE 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: “Bella Figlia Dell'Amore” from Verdi's “Rigoletto” sung by Enrico Caruso (tenor), Bessie Abott (soprano), Louise Homer (contralto) and Antonio Scotti (baritone), 1907. 0:00 - Episode 146: FITZCARRALDO (1982) 1:38 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary (patent pending) 4:13 - Jason's thoughts 8:31 - Cody's thoughts 13:06 - Harry's thoughts 20:41 - A dream as disgusting as the tools used to realize it 25:39 - Contrasts in FITZCARRALDO 37:30 - Satire? 39:55 - Why self-aware readings of FITZCARRALDO fall flat 43:21 - Final thoughts 53:51 - Cody's Noteys: Fitzca-runtime (runtime-based trivia)
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 part of what makes it the case study for the value of human labor in practical effects that it is today. In others, it's also an important entry in the canon of movies about movies and their power to guide and influence behaviors and attitudes. Find Chris on Twitter at https://twitter.com/qhrizpolley and listen to Film Trace wherever you get podcasts (https://linktr.ee/filmtrace) Resources/links - “Sherlock Jr: My Favorite Film to Watch with Others” by Ryan Sanderson on Perisphere: https://www.perisphere.org/2021/09/24/sherlock-jr-my-favorite-film-to-watch-with-others/ 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 by Matan Porat recorded from a live performance of SHERLOCK, JR. at the 2012 Cleveland ChamberFest. 0:00 - Episode 138: SHERLOCK, JR. (1924) 2:50 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary 4:29 - Chris's thoughts 5:26 - Jason's thoughts 8:31 - Cody's thoughts 11:49 - Harry's thoughts 15:26 - Aaron's thoughts 19:14 - The active conditioning of the audience 28:27 - The value of practical effects in selling this kind of humor 31:02 - The labor struggle and democratizing stunt craft 33:48 - Connecting Keaton's work to modern filmmaking 37:28 - The tension of the real 40:42 - Why doesn't SHERLOCK, JR. feel tropey? 44:09 - The relationship of dreams to fantasy to cinema to audience 54:08 - Our favorite bits, stunts, jokes, and gags 1:01:54 - Cody's Noteys – Trylibs: Detective (Madlibs)
The Gaming Hut kicks off a series looking at the axes of RPG design, so appropriately enough we start with elegance. In the Architecture Hut beloved Patreon backer Nicola Wilson seeks the truth scoop on the Trylon and Perisphere, noted features of the 1939 New York World's Fair. Fun With Science fields a question from […]
When the 1939 World’s Fair opened in Flushing Meadows, David Sarnoff was there to share the spotlight with President Franklin D. Roosevelt and Fiorello LaGuardia, Mayor of New York City. Sarnoff announced, via a single mobile NBC television camera unit connected from a coaxial cable to a transmitting van, which was placed fifty feet from the speakers’ platform, that NBC TV was ready to go on the air. In the background, it showed the Fair’s symbols—The Trylon and the Perisphere, swept across the Court of Peace, panned the gathering throng, and captured the arrival of the president’s motorcade. This same camera captured the first television close-up: Mayor La Guardia. Never the bashful sort, he casually strode up and ogled it.
Managing Editor Kathryn Yu goes on the road to Baltimore for a conversation with four of the folks at Submersive Productions: co-artistic directors Glenn Ricci and Ursula Marcum, as well as artistic associates Susan Stroupe and Lisi Stoessel. Join us as we dig into topics like their devising process, making open world shows, the care and feeding of the audience, telling history “at a slant,” getting the audience to feel complicit during a piece, focusing on diversity and inclusion while making immersive work, and making their productions more accessible. We discuss their past shows such as The Mesmeric Revelations of Edgar Allan Poe; H.T. Darling's Incredible Musaeum Presents: The Treasures of New Galapagos, Astonishing Acquisitions from the Perisphere; their episodic series The Institute of Visionary History which included an eight-hour durational performance called A Horse By the Tail in the Night; plus their upcoming movement-based large-scale participatory piece MASS/RABBLE which is coming April 3—14 to the Baltimore War Memorial.
