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/

#KenjiMisumisSamuraiSixties #DCP

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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)

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 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: “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

Content warning: This episode includes mention of sexual assault. Joyce Chopra’s haunting narrative debut follows Connie, a 15-year-old on summer vacation who slowly and unintentionally lands in the orbit of a man who calls himself Arnold Friend (“a friend”). Amid the throes of family drama, discovering her own burgeoning sexuality, and under the increasingly intense gaze of the men around her, Connie receives her first exposure to the social roles to which patriarchal systems relegate women in a thrilling, terrifying, surreal encounter with Friend. Links: - Siskel & Ebert review (1986): Salvador, Smooth Talk, Crossroads & Turtle Diary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4C8FBIFf170 - NYFF58 Talk: Smooth Talk with Laura Dern, Joyce Chopra, and Joyce Carol Oates: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOrTW2dLYCo Buy tickets to “NIC CAGE, NATIONAL TREASURE” (June - Aug 2022 at the Trylon): https://www.trylon.org/films/category/national-treasure/ 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 187: SMOOTH TALK (1985) 5:06 - The episode actually starts 9:16 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary 11:01 - How SMOOTH TALK sets up its striking final act 21:50 - Connie’s relationship with her family 28:05 - ​​Gender roles and Reagan era symbols 34:43 - Aaron’s workout corner 36:34 - The A. Friend scene 1:00:55 - Where Connie is at the very end of the movie

With returning guest, master’s degree holder, and Trylon volunteer Benjamin Savard (@ItBenjaminScott)!

After POPEYE (1980) squashed the ‘80s for director Robert Altman, he came back with a wry, cynical film adaptation of Michael Tolkin’s 1988 novel, “The Player”. In the resulting movie of the same name, Tim Robbins plays Griffin Mill, a bigshot Hollywood producer whose decency streak is lined with writers whose ideas prides himself on turning into box office hits without compromising their artistic integrity. A series of threatening postcards from a disgruntled reject sends Mill into a tailspin, testing the limits of his paranoia, calling into question his loyalty to the moviemaking craft, and the malleability of his very moral center.

The worst part? It’s all got a happy ending.

In this special guest episode with recent Minneapolis repatriate Benjamin Savard, we discuss the artistic politics at the heart of THE PLAYER, the essentiality of the film version, and how much fun there is to be had at the surface level of the movie that turned Robert Altman’s career around. Oh, and Popeye Village.

Find Ben…

• On Twitter at @ItBenjaminScott
• On Trylove episodes about himself, CHRISTINE (1983), and CRUISING (1980)
• At the Trylon, where he volunteers regularly

References:

• “The Player: Robert Altman and Michael Tolkin’s Glorious Hollywood-Caricature Cinema” by Dan Howard for Perisphere, the Trylon blog
• “Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you find the real tinsel underneath.” by Bob Aulert for Perisphere, the Trylon blog
• Popeye Village
• “Myth Today” by Roland Barthes from “Mythologies” (1957)

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

#TheLongTake #DCP Follow us on Twitter at @trylovepodcast and email us at trylovepodcast@gmail.com to get in touch! Buy tickets and support the Trylon at trylon.org.

Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Closing music: "The Player" by Thomas Newman from the THE PLAYER soundtrack.

Timestamps

0:00 - Episode 284: THE PLAYER (1992) with Benjamin Savard

3:49 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary

6:04 - Ben’s connections to THE PLAYER

14:54 - Reflecting on THE PLAYER as Altman’s cynical return to Hollywood

28:59 - Portraying the gross, money-driven world of American moviemaking

34:24 - Tim Robbins as Griffin and “softening the turn” from affable businessman to greasy corpo

