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WAITING FOR GUFFMAN does something The Office and Parks and Recreation could not: It walks a line between mocking life in Blaine, Missouri, and memorializing it without getting all sentimental. In this episode, we cut away for a few talking head segments that dive into the mockumentary’s pacing, focus, and empathy for the weirdos whose talent is outweighed by their desire to be somebody. “For The Love of Small-Town Community Theater” by Lucas Vonasek for Perisphere, the Trylon blog: https://www.perisphere.org/2023/06/09/for-the-love-of-small-town-community-theater/ “Sisyphus, Make Way for Corky’s New Philosophy of Failure” by Veda Lawrence for Perisphere, the Trylon blog: https://www.perisphere.org/2023/06/09/sisyphus-make-way-for-corkys-new-philosophy-of-failure/ Parker Posey’s deleted audition scene from WAITING FOR GUFFMAN: https://youtu.be/7jQ0SbWYdgQ “Waiting for Guffman movie review” by Roger Ebert: https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/waiting-for-guffman-1997 Get tickets to ALL HAIL PARKER POSEY (June 20

Sometimes, you just gotta feed the content monster… ‘cause he’s got the freakin’ MUNCHIES! Join us for a fun experiment in covering current-run movies – just stuff all three of us saw within the last month or so. Cody’s the only one who actually saw any of them with MoviePass, so the pun still works. Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/trylovepodcast and email us at trylovepodcast@gmail.com to get in touch! Buy tickets and support the Trylon at https://www.trylon.org/. Music: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"What I’ve Done" by Linkin Park. Timestamps 0:00 - Puff Puff MoviePass: FAST X, SPIDER-MAN: ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE, + TRANSFORMERS: RISE OF THE BEASTS (2023) 3:15 - Why are we doing this? 6:35 - FAST X 21:36 - SPIDER-MAN: ACROSS THE SPIDER-VERSE 46:15 - TRANSFORMERS: RISE OF THE BEASTS 1:08:10 - Our MoviePass diaries

With special guest Kelly Krantz (https://twitter.com/kransekage_)! You may love THE DOOM GENERATION for its gonzo mix of sexploitation, comic violence, overacting, and non-comic violence, or you may hate it for… exactly the same reasons! Director Gregg Araki says he makes films “for” queer folks – and in this episode, we dig into what that means for a movie where people are getting their limbs blown off, their convenience stores robbed, and worse. Find Kelly… - On Twitter at https://twitter.com/kransekage_ - On Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/luckyhoss/ - On Trylove episodes about WINGS OF DESIRE (1987), ARREBATO (1979), and PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE (1974), and REVOLVER (1971) “Apocalypse Then: Gregg Araki on the queer chaos of newly restored The Doom Generation” by Mitchell Beaupre for Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/journal/apocalypse-then-gregg-araki-doom-generation-restoration/ Get tickets to ALL HAIL PARKER POSEY (June 2023 at the Trylon): https://www.trylon.org/films/category/all-hail-parker-pose

Content warning: Depictions of sexual assault and suicide. During the Meiji period, Japanese society was seemingly split between those who desired the modernization that came with Western influence and those who insisted on upholding a “pure” Japan marked by tradition and classical thought – all in the borders of one country. LADY SNOWBLOOD is two things, too: It’s a stylish manga adaptation about a demonic daughter exacting revenge for her family’s suffering AND it’s a finger in the eye of both ideals against which Japanese society was measured at the turn of the century. And yeah, it inspired KILL BILL (2003), but I haven’t seen that, so let’s talk about it more on its own terms, okay? Get tickets to A DISH BEST SERVED COLD (June 2023 at the Trylon): https://www.trylon.org/films/category/a-dish-best-served-cold/ Read “The Sound & Fury of Lady Snowblood” by MTT, lecturer at the University of Minnesota, on Perisphere, the Trylon blog: https://www.perisphere.org/2023/05/29/the-sound-fury-of-lady-snowblood/

Content warning: Depictions of domestic violence and suicide. THE GETAWAY follows a pretty conventional structure. Depending on how you look at it, that might flatten it a little bit or it might make its jagged edges a little more interesting! Either way, it’s worth examining as Sam Peckinpah’s most commercially successful movie – and another weird example of his incisive take on toxic masculinity as told through the conceit of a high-stakes heist. Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/trylovepodcast and email us at trylovepodcast@gmail.com to get in touch! Buy tickets and support the Trylon at https://www.trylon.org/. Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro music: "Love Theme" by Quincy Jones from the THE GETAWAY soundtrack. Timestamps 0:00 - Episode 228: THE GETAWAY (1972) 3:25 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary 6:42 - THE GETAWAY and Peckinpah’s career-long obsessions 14:05 - The intro sequence 22:47 - A movie told in implied chapters 27:45 - The Cuckening of Harold

