|Alex Kies| In 1934, Universal Studios was a house divided. Despite the protestations of studio head “Uncle” Carl Laemmle, his nephew, 23-year-old Carl “Junior” Laemmle, one of Hollywood’s foundational nepotism hires, had inaugurated the golden age of studio horror… Continue reading
|Kelly Krantz| Phantom of the Paradise is truly unlike any other movie. Sure, you can draw comparisons to much older stories such as The Phantom of the Opera and Faust. It’s visually tapping into similar ideas as The Rocky Horror Picture Show and the band Kiss. Continue reading
|Matt Levine| There’s a common conception about Brian De Palma that he’s little more than a Hitchcock imitator: wildly entertaining maybe, sumptuously stylish definitely, but without many original themes or ideas of his own. The accusation that De Palma’s success is based on… Continue reading
|Nick Kouhi| Ghosts seem to linger in the films of Lucrecia Martel. The Argentinian auteur doesn’t explicitly deal with the paranormal, yet her films take images culled from the everyday and transform them into the eerie. Martel’s films sonically and visually disorient many a newcomer… Continue reading
|Chris Polley| “Tomorrow you will die. -Nicolas Cage.” This is one of the earliest recountings of the Hollywood staple’s autograph signings, as told by Raising Arizona co-star Sam McMurray to Insider for an oral history of the film. McMurray witnessed Cage commit these words… Continue reading
|Alex Kies| “The living horror of last night was over. The only thought left was the paralyzing fear that it could happen today or tomorrow.” -Raymond Burr, from Godzilla, King of the Monsters … On September 2, 1945, in the wake of years of costly island warfare… Continue reading
|Terry Serres| Agnès Varda is variously termed the godmother, the grandmother, or the mother of the French New Wave (in ascending order of Google hits). While it is certainly high praise to be accorded primacy in such an important movement of filmmaking, these phrases imply… Continue reading
|Finn Odum| I have spent an embarrassing amount of time being mad about vampires, and this piece is proof that I need to have my writing platform removed immediately.
Arrebató is a fantastic film. In his final, career-killing movie, Ivan Zulueta spins an incredible tale… Continue reading
|Becky Welander| I’ve been interested in fashion for as long as I can remember.
I grew up in a very small town in Southeastern Minnesota in the 1970s and 80s, where I spent much of my childhood dreaming of escaping to bigger, fashionable locales such as New York, Paris, and London. Continue reading
|Alexander Gray| Millennium Actress screens at the Trylon Cinema from Sunday, March 27 to Tuesday, March 29. For tickets and more information, scroll to the bottom of this post. On the banks of a manmade lake in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park stands a line of Grecian columns that are… Continue reading
|Finn Odum| Diabolique screens at the Trylon Cinema on 35 mm from Friday, March 11 to Sunday, March 13. For more information or to purchase tickets, visit trylon.org. She was funny, insufferable, generous, crazy, unhappy and capable of making people unhappy; she was sick too; I loved and hated her… Continue reading
| Lukas Lock-Scamp | Perfect Blue screens at the Trylon Cinema from Sunday, March 13 to Tuesday, March 15. Scroll to the end of this post to buy tickets and learn more about the film. This podcast is an accumulation of thoughts and ideas about the movie Perfect Blue, assembled for… Continue reading
|Caroline Rutkiewicz| Dreams screens at the Trylon Cinema from Friday, February 25 to Sunday, February 27. Scroll to the bottom of this page for tickets and more information. I. Curiosity Curiosity turns to fear when our protagonist discovers the rare fox wedding. Only occurring on days where sun shines during… Continue reading
| Chris Polley | The Third Man screens at the Trylon Cinema from Sunday, February 20 to Tuesday, February 22. Scoll to the end of this post for tickets and more information. As a teacher, the most unnerving scene for me in British filmmaker Carol Reed’s ever-enduring, post-war thriller The… Continue reading
| Daniel Lawrence Aufmann | Filibus: The Mysterious Air Pirate screens at the Trylon Cinema from Friday, January 28 to Sunday, January 30. For more information, see the program notes at the bottom of this post. For tickets, scroll to the bottom of this page or visit trylon.org. What images… Continue reading
| Nick Kouhi | I Know Where I’m Going! screens at the Trylon from Friday, January 21 to Sunday, January 23. For tickets and more information, scroll to the bottom of this screen. Throughout the nearly twenty films they made together through their production company, The Archers, Michael Powell and… Continue reading
| Finn Odum | Possession screens at the Trylon from Friday, December 31 to Sunday, January 2. Scroll to the bottom of this page for tickets and more information. Several weeks ago, I attempted to watch Possession so I could prepare for this piece. The vast majority of the film passed in… Continue reading
| Jeremy Meckler | Stroszek screens at the Trylon from Friday, November 26 to Sunday, November 28. Scroll to the bottom of this page for tickets and more information. Werner Herzog is one of those directors whose persona is sometimes more extravagant than his films. There’s the time he ate… Continue reading
| Chris Polley | Fitzcarraldo screens at the Trylon from Friday, November 19 to Sunday, November 21. Scroll to the bottom of this page for tickets and more information. In Werner Herzog’s stirring 2005 documentary Grizzly Man, the director inserts himself carefully into the narrative as he contemplates the tragic… Continue reading
| Matt Levine | Nosferatu The Vampyre screens at the Trylon from Sunday, October 31 to Tuesday, November 2. Scroll to the bottom of this page for tickets and more information. These written testimonies were discovered in the personal journal of Count Dracula in the city of Wismar, Germany, circa… Continue reading