46:29 - The fun on top of the metatext

55:46 - And more metatext

1:04:54 - The Junk Drawer

1:26:20 - To All the Loves We’ve Tried Before: 1992

Featuring special guest Abbie Phelps (https://twitter.com/goodhunterabbie)! DRIVE ANGRY is not a very good movie. In fact, it’s kind of a piece of shit. But like a lot of piece of shit movies, it’s far more charming, fun, and likeable than the sum of its parts would lead you to believe. Nic Cage is John Milton (yeah), a man back from hell who seeks revenge on cult leader Jonah King (yeah) for killing his daughter and kidnapping his granddaughter in pursuit of netherworldly gain. Piper (Amber Heard) is honestly just kind of caught up in it, but eventually she makes it her sworn mission to help Milton. If at this point in the summary, you get stuck on questions like “why,” maybe it’s not for you. That’s okay. Links: - Find Abbie on Twitter at https://twitter.com/goodhunterabbie - Find your local abortion fund at https://abortionfunds.org/funds/ - “NIC CAGE, NATIONAL TREASURE” (June - Aug 2022 at the Trylon): https://www.trylon.org/films/category/national-treasure/ - “GENE TIERNEY” (July 2022 at the Trylon): https://www.trylon.org/films/category/gene-tierney/ - “YAPHET KOTTO” (Aug 2022 at the Trylon): https://www.trylon.org/films/category/yaphet-kotto/ 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: "Alive" by Mark Campbell and performed by Meatloaf from the DRIVE ANGRY soundtrack. Timestamps 0:00 - Episode 184: DRIVE ANGRY (2011) with Abbie Phelps 3:10 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary 6:22 - Why this movie sticks despite its stupidity 13:39 - ​​Casting & other unconventional choices 19:43 - ​​Hell Dudes Rock: The Movie 27:08 - ​​Flavors of exploitation 34:45 - How 2010s this movie is 50:58 - The Junk Drawer 57:13 - Cody’s Noteys: Drivelove (driving movies trivia)

*** Note: This episode was originally recorded and released in June 2019 during a series on the films of Joel and Ethan Coen at the Trylon. We've republished it to coincide with the Trylon's showing of RAISING ARIZONA as part of the NIC CAGE: NATIONAL TREASURE series that screened in the summer of 2022. We didn't really know what we were doing with this show back then, but we're still pretty happy with how the conversation went. Thanks for coming back. *** Featuring special guest Eric Leith! Aren't we all H.I. "Hi" McDunnough, trying to prove to ourselves and those we care about that we can change despite all odds? Fighting against the ghosts of our past while squaring with the geist of our present, occasionally scraping our knuckles on the popcorn ceiling of prescriptive social rhetoric? And whom among us can claim to not be former cop Edwina "Ed" McDunnough, whose career and lifestyle ambitions seem increasingly at odds with the realities afforded to her in the shadow of late stage capitalism? It's a comedy. This episode is the third in a short series on a selection of Coen Brothers films screened at the Trylon Cinema in 2019. Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters.

Featuring special guest Natalie Marlin (https://twitter.com/NataliesNotInIt)!

Screened only once at release before it was banned during the Iranian cultural revolution, Mohammad Reza Aslani’s CHESS OF THE WIND (aka THE CHESS GAME OF THE WIND) is still shocking after more than 40 years in obscurity. Focusing on the lurid power plays conducted behind the closed doors of an aristocrat’s mansion (including marriage for status, murder, and revenge for both), it’s squarely pointed at the powerful and influential and the ways and reasons they leverage and maintain power.

A paraplegic spinster plots against her stepfather, whose lust for status cost her mother her life, while suitors and staff leverage the home’s growing paranoia and tension to maneuver for rank underneath them both. In this episode, we mull over the movie’s sense of style, genre fluidity, humor, and how its late restoration feels as much like an act of rebellion as its original release.

Links:

• Find your local abortion fund at https://abortionfunds.org/funds/
• Find more of Natalie’s work at https://twitter.com/NataliesNotInIt
• “NIC CAGE, NATIONAL TREASURE” (June - Aug 2022 at the Trylon): https://www.trylon.org/films/category/national-treasure/
• “GENE TIERNEY” (July 2022 at the Trylon): https://www.trylon.org/films/category/gene-tierney/
• “YAPHET KOTTO” (Aug 2022 at the Trylon): https://www.trylon.org/films/category/yaphet-kotto/

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: Closing ambiance from CHESS OF THE WIND (1976).

