Trylove

A not-so-traditional tale of witchcraft, the search for belonging, and how goddamn hard it can be to find.

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Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro music from "THE JUNIPER TREE".

Content warning: Discussions of onscreen depictions of animal abuse.

THE ANDROMEDA STRAIN scraps a lot of classic tension-building elements in favor of a painstakingly detailed, process-focused look at how scientists, citizens, and the American government would respond to a viral outbreak with global lethal potential. It ends up feeling a bit clinical, sure, but there's a charming dedication to its obsessions, especially when they're broken up by some interesting formal innovations that keep it from dragging too much (despite being almost TOO close an adaptation of a Michael Crichton novel).

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Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro music: "Andromeda" by Gil Mellé.

Featuring special guest and Trylon film programmer John Moret! Film discussion begins at 13:26.

The Trylon's first in-theater showing since March, Joe Cornish's sci-fi/horror/comedy/commentary mashup directorial debut ATTACK THE BLOCK touches on just enough 2020-adjacent themes (Black oppression, social confinement, the dangers of the outside world, the villainous police state) to make it a super-fitting complementary piece for the world the theater is reopening into. It's also just fun enough to help you accept Cornish's on-the-nose writing without letting it steal the focus.

Before we get down to business, John walks us through the Trylon's reopening strategy, how to safely enjoy movies there, what might happen if you don't, and what the rest of 2020 looks like for the theater.

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Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro music: "Attack the Block" by Basement Jaxx.

When hitmen Kamimura and Shun are made pawns in yakuza territorial pissings, they've got to rely on each other and a band of bargefolk to make it out alive. Part spaghetti western, part yakuza film, part spy fiction, and part drama, A COLT IS MY PASSPORT forces its audience to see much of its worthwhile cast through its protagonist's eyes (for better or worse).

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Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro music: "A Colt is My Passport" by Harumi Ibe.

Featuring special guest Matt Clark (@themplsmatt)!

Though it might not reach the dramatic highs of the movies it's comprised of, SHOGUN ASSASSIN is an interesting artifact of film localization that manages to be super fun (not to mention influential). We finally enlisted Matt Clark to help us unpack the special 36 Chambers screening we caught in quarantine, which featured live commentary from RZA of Wu-Tang Clan and Dan Halsted of the Hollywood Theater.

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Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters.

Featuring special guest Jenny Ackerson (@AckersonJenny)!

Tsai Ming-liang's debut is much more than most summaries can tell you. Less a coming-of-age morality play amid 1990s Taipei than a tale about the downward emotional spiral of youth, REBELS OF THE NEON GOD is a work fueled by empathy and the struggle to find oneself amid urban decay, social prescriptivism, and expectations of mythological proportions.

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Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters.

Featuring special guest Matt Yost (@mattyost_)!

It could be said that as an adaptation of an adaptation, Bob Fosse's CABARET has an audience of an audience, too: working as critique by paralleling the rise of Naziism with bourgeois escapism in Weimer-era Berlin, it implicates both its characters and world. To what end, though? Is it didactic or just descriptive?

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"CABARET and antifascist aesthetics" by Steven Belletto: https://ldr.lafayette.edu/concern/publications/0c483j76f

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Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters.

Featuring special guest Charlie Mackin (@charliemander13)!

After winning four Oscars for PARASITE (2019), South Korean director Bong Joon-ho finished a short press run, boarded a plane, landed in Minneapolis, and headed to the Walker Art Center for a talk with film critic Scott Foundas. To hear Bong speak so candidly about his films, philosophy, and collaborators in Minneapolis was a completely surreal event – and, of course, we were all there for it.

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Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters.

Featuring special guest Seth Zarate (@snzarate)!

Forget Bruno – it's the return of the man we're calling our Bruce Willis expert, Seth Zarate, for a peek at Terry Gilliam's slightly madcap time-traveling paranoia piece 12 MONKEYS (1995). Inspired directly by the 1962 experimental short film LA JETÉE, Gilliam's vision of the future is one marred by human failure – both to protect the world from a devastating virus and to adapt to the aftermath – and told through the eyes of the man meant to fix it.

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Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters.

Featuring special guest Logan Lafferty (@mrleviathan)!

In a clever marriage of narrative and form, the pieces of TOTAL RECALL (1990) don't all add up at first. Each question about its world, plot, and sweeping class themes seems to beg a little more explanation – just enough to maintain intrigue without leaving the audience behind. It's classic Verhoeven, classic Arnie, classic Ironside, classic Stone, and Logan's seen it something like 20 times.

For a reason, we hope.

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Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters.