Episode 295: KIRU (1962) Trylove podcast

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Three podcasters watched a movie and recorded their conversation about it afterward… and I would like to think this was only a matter of chance. Our Paul Thomas Anderson series keeps a-rollin’ with MAGNOLIA , his “blank check” movie after the success of BOOGIE NIGHTS (1997) . The intention was to make something he’d never get the chance to make again — something big and strange and audacious. Is the resulting three-hour opus a work of idiosyncratic genius? Or was this one of those times PTA just got a bit big for his britches? References: “Music as a Balm: My Appreciation for Magnolia’s Mid-Film Sing-Along” by David Potvin for Perisphere, the Trylon blog “WTF Frogs!? You know what? Sure. Why not? Why Magnolia So Fully Captures the Ennui of the End of the 20th Century” by Allison Vincent for Perisphere, the Trylon blog Give to the Trylon’s Film Forever Fund so they never have to increase ticket prices! Check the calendar, preview upcoming series, and buy tickets Contribute to Perisphere, the Trylon blog #TheMasterworksofPaulThomasAnderson #35mm Follow us on Twitter at @trylovepodcast , Bluesky at @trylovepodca.st , and email us at trylovepodcast@gmail.com to get in touch! Show art by Emily Csuy . Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro music: “Wise Up” by Aimee Mann as performed in MAGNOLIA.…

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Episode 320: BOOGIE NIGHTS (1997) with Blake Hester 1:42:45

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With Blake Hester! Paul Thomas Anderson’s retrospective dramatization of the ‘70s porn industry isn’t exactly rosy, but it’s certainly not dour, either. It’s kind of situated between those poles, balancing hangout vibes and deeply depressing shit to keep it right where you want a movie to be — tragic, fun, and eminently watchable. Find Blake… At https://blakehester.rocks/ On Bluesky at @metallicaisrad.bsky.social In the pages of “The Oral History of Guitar Hero, Rock Band and the Music Game Boom” , the crowdfunded tome he’s writing about the peripheral-based music video game genre On Something Rotten , the podcast he co-hosts about nihilism On Trylove episodes about POSSESSION (1981), PULSE (2001), BURST CITY (1982), SAMURAI REINCARNATION (1981), SAILOR SUIT AND MACHINE GUN (1981) On Letterboxd at @blakedtfp References: “Livin’ Thing: An Oral History of ‘Boogie Nights’” by Alex French and Howie Kahn for Grantland Give to the Trylon’s Film Forever Fund so they never have to increase ticket prices! Check the calendar, preview upcoming series, and buy tickets Contribute to Perisphere, the Trylon blog #TheMasterworksofPaulThomasAnderson #35mm Follow us on Twitter at @trylovepodcast , Bluesky at @trylovepodca.st , and email us at trylovepodcast@gmail.com to get in touch! Show art by Emily Csuy . Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro from BOOGIE NIGHTS. Timestamps 0:00 - Episode 320: BOOGIE NIGHTS (1997) 6:03 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary 7:55 - Where we’re coming at this movie from 15:55 - Precision 22:36 - Dread for the ‘80s 27:08 - Flexible people who have the space to become their “true” selves 34:41 - The 1980s and the artifice of the pornography industry 37:44 - Long tracking shots and a pivot to a bittersweet ending 1:01:40 - To All the Loves We’ve Tried Before: 1997 1:05:38 - The Junk Drawer 1:17:10 - Cody's Noteys: Trylove Nose Best ("boogie" trivia)…

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Episode 319: THE LOST WEEKEND (1945) 1:30:24