Highly stylized, dark, and often gross, THE HEROIC TRIO is kind of a dark, inverted portrait of superhero movies that would come to dominate box offices in the 2000s. In this episode, we trace the impact of movies like THE HEROIC TRIO through the decades, from Tim Burton’s BATMAN (1989) to Sam Raimi’s DARKMAN (1990) and beyond. We also talk about the pissing kids and so much more! Get tickets to “MAGGIE CHEUNG, LUMINESCENT AND DANGEROUS” (May 2023 at the Trylon): https://www.trylon.org/films/category/luminescent-and-dangerous/ Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/trylovepodcast and email us at trylovepodcast@gmail.com to get in touch! Buy tickets and support the Trylon at https://www.trylon.org/. Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro music: "The Heroic Trio Theme" by Wai Lap Wu from the THE HEROIC TRIO soundtrack. Timestamps 0:00 - Episode 227: THE HEROIC TRIO (1993) 0:45 - CanTalk 4:34 - Episode starts 6:18 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary 7:59 - Pissing kids, sup

Content warning: Discussions of attempted sexual assault. Reprehensible and unrepentant, BRING ME THE HEAD OF ALFREDO GARCIA trades in the same extensive violence and fragility-masked-by-corruption that became a trademark of director Sam Peckinpah. Running a seedy bar in Mexico City, small-time lowlife Bennie sees a chance to elevate himself above his station when the titular job lands in his lap. His white-collar employers give him just enough rope to hang himself – and his partner, Elita – as they travel the Mexican countryside to deliver the head of a dead man to the crime boss he crossed. In this episode, we discuss seeing ALFREDO GARCIA at the Trylon after so long; Bennie’s tenuous, poisonous drive to assert himself over the people and land around him; and the movie’s bizarre, humorous, rage-addled final act. Watch BRING ME THE HEAD OF ALFREDO GARCIA for free on the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/bring.-me.the.-head.of.-alfredo.-garcia.-1974.-remastered.-1080p.-blu-ray.-h-264.-aac-rarbg “S

Another entry in the “what do you even say about that movie” category, THE PRINCESS BRIDE is a seminal fantasy comedy that came smack in the middle of director Rob Reiner’s insane 1980s run. Anyway, a couple of us have incredibly strong nostalgia for it and a couple of us are more measured in our enthusiasm-cum-respect for the quirky comedy. It’s literally one of our most approachable episodes ever and there’s still room for a good few hot takes. Just listen for the popping before the flames! “Sick Day Story Allegory: The Princess Bride Integrates Grief on the Sly” by Jake Rudegeair for Perisphere, the Trylon blog: https://www.perisphere.org/2023/04/21/sick-day-story-allegory-the-princess-bride-integrates-grief-on-the-sly/ Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/trylovepodcast and email us at trylovepodcast@gmail.com to get in touch! Buy tickets and support the Trylon at https://www.trylon.org/. Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro music: "Storybook Love" by Mark Knopfler

Absurd, theatrical, and meandering, THE TRIAL is an almost faithful adaptation of Kafka’s literary critique of legal bureaucracy. In this episode, we talk about the movie’s lack of narrative pull, its garish monochrome palette and impressive set design, and what it says that Orson Welles changed the lens of Kafka’s novel to focus on the individual – and then cast himself as the villain. Watch THE TRIAL on the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/the-trial-1962 Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/trylovepodcast and email us at trylovepodcast@gmail.com to get in touch! Buy tickets and support the Trylon at https://www.trylon.org/. Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro music: "Adagio Prologue" by Jean Ledrut from the THE TRIAL soundtrack. Timestamps 0:00 - Episode 224: THE TRIAL (1962) 2:43 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary 4:25 - Orson Welles’s Advocate and differences from the book 17:43 - Red Scare anger and an ego-fueled daydream 23:41 - An abstruse burea

EMPEROR OF THE NORTH rides (haha) a thin line between two distinct tracks (lmao): “Mythological self-seriousness with a sort of ironic bent” and “formulaic and cheesy early thriller fare”. Lee Marvin’s A No. 1 and Keith Carradine’s Cigaret face off against a cartoonishly evil Ernest Borgnine as Shack, the psychotically disgruntled company man with a hatchet (or hammer) for hobos. It’s all a bit MAD MAX (1979), but not quite as fantastical or sincerely angry. It’s more of a spectacle than a statement, but there’s a good bit of value in that, and we try to get that engine going in this episode! Watch EMPEROR OF THE NORTH on the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/1973emperorofthenorth Get tickets to BROUGHT TO LIFE BY ERNEST BORGNINE (April 2023): https://www.trylon.org/films/category/brought-to-life-by-ernest-borgnine/ Get tickets to “BLOODY SAM” PECKINPAH (May at the Trylon): https://www.trylon.org/films/category/bloody-sam-peckinpah/ Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/trylovepodcast and em

