Our David Lynch: Surreal Marvel series continues with a white hot director’s cut screening of Wild at Heart. Wild at Heart review by Trylon volunteer Caty Rent. Blazing fire, crutches/canes, car accidents, lit cigarettes, rape, lipstick fetish, boobies, and several passionate sex scenes between star-crossed lovers are just a few flavors… Continue reading
Tonight Sound Unseen presents Sick Birds Die Easy, with a special appearance from director Nik Fackler, composer Sam Martin, and the star, Ross Brockley, introducing the movie and answering your many questions afterwards! How do you describe this one? “Exploring the worlds of white privilege, magical realism and the apocalypse,… Continue reading
The Trylon is proud to present Sissy Spacek: Seemingly Lost, a tribute to one of the more unheralded actresses working today. Today we’ll let the late, great Roger Ebert wax rhapsodic about this little-seen masterpiece, which he considered to be the best film of 1977: “And so I descend once… Continue reading
Mae West? Who the heck’s Mae West? Really? Well, she ain’t no cancelled stamp, we can tell you that, and if you check out our sockdollager double-feature at the Heights Theater tonight, you, too, can finally say “I know my onions” about the greatest film comedienne of the first half… Continue reading
David Lynch: Surreal Marvel continues with one of the director’s most critically maligned films and one of his most lauded movies–Dune and Mulholland Drive. The first was a flop, which Lynch himself couldn’t stand, and the second was one of only two films of the twenty-first century to make Sight… Continue reading
The Trylon microcinema is proud to continue the Surreal Marvel: David Lynch series with two of the director’s most talked about films: his sole big-budget epic, Dune, and the mysterious Mulholland Dr. Review of Mulholland Dr. review by Trylon volunteer David Berglund. For many, David Lynch’s surrealist films present disorienting… Continue reading
Eraserhead review by Trylon volunteer Dave Gomshay. This time of year in Minnesota provides ideal conditions for sinking into David Lynch’s Eraserhead. The midwinter weather has by now encrusted everything in dirty shades of black and white. A lonely wind howls constantly. Cabin fever is making you tense, paranoid, and… Continue reading
This weekend, the Trylon’s happy as heck to present two films from one of our favorite filmmakers, Tom Tykwer. We open with perhaps the most fun we’ve ever had in an arthouse theater, Run Lola Run, in which our eponymous hero has to try and raise a bundle of cash… Continue reading
Who is, or rather, was Chris Marker? —Emiko Omori This is the question that has dogged filmmaker Emiko Omori for over a decade, and guides his documentary To Chris Marker, An Unsent Letter, screening tonight and tomorrow at the Trylon. Omori had met Marker in 1974, after a screening of… Continue reading
Review by Trylon volunteer Patrick Vehling. There was a period in my early twenties where war films took up a large part of my film viewing, particularly films that portrayed the part of the philosophical soldier–always questioning the authenticity of war, or rather, a more humanistic approach. Definitely not the… Continue reading
The Trylon is proud to present the two finest collaborations between auteur Carl Reiner and his muse, actor Steve Martin. We present The Jerk and Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid this weekend only, a rare cinematic event that will be remembered with fondness for years to come… Review of The… Continue reading
Review by Trylon volunteer Patrick Vehling. It’s been well over a decade since I last watched Michelangelo Antonioni’s L’Avventura, so hearing the news that the Trylon was screening a 35mm print was an exciting discovery and an increasingly rare treat due to the ongoing push for DCP (Digital Cinema Projection.)… Continue reading
Review by Trylon volunteer Colette Ricci. (Before we start dear reader, I promise you: this does not devolve into an anti-corporate diatribe.) For centuries corporations have been claiming public as space their own, while the public simultaneously fights to get those spaces back. As a youngster I didn’t understand… Continue reading