In dieser Podcast-Folge rekapituliere ich einfach meine Gedanken. Gedanken, die insbesondere durch das Gespräch mit Florian Kuhlmann aufgekommen sind. Deshalb werde ich auf einige Punkte aus dem Gespräch nochmal eingehen. Ein Tipp: Wer Lust auf ein Spiel hat, der trinkt immer einen Schnaps, wenn ich das Wort „Gefühl“ sage. Ich hab das Gefühl, dass dann jede Menge Spaß garantiert ist und ihr vielleicht auch auf die ein oder andere Schnapsidee kommt... Zusätzliche Infos Meinen Blogbeitrag über Johanna Reich in der Perisphere von Florian Kuhlmann könnt ihr hier lesen: http://www.perisphere.de/vor-ort/simulacrum-ein-gutes-gefuehl Die Finissage der Ausstellung "Simulacrum" ist am 07. April in der Galerie Priska Pasquer in Köln. Um 18 Uhr findet ein Künstlergespräch mit Johanna Reich statt: https://priskapasquer.art/ Infos zu den "Floating Piers" von findet ihr hier: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Floating_Piers Wer das Netz von Saraceno besuchen will, muss ins K21 in Düsseldorf gehen: http://www.kunstsammlung.de/in-orbit.html Florian Kuhlmann hat in seiner Perisphere ebenfalls über Gefühle geschrieben: Feelings matter: http://www.perisphere.de/metamoderne/feelings-matter Die Vorlesung von Vera Birkenbihl "Pragmatische Esoterik. Der kleine Weg zum großen Selbst" gibt es bei YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_1-nbfRzO0
Wer schon immer einmal Mäuschen spielen wollte, wenn sich zwei Künstler unterhalten, der ist bei dieser Folge richtig. Es gibt dieses Mal kein Konzept und keinen Plan. Ich hab mich mit Florian Kuhlmann auf ein Getränk getroffen und wir haben zum ersten Mal miteinander über die Kunst, die Szene, Digitalität, Realität, Augmented Reality, Künstliche Intelligenz, warum man Kinder kriegen sollte, das Ende, die Evolution und die Metamoderne gesprochen. Dabei rausgekommen ist meine erste Laber-Rhabarber-Podcast-Folge. Warum man bis zum Ende dran bleiben sollte: nur dann erfährt man, wie man Teil der Metamoderne wird! Zusätzliche Infos gibt es dieses Mal nicht. Wenn euch etwas interessiert, dann einfach selbst kurz googlen. Besucht auf jeden Fall die Perisphere von Florian und folgt ihm bei Facebook, Twitter oder Instagram: http://www.floriankuhlmann.com/ http://www.perisphere.de/ https://www.facebook.com/Perisphere/ https://twitter.com/fkuhlmann https://www.instagram.com/fjc_kuhlmann_2k/ Sagt mir gerne, ob ihr auch in Zukunft längere Laber-Rhabarber-Podcast-Folgen hören wollt, ob lieber kürzere, konzeptionellere Podcast-Folgen oder eine Mischung?