It turns out there’s no fence-sitting at the end of the Wild West. You wouldn’t call THE WILD BUNCH particularly swashbuckling, but there’s a sort of uncomfortable excitement to its bandolier antics. A band of outlaws eyes one last prize near the US/Mexico border in 1913. The sociopolitical tumult of the place, and the rapid advance of the punitive system of capital at the time, threaten to derail their plans until a Mexican general hires them to steal guns from a moving train. No matter which side of the border they’re on, the Wild Bunch feel their God-given right to subvert systems of power slipping with each gold piece snatched and each bullet dodged. Listen in for our thoughts on the movie that made Sam Peckinpah’s career and changed how people thought of violence in movies! Subscribe to Region Free, AJ Moser and Blake Hester’s podcast Jason guested on the week this episode came out: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/region-free/id1669819287 Get tickets to BROUGHT TO LIFE BY ERNEST BORGNINE (April 202

In RATCATCHER, everything is someone’s fault, but not everyone suffers for it. “Ratcatcher: Death, Garbage, and Glimpses of Beauty in 1970s Glasgow” by Dan Howard for Perisphere, the Trylon blog: https://www.perisphere.org/2023/03/26/ratcatcher-death-garbage-and-glimpses-of-beauty-in-1970s-glasgow/ “The Eyes of Morton Are Upon You: Morvern Callar and the Art of Expression” by Natalie Marlin for Perisphere, the Trylon blog: https://www.perisphere.org/2023/03/24/the-eyes-of-morton-are-upon-you-morvern-callar-and-the-art-of-expression/ Check out our episode partially about Lynne Ramsay’s MORVERN CALLAR with Fun City Editions founder Jonathan Hertzberg: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/episode-155-building-a-boutique-film-label-with/id1449848155?i=1000547883839 Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/trylovepodcast and email us at trylovepodcast@gmail.com to get in touch! Buy tickets and support the Trylon at https://www.trylon.org/. Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro

Special guest Emma Youndtsmith joins Trylove for the first time to discuss a classic of ‘70s animated adaptations! WATERSHIP DOWN has a reputation for ruining childhoods, with gruesome imagery and dark implications about the systems of power in the natural world. You could read it as a post-WWII allegory, as a broader indictment of fascist hegemony, or just as a journey of self-discovery. But with Emma, we tried to go further than the striking violence for which it’s remembered to pull out some new insights: Why the book might be sadder than the movie, what it’s saying about the nature of nature, and what makes Kehaar an all-time G. Find Emma: On Twitter at https://twitter.com/Etuni On Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/quiltedquads/ Volunteering at the Trylon every other Friday “The Rabbits of Tomorrow: Watership Down and the Evolution of Animation” by Daniel McCabe on Perisphere, the Trylon blog: https://www.perisphere.org/2023/03/17/the-rabbits-of-tomorrow-watership-down-and-the-evolution-of-animation/

In YI YI, the sudden illness of the matriarch in a three-generation household sends the lives of its inhabitants spiraling. In the emotional chaos, NJ, his wife Min Min, his daughter Ting Ting, and his son Yang Yang find themselves reckoning with the end of a generation and at the crossroads of many versions of themselves. In our discussion of director Edward Yang’s final film, we discuss the big ideas he hints at in everyday scenes: generational baggage and a struggle to move forward; the struggle to maintain identity amid changing circumstances; and the inability to control the world’s perceptions of you while you figure out who you want to be. - Get tickets to EDWARD YANG, GIANT OF TAIWANESE CINEMA (March 2023 at the Trylon): https://www.trylon.org/films/category/edward-yang-giant-of-taiwanese-cinema/ Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/trylovepodcast and email us at trylovepodcast@gmail.com to get in touch! Buy tickets and support the Trylon at https://www.trylon.org/. Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-H

TAIPEI STORY dives again into Edward Yang’s musings on the modern Taiwanese experience, juxtaposing the past with the future against a concrete-and-glass background of 1980s economic disparities. Childhood sweethearts Chin and Lung meet again later in life, when neither of them is quite ready to make anything happen. Debts, missed opportunities, and baseball fill the space between them – and as their relationship enters its quiet death throes, they find themselves helpless to prevent the entropy that drives them apart. - Get tickets to EDWARD YANG, GIANT OF TAIWANESE CINEMA (March 2023 at the Trylon): https://www.trylon.org/films/category/edward-yang-giant-of-taiwanese-cinema/ Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/trylovepodcast and email us at trylovepodcast@gmail.com to get in touch! Buy tickets and support the Trylon at https://www.trylon.org/. Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro music is a song I think might get me in trouble (even though it appears in the song), s