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THE LOST WEEKEND is a weird movie to talk about 80 years after it came out. It’s a drama directed by Billy Wilder about an alcoholic writer who keeps trying and failing to kick the habit, so you can see why you might have to give it a touch of grace for its various… depictions. In 1945, it was a beacon of empathy for the addict’s struggle, the first time an alcoholic was portrayed as more than an incompetent or a villain in a big-budget Hollywood movie. It even won Best Picture at the 18th Academy Awards! But how does it work in 2025? That’s just one topic of discussion as we dive into THE LOST WEEKEND , along with its side cast, its striking score, and what the hell a “gin and vermouth” is if not a martini. Plus, Cody has kidnapped The Weeknd and is leaving us THE SNOWMAN (2017)-like clues to find him before time runs out. References: “Bottomless” by Patrick Clifford for Perisphere, the Trylon blog “The Lost Weekend: An Act of Understanding” by Jackson Stern for Perisphere, the Trylon blog Give to the Trylon’s Film Forever Fund so they never have to increase ticket prices! Check the calendar, preview upcoming series, and buy tickets Contribute to Perisphere, the Trylon blog #DialMforMilland #DCP Follow us on Twitter at @trylovepodcast , Bluesky at @trylovepodca.st , and email us at trylovepodcast@gmail.com to get in touch! Show art by Emily Csuy . Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro: “The Walk” composed by Miklós Rózsa from the THE LOST WEEKEND soundtrack. Timestamps 0:00 - Episode 319: THE LOST WEEKEND (1945) 5:39 - The episode actually starts 8:50 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary 10:08 - What worked and what didn't 19:10 - Aaron plays devil’s advocate because he liked it more than the rest of us 33:57 - The freaky hospital scene and Bim Nolan 36:27 - Can a movie have “too much sympathy” for its main character? 45:23 - Helen, Gloria, and characters who reflect Don back at himself 52:41 - How would you have preferred it end? 59:05 - The Junk Drawer 1:02:02 - To All the Loves We’ve Tried Before: 1945 1:04:39 - Cody’s Noteys: The Lost Weeknd (The Weeknd has gone missing, and we have to follow Cody’s riddles to find him)…

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Episode 318: MESHES OF THE AFTERNOON (1943) 1:39:11

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A touchstone of visual storytelling, an example of the power of short-form film, and an inspiration to surrealist storytellers like David Lynch, Maya Deren’s MESHES OF THE AFTERNOON pulls big philosophical questions out of simple materials. Through visual substitution, object manipulation, arrhythmic editing, and all sorts of narrative trickery, a surreal dream outlines one woman’s fruitless pursuit of ‘true’ identity and her struggle to self-define against the social roles bestowed upon her. At just 14 minutes long, MESHES OF THE AFTERNOON rocks, no matter which way you watch it. Our recommendation? Turn off the sound, lean in, and pay close attention. References: Watch MESHES OF THE AFTERNOON with Teiji Ito’s score on the Internet Archive or Vimeo Find the music of Minneapolis “organic electronic” duo ten thousand lakes on Bandcamp “Oneiric Reflections and Rebirth of Femininity in Maya Deren’s Meshes of the Afternoon (1943) & At Land (1944)” by Olivia Fredrickson for Perisphere, the Trylon blog “ten thousand lakes and the Maya Deren Project: Creating Music for a Surrealist Masterpiece” by Malcolm Cooke for Perisphere, the Trylon blog Give to the Trylon’s Film Forever Fund so they never have to increase ticket prices! Check the calendar, preview upcoming series, and buy tickets Contribute to Perisphere, the Trylon blog #OtherProgramming #DCP Follow us on Twitter at @trylovepodcast , Bluesky at @trylovepodca.st , and email us at trylovepodcast@gmail.com to get in touch! Show art by Emily Csuy . Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro: “Schiele” by ten thousand lakes, which accompanied the Trylon’s screening of MESHES OF THE AFTERNOON in February 2025. Timestamps 0:00 - Episode 318: MESHES OF THE AFTERNOON (1943) 2:14 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary 4:57 - Versions of this movie and how it changes based on what you watched 11:12 - Is there a consistent thread to grab here? Or is it free association? 26:19 - Subjectivity, objects that change upon perception, and identities that shift without your consent 37:18 - How much of it is “real”? How much is “a dream”? How much of that “matters”? 42:34 - The hooded figure, Maya Deren’s socialism, and violent revelations of the unconscious 45:56 - Form: Looping, duplication, space, and “emotive immediacy” 1:05:49 - The Junk Drawer 1:09:40 - To All the Loves We've Tried Before: 1943 1:10:35 - Cody’s Noteys: Truth or Deren (truth or dare but the dare triggers an open trivia question)…

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Episode 317: BLUE COLLAR (1978) 1:32:32