Creative Director Scott Simmons travels to Baltimore to catch up with former ScareHouse audio masters Glenn Ricci and Ursula Marcum from Submersive Productions to talk about immersive theater. Scott and Glenn first worked together in sixth grade on a friend’s basement haunt then again at the Cloverleaf YMCA and ScareHouse How Sleep No More and Then She Fell inspired The Basement and Submersive Productions The struggle to define what immersive theater is and isn’t How the audience is crucial to the immersive theater experience Glenn’s trip to London to experience The Drowned Man Glenn and Ursula talk about taking their experiences and unique skill sets to create their own immersive theater shows How your space can influence the story you are telling Submersive Productions strives to combine intimacy, free-roaming, and exploratory elements in their shows Glenn and Ursula describe their first two shows The Mesmeric Revelations! of Edgar Allan Poe and H.T. Darling’s Incredible Musaeum Presents the New Galapagos Astonishing Acquisitions From the Perisphere The time and labor behind creation of props that must look authentic How their version of immersive theater is like four dimensional chess Integrating puppetry into immersive theater and haunted houses All space has something to say and all humans are storytellers Fun ScareHouse fact: The eerie chanting you heard in Forsaken and The Summoning was actually Ursula! Glenn manipulated her voice to create some of the creepiest voices heard in ScareHouse. For more information about Submersive Productions visit http://www.submersiveproductions.com Check out Submersive Productions Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/submersiveproductions/ Please subscribe to our podcast and leave feedback. We appreciate it! Follow the ScareHouse podcast hosts: Scott Simmons (@ScareHouseScott) and Katie “Dudders” (@kdudders) Visit us www.ScareHouse.com Watch us Youtube.com/TheScareHouse Like us https://www.facebook.com/ScareHouse Follow us https://twitter.com/ScareHousePGH
AFTERBUZZ TV – Homeland edition, is a weekly “after show” for fans of Showtime's Homeland. In this episode hosts Danny Hoyt, Nando Velasquez, and Lexie Hammesfahr discuss episode 1 & 2. A taut psychological thriller about a volatile CIA officer (Emmy® winner Claire Danes) who becomes convinced that a recently rescued American POW may be connected to an al Qaeda plot to be carried out on U.S. soil. Mandy Patinkin and Damian Lewis also star. Follow us on http://www.Twitter.com/AfterBuzzTV "Like" Us on http://www.Facebook.com/AfterBuzzTV For more of your post-game wrap up shows for your favorite TV shows, visit http://www.AfterBuzzTV.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Spoiler Alert! This podcast discusses the most recent episodes of Homeland S4E01 "The Drone Queen" and S4E02 "Trylon and Perisphere". If you haven't seen those episodes and don't wish to be spoiled, then come back and listen after you've caught up!Otherwise Matt spouts off his initial thoughts about the aforementioned episodes.Be an asset and tweet your thoughts to @HomelandField or send an e-mail to homelandfielddivisionpodcast@gmail.com or visit homelandfielddivision.wordpress.com for those links, back episodes, and podcatcher links (please leave the podcast a review on iTunes!).mp3
AFTERBUZZ TV – Homeland edition, is a weekly “after show” for fans of Showtime’s Homeland. In this episode hosts Danny Hoyt, Nando Velasquez, and Lexie Hammesfahr discuss episode 1 & 2. A taut psychological thriller about a volatile CIA officer (Emmy® winner Claire Danes) who becomes convinced that a recently rescued American POW may be connected to an al Qaeda plot to be carried out on U.S. soil. Mandy Patinkin and Damian Lewis also star. Follow us on http://www.Twitter.com/AfterBuzzTV "Like" Us on http://www.Facebook.com/AfterBuzzTV For more of your post-game wrap up shows for your favorite TV shows, visit http://www.AfterBuzzTV.com
It may not be ACTION COMICS, but there's still plenty of action as Michael look at the 1939 issue of NEW YORK WORLD'S FAIR COMICS! Mystery, thrills and adventure follow when Clark Kent and Lois Lane are sent to cover the greatest show on Earth -- the historic New York World's Fair! The Trylon, the Perisphere, and Helicline and, of course, our hero, Superman, are all on full display as the Fair celebrates the "World of Tomorrow!"
It may not be ACTION COMICS, but there's still plenty of action as Michael look at the 1939 issue of NEW YORK WORLD'S FAIR COMICS! Mystery, thrills and adventure follow when Clark Kent and Lois Lane are sent to cover the greatest show on Earth -- the historic New York World's Fair! The Trylon, the Perisphere, and Helicline and, of course, our hero, Superman, are all on full display as the Fair celebrates the "World of Tomorrow!"