Trylove – Détails, épisodes et analyse

KIRU (also known as DESTINY’S SON) is a 1962 samurai film directed by Kenji Misumi and written by Kaneto Shindo, based on a novel by Renzaburo Shibata. The film stars Raizo Ichikawa as Shingo, the secret son of an assassin executed for the crime of killing her lord’s concubine.

Shingo learns of his true nature after a rival family massacres his adoptive father and sister for denying the secret of Shingo’s birth. After exacting revenge on the killers, Shingo visits his father, who was also his mother’s executioner, before embarking on a journey as a wandering ronin.

**References: **

• Watch KIRU (DESTINY’S SON) on the Internet Archive
• Get English subtitles that match here
• “Kenji Misumi: Both Lone Wolf and the Cub” by John Moret for Perisphere, the Trylon blog
• Check the calendar, preview upcoming series, and buy tickets at https://www.trylon.org/
• Contribute to Perisphere, the Trylon blog: https://www.perisphere.org/perisphere-blog-post-guidelines/

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Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro music from the ending of KIRU.

Timestamps coming soon!

With Danny “Bagadonuts” Nagan, a real-life good fella and cohost of the Everything We Learned podcast!

I mean, it’s GOODFELLAS. If you haven’t seen it, you kinda already have. But you should absolutely still see it (take it from Jason).

Despite his status as an Irish-Italian-American, Henry Hill (Ray Liotta) is a fish IN water among the most powerful mafia family of Brooklyn. From middle school, Henry fast ingratiates himself with aspiring made man Tommy (Joe Pesci), fellow mixed-blood gangster Jimmy (Robert De Niro), and local capo Paulie (Paul Sorvino), eventually earning enough clout to bring Karen (Lorraine Bracco), a Jewish woman with a thing for bad goys, into the “family” as his wife. As he ascends the linguine ladder, though, Henry finds himself increasingly exposed: to the diminishing returns of mafia life; to the self-serving ambitions of his brothers in crime; and before the waning influence of Italian organized crime with the decline of labor power in the 1980s.

Inside the “pit of vipers mob movie” structure is a tale of self-preservation at the expense of decency, bonds broken as quickly and as explosively as they were forged, and the ever-churning machine of capital that has robbed, will rob, is robbing the modern American of their basic dignity. My dignity. Your dignity.

**References: **

• “Isolation and Family, Arthouse and Hollywood, The Mafia and Jesus: The Impossible Marriages in Martin Scorsese’s Filmography” by Ryan Sanderson for Perisphere, the Trylon blog
• Check the calendar, preview upcoming series, and buy tickets at https://www.trylon.org/
• Contribute to Perisphere, the Trylon blog: https://www.perisphere.org/perisphere-blog-post-guidelines/

Find Dan…

• On Twitter at @aDapperDanMan
• On Letterboxd at @aDapperDanMan
• On his podcast about movies, Everything We Learned, on Apple Podcasts
• As “Hulk Smashworth” in Final Fantasy XIV on the Diablo server
• On Trylove episodes about RONIN (1981), FACE/OFF (1997), MANDY (2018), EDGE OF TOMORROW (2013)
• On Stoop Kidz! A Hey Arnold! Podcast

#TheLongTake #DCP

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Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro music: “Sincerely” by The Moonglows from the GOODFELLAS soundtrack.

Timestamps

0:00 - Episode 294: GOODFELLAS (1990) with Dan Nagan

3:36 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary

5:14 - Dan’s incomplete, anti-filmbro first viewing

17:27 - Scorsese’s 1980s spent juggling pop appeal and experimental ambition

27:41 - Schoonmaker, editing, the long take, and what’s just under the surface

36:38 - Glorifying violence and adopting an outsider perspective

1:04:13 - Karen and the 1980s

1:24:21 - The final shot

1:34:12 - To All the Loves We’ve Tried Before: 1990

1:36:36 - The Junk Drawer

1:47:33 - Cody’s Noteys: Woodfellas (wood figurine pricing estimates)

1:50:10 - First woodfella

1:54:04 - Second woodfella

1:58:10 - Third woodfella

2:01:59 - Fourth woodfella

2:06:17 - Dan’s Detour: Tryfellas (GOODFELLAS trivia)

Layers of social prestige have assigned Comtesse Louise de [name redacted] (Danielle Darrieux) a role that doesn’t accommodate her wider range of human desire. She knows that paying a debt by selling her diamond earrings, gifted by her husband General André de… (Charles Boyer), will offend the hierarchical foundations of her way of life — a life of privilege and excess — so instead of admitting folly, she lies. She didn’t sell them; she lost them.

