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
