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MOONSTRUCK is a perfect film made in 1987 by Norman Jewison and written by John Patrick Shanley. Loretta (played by Cher), a neurotic Italian woman in her mid-30s, is set to marry Johnny (Danny Aiello), a neurotic Italian man in his mid-40s, even though she doesn’t really love him. She meets his brother Ronny (Nic Cage) and falls into a whirlwind romance that starts to crumble her idea of what she wants from her life. MOONSTRUCK was acclaimed at release and is considered a classic romantic comedy, having won three Academy Awards (Best Actress for Cher, Best Supporting Actress for Olympia Dukakis as her mother, and Best Screenplay for John Patrick Shanley).

Kick off the Trylon’s Nic Cage: National Treasure series with MOONSTRUCK and our accompanying episode – the best discussion you’ll find on the internet!

Links:

- “Moonstruck: Life in the In-Between” by Emily VanDerWerff for The Criterion Collection: https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/7192-moonstruck-life-in-the-in-between

- 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 [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. Closing song: “That’s Amore” written by Harry Warren and Jack Brooks and performed by Dean Martin from the MOONSTRUCK soundtrack.

Timestamps

0:00 - Episode 177: MOONSTRUCK (1987)

4:40 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary (under exclusive license from AG Enterprises)

6:11 - The ridiculous, romantic tightrope MOONSTRUCK walks

24:57 - Practical emotion and Loretta’s transformation

40:14 - Nic Cage’s ‘earnest commitment to absurdity’

53:04 - Perry, Cosmo, and infidelious foils

59:56 - The Junk Drawer (Magical realism and John Patrick Shanley)

1:04:20 - Cody’s Noteys: That’s A Garage Sale

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 [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. 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

Like much of the GODZILLA franchise, GHIDORAH: THE THREE-HEADED MONSTER is more focused on the fun of watching giant monsters duke it out and the innate humor in their skyborne rivalries. While the story is less about Godzilla himself, it’s a superb example of what made mid-career GODZILLA movies so special and worth discussing: Like a great martial arts movie, it’s a case study in integrating humor into physical performance, and how it can open up an unsuspecting audience to a movie’s conceptual and thematic content.

Links:

- 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 [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. Closing song: "Call Happiness" written by Hiroshi Miyagawa and performed by The Peanuts from the GHIDORAH, THE THREE-HEADED MONSTER soundtrack.

Timestamps

0:00 - Episode 174: GHIDORAH, THE THREE-HEADED MONSTER (1964)

3:49 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary

6:20 - How mid-career GODZILLA movies normalized kaiju

17:13 - Old GODZILLA vs. evolving GODZILLA

26:38 - The other kaiju

33:29 - What Godzilla 'meant' by 1964

42:49 - Liberating Godzilla with camp

50:42 - The Junk Drawer

58:09 - Cody’s Noteys: King Nineteen Sixty-Four-ah

The original GODZILLA is a lot more up-front about its mission statement than later entries would lead you to believe. It was concepted and written as a metaphor for Japan’s traumatic response to nuclear tragedy and fear of another, but it’s remembered more for its genre-defining special effects. But with a focus on a melodramatic love triangle and humans who can’t decide if they’re heroes or horrors, the most frightening thing about GODZILLA is its premonition that the threat of more Hiroshimas would fester and grow for generations.

Links:

An examination of Akira Ifukube’s iconic GODZILLA theme by GODZILLA: KING OF THE MONSTERS (2019) composer Bear McCreary: https://www.facebook.com/BearMcCrearyOfficial/photos/why-does-the-akira-ifukube-godzilla-march-feel-the-way-it-does-one-of-the-most-i/10156880267742096/

“'Godzilla' was a metaphor for Hiroshima, and Hollywood whitewashed it” by Kimmy Yam for NBC News: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/godzilla-was-metaphor-hiroshima-hollywood-whitewashed-it-n1236165

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/

- 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 [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. Closing song: “Godzilla Theme” by Akira Ifukube from the GODZILLA soundtrack.

Timestamps

0:00 - Episode 173: GODZILLA (1954)

2:52 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary

7:35 - Finally seeing GODZILLA at the Trylon

10:44 - Learning that Godzilla is more than the bomb

23:02 - The shortcuts people take to understanding Godzilla

26:52 - Godzilla and population density

29:58 - The international implications of Godzilla

45:43 - Godzilla as symbol of hypercapital

48:56 - Godzilla redesigns

50:39 - The Junk Drawer

59:52 - Cody’s Noteys: Trylove Feud

Emily Csuy of Stoop Kidz!: A Hey Arnold! Podcast is back behind the mic to kick off the Trylon’s Agnès Varda series with CLÉO FROM 5 TO 7 (1962)!