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Paul Schrader’s directorial debut isn’t a tale of a fearless crew punching up at their company overlords and the corrupt union that’s supposed to protect them. Instead, it’s a tale of compromise. The kind you make, and the kind that gets made for you. The kind you desperately hope means something in the end, anyway. In this episode, we discuss the excellent casting; how it’s great that Richard Pryor, Harvey Keitel, and Yaphet Kotto kind of get to be in their own movies here; the forces that pit men who should stand in solidarity against one another; and how it’d be pretty cool to have a life where you work hard, clock out, hit the bar, and go bowling with your pals on the weekend. **References: ** “Long Nights, Impossible Odds, Keeping My Back To the Wall” by Lucas Hardwick for Perisphere, the Trylon blog “Blue Collar: A Rare, Authentic Working-Class Drama” by Ed Dykhuizen for Perisphere, the Trylon blog Give to the Trylon’s Film Forever Fund so they never have to increase ticket prices! Check the calendar, preview upcoming series, and buy tickets Contribute to Perisphere, the Trylon blog #CultFilmCollective #35mm Follow us on Twitter at @trylovepodcast , Bluesky at @trylovepodca.st , and email us at trylovepodcast@gmail.com to get in touch! Show art by Emily Csuy . Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro: “Hard Workin’ Man” composed by Jack Nitzsche with lyrics by Jack Nitzsche, Ry Cooder, and Paul Schrader and performed by Captain Beefheart from the BLUE COLLAR soundtrack. Timestamps 0:00 - Episode 137: BLUE COLLAR (1978) 4:59 - The episode actually starts 6:26 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary 7:18 - Politics, smoothness, anger, performances, and Schrader 19:45 - The cast 27:08 - How the movie highlights weariness with comedy 42:10 - The virtue of a nuanceless movie 48:13 - The moment that suddenly pits Zeke, Jerry, and Smokey against each other 55:01 - What the movie does and doesn’t show us, and what that does for the feeling of the movie 1:04:32 - The Junk Drawer 1:10:01 - To All the Loves We’ve Tried Before: 1978 1:11:36 - Cody’s Noteys: Boo, Call Her! (trivia for movies with impassioned speeches)…

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Episode 316: XANADU (1980) 1:12:30

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XANADU is a musical fantasy film released in 1980 directed by Robert Greenwald. It stars Olivia Newton-John as Kira, Michael Beck as Sonny Malone, and Gene Kelly as Danny McGuire. Sonny is an artist toiling away painting album covers for a living. Danny is a has-been song and dance man resigned to retirement after a career in construction. Kira is an immortal muse sent from a mythological plane to bring Sonny and Danny together so they can create a performing arts roller skating club called XANADU. XANADU sucks. Famously. It’s well understood to be one of the worst movies ever made. It helped invent the Golden Raspberry Awards. We don’t have much nice to say about it, either — we think it’s embarrassing at best. But we, the Xanadudes , down two hosts this week, still try to pull apart what does and doesn’t work and why in this strange misstep of a musical. **References: ** “ The Tortured Muse Department: Xanadu ” by John Costello for Perisphere, the Trylon blog Give to the Trylon’s Film Forever Fund so they never have to increase ticket prices! Check the calendar, preview upcoming series, and buy tickets Contribute to Perisphere, the Trylon blog #MichaelBeck #35mm Follow us on Twitter at @trylovepodcast , Bluesky at @trylovepodca.st , and email us at trylovepodcast@gmail.com to get in touch! Show art by Emily Csuy . Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro: “Whenever You're Away from Me” composed by John Farrar and performed by Gene Kelly and Olivia Newton-John from the XANADU soundtrack. Timestamps Coming soon! Maybe. I’m trying, okay?…

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Episode 315: MOULIN ROUGE! (2001) with Abbie Phelps 1:53:45

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With Abbie Phelps! Baz Luhrmann’s musical mashup is a ravishing, jarring, occasionally annoying wakeup call to the modern movie musical. How did we get from the freneticism of MOULIN ROUGE! — one shot per second, Ewan McGregor as a twee poet musician with a flair for the burlesque, Nicole Kidman as a diseased courtesan overperforming horniness, John Leguizamo as a little person with a lisp — to something like THE GREATEST SHOWMAN (2017) or WICKED (2024)? Abbie is one of MOULIN ROUGE!’s biggest fans, so who better to help us answer those critical questions? Along the way, we discuss the trade-off of cohesiveness for sincerity, possible parallels with THE RED SHOES (1948), and whether or not MOULIN ROUGE! is kind of insulated from criticism. Find Abbie… On Bluesky On Letterboxd On Trylove episodes about DRIVE ANGRY (2011), WAR OF THE WORLDS (2005), THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT (1999), TOUCH OF EVIL (1958), THE TRAIN (1964) **References: ** Give to the Trylon’s Film Forever Fund so they never have to increase ticket prices! Check the calendar, preview upcoming series, and buy tickets at https://www.trylon.org/ Contribute to Perisphere, the Trylon blog “Courtesan Glamour: Watching Moulin Rouge! in 7th grade” by Olga Tchepikova-Treon for Perisphere, the Trylon blog “A Subtle Kind of Jackhammer: Moulin Rouge!, Pop Art, and the Cinema of Baz Luhrmann” by Dan McCabe for Perisphere, the Trylon blog #NicoleKidmansFearlessPerformances #DCP Follow us on Twitter at @trylovepodcast , Bluesky at @trylovepodcast.bsky.social , and email us at trylovepodcast@gmail.com to get in touch! Show art by Emily Csuy . Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro: “The Pitch” from the MOULIN ROUGE! soundtrack. Timestamps Coming soon!…