Si’r and the other rebel youths of 1959 Taipei aren’t misguided – they just aren’t guided. In A BRIGHTER SUMMER DAY, Taiwanese director Edward Yang investigates the broadly social and intensely personal conditions that might’ve led to a teenage murder that occurred during his youth. Si’r and his friends (and his enemies) exist in the vacuum of identity between nations and generations, between warring street gangs, between seasons – searching always for themselves, or something they can call it. - Get tickets to EDWARD YANG, GIANT OF TAIWANESE CINEMA (March 2023 at the Trylon): https://www.trylon.org/films/category/edward-yang-giant-of-taiwanese-cinema/ Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/trylovepodcast and email us at trylovepodcast@gmail.com to get in touch! Buy tickets and support the Trylon at https://www.trylon.org/. Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro ambience from A BRIGHTER SUMMER DAY. Timestamps 0:00 - Episode 217: A BRIGHTER SUMMER DAY (1991) 2:58 - The epis

Jo and Steve need their $4,000 back from their cab licensing go-between. What they get instead is a tour through San Francisco’s Chinatown, with stops at some of its most charismatic and enigmatic Chinese-American residents. Each person they meet holds up a kaleidoscope to the Chinese-American experience, muddying their picture of Chan and of their very culture. - “Chan is Missing: Reflecting on an Unsolved Mystery” by Andrea Bruiser on Perisphere, the Trylon blog: https://www.perisphere.org/2023/02/17/chan-is-missing-reflecting-on-an-unsolved-mystery/ - EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: WAYNE WANG (Oct. 2008) on Jesther Entertainment: http://jestherent.blogspot.com/2008/10/interview-wayne-wang.html Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/trylovepodcast and email us at trylovepodcast@gmail.com to get in touch! Buy tickets and support the Trylon at https://www.trylon.org/. Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro music: "忍" by Sam Hui from the CHAN IS MISSING soundtrack. Timestamps 0:00 -

The Man Hunos Bruno, our resident Bruce Willis authority, Seth Zarate (https://twitter.com/snzarate) is back and talking to his younger self on Trylove! LOOPER put Rian Johnson on the big-budget map and earned him the director’s seat on a fuckin’ STAR WARS movie. It’s the movie that tried to convince us Bruce Willis and Joseph Gordon-Levitt could feasibly look like the same person with varying degrees of success. It’s also packed to the gills with moral inquiries into the mutability of self, musings on the origin of male pain, the responsibility of men to correct their own mistakes, some really cool shotguns called blunderbusses, and Paul Dano making one specific, pitifully funny noise. Find Seth… - On Twitter at https://twitter.com/snzarate - On Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/snzarate - On Trylove episodes about IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT (1934), THE CONVERSATION (1974), TOKYO GODFATHERS (2003), BATMAN RETURNS (1992), Horrorthon V: Son of Horrorthon (2021), RUMBLE IN THE BRONX (1995), THE SACRIFICE (1986),

A kidnapping, a political murder, a prison break – it was supposed to be simple. Prison warden Vito barters with the mob to exchange his stolen wife for Milo, a low-level thug locked up in Vito’s prison. Vito’s decision to keep Milo until the handoff proves wise: Not only is the mob in no hurry to let loose ends stay loose, but Vito begins to develop a certain consideration for Milo during their time on the lam. Find Kelly… - On Twitter at https://twitter.com/kransekage_ - On Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/luckyhoss/ - On Trylove episodes about WINGS OF DESIRE (1987), ARREBATO (1979), and PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE (1974) “Some disorganized thoughts about poliziotteschi films” by John Moret for Perisphere, the Trylon blog: https://www.perisphere.org/2023/02/06/some-disorganized-thoughts-about-poliziotteschi-films-from-the-trylon-programmer/ Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/trylovepodcast and email us at trylovepodcast@gmail.com to get in touch! Buy tickets and support the Trylon at https://www.t

While lacking some of the exploitation panache in which the poliziotteschi revels, CONFESSIONS OF A POLICE CAPTAIN is an appropriately pulpy dive into the seedy, blood-soaked streets of ‘70s Italy amid a rash of violent crime in the years following an economic boom. A storied police captain and his naive district attorney butt heads when the attorney starts to pull the threads connecting the captain to a local crime boss-slash-construction magnate. The truth comes to light faster than you’d think in this plotty tale, leaving a back half dedicated to exploring the depths of corruption, the relative limits of justice, and the line where morals and action meet. - Get tickets to POLIZIOTTESCHI: ITALIAN CRIME FILMS IN THE YEARS OF LEAD (Feb. 2023 at the Trylon): https://www.trylon.org/films/category/poliziotteschi-italian-crime-films-in-the-years-of-lead/ - “Some disorganized thoughts about poliziotteschi films” by John Moret for Perisphere, the Trylon blog: https://www.perisphere.org/2023/02/06/some-disorganized-