Review by Trylon volunteer Amy Neeser. Lolita is perhaps the best known, but not often talked about, film in the “Underrated Stanley Kubrick” series, as it comes with a lot of baggage. This was a tough one, even for the great Kubrick–not only is it an adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov’s… Continue reading
Review by Trylon volunteer Matt Levine. SPOILER ALERT–this review reveals significant plot points. Barry Lyndon begins with a killing—the murder of Barry’s father, no less, in a gentlemanly pistol duel. Observed in a static long shot that sees the minuscule characters dwarfed by an awe-inspiring landscape, this opening scene is a… Continue reading
Review by Trylon volunteer Elizabeth Doyle. The word “elliptical” has been tossed around a great deal when discussing Claire Denis’s latest film, Bastards (Les Salauds), a noir set in Paris. It is a shadowy puzzle whose dark subject will not be illuminated, at least not enough for us to comprehend… Continue reading
This weekend, as part of our “Underrated Stanley Kubrick” series, the Trylon presents the first two films from the master himself: Killer’s Kiss, an early noir, and Fear and Desire, his first feature film, thought lost until the early 90s, and newly restored by the George Eastman House. Review of… Continue reading
Review by Trylon volunteer David Berglund. When exploring film history, you run into a large assortment of anti-war films, yet none are more devastating and masterfully argued than Stanley Kubrick’s Paths of Glory. On reflection, it is odd that Kubrick, cinema’s greatest tactical ideologue, could make such a movingly humanistic film as… Continue reading
Review by Joseph Larsen Legendary Japanese film director Takeshi Kitano unexpectedly comes to mind throughout Touch of Sin, the new film from Zhangke Jia who has long been considered China’s (and possibly the world’s) most important living filmmaker. The connection is not simply due to the opening credit appearance of Kitano’s… Continue reading
Review by Trylon regular John Bloomfield. A pickup baseball game played by soldiers on the barren ochre land outside Fort Lowell is interrupted when a rider appears yelling, “Ulzana’s on a raid”. Ulzana (Joaquin Martinez) and a small group of Apaches have broken out of the San Carlos Reservation. When… Continue reading
THE HOLIDAYS! Oh, man, you either love ’em or hate ’em. Love the shopping, trimming the tree, celebrating with family and friends… or not. One thing we can all agree on, the holidays see some dynamite movies coming. Our brother and sister screens here in town have sleigh full of… Continue reading
Oh, you lucky souls! Lancastic!, our Burt Lancaster Centennial Series marches on with two of his craziest, most entertaining flicks, including TRAPEZE, from 1956, and not available on DVD anywhere in this hemisphere. Pony up for two tickets and you can see that and The Professionals, which isn’t quite in… Continue reading
“When you talk about The Swimmer will you talk about yourself?” Let’s be honest–that is one weird looking poster. And The Swimmer is one weird, weird movie. And again, to be honest, you probably won’t walk out of the Trylon asking yourself: “Am I like Burt Lancaster’s Neddy Merrill?” This… Continue reading
Tonight at the Heights Theater, we continue our celebration of Universal Horror classics, with yet another fantastic double-feature. James Whale’s classic Bride of Frankenstein paired with Lew Landers’ underseen The Raven–and you get two-for-the-price-of-one! Trylon volunteer Michael Popham weighs in on the lesser known of the two horror flicks: It’s stressful being the world’s… Continue reading
Star-studded comedies were all the rage many, many years ago, and man we miss them. Well, the Trylon’s not one to leave this forgotten subgenre behind, and so we’re celebrating two of the very finest star-studded mystery comedies, with a weekend of Murder by Death and the board-game based… Continue reading
Our Universal Horror series continues the beautiful Heights Theater with Island of Lost Souls, based on H.G. Wells’ Island of Dr. Moreau. This 1932 horror classic was banned in England until 1958, and is considered one of the most influential movies in its genre. A shipwrecked man (Richard Arlen) ends… Continue reading
Sound Unseen brings its often sold-out music docs to the Trylon once again, with Broadway Idiot, a documentary about Green Day’s hit musical. “From punk rock mosh pits and sold-out stadiums, this electrifying documentary follows Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong as he transforms his mega-hit album, “American Idiot,” into… Continue reading