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Episode 314: EYES WIDE SHUT (1999) 1:39:54

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EYES WIDE SHUT is a 1999 psychosexual thriller film starring Nicole Kidman and Tom Cruise and directed by Stanley Kubrick in his final feature film. After New York City doctor Bill Hartford (Tom Cruise) and his wife Alice (Nicole Kidman) attend a Christmas party hosted by one of Bill’s patients, Alice reveals to Bill in a stoned haze that she’s fantasized about having sex with other men. The revelation sends Bill reeling, and his wandering eventually leads to him infiltrating a masked orgy in a secluded mansion outside the city. His meddling puts him on the radar of a dangerous secret society and down a paranoid rabbit hole, driven all the while by visions of Alice in the arms of another man. In this episode — our first on Kubrick! — we wander the twisting pathway to the heart of EYES WIDE SHUT , stopping along the way to remark on everything from the movie’s leering gaze and its dark humor to Bill’s remarkable ineptitude and Jacob Frey’s weird balls. References: Give to the Trylon’s Film Forever Fund so they never have to increase ticket prices! Check the calendar, preview upcoming series, and buy tickets at https://www.trylon.org/ Contribute to Perisphere, the Trylon blog “A Stanley Kubrick Christmas: Intense Paranoia and Masquerade Orgies” by Dan Howard for Perisphere, the Trylon blog #NicoleKidmansFearlessPerformances #35mm Follow us on Twitter at @trylovepodcast , Bluesky at @trylovepodcast.bsky.social , and email us at trylovepodcast@gmail.com to get in touch! Show art by Emily Csuy . Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro: “Musica Ricercata, II (Mesto, rigido e cerimoniale)” composed by György Ligeti and performed by Dominic Harlan from the EYES WIDE SHUT soundtrack. Timestamps 0:00 - Episode 314: EYES WIDE SHUT (1999) 2:21 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary (under exclusive license from AG Enterprises, Ltd.) 4:49 - When we first got eyes on EYES WIDE SHUT 10:42 - Casting Tom Cruise as Bill 27:32 - The veil of clinicality Bill hides behind 35:33 - “An episode of The Twilight Zone for perverts” 45:40 - Angles, shot composition, lighting, and how the story is framed 51:57 - Will Bill ever belong? 58:29 - Alice doesn’t have very much to do, but she doesn’t have to do very much 1:04:47 - Cody’s uncanny impression of Aaron 1:08:33 - How the score parallels the worlds Bill straddles 1:15:56 - The Junk Drawer 1:21:23 - To All the Loves We’ve Tried Before: 1999 1:27:29 - Cody’s Noteys: Treyes Wide Shut (guessing sound clips from movies we’ve covered)…

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Episode 313: THE OTHERS (2001) 1:34:18