Timestamps

0:00 - Episode 182: CHESS OF THE WIND (1979) with Natalie Marlin

4:00 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary

5:47 - Restoration, lost media, and censorship

15:19 - Idealizing – and criticizing – the future

26:49 - ​​Style, form, setting, dust, and how the movie presents itself

55:00 - The time-traveling final shot of the movie

59:45 - It’s actually a really fun movie, too 1:06:34 - Cody’s Noteys: Trylibs – Spooky Crime Part II

A bunch of people in Virgil, Texas, are gearing up for the sesquicentennial celebration – the Celebration of Specialness – and in TRUE STORIES, David Byrne of Talking Heads is your guide to the lifestyles, traditions, and movers & shakers of the oddball town. In this episode, we discuss the kind of world Byrne and company imagined in TRUE STORIES, the assumptions its inhabitants make about their changed world, what its exaggerations of contemporary American society say about the real thing, and the effectiveness of punching without punching down. Links: - The Escape at Dannemora tweet we reference in the Junk Drawer: https://twitter.com/bobby/status/1081971563635847168 - HomeTownNews.com, which we reference in Cody’s Noteys: https://www.hometownnews.com/home/state/tx/ - “NIC CAGE, NATIONAL TREASURE” (June - Aug 2022 at the Trylon): https://www.trylon.org/films/category/national-treasure/ - “GENE TIERNEY” (July 2022 at the Trylon): https://www.trylon.org/films/category/gene-tierney/ - “YAPHET KOTTO” (Aug 2022 at the Trylon): https://www.trylon.org/films/category/yaphet-kotto/ 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 song: “People Like Us (feat. John Goodman)” by Talking Heads from the TRUE STORIES soundtrack. Timestamps 0:00 - Episode 179: TRUE STORIES (1986) 4:41 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary (under exclusive license from AG Enterprises) 7:21 - David Byrne, STOP MAKING SENSE (1984), and understanding through idiosyncrasies 21:45 - Mockumentaries, political alignment, and punching without punching down 41:12 - Louis Fyne and love in a post-alienation society 49:03 - Musical numbers and the stuff between the stuff 1:00:44 - The Junk Drawer 1:12:27 - Cody’s Noteys: Try Stories (small-town TX headline trivia)

With Abbie Phelps (@goodhunterabbie)!

Orson Welles’s final Hollywood film has it all: A complicated production history, a contentious editing lifecycle, and a ‘true-to-vision’ recut that followed the original release by some 40 years. It’s a story about Hank Quinlan (played by Welles), a dyed-in-the-wool noir detective who’ll do anything to exact his version of justice, and Ramon Miguel Vargas (confusingly played by a very white Charlton Heston), a Mexican detective set on rooting out Quinlan’s years of abusing authority. Janet Leigh as Susie, Vargas’s American wife, goes from standing up against the notorious cartel family that owns the border to just being kidnapped and becoming another reason for Vargas to continue his virtuous crusade.

Abbie Phelps is a big fan of Welles, so there’s nobody else we’d rather have on this episode! With Abbie, we talk about the striking cinematography, the moments of accidental genius that came to characterize the movie, how the movie paints a sardonic portrait of noir with big, broad characters, and why it took four decades to release the version of TOUCH OF EVIL its creator wanted you to see.

Find Abbie…

• On Twitter at @goodhunterabbie
• On Letterboxd at @goodhunterabbie
• On Trylove Episode 184: DRIVE ANGRY (2011), Episode 209: WAR OF THE WORLDS (2005), and THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT (1999)

References:

• Watch TOUCH OF EVIL on the Internet Archive
• “Touch of Evil: At the Border of Truth” by Yuval Klein for Perisphere, the Trylon blog
• “Touch of Evil: The Art of Getting Away with It” by Patrick Clifford for Perisphere, the Trylon blog
• Review: “Touch of Evil” by Roger Ebert

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

#TheLongTake #35mm Follow us on Twitter at @trylovepodcast and email us at trylovepodcast@gmail.com to get in touch! Buy tickets and support the Trylon at trylon.org.

Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Closing music: “Main Theme” by Henry Mancini from the TOUCH OF EVIL soundtrack.

Timestamps

0:00 - Episode 283: TOUCH OF EVIL (1958) with Abbie Phelps

3:33 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary

5:21 - Opening thoughts on style and subversion

12:41 - Touch of Welles

21:25 - How expressive camerawork brings the audience into the vibe of each moment

28:57 - A piss take of traditional noir detective stories

33:11 - The characters

43:54 - Uncle Joe Grandi

50:54 - The ending, the brownface, and what it was all for

57:15 - Susie… poor Susie

1:05:29 - The Junk Drawer

1:13:06 - To All the Loves We’ve Tried Before: 1958

1:15:22 - Cody’s Noteys: Touching Evil (trivia about movies with cursed objects)

Featuring the first appearance of writer, Trylon volunteer, Horrorthon body counter, and comms specialist Michael Popham!