Thus starts a clear but ridiculous journey for THE EARRINGS OF MADAME DE… by director Max Ophüls. With each changing of hands (and ending up back in Louise’s), the earrings — once practically worthless to Louise — become the essential icon of her emotional independence beyond the material trappings of her opulent lifestyle.

In this episode, we discuss the movie’s contemporary reaction (which seems facile in retrospect), the misdirection that keeps the twisting plot moving, and its context as a movie set during France’s Belle Époque that was released just as French society realized it was entering the rearview.

References:

• Watch THE EARRINGS OF MADAME DE… on the Internet Archive
• “Of Earrings and Eras: The Earrings of Madame de… and Cinematic History” by Dan McCabe for Perisphere, the Trylon blog
• “Life Has a Funny Way: Tragicomedy and The Earrings of Madame de…” by Courtney Kowalke for Perisphere, the Trylon blog

Contribute to Perisphere, the Trylon blog: https://www.perisphere.org/perisphere-blog-post-guidelines/  #TheLongTake #35mm

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Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. “L’amour m’emporte” composed by Oscar Straus with lyrics by Louis Ducreux and performed by Danielle Darrieux.

Timestamps

0:00 - Episode 285: THE EARRINGS OF MADAME DE... (1953)

3:36 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary

6:32 - Recapping the winding plot

10:52 - The Belle Époque and the roles of high society

25:34 - Lubitsch-adjacency and the soft bigotry of “different” expectations

30:48 - The charm of the bourgeoisie

36:16 - Mirrors, the earrings, and the semiotics of objects given and received

49:08 - Dirty Donati

50:51 - The long take and cinematography that “misdirects”

1:00:10 - The ending

1:04:54 - The Junk Drawer

1:13:50 - To All the Loves We’ve Tried Before: 1953

1:15:24 - Cody’s Noteys: The Peer Flings of Madame de… (actor/actress pairings trivia)

It’s a horror comedy, so we simply had to know what Natalie Marlin (https://twitter.com/NataliesNotInIt) thought of it! THE RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD is a strange, pioneering movie. That’s about as much as Jason can type about this movie because he wasn’t on this episode and didn’t see the movie. Enjoy! Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/trylovepodcast and email us at [email protected] 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: “Tonight (We'll Make Love Until We Die)” by SSQ from the THE RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD soundtrack.

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 [email protected] 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?

Content warning: Discussions of sexual violence. Purificazione isn’t really a witch. The spell she casts on Antonio, a man promised to another woman, doesn’t really have any magic to it. But that doesn’t stop him from creating a narrative that leads to Purif being blamed for the whims of the cosmos (the death of a child, the richness of the soil, etc.). But as the village becomes more and more contemptful of her, it becomes clear that the demon isn’t an external force invading her body or soul – it’s the conservative norms of the society she lives in that afflict Purif, causing her to doubt her sanity and act irrationally. Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/trylovepodcast and email us at [email protected] to get in touch! Buy tickets and support the Trylon at https://www.trylon.org/. Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro music: “Sabba Fantastico” by Piero Piccioni from the IL DEMONIO soundtrack. Timestamps 0:00 - IL DEMONIO (1963) 2:11 - The episode actually starts 4:38 - The ‘true story’ setup 13:44 - Tradition, folk horror, and Purif’s place in the community 18:02 - Dahlia Lavi as Purif 25:18 - Salvatore and the tension between Purif’s view and the audience’s view 37:38 - The possession scene and creating multiple understandings of the self 53:30 - The Junk Drawer 1:00:05 - Cody’s Noteys: Teemin’ with Demons

Look past the false one-take! Look deeply into the grotesque detail underneath the post-intellectualist veneer! ROPE is a tightly wound tool of class violence, spotlighting the evil, anti-moralizing pragmatism of the elitist class. THE MINNEAPOLIS HITCHCOCK FESTIVAL (until Oct 6): https://www.trylon.org/films/category/the-minneapolis-hitchcock-festival/ Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/trylovepodcast and email us at [email protected] 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: “Mouvement perpetuel no. 1” by Francis Poulenc from the ROPE soundtrack. Timestamps 0:00 - Episode 194: ROPE (1948) 3:20 - The episode actually starts 5:35 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary 10:56 - Class, character dynamics, where we’re focused 28:36 - False one-shots: Novelty or functional? 41:23 - Rupert and ROPE as a “reckoning” for 20th century intelligentsia 56:30 - The Junk Drawer 1:02:31 - Cody’s Noteys – Trylibs: The Perfect Crime

Content warning: Discussions of sex work, abuse, and suicide. Kuniko is a woman stuck between who she was – a prostitute – and who she wants to be: an accepted member of a society that’s actively cracking down on people with her history. In asking whether it’s society’s responsibility to accept Kinuko or her responsibility to ‘reform,’ GIRLS OF THE NIGHT doesn’t go as far as you might want in normalizing sex work and the women who do it. But the fact that it raises the question, and that it showcases the failures of the systems meant to give them mobility, makes it hard to dislike as a film. THE PRECISE COMPOSITIONS OF KINUYO TANAKA (Sept 2022 at the Trylon): https://www.trylon.org/films/category/the-precise-compositions-of-kinuyo-tanaka/ 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 [email protected] 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 Hikaru Hayashi from GIRLS OF THE NIGHT. Timestamps 0:00 - Episode 193: GIRLS OF THE NIGHT (1961) 3:00 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary 5:21 - The uncomfortable conservatism of GIRLS OF THE NIGHT 21:57 - The directress and failing systems of reform 32:17 - How far the movie goes in indicting those systems 35:19 - The ending

WWII veteran Reikichi ghostwrites letters for Japanese prostitutes to send to their American GI boyfriends. One of those women happens to be Michiko, Reikichi’s lifelong flame – and, as a staunch nationalist and traumatized veteran, he doesn’t approve of her consorting with Japan’s former enemy. Can he suppress his loyalist purism long enough to recognize the humanity of the person he claims to love? THE PRECISE COMPOSITIONS OF KINUYO TANAKA (Sept 2022 at the Trylon): https://www.trylon.org/films/category/the-precise-compositions-of-kinuyo-tanaka/ 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 [email protected] 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 Ichirô Saitô from LOVE LETTER. Timestamps 0:00 - Episode 192: LOVE LETTER (1953) 5:05 - Who will atone? 17:08 - ​​This movie in context of postwar Japan 27:45 - Individual culpability for national sins 37:24 - The ending 50:26 - The Junk Drawer 57:33 - Cody’s Noteys: First Film Fever

In Disney’s fifth animated feature, nature maintains and sustains an otherwise rote plot. This episode is a bit silly. But it’s a great discussion. I think so, at least. Manny Farber’s 1942 review of BAMBI for The New Republic: https://newrepublic.com/article/134248/saccharine-symphony CRACKING OPEN THE DISNEY VAULT (Sept at the Trylon): https://www.trylon.org/films/category/cracking-open-the-disney-vault/ THE PRECISE COMPOSITIONS OF KINUYO TANAKA (Sept 2022 at the Trylon): https://www.trylon.org/films/category/the-precise-compositions-of-kinuyo-tanaka/ Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/trylovepodcast and email us at [email protected] 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: “Little April Shower” by Larry Morey and Frank Churchill from the BAMBI soundtrack. Timestamps 0:00 - Episode 191: BAMBI (1942) 4:03 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary 6:57 - Contemporary reception and our rewatch experiences 24:20 - What the impressive detail does for the narrative 36:28 - Gender roles 38:35 - Cool guys 48:54 - The Junk Drawer 56:08 - Cody’s Noteys: Deerlove (deer trivia)