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Alejandro Amenábar’s surprise hit THE OTHERS turns the tables on the ghost story. And a couple decades after its release, it’s still a really fun, watchable movie! But is it more than its inspirations? Furthermore, is it more than a twist on its inspirations? In this episode, we consider the ways THE OTHERS inverts gothic horror tropes, how it makes the grandeur of a Jersey mansion seem so lifeless, and how to pronounce the name Fionnula . References: Give to the Trylon’s Film Forever Fund so they never have to increase ticket prices! Check the calendar, preview upcoming series, and buy tickets at https://www.trylon.org/ Contribute to Perisphere, the Trylon blog “Ghosts in Spain: The Complicated History of Amenábar’s Breakout Hit” by Malcolm Cooke for Perisphere, the Trylon blog “The Others: Something in This House” by Philip Horne for Criterion Current #NicoleKidmansFearlessPerformances #DCP Follow us on Twitter at @trylovepodcast , Bluesky at @trylovepodcast.bsky.social , and email us at trylovepodcast@gmail.com to get in touch! Show art by Emily Csuy . Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro: “Reunion” composed by Alejandro Amenábar, conducted by Claudio Ianni, and performed by The London Session Orchestra from the THE OTHERS soundtrack. Timestamps 0:00 - Episode 313: THE OTHERS (2001) 2:40 - The episode actually starts 4:35 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary 6:18 - Is THE OTHERS already a classic? 19:47 - How THE OTHERS and its performances invert gothic horror trappings and tropes 29:54 - A battle with the house 50:28 - The houseworkers 58:04 - Grace’s eventual acceptance of doubt 1:05:16 - Charles Stewart (Christopher Eccleston) and the 'rules' of death 1:05:16 - The Junk Drawer 1:12:41 - To All the Loves We’ve Tried Before: 2001 1:18:50 - Cody’s Noteys: Fuck, Marry, Kidman (FMK with Nicole Kidman movies)…

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Episode 312: DOGVILLE (2003) 1:53:04

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Content warning: This episode includes references to and discussion of sexual assault. Happy first episode of 2025! Here’s a discussion of a movie where a series of horrendous things happen. In Lars von Trier’s DOGVILLE, Nicole Kidman plays a stranger seeking escape from gangsters in the Rocky Mountains. Luckily for her — or not — the humble town of Dogville provides ample refuge, and Tom (Paul Bettany) is enticed by the opportunity to inject some new blood and prove there’s more to his town than the rest of the world thinks. Dogville’s modest inhabitants warily allow her two weeks to prove her value before they decide whether or not to send her packing. A minimally staged, occasionally grueling examination of good and evil, of desire and impulse, of worldliness and provinciality, DOGVILLE is either a masterpiece or a pretentious stinker. Listen in to find out which we think it is! **References: ** Give to the Trylon’s Film Forever Fund so they never have to increase ticket prices! Check the calendar, preview upcoming series, and buy tickets at https://www.trylon.org/ Contribute to Perisphere, the Trylon blog: https://www.perisphere.org/perisphere-blog-post-guidelines/ #NicoleKidmansFearlessPerformances #DCP Follow us on Twitter at @trylovepodcast , Bluesky at @trylovepodcast.bsky.social , and email us at trylovepodcast@gmail.com to get in touch! Show art by Emily Csuy . Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro music: “Happy at Work - Concerto for Oboe in D Major” composed by Tomaso Albinioni, conducted by Allan Wilson, and performed by The English Concert Orchestra from the DOGVILLE soundtrack. Timestamps 0:00 - Episode 312: DOGVILLE (2003) 2:26 - Chapter 1: The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary 5:24 - Chapter 2: Tom the podcaster 22:09 - Chapter 3: The townspeople and Tom’s “moral experiment” 33:21 - Chapter 4: Grace as audience stand-in, as bait, as object of desire and derision 44:21 - Chapter 5: Why there are no sets 54:33 - Chapter 6: Americanness, puritanical Christianity, and what Dogville “wants” 1:17:57 - Chapter 7: The Junk Drawer 1:30:46 - Chapter 8: To All the Loves We’ve Tried Before: 2003 1:34:00 - Chapter 9: Cody’s Noteys: Our 2025 Movie Resolutions…

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Episode 311: The 2024 Golden Barry Awards 4:30:46