A direct sequel to the movie where Godzilla rips Mechagodzilla’s head off, TERROR OF MECHAGODZILLA is a movie (written by newcomer Yukiko Takayama!) where Godzilla rips Mechagodzilla’s head off… and there’s a dinosaur… being controlled by aliens… who’ve teamed up with a disgraced scientist… whose daughter is a cyborg… that controls another Mechagodzilla. It’s a pretty stacked movie! It’s also the lowest-grossing Godzilla ever and it marked the end of Godzilla’s Shōwa era before a nine-year hiatus.

Somewhere in that milieu, there’s a strangely human, tender core to the story, anchored largely by Katsura Mafune (Tomoko Ai), the mad scientist’s daughter-turned-cyborg whose position in the plot. We talk about her many motivations and how her character – dutiful to her father’s cause, finding love in her enemies, possessed by her extraterrestrial overlords – reflects both the humanity in the movie’s monsters and the monstrosities of its humans.

Links:

Michael’s blog memorializing Horror Incorporated, a 1970s late-night creature-feature series from MSP: https://horrorincorporatedproject.wordpress.com/

• Buy tickets to EDDIE MURPHY (June 2022 at the Trylon): https://www.trylon.org/films/category/eddie-murphy/
• “NIC CAGE, NATIONAL TREASURE” (June - Aug 2022 at the Trylon): https://www.trylon.org/films/category/national-treasure/
• “GENE TIERNEY” (July 2022 at the Trylon): https://www.trylon.org/films/category/gene-tierney/
• “YAPHET KOTTO” (Aug 2022 at the Trylon): https://www.trylon.org/films/category/yaphet-kotto/

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 song: Main theme by Akira Ifukube from the TERROR OF MECHAGODZILLA soundtrack.

Timestamps

Due to producer error, the timestamps for this episode may not be entirely accurate! Sorry about it.

0:00 - Episode 176: TERROR OF MECHAGODZILLA (1975) with Michael Popham

4:19 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary

7:04 - Movie good? (Movie good.)

15:45 - Balancing the human and the alien

31:56 - Katsura as nexus between them

46:37 - The Junk Drawer (kaiju insurance, a sense of scale & more)

53:13 - Cody’s Noteys: Godzilla or Not-zilla (tagline trivia)

Content warning: Discussions of sexual assault and domestic abuse. Featuring special guest Audrey Callerstrom (https://twitter.com/schmaudrey)! CHERRY FALLS exists in the “sardonic horror-comedy” genre, but even at that, it’s somewhat more pessimistic than its contemporaries. A brutal serial murderer targets virgins with no clear motive, and the implications ripple throughout the East Coast town they’re terrorizing. As the mystery unfolds, it becomes clear that nobody’s really safe from the buried horrors of the previous generation – not students, not parents, and definitely not Brittany Murphy’s toes. Links: - Audrey’s writing at MovieJawn: https://www.moviejawn.com/home/category/Audrey+Callerstrom - Trylove Episode 126: THE FACULTY (1998) (feat. Eric Leith & Seth Zarate): https://soundcloud.com/trylove-podcast/the-faculty - Buy tickets to “ISHIRÔ HONDA’S GODZILLA” (May 2022 at the Trylon): https://www.trylon.org/films/category/ishiro-hondas-godzilla/ - 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 “NIC CAGE, NATIONAL TREASURE” (June - Aug 2022 at the Trylon): https://www.trylon.org/films/category/national-treasure/ 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 song: "Fader" by Drugstore from the CHERRY FALLS soundtrack. Timestamps 0:00 - Episode 175: CHERRY FALLS (2000) with Audrey Callerstrom 4:47 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary 7:45 - Audrey’s thoughts 12:04 - Brittany Murphy 15:14 - The movie almost overloads you 18:59 - CHERRY FALLS as a post-SCREAM movie 30:26 - What makes CHERRY FALLS subversive 1:03:56 - Cody’s Noteys - Trylibs: Small Town Murders

With Finn Odum (@Finnematic)!