| Nick Kouhi | Days screens as part of the Slow Cinema series at the Trylon. This series, programmed by the Moving Image, Media, and Sound Studies Graduate Group at the University of Minnesota, is presented in collaboration with the Trylon Cinema. Tickets are free and available on a first-come,… Continue reading
| Celia Mattison | Watch Ginger Snaps and Jennifer’s Body at the Trylon from Friday, October 15 to Sunday, October 17. For tickets and more information, scroll to the bottom of this page. Name some famous brothers. Romulus and Remus, Cain and Abel, the Grimms, the Wrights, the Marxs. In modern… Continue reading
| Alisha Robberstad | Squirm screens at the Trylon from Sunday, October 3 to Tuesday, October 5. For tickets and more information, scroll to the bottom of this page. I watched a lot of network television as a kid, including Fear Factor, where contestants were made to eat a variety of… Continue reading
| Daniel Eckman-Thomas | Mickey and Nickey screens at the Trylon from Sunday, September 26 to Tuesday, September 28. For tickets and more information, scroll to the bottom of this page. On the third floor of the Minneapolis Central Library, in the American Literature block (more precisely, PS3573.I455.2011, for those in… Continue reading
| Ryan Sanderson | Sherlock Jr. screens with Rumble in the Bronx at the Trylon from Friday, September 24 to Sunday, September 26. For tickets and more information, scroll to the bottom of this page. Perhaps you know someone who is resistant to films outside their comfort zone: someone who says… Continue reading
| Maria Gomez | Rumble in the Bronx screens with Sherlock Jr. at the Trylon from Friday, September 24 to Sunday, September 26. For tickets and more information, scroll to the bottom of this page. At a certain age, most of us have had the experience where you sit back,… Continue reading
| Matt Levine | Husbands screens on 35mm at the Trylon from Sunday, September 19 to Tuesday, September 21. For tickets and more information, scroll to the bottom of this page. Husbands zeroes in on the real state of love and sex in our time… Cassavetes, Gazzara, et al., I… Continue reading
| Alex Kies | Drunken Master 2 screens on 35mm at the Trylon from Friday, September 10 to Sunday, September 12. For more information and tickets, visit trylon.org. Drunken Master 2 is one of the last classic traditional kung fu films the Hong Kong studio system produced. It’s a mishmash… Continue reading
| Casey Jarrin | Why am I me and why not you? Why am I here and why not there? – Wings of Desire opening voiceover Here was one room; there another. Did religion solve that, or love? – Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway I can’t see you but I know… Continue reading
|Chris Polley| Night Moves screens at the Trylon Cinema as part of the Florida Noir series from August 13 to 17. For more information and tickets, please visit the Trylon’s website at trylon.org. “How I hate these goddamn machines,” a disembodied voice speaks from the answering machine on the desk… Continue reading
| Dave Gomshay | Safe screens at the Trylon Cinema on Thursday, April 29 at 7 pm. Chosen by long-time Trylon volunteer Dave Gomshay, the film is part of our Volunteer Programmers series. To purchase tickets or learn more about this screening, visit our website at trylon.org. Safe had a… Continue reading
|Michelle Baroody| On January 7, 2019, Lebanon lost a pioneering filmmaker, journalist, photographer, artist, and political thinker with the passing of Jocelyne Saab. Saab was born in Beirut on April 30, 1948, in the wake of the Second World War, when the Levant underwent numerous changes: Syria and Lebanon became… Continue reading
|Tom Schroeder| If one considers a movie as a window opening upon a discrete panorama of life, then Jacques Tati created perhaps the most wonderfully compelling view I know in his 1967 masterpiece Playtime. He built“Tativille,” a small facsimile of modern Paris on the outskirts of actual Paris, in which… Continue reading
|Jesse Lawson| Compared to Jacques Tati’s previous films, Trafic (1971)—beautifully shot and staged as always and sharply edited to give its gags punctuating force like a stomp on the brakes—can appear somewhat aimless as a narrative, slightly jaundiced in outlook. Such criticisms inevitably invoke Playtime (1967), where a potentially glib… Continue reading
|Lamia Abukhadra| This text is presented as part of the Mizna Film Series, a monthly selection which expands Mizna’s regular film programming to include screenings, critical essays, filmmaker interviews, and discussions exploring revolutionary forms of cinema from Southwest Asia and North Africa (SWANA) and beyond. An Unusual Summer screens at… Continue reading
|Kelly Krantz| The first time I saw William Friedkin’s Cruising was in the mid-90s, when I was in high school. I’d probably read about it in a zine, which is where I learned about most of the weird shit I liked at the time. Luckily, the small video store I… Continue reading
|Ahmed AbdulMageed| This text is presented as part of the Mizna Film Series, a monthly selection which expands Mizna’s regular film programming to include screenings, critical essays, filmmaker interviews, and discussions exploring revolutionary forms of cinema from Southwest Asia and North Africa (SWANA) and beyond. Soleil Ô screens at the… Continue reading
|John Moret| In the spring of 1970 a charismatic bit player and stuntman named Bruce Lee approached Warner Brothers to produce a show about a Shaolin Monk in the American West. Warner Brothers gave the greenlight for the show and cast a white actor in the role of the monk,… Continue reading
Though the Trylon is open for (very limited) business, we are unable to meet our monthly costs with screenings alone. We’ve started kicking around the idea of putting out a limited edition zine written by our staff, volunteers and YOU to raise some funds! Because so many of us need… Continue reading
|Finn Odum| Of all the things I discovered when I was fifteen, you were the least detrimental to my health. In a year of crippling anxiety and one particularly bad debate tournament, you were a shining star amidst the dark. You, a mildly out-of-touch teen rom-com retelling one of Shakespeare’s… Continue reading
