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
Often lumped in with l’enfant terrible filmmakers like Catherine Breillat and Gaspar Noé, Bruno Dumont has softened his approach since Twentynine Palms (2003) made you want to through your Milk Duds at the screen. A more even temperament has added an interesting dimension to his work, but it is also… 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
“Actually, what will be shown from here to eternity will be Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr cavorting on the beach.” Manny Farber, The Nation. Is there a better way to wallow in the post-gluttony induced guilt of a Turkey-day binge then to admire two superbly fit and breathtakingly beautiful… Continue reading
Lancastic rolls on this weekend and Burt finds himself trapped in two very different situations. In Birdman of Alcatraz, he’s trapped by prison walls. In The Train, he’s trapped between the French resistance and a Nazi train laden with stolen art. Both are directed by John Frankenheimer, whose career was given a… Continue reading
It was early in my days with the Trylon when I feel in love with Lancaster when we showed The Sweet Smell of Success, a movie so dark, so mean, so grim that it’s hard to believe it was ever made. Shortly thereafter I went on a noir bender and… 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
“Elmer Gantry is an all American boy! He’s interested in money, sex…and religion.” Burt Lancaster was nominated four times for a Leading Actor Oscar (From Here to Eternity, Elmer Gantry, Birdman of Alcatraz and Atlantic City), but only pulled down a win once for Elmer Gantry, screening tonight and tomorrow… 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
The Trylon microcinema offers up a rare treat this Halloween — the classic grandfather of the modern zombie genre, Night of the Living Dead, with a brand new soundtrack, played live by frequent Trylon collaborators The Poor Nobodys. The film won’t be completely silent, so you’ll still be able to hear… Continue reading
Our Universal Horror series at the Heights wraps up with this spare, black and white haunted house picture — one of the first films in that now-venerable spooky genre. Ruth Hussey and Ray Milland play siblings who buy a suspiciously-cheap house in Cornwall, only to find that you get what you… Continue reading
The answer is Clint, obviously. Ronnie is too clean cut. Throw in some Olivia Hussey, Jan-Michael Vincent, David Warner, baseball star Steve Garvey and, of course, the son of Lee Majors and you’ve got yourself quite a movie. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTuCwJq90f0 Wednesday, October 23 at 7pm Buy Tickets 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
Halloween Italian style continues at the Trylon this week with Mario Bava’s Lisa and the Devil. Edited, recut, and reshot as The House of Exorcism when it was released in the US in 1976, we present the film in its original form with Bava’s lush cinematography and disturbing story intact…. 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
“there’s never been a motor-mouthed monologuist quite like Jason Holliday, the drinking, drugging, jiving black gay hustler whomClarke filmed in her Chelsea Hotel apartment for the doc Portrait of Jason—which says more about race, class, and sexuality than just about any movie before or since.” -Melissa Anderson, The Village Voice… Continue reading
The following post is by Trylon volunteer and programer John Moret who is a regular contributor to All-Star Video. The 1970s was a golden age for American Cinema. John Cassavetes should stand up next to Robert Altman as one of the reasons that is so. Unfortunately, he is too often… 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
The following post is by Trylon volunteer and programer John Moret who is a regular contributor to All-Star Video. The title of this film is so illuminating. It is completely innocuous and completely definitive. Men of a certain age, feeling a certain weight of responsibility. Harry (Ben Gazzara), Archie (Peter… Continue reading
Let me introduce you to Viola, Argentine filmmaker Matías Piñeiro’s most recent film. Viola is also one of the six female characters that Piñeiro’s fictional film eavesdrops on as they discuss intricacies of acting and love. And Viola is also a lead role in the Shakespeare comedy Twelfth Night, a… 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
Forget about nostalgia for 35mm – let’s talk about nostalgia for VHS! Josh Johnson’s new documentary, Rewind This!, revels in it. But nostalgia is just the tip of the iceberg: the advent of the VHS tape represents not only the great democratization of home viewing but also an era where… Continue reading
Our month long series featuring the films of John Cassavetes kicks off Friday with one of his best films, Woman Under the Influence – the first of five, all presented on 35mm. The following review is by Trylon volunteer David Berglund, who writes about the movies with his wife, Chelsea Berglund,… Continue reading
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We bid farewell to summer and our Pierre Étaix series this Labor Day weekend. Summer leaves exhausted, drenched from the heat. But Étaix leaves us smiling and happy with this collection of four vignettes looking at modern life. And I guarantee that not only will the Trylon keep you cool on… 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
Our look at the films of Pierre Étaix continues this weekend with Étaix’s final controversial film, The Land of Milk and Honey from 1971. Made up of 16mm footage that he shot on vacation with his wife, singer Annie Fratellini, in 1969, this radical film of protest was Étaix’s own response to… Continue reading
Come celebrate the second anniversary of the Trylon’s Defenders series with the brainchild of it all, Jim Brunzell III. Jim is the Director of Sound Unseen and has a weekly film column that you should definitely check out on the Twin Cities Daily Planet. You’ll have to show up to… 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