LA CASA LOBO (THE WOLF HOUSE) is a harrowing journey through violent change. The leader of a cult spins a cautionary fairy tale to indoctrinate followers, telling the story of Maria, a girl who finds herself locked in an abandoned house in the woods after narrowly avoiding the jaws of an overbearing wolf outside. Afraid to return to her isolated community, Maria comes to depend on the wolf’s protection and insulation from malicious forces both within the house and outside its shifting walls.

Created by Chilean artists Joaquín Cociña and Cristóbal León, LA CASA LOBO is inspired by Colonia Dignidad, the real colony in Chile where German fugitives conducted extensive human rights abuses while governments looked the other way. We’re proud to welcome Finn Odum, editor at Perisphere, the Trylon blog, back to the podcast to discuss this intense, enthralling, unrelenting story, told using some of the most viscerally creative stop-motion animation you’ll ever see.

Find Finn…

• On Twitter at @Finnematic
• On Letterboxd at @finnofthedead
• On Perisphere, the Trylon blog
• On Trylove episodes about THE THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD (1951), DIABOLIQUE (1955), CON AIR (1997), and THE HOLY MOUNTAIN (1973)

References:

• Watch LA CASA LOBO (THE WOLF HOUSE) on the Internet Archive
• “Arica, mi Amor: Cine Chileno y La casa lobo” by Finn Odum for Perisphere, the Trylon blog
• “Anatomy of a Right-Wing Fable: La casa lobo” by MH Rowe for Perisphere, the Trylon blog

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

Follow us on Twitter at @trylovepodcast and email us at trylovepodcast@gmail.com to get in touch! Buy tickets and support the Trylon at trylon.org.

Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. I’m not gonna tell you what we used as the closing audio because I don’t want to get sued.

Timestamps

0:00 - Episode 282: LA CASA LOBO (THE WOLF HOUSE) (2018) with Finn Odum

1:14 - The episode actually starts

3:03 - The Patented Cody Narveson Summary

6:20 - The film's importance to Chile as well as within a repertory film lineup

11:18 - Kicking off the roundtable discussion

18:53 - Making sense of LA CASA LOBO's visual style

26:34 - Chile and the cycle of exploitation

37:05 - The titular house as a living refraction of the film's “Us vs. Them” mentality

54:07 - Why now?

1:06:12 - The Junk Drawer

1:11:57 - To All the Loves We've Tried Before: 2018

1:13:57 - Cody's Noteys: The House of Champions 2018

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)

We’re getting both A) loosey and B) goosey on this episode covering a 35mm themed Trylon double-bill of teen comedy cult classics: DON’T TELL MOM THE BABYSITTER’S DEAD (1991) and ADVENTURES IN BABYSITTING (1987)! Tune in for a discussion of the conformist themes running through DON’T TELL MOM as well as the cutely naive, pretty problematic depictions of inner city Chicago in ADVENTURES! They really are a blast to watch, especially with a group, but we wanted to see if we could wring a little more out of them. Join us as we stir the big ol’ content pot and evaluate what delectable aromas we can express with the power of Discourse! Links: - 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. Outro music: “Babysitting Blues” featuring Albert Collins from the ADVENTURES IN BABYSITTING soundtrack. Timestamps 0:00 - Episode 168: Double Bill – Babysitting Adventures 3:40 - The episode actually starts 5:26 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary (under exclusive license from AG Enterprises) 7:55 - DON’T TELL MOM THE BABYSITTER’S DEAD (1991) 39:04 - ADVENTURES IN BABYSITTING (1987) 1:16:13 - Cody’s Noteys – Under Review: Applegate & Shue (IMDb review trivia)

