These Are the People in Your Neighborhood: Rear Window and Community as Worldbuilding

|Courtney Kowalke| If I were a character in Rear Window (1954), I would be the woman who lives above Lars and Anna Thorwald with her husband and their dog. I have thought about this a lot—Rear Window is one of my all-time favorite movies. I don’t know how many times I’ve watched… Continue reading

A City Without Community: The Lack of Neighborliness in Rear Window

|Andrew Neill| Let’s start with a trigger warning for the film Rear Window: the dog dies. The sensitivity around this subject is prevalent, powerful, and worthy of respect. There’s a whole site where a community of people compile trigger warnings for sensitive content in media… Continue reading

The Waits is Over: “Big Time” Finally (Kinda, Sorta) Brings Tom Waits Back to Minneapolis

|Chris Ryba-Tures| Y’all. After, like, 25 years of waiting, hoping, dreaming, I finally get to see Tom Waits in concert! Some of you have probably been waiting even longer. Don’t worry, you can come too. Get your ticket to see the mysterious junkyard troubadour, the skid-row Cyrano, Continue reading

Finding Loose Ends: Some disorganized thoughts from the Trylon film programmer

A celluloid film strip with frames reading "Loose Ends."

|John Moret| It can be easy to ignore or disregard movies because you haven’t heard of them before. I certainly do it all the time. It often takes the recommendation of a friend I trust, a known director, actor, distributor, etc. to spark my interest. The problem is, because there are… Continue reading