Mario Bava! MARIO BAVA! Yes, the Italian master of horror, who really brought some real gore to the genre, gets his due at the Trylon this month. We’re launching our new series Mario Bava: Pioneer of Italian Horror tonight (and yesterday), with Black Sunday, one of the creepiest vampire… Continue reading
Yes, gore lovers, Trash Film Debauchery’s all of ten years old, and to show how much we appreciate their celebration of all that is, well, trash in the cinema, this weekend the Trylon presents a double feature of head-exploding fun. David Cronenberg’s Scanners on 35mm, paired with William Lustig’s Maniac… Continue reading
Tonight at the Heights Theater, we continue our celebration of Universal Horror classics, with a wonderful double feature, the likes of which you won’t soon see again. James Whale’s classic Frankenstein paired with Rowland V. Lee’s unheralded Son of Frankenstein–and you get two-for-the-price-of-one! Trylon volunteer Michael Popham weighs in on… Continue reading
Ah, October–the month of ghouls and goblins and sexy this-and-that costumes from Savers. While you might enjoy horror movies all year, October is the month to celebrate cinematic Grand Guignol. Ask yourself: what better place to see a scary movie than in a cemetery? Tonight, Take-Up Productions and All Star… Continue reading
Review by Trylon volunteer Michael Popham. Count Dracula, Bram Stoker’s human vampire, who has chilled the spines of book readers and playgoers, is now to be seen at the Roxy in a talking film directed by Tod Browning, who delights in such bloodcurdling stories. It is a production that evidently… Continue reading
Last week we brought you what might be Cassavettes’ masterpiece, A Woman on Under the Influence, and this weekend we give you the master’s earliest work: Shadows and Faces, two of the very first great independent American features, from 1959 and 1968, respectively. In the nine years between these… Continue reading
We’ve absorbed a lot of Japanese pop culture over the last 60 years–everything from Pokemon to Tamagachi to Sailor Moon–but nothing has burrowed deeper into the American psyche than Godzilla. Most folks can recognize the big guy on sight, even if the other contestants in his rubber-suited wrestling matches get… Continue reading
Here’s a tip for you kids: if you’re ever a grieving scientist who’s thinking of mixing DNA from your late daughter with cells from Godzilla and a rose bush, don’t do it. Before you can say “giant carnivorous plant” you’ll have an unholy mess on your hands: namely, a 200-foot,… Continue reading
Pierre Etaix is on the prowl after his sexy new secretary, which is unfortunate since, you know, he’s married and all that. Not since Keaton’s Seven Chances has the sacred institution of marriage been skewered so hilariously and beautifully as it is in Le Grand Amour, the next installment of… Continue reading
As part of our Howard Hawks: America’s Greatest Director? series continuing at the gorgeous Heights Theatre, we bring you 1932’s Scarface, aka Shame of the Nation! Paul Muni is outstanding as the vicious (and vile) gangster, and sexy Ann Dvorak is on hand to play his sister, Cesca, who is… Continue reading
Yes, friends, our partners at Sound Unseen are bringing you not one but two screenings tonight! At 7:00, An Oversimplification of Her Beauty, which “documents the relationship between Terence and a lovely young woman as it teeters on the divide between platonic and romantic. With arresting insight, vulnerability, and a delightful… Continue reading
Something called Gyaos are attacking Earth… again. Only now they’re Hyper Gyaos. The turtle-like creature Gamera is the only one who can kill them, and does, with the collateral damage being over 20,000 people dead, most of whom were crushed in a subway. So the Japanese government orders the destruction… Continue reading
Opening as an homage to silent films that puts The Artist to shame, moving through generations, and a celebration of the circus life that he so adored, Yoyo is Pierre Etaix’s masterpiece. Do not miss this heartwarming and hilarious movie, in which the auteur plays both father and son. The… Continue reading
