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
Look, there’s no two ways about it: Leslie Halliwell, the English film critic, once described Rio Bravo as “cheerfully overlong”, and he was right. You want a tight, economical, brutal Western, one that doesn’t waste time and kicks you from your seat 80 minutes after the opening credits? That was… Continue reading
Monster movie fans! Godzilla, Mothra, Daimajin have finally arrived! Our GIANT MONSTERS ALL OUT ATTACK series is tearing through this city, crushing the model skyscrapers that are this year’s crappy summer movie fare! Sorry to be so hyperbolic, but we really… oh screw this, you know, and I know, and… Continue reading
Imagine if one of your favorite film comedians–Jacques Tati, Buster Keaton, Jerry Lewis–had somehow, inexplicably, vanished from cinema history. All of a sudden, no Jour de Fête, no Steamboat Bill, no Disorderly Orderly (maybe that last one’s not such a bad idea.) They’d been popular films, hilarious, brought joy and surprise… Continue reading
I actually don’t think there’s an answer to the above question, though I do love The Big Sleep. In my mind, Sleep is a remarkable movie thanks to the fact that Hawks and screenwriters William Faulkner and Leigh Brackett made it their own. None of this “we have to put… Continue reading
Del Toro’s passionate fan base may take umbrage at this post’s heading, but Pan’s Labyrinth certainly pushed the heretofore comic book/horror auteur into the critical spotlight. Labyrinth won three Oscars, was nominated for three more, and was actually upset at the Academy Awards when it failed to garnish Best Foreign… Continue reading
By John Moret There is a moment about an hour into Hellboy 2: The Golden Army that beautifully showcases the tender love that Guillermo Del Toro has for giant monsters. The villain, Prince Nuada, releases what seems to be a little green “jumping bean.” What at first appears to be… Continue reading
Hellboy Did you see Pacific Rim last weekend? Want to keep that Guillermo del Toro vibe going for a few more days? Check out Hellboy, del Toro’s take on the long-running Dark Horse comic. Fantastic monsters, rollicking plot, 35mm projection…a great way to spend a summer evening. Monday & Tuesday: 7pm,… Continue reading
A short four years ago, a group of dedicated cinephiles opened their new 50-seat palace to the world with the films of Buster Keaton. That was us and that was the Trylon. Each year we have marked our anniversary with the silent American classics from Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, and Harold… Continue reading
The heyday of Napster seems like a foggy fever dream, and although the online peer-to-peer file sharing service only lasted two years, Napster changed the music industry and our relationship to music forever. Tonight at the Trylon, Sound Unseen presents the new documentary Downloaded directed by Alex Winter (better known… Continue reading
“With the ambitious and ominous The Devil’s Backbone, Del Toro rises to a new level of accomplishment, adding history and politics to his distinctive blend.” – Kevin Thomas, LA Times We continue our look back at the films of Guillermo del Toro by skipping his more mainstream action-sci-fi entry Mimic… Continue reading
Ok, more than half the cast is British, but is there any better movie to celebrate July 4th than The Great Escape? I think not! The Trylon will be showing John Sturges’ prison escape classic all weekend. Get out of the heat, grab a popcorn and celebrate with Steve McQueen. Not… Continue reading
In anticipation of Guillermo del Toro’s massive Pacific Rim hitting theaters July 12, the Trylon will take a look back at del Toro’s more subtle and creepy beginnings. His debut, Cronos, is a stylish take on the myth of the vampire. Variety called it “a unique, terrifying mini-masterpiece.” The tiny… Continue reading
Sweet Smell of Success (1957), directed by Alexander Mackendrick, written by Clifford Odets and Ernest Lehman, and starring Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis. Showtimes: Friday and Saturday, 7:00 & 9:00; Sunday, 5:00 & 7:00. Purchase Tickets Here. Review by Trylon volunteer David Berglund, who writes about the movies with his… Continue reading
Tonight and tomorrow the Trylon is proud to host the regional premiere of Micah Bloom’s Codex. In response to a natural disaster, a team of forensic anthropologists recover, identify, and catalog hundreds of flood- ravaged books. Likened to a “filmic tone poem” in the vein of Koyaanisqatsi, Codex provides elegant… Continue reading
This weekend, get an up close and personal look at the nation’s biggest, and some say best, newspaper, the august New York Times. Page One: Inside the New York Times is a thrilling documentary about the paper’s stuggles with the advent of online journalism, and specifically when the Times… Continue reading
You know all about The Defenders, the Trylon’s secret movie show, right? A noted local personality chooses a movie that is, well, near and dear to their hearts, while maybe not so near and dear to the hearts of the world at large. You pay your dough, wait for… Continue reading
While we love showing movies at the Trylon, we also enjoy checking out the cinematic goings-on around this movie-happy town. As you probably know, we often partner with the Heights and Riverview to show movies, but our pals at the Landmark theaters in town also have some great titles coming… Continue reading
Tonight and tomorrow at the Trylon! The wonderful documentary Sign Painters, from directors Faythe Levine and Sam Macon, details the almost lost world of the sign painter. But did you know that one of the country’s best lives in the Trylon’s neighborhood? Yes, Phil Vandervoort, who made that beautiful… Continue reading
I’m the very definition of the post-Watergate generation. I was born just weeks before Nixon’s resignation, and when I was a half-year old my family moved to Washington D.C. to work for a Congressman that they’d help elect. A year later we moved away after the Congressman was caught soliciting… Continue reading
Sound Unseen partners with the Trylon for a special three-day screening of Greetings From Tim Buckley, a narrative film from director Dan Algrant. In 1991, a young Jeff Buckley (Penn Badgley, “Gossip Girl”) rehearses for his public singing debut at a Brooklyn tribute show for his father, the late folk singer Tim… Continue reading
“I don’t know how to put this, but I’m kind of a big deal.” Spoken with eloquence and no degree of subtlety by our hero for the weekend, Ron Burgundy. But, of course, you don’t seek out Will Ferrell or the films that Adam McKay has made with him (Talladega… Continue reading
Our week of low-budget monster movie premieres kicks off with this mélange of ’50s sci-fi tropes: juvenile delinquents, aliens, flying saucers and, of course, musical numbers. Ok, that last one is a bit of curveball but Johnny X makes it all look gorgeous with the last batch of Kodak’s Eastman Plus-X black… Continue reading
Low-budget monster movie workhorses Joe Estevez (star of 60% of straight-to-vhs horror films) and director Gary Jones (who worked himself up from an effects guy on Evil Dead to a director/writer of similar fare) team up to deliver an American take on the Finnish film Rare Exports. Instead of a bloodthirsty Santa, Axe… Continue reading
This weekend at the Trylon microcinema: Sidney Lumet’s brilliant, Oscar-winning Network. Sponsored by the Minnesota Chapter of the Society for Professional Journalists and part of our All The News That Fits (In Two Hours) series in June. From Roger Ebert: “[Network] caused a sensation in 1976. It was nominated for… Continue reading
Yes, ladies and gentlemen, the Trylon microcinema has begun its own blog. We have a deeply talented volunteer staff, many of whom are great writers. Unfortunately, our pithy calendar blurbs do not often have enough space to allow them their full expression. Behold the Perisphere! Historically, the Perisphere is… Continue reading
