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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)

Falling in the middle of actress-turned-director Kinuyo Tanaka’s directing work, FOREVER A WOMAN (titled in Japanese as THE ETERNAL BREASTS) is an unflinching portrait of a woman seeking to define herself against the assumptions the world makes about her. After divorcing her unfaithful husband, Fumiko is diagnosed with late-stage breast cancer on the cusp of a lucrative poetry career. The people who remain, or become, part of her life – and her willingness to accept their perceptions of her – help define the remainder of her tragically short life.

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: End credits music by Takanobu Saitô from the FOREVER A WOMAN soundtrack.

Timestamps

0:00 - Episode 190: FOREVER A WOMAN (1955)

02:15 - The episode actually starts

3:36 - Cody’s Beanboozled check-in

5:40 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary

10:13 - Fumiko’s rejection of pity in the face of the world’s perception of her

26:04 - The assumptions characters make about Fumiko

40:24 - The visual storytelling

53:22 - The performances

59:20 - Cody’s Noteys: Trylove Feud (female directors trivia)

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 [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 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

Featuring guest Dan Nagan of Everything We Learned (https://twitter.com/adapperdanman)!

Red and Mandy live in remote, mountainous California. Jeremiah Sand wants Mandy for his own. When he finally gets her and finds out he can’t earn her love, fealty, or fear, he burns her alive in front of her beloved. Red, newly given to the righteous, hellacious power of grief, embarks on a bloodbath rampage to exact vengeance on Sand, his followers, and the tripping, genetically modified sadomasochist biker gang that made Red’s pain possible.

For being a relatively new film, MANDY has already left its mark on the action/horror space. Thematically evocative of a prog rock paean, visually visceral like a death metal album cover, and dripping with psychedelic horror vibes, its vision never outstrips its execution. It can be slow, strange, off-putting, and unconvincing, but it’s not forgettable. It rocks. It’s also, sometimes, very good.

Find Dan and listen to his movie podcast, Everything We Learned, at the links below:

- https://twitter.com/adapperdanman/

- https://letterboxd.com/adapperdanman/

- Everything We Learned on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/everything-we-learned/id1184071273

- If you play Final Fantasy XIV, find Dan on the Diabolo server as “Hulk Smashworth”

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: “Children Of The New Dawn” by Jóhann Jóhannsson from the MANDY soundtrack.

Timestamps

0:00 - Episode 189: MANDY (2018) with Dan Nagan

5:08 - The episode actually starts

6:21 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary (under exclusive license from AG Enterprises)

12:12 - MANDY is DRIVE ANGRY (2012) by way of PIG (2021)

16:05 - Juggling love and distance between Red and Mandy

23:40 - Absurdity and the presence of Mandy after her death

35:37 - Jeremiah Sand

44:45 - Color, theme, and Red as a ‘hardcore wife guy’

52:51 - MANDY and prog rock as a conduit into the unknown

1:00:42 - MANDY's effectiveness as horror

1:09:32 - The Junk Drawer

1:18:21 - Cody’s Noteys: Mandy, Shandy, or Candy (trivia)

1:30:14 - Dan's Detour – A Trylove First

Featuring guest Nick Kouhi (​​https://twitter.com/kouhi_nick)!

The debut of Argentinian filmmaker Lucrecia Martel is hot – but in an uncomfortable, sweaty, drenched kind of way. The matriarch of a rural summer home is bedridden after a drunken poolside injury; her cousin brings her family to tend house; her children play with guns in the woods and fish with machetes; there might be a monster lurking next door; it’s humid and it almost never seems to rain.

Underneath the comings and goings of this middle-class morass, Martel’s portrait of life in post-dictatorship Argentina is laced with a certain sense of dread – the feeling that even the ones who want to get out of the swamp are destined to twist in the mud.

Find Nick at the following links:

“Las Fantasmas de Lucrecia Martel” by Nick Kouhi for Perisphere, the Trylon blog: https://www.perisphere.org/2022/08/25/las-fantasmas-de-lucrecia-martel/

https://twitter.com/kouhi_nick

https://whatifcinema.org/essays

https://facebook.com/nick.kouhi

https://instagram.com/nickkouhi/

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 [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 188: LA CIÉNAGA (2001) with Nick Kouhi

3:49 - Nick’s background with Lucrecia Martel

7:13 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary (under exclusive license from AG Enterprises)

12:50 - The understated malice uncovered by Martel’s revealing style

16:33 - The feeling that nobody can get out of the swamp

21:41 - Motion, emotion, bodies, and Bresson

24:53 - The frustration of a time bomb that just keeps ticking

36:22 - “History repeats itself” and Martel’s intersectional view

44:24 - Ghost stories, Argentinian history, and what’s outside the frame

57:41 - The Junk Drawer

1:00:32 - Cody’s Noteys: Swamplove (Swamp Thing Trivia)

With writer and former Trylon volunteer Nazeeh Alghazawneh (https://twitter.com/naazeeehh)!

In the bones of ELECTRA, MY LOVE, there sits one of the most important Greek myths. But the surface of Miklós Jancsó’s anti-Soviet retelling is reserved for a more direct comment on eternal cycles of power, the need for change in those who hold it, and the effect it has on those subject to it. Comprising only 12 shots over its 70-some minute runtime, ELECTRA, MY LOVE isn’t subtle in form or theme, which makes it at once an entertaining watch and a deeply meaningful statement from a leading Marxist filmmaker in Communist Hungary.

Find Nazeeh and his works at these links:

- https://twitter.com/naazeeehh

- https://awtthaaus.com/

- https://letterboxd.com/nazeeh/

- https://photogenie.be/goddamn-you-harvey/

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.

Timestamps

0:00 - Episode 186: ELECTRA, MY LOVE (1974) with Nazeeh Alghazawneh

3:33 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary (under exclusive license from AG Enterprises)

4:45 - Why the form works, the problem with adaptations of Greek myths, and more

9:58 - Bodies as landscape, world, and storytelling

24:59 - A Marxist reading

39:55 - The script goes hard

44:49 - The Junk Drawer

47:17 - Cody’s Noteys: Trylibs - Greek Mythology

When $300,000 goes missing in New York City – a numbers racket payout of both Italian and black mob money – cops, mafiosi, and gangsters alike chase down every lead to get it back. In ACROSS 110TH STREET, lines are drawn between cops and criminals, wealthy and poor, white and black, neighborhoods and ghettos. Jim Harris, an impoverished Black man with a disability, plans to take advantage of all those intersections with one big heist.

- “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. Outro: "Across 110th Street" by Bobby Womack.

Timestamps

0:00 - Episode 185: ACROSS 110TH STREET (1972)

2:36 - The episode actually starts

3:54 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary

5:54 - The tensions underpinning the main plot

17:30 - The textures of the movie

22:29 - Mattelli, Pope, and lines drawn

49:35 - The Junk Drawer

57:34 - Cody’s Noteys: Kotto’s Nottos (Yaphet Kotto trivia)