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𝐼𝑡’𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑜𝑠𝑡 𝑤𝑜𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑓𝑢𝑙 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑦𝑒𝑎𝑟… Time for us to rank, rate, and re-evaluate the films we saw at the Trylon in 2024, as well as the episodes we made about them! The Barrys can be a pretty grueling tradition — hours spent re-litigating discussions we’ve already had about movies we’ve already talked about — but who are we kidding, we love going back to the well. Sit back, relax, cue up “Stacy’s Mom,” and sink into the 2024 Golden Barrys to commemorate The Year of the Riddle of Steel! (That’ll make sense when you listen to the episode.) **References: ** Give to the Trylon’s Film Forever Fund so they never have to increase ticket prices! Check the calendar, preview upcoming series, and buy tickets at https://www.trylon.org/ Contribute to Perisphere, the Trylon blog: https://www.perisphere.org/perisphere-blog-post-guidelines/ Follow us on Twitter at @trylovepodcast , Bluesky at @trylovepodcast.bsky.social , and email us at trylovepodcast@gmail.com to get in touch! Show art by Emily Csuy . Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Timestamps 0:00 - Episode 311: The 2024 Golden Barry Awards 5:07 - This year's Barry-oke singalong 8:16 - Jason's personal picks 13:37 - Cody’s personal picks 21:17 - Harry’s personal picks 29:09 - Aaron’s personal picks 33:18 - Trylove’s Best Dry Run 49:21 - Trylove’s Best Wet Run 1:04:42 - The Rashomonies 1:11:01 - Best Animated Feature 1:12:59 - Best Film Series at the Trylon 1:31:50 - Best Money-Maker 1:45:59 - Best Non-Series Film (Best One-Off) 1:56:30 - Best Cult Film Collective Screening 1:57:34 - Best Long Take 2:31:35 - Best Director 2:50:59 - Best Cody’s Notey 2:58:42 - 2024: The Year of the ___ 3:23:33 - King of the Trylon 3:40:38 - Queen of the Trylon 3:51:57 - Best Picture 4:18:14 - Recapping this year's winners…

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Episode 310: AN AUTUMN AFTERNOON (1962) with Kris Montello 2:15:06

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With returning guest Kris Montello , Programming Director for the Asian-American International Film Festival and programmer for the Slamdance Film Festival! Yasujirō Ozu didn’t intend for AN AUTUMN AFTERNOON (1962) to be his final film, but it feels like it. Chishū Ryū is Shuhei Hirayama , an aging salaryman, widower, and father who’s slowly coming to grips with the realities of growing older — primarily the fact that his only daughter Michiko (Shima Iwashita) is spending the best years of her life making dinner and cleaning house for him. Over conversations, reunions, baseball games, and too many drinks, Shuhei’s friends, family, colleagues, and even strangers gently (and not-so-gently) remind him of the life he’s not letting her lead. In this episode, we call on Kris’s Ozu expertise and a lifetime of love for his films to highlight the special cozy intensity of AN AUTUMN AFTERNOON, theorize the commonalities and connections among Ozu’s works, and study the portrait it paints of a man getting ready for a lonely end to a full life. Find Kris… At krismontello.com On Letterboxd at DHCKris On Twitter at https://twitter.com/kris_montello At the the Asian-American International Film Festival On Trylove episodes about SAMURAI REINCARNATION (1981) **References: ** Give to the Trylon’s Film Forever Fund so they never have to increase ticket prices! “A Familiar and Familial Farewell: Ozu’s Final Film” by Dan Howard for Perisphere, the Trylon blog “The Architecture of Family: An Autumn Afternoon and The Royal Tenenbaums” by Andrew Neill for Perisphere, the Trylon blog “An Autumn Afternoon: Ozu’s Diaries” by Donald Richie for the Criterion Current “Ozu and the poetics of cinema” by David Bordwell “Directed by Yasujiro Ozu” by Shiguéhiko Hasumi Check the calendar, preview upcoming series, and buy tickets at https://www.trylon.org/ Contribute to Perisphere, the Trylon blog: https://www.perisphere.org/perisphere-blog-post-guidelines/ #YasujiroOzuInColor #35mm Follow us on Twitter at @trylovepodcast , Bluesky at @trylovepodcast.bsky.social , and email us at trylovepodcast@gmail.com to get in touch! Show art by Emily Csuy . Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro music: “Theme/Polka/Finale” by Takanobu Saitô (as Kojun Saito) from the AN AUTUMN AFTERNOON soundtrack. Timestamps 0:00 - Episode 310: AN AUTUMN AFTERNOON (1962) 2:47 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary (under exclusive license from AG Enterprises, Ltd.) 5:46 - A definitive Ozu film 16:20 - How Ozu characters present and communicate 23:39 - Stories that seem to naturally emerge from their conditions 27:11 - Putting the thing the movie’s ABOUT behind the thing the movie IS 42:35 - What Shuhei’s guides teach him about the incoming loneliness 57:47 - The navy buddy (Daisuke Katō) and the dead wife doppelganger (Kyōko Kishida) 1:12:39 - Characters who reveal Shuhei’s new grief and guilt 1:22:51 - The Junk Drawer 1:43:54 - To All the Loves We’ve Tried Before: 1962 1:48:29 - Cody’s Noteys: Taiyo-love (Japanese baseball trivia)…

