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