Florence, who sings and performs under the stage name Cléo (short for “Cléopatra”), is reeling after she’s diagnosed with cancer. The movie picks up during a tarot reading that spells her imminent doom, and the rest of the film tracks the following two hours of her life, moving in roughly real time as she floats aimlessly through neighborhoods of Paris, looking for distraction and consolation from friends and strangers alike.

With Emily, we circle around CLÉO’s ideas of self-perception, feminine expression through feminist art, the many kinds of performance expected of women, how Varda translates feelings of desperation and doubt to the screen, and much more.

Listen to Emily’s Hey Arnold! Podcast, Stoop Kidz!, wherever you get podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/stoop-kidz-a-hey-arnold-podcast/id1553292788

Links:

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/

- 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 [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. Closing song: “Sans toi” by Michel Legrande and Agnès Varda from CLÉO FROM 5 TO 7.

Timestamps

0:00 - Episode 172: CLÉO FROM 5 TO 7 (1962) with Emily Csuy

1:32 - The episode actually starts

5:03 - How Varda creates Cléo’s conflicted perspective and self-image

21:27 - “Sans toi,” Michel Legrande, and Beach House

28:52 - Setting up the third act

41:07 - Who Cléo is by the end of the movie

46:15 - Antoine and the big picture

57:08 - The Junk Drawer (swallowing frogs, good good cats, tarot)

THE CONVERSATION is remembered as one of the greatest films of all time, and it is. There’s so much to say about it, we welcomed Seth Zarate (https://twitter.com/snzarate) back to help us sift through our thoughts, hands on the dials, focusing on the juiciest nuggets from Francis Ford Coppola’s masterpiece.

Gene Hackman’s Harry Caul is a man defined by his ignorance, believing he can observe and report his way through life, even if those observations and reports sometimes have a body count. In this episode, we break down how THE CONVERSATION uses a tense thriller plot setup to tell a much more incisive story about leaving your mark on the world without ever meaning to – or leaving with some marks of your own.

We also talk about Harry’s fraying mental state, his obsession with jazz, and his Catholic upbringing… but you know what? You don’t really care what we talk about. You just want a nice, fat recording. Listen in on this discussion you weren’t there for and had no input on but, as witness to it, have a responsibility to interpret and incorporate into your life from this point forward!

Links:

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/

- 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 [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. Closing song: “Main Theme” by David Shire from the THE CONVERSATION soundtrack.

Timestamps

0:00 - Episode 171: THE CONVERSATION (1974) with Seth Zarate

2:34 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary

6:08 - Seth’s thoughts as a ‘70s movie detractor

8:05 - Harry Caul’s dispassionate contradiction

21:58 - The workshop scene and Harry Caul’s god complex

39:36 - Harry Caul’s obsession with jazz

Bob Rafelson’s third film, THE KING OF MARVIN GARDENS, plays out differently than you may think. For the most part, it moves like series of disconnected examples, testing characters like David (Jack Nicholson) and Sally (Ellen Burstyn) as Jason (Bruce Dern), David’s brother, leads them on a doomed plot through post-settling, pre-gambling Atlantic City to get rich quick by buying an island off the coast of Hawaii. David seems to know it’s a farce, like everything Jason’s tried for 30 years; Sally’s given herself completely to Jason; and Jessica – Sally’s stepdaughter – falls prey to Jason’s charming, scheming sleight-of-hand. The moving parts among this small cohort – compacted by Lewis (Benjamin “Scatman” Crothers), the crime boss bearing down on Jason – create a pressure keg of hopes, dreams, myths, and the harsh realities that pierce through them all.

In this episode, we break down how the structure and approach of THE KING OF MARVIN GARDENS helps it stand out, even if those same things can make it harder to find something to hold onto.

Links:

The Projection Booth Podcast Episode 171: The King of Marvin Gardens (1972): https://www.projectionboothpodcast.com/2014/06/episode-171-king-of-marvin-gardens.html?m=0

“The King of Marvin Gardens: A Killing” by Mark Le Fanu for The Current: https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/1670-the-king-of-marvin-gardens-a-killing

- 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 [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.

Timestamps

0:00 - Episode 170: THE KING OF MARVIN GARDENS (1972)

2:32 - The episode actually starts

4:22 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary

7:18 - Character studies and the brother dynamic

20:40 - The mythology of Atlantic City

26:10 - Sally

38:12 - The ending

57:59 - Cody’s Noteys: Trylove Gardens (dramatic readings of Letterboxd reviews)

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 [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.

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 [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: “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 [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: “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)