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Featuring special guest Nick Ransbottom! (@TheEzioKenway).

Filmed on location in the New York City of 1947 and narrated by its own legendary newspaper man-turned-producer Mark Hellinger, THE NAKED CITY is both a product of and commentary on its time and place.

By shooting in a faux-Cinéma vérité style and constantly breaking its own fourth wall, THE NAKED CITY playfully reframes how we think about detective stories, film noire, and what it means to be entertained by the stories of the apparently every day… taking the piss out of it, New York, and all of us self-serious would-be film anthropologists in the process. After all, "there are eight million stories in New York," and maybe it *is* a little silly to watch them from the skyline's point of view.

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

CW: THE WARRIORS contains violence against women, including threats of sexual violence. Our conversation will briefly touch on these elements.

When Harry saw the Wonder Wheel come OUT TO PLA-Eee-AAAY on screen at the Trylon's "Up All Night" movie marathon back in November, he hooted and hollered from the back row.

The quintessential midnight movie, THE WARRIORS (1979) is a love letter to a vision of grimy, apocalyptic late '70s New York, a thrilling "single destination" action movie, and surprisingly nuanced, heartfelt, and heartbreaking portrayal of an underclass poised against a hostile world. By portraying the mythologized gangs of New York on their own terms, THE WARRIORS may just be the rare kind of movie that can make its righteous point without preaching. These are the armies of the night, and they're good… real good.

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

“𝘏𝘦 𝘱𝘪𝘤𝘬𝘴 𝘰𝘯 𝘮𝘦, 𝘵𝘰𝘰. 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘥𝘢𝘺 𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘮𝘦 𝘢𝘯 𝘪𝘥𝘪𝘰𝘵. 𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘐 𝘥𝘰? 𝘐 𝘴𝘢𝘪𝘥, ‘𝘠𝘦𝘴, 𝘔𝘳. 𝘔𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘴𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘬. 𝘐'𝘮 𝘢𝘯 𝘪𝘥𝘪𝘰𝘵.’ 𝘐'𝘮 𝘯𝘰 𝘧𝘰𝘰𝘭!”

Social constructs exist only to divide, removing humanity layer by layer until we don’t recognize the people and things we love right in front of our eyes. That might be what THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER (1940), Ernst Lubitsch’s early rom-com, is saying with its depiction of working-class Hungarians.

Stretching one instance of dramatic irony into 100 minutes, the film focuses on the motivations and bonds between the salespeople at a local department store – some gaming for status, some for excitement, and some even for love.

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

Happy New Year's Eve! We’ve had a hell of a time making this podcast for almost a whole year(!!!), so we wanted to cap 2019 with a special episode to recognize the best and brightest moments of the year: the inaugural Trylove Golden Barry Awards!

What’s the best film the Trylon played this year? What was the most memorable guest moment on our show? What's our favorite piece of Trylon trivia we learned? Who will be crowned 2019’s King and Queen of the Trylon? Anything could happen at the 2019 𝓖𝓸𝓵𝓭𝓮𝓷 𝓑𝓪𝓻𝓻𝔂𝓼!

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

Featuring special guest Matt Yost (@mattyost_)!

CW: BLACK CHRISTMAS includes violent language including threats of rape and assault toward women. We discuss this as an element of the movie.

BLACK CHRISTMAS (1974) established many of the tropes and techniques that would lay the groundwork for HALLOWEEN (1978), A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET (1984) – most modern horror cinema, actually. What's more, it's actually still quite scary!

Though it benefits from your expectations of holiday-themed horror, BLACK CHRISTMAS also features some provocative feminist signaling that places responsibility for the systemic perpetuation of violence against women at the feet of – who else? – the men best positioned to prevent it.

Find Matt Yost on Twitter at @mattyost_ and Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/matty_ost/!

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

Featuring special guest Griffin Fillipitch!

In 1937, story writer Melchior Lengyel pitched NINOTCHKA (1939) to MGM with a cutesy triptych: “Russian girl saturated with Bolshevist ideals goes to fearful, capitalistic, monopolistic Paris. She meets romance and has an uproarious good time. Capitalism not so bad, after all.” Thank goodness it’s not ACTUALLY that.

Greta Garbo’s comedy turn gives her more than something to laugh about: it pits capitalist excess against the inhumanity of Stalinism to create a seriously hopeful romcom. Like one half of Paris making love to the other half, NINOTCHKA – the character and the film – seeks to complement without compromise, insisting that where personal freedom exists, so does social responsibility.

Listen to Griffin's podcast, Anytime Minutes, on Apple Podcasts (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/anytime-minutes/id1033748975), subscribe to his romcom review newsletter at https://tinyletter.com/griffinfillipitch, and follow him on Twitter at @griffin_fill.

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

CW: discussions of portrayed suicide.

For all the artifice displayed by the Warsaw acting troupe in Ernst Lubitsch's TO BE OR NOT TO BE, one thing is very real: their disdain for Nazi occupation and displacement of their people. Slowly infiltrating the ranks of Warsaw's occupying forces – sometimes by accident – they use the tools of their trade to subvert Hitler's ground offensive while having some fun exclusively at his expense.

What is a meaningful act of resistance? What does that look like through a comedic lens? What is "the Lubitsch touch"? Will Jojo Rabbit be good in 77 years? Listen!

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

Featuring special guest Dan Nagan!

Like a samurai wandering without a master, John Frankenheimer's RONIN kind of meanders unjustifiably in the no-man’s land between Parisian noir and fantastic bombast. Too overwritten to be cool and underserved by questionable directorial choices, its characters feel out of place in a world made specially for them. Like the third of Sam’s absurd aphorisms, maybe it’s best to accept RONIN and move on.

Listen to Dan Nagan's podcast, Everything We Learned, wherever you already listen to podcasts. Follow him on Twitter and Letterboxd at @aDapperDanMan.

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

Featuring special guest Nick Ransbottom!

BRUTE FORCE is a leftist melodrama that is at its best when it leans into its pulpy sensibilities. It displays an unprecedented amount of sympathy for a group of prison inmates who use their strength and camaraderie as they search for a way out of a flawed yet impenetrable system.

As our heroes spiral towards their fate, we all find ourselves asking the same question: why persist at all? Is it worth pushing onward, even when the system has all exits covered? BRUTE FORCE is a bleak and beautiful meditation on this dilemma.

Find Nick at @TheEzioKenway on Twitter for updates about THE BOUNTY, a one-shot he's developing with artist Sara Alfageeh!

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

Featuring Trylon volunteer Ben Savard!

𝘐 𝘸𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘸𝘩𝘺 𝘐 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘐 𝘥𝘰

𝘐𝘴 𝘪𝘵 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘐 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘰𝘰?

𝘐 𝘸𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘸𝘩𝘺 𝘐 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘐 𝘥𝘰, 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘐 𝘥𝘰

Small-town senior Arnie Cunningham feels like he’s denied true happiness – by girls, the expectations of his parents, and by bullies at school. That all changes when the car of his dreams revs to life in the form of Christine, a cursed coupe that promises to grant him status, dominance over women, independence, and machismo, against the recommendation of Dennis, his best friend and star high school quarterback.

More than a clunky creature feature, CHRISTINE centers on the inherent rot at the heart of traditional signifiers of masculinity, how men give part of ourselves to them, and what they take in return – fueled by generations of misogyny, self-hatred, and the fear of becoming obsolete.

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"The Feminist" by Tony Tulathimutte: https://nplusonemag.com/issue-35/fiction-drama/the-feminist/

"Christine" by Martha: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3PX5FKAztg

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