We hope you’ve enjoyed our series on Kon at the ‘Lon! It was a dream to see these on the Trylon’s screen and to add to the conversation on these underseen anime classics. Our series closes with MILLENNIUM ACTRESS, Kon’s sophomore feature and co-winner – with SPIRITED AWAY (2001) – of the 2001 Grand Prize in the Japan Agency of Cultural Affairs Media Arts Festival. MILLENNIUM ACTRESS is a distillation of Satoshi Kon’s most prominent themes: discovery of the self against the experiences of life, the roles those experiences shape you into, and the person you become on the other side. It’s full of the late director’s hallmarks: realities created, fictions that replace them, and a keen awareness of its audience. At the same time, it’s an affecting love story that centers an aging actress, the world she grew up in and the ways it changed her, and the people who want to share her story through film. Links: - 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. Outro music: “Chiyoko’s Theme Mode 2” by Susumu Hirawa from the MILLENNIUM ACTRESS soundtrack. Timestamps 0:00 - Episode 167: MILLENNIUM ACTRESS (2001) 2:44 - Cody gets BeanBoozled® 5:53 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary 8:52 - Cody’s BeanBoozled® check-in 11:55 - The scope & pacing of MILLENNIUM ACTRESS 29:03 - The relationship of memory, reality, and fiction in one person 35:46 - 20th century Japanese cinema and imperfect documents of history 41:05 - Genya and Kyoji and the audience 52:28 - Final thoughts & ranking Kon 59:06 - One last BeanBoozled® check-in with Cody 1:02:30 - Cody’s Noteys: Millennium Actresses (post-2000 actress trivia)

Frank Galvin will try the case — against the medical professionals whose negligence left a woman a vegetable, against the church that funds it, against the wishes of the victim’s family, and against just about everybody else.

THE VERDICT, Sidney Lumet’s OTHER courtroom drama has a bit of a ‘70s vibe to it, despite releasing in 1982. Maybe it’s because of its miserable hero, an alcoholic lawyer portrayed masterfully by the perpetually handsome Paul Newman; maybe it’s because the whole desperate affair feels less like an underdog success story and more like a hard-won battle with the self; maybe it’s in the misogynist implications of David Mamet’s script (particularly with regard to Charlotte Rampling as Laura).

On this episode, we look at THE VERDICT as a product of its time AND with the benefit of hindsight and come to different conclusions about its makers’ intentions, the means by which they get there, and what the film has to show for its effort after the gavel falls.

References:

• Watch THE VERDICT on the Internet Archive
• “A Phenomenology of the East Coast: Sidney Lumet’s The Verdict” by MH Rowe for Perisphere, the Trylon blog
• Review: The Verdict by Roger Ebert

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. Closing audio: “The Bottom” by Johnny Mandel from the THE VERDICT soundtrack.

Timestamps

0:00 - Episode 281: THE VERDICT (1982)

6:01 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary

8:05 - Not the feel-good underdog story the marketing might lead you to believe

21:02 - What a messy version of justice this is

30:27 - Charlotte Rampling as Laura and where we end up in the finale

47:04 - The Junk Drawer

51:07 - To All the Loves We’ve Tried Before: 1982

52:00 - Cody’s Noteys: The Verdictionary (definitions applied to cast names)

Based on Patricia Highsmith’s novel, “The Talented Mr. Ripley,” PURPLE NOON conducts itself naturally as it winds along the Italian coastline and within the exploits of the titular Tom Ripley, a low-class jack-of-all-trades tasked with fetching the tactless dauphin Mr. Philippe Greenleaf. Greenleaf, made from money he didn’t earn, has the life Tom wants. Not just the money: The existence. The status. The stature. The lack of burden. The life.

Tom’s plot to assume and absorb Greenleaf’s very being starts with murder and only gets more sordid from there. In this episode, we discuss how Tom’s own aspirations square against his violent behavior toward the bourgeoisie, how the movie contrasts Tom to his environment, and what it takes to live the good life – even when it’s not yours.

Links:

• “Purple Noon: A superior take on The Talented Mr. Ripley” by Wendy Lesser for Library of America https://www.loa.org/news-and-views/1182-purple-noon-a-superior-take-on-the-talented-mr-ripley

• 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/

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 Nino Rota from PURPLE NOON.

Timestamps

0:00 - Episode 157: PURPLE NOON (1960)

2:28 - Three years of Trylove

3:04 - SATOSHI KON AT THE TRYLON THIS IS NOT A DRILL 🚨🚨🚨

7:37 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary

9:24 - Jason’s thoughts

14:12 - Cody’s thoughts

19:02 - Harry’s thoughts

25:30 - Aaron’s thoughts

30:23 - Status, wealth, and entitlement, and what Tom Ripley really wants

36:07 - Truths hidden and revealed by people’s faces

39:30 - How the film sharpens its view of Tom over the course of the movie

47:40 - Marge

48:58 - The market scene: “Smile and be a villain”

54:08 - Final thoughts

1:01:27 - Cody’s Noteys: Color Me Trylove (color-themed movie trivia)