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Episode 309: ON DANGEROUS GROUND (1951) 1:14:14

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Can you make things better? Can you make yourself better? What’s the difference between that and wanting to make things better for someone else? Jim Wilson (Robert Ryan) is a troubled cop. Misanthrope, former football star, loose cannon cop — he struggles to reconcile the stated altruism of his job with the ineffectual brutality that makes him so good at it. After he disables one witness and fails to protect another, it’s no surprise he’s sent upstate to investigate some small-time murder in some nowhere town. But the three feet of snow isn’t the only thing he’s unprepared for: Mary Malden (Ida Lupino), a blind woman with knowledge of the crime, is a mirror for what Jim hopes is good in him. That’s put to the test when Jim and a grieving father are finally put on the trail of the killer they’re after. References: Give to the Trylon’s Film Forever Fund so they never have to increase ticket prices! “How To Properly Identify the Ending of On Dangerous Ground” by MH Rowe for Perisphere, the Trylon blog Check the calendar, preview upcoming series, and buy tickets at https://www.trylon.org/ Contribute to Perisphere, the Trylon blog: https://www.perisphere.org/perisphere-blog-post-guidelines/ #IdaLupinoTripleThreat #DCP Follow us on Twitter at @trylovepodcast , Bluesky at @trylovepodcast.bsky.social , and email us at trylovepodcast@gmail.com to get in touch! Show art by Emily Csuy . Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro music: "The Death Hunt" by Bernard Hermann from the ON DANGEROUS GROUND soundtrack. Timestamps 0:00 - Episode 309: ON DANGEROUS GROUND (1951) 0:45 - GLADIATOR II (2024) chat 5:14 - The episode actually starts 7:38 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary 9:12 - Plot pacing, police politics, and a portrait of “a guy re-finding his soul” 18:23 - A story that “starts in the pits of hell” 28:18 - What changes when Jim goes upstate and meets Mary? 39:13 - Jim, Mary, and Danny’s shared “existential frustration” 49:58 - Danny Malden and the third act 56:57 - The debatable reality of the ending 1:05:37 - The Junk Drawer 1:09:00 - To All the Loves We’ve Tried Before: 1951…

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Episode 308: GOOD MORNING (1959) 1:22:21

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Arguably Yasujirō Ozu’s masterpiece, GOOD MORNING (1959) has more going on than its simple plot would have you believe. World War II is fully in the rearview in a quiet, out-of-the-way town. Instead of wartime anxieties, nosy neighbors gossip about their friends’ lifestyles; punkish kids covet the new TV set next door; men teach boys how to fart on command. They’re bound together more by niceties than a particular commonality — to Ozu, life is indeed about the attachments we build, the favors we don’t collect on, and the stupid shit we say on the way to work every morning. In GOOD MORNING, the most disposable interactions are the most human, both lubricant for socializing and the glue that holds the community together. From his iconic camera angle, stooped low to the ground, Ozu insists it’s through small talk — not despite it — that we learn to be people. References: Give to the Trylon’s Film Forever Fund so they never have to increase ticket prices! Watch GOOD MORNING on the Internet Archive “TraditionVision: Ozu’s Exploration of the Multi-Generational Adjustment to TV” by Dan Howard for Perisphere, the Trylon blog “TV Time” by Nate Logsdon for Perisphere, the Trylon blog Check the calendar, preview upcoming series, and buy tickets at https://www.trylon.org/ Contribute to Perisphere, the Trylon blog: https://www.perisphere.org/perisphere-blog-post-guidelines/ #YasujiroOzuInColor #35mm Follow us on Twitter at @trylovepodcast , Bluesky at @trylovepodcast.bsky.social , and email us at trylovepodcast@gmail.com to get in touch! Show art by Emily Csuy. Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro music: “Radio Exercises No. 1” composed by Hidemaro Yanagawa and Saburo Okubo. Timestamps 0:00 - Episode 308: GOOD MORNING (1959) 2:03 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary 3:12 - Our expOZUre to Ozu 8:37 - The narrative conveyed by Ozu’s ‘tatami shot’ camera angles 22:41 - Uplifting the mundane, rural niceties, and attempts to hide genuineness 36:06 - A movie about the necessity of smalltalk 41:15 - Get societypilled, idiot (or, Converse Jokerfication) 54:47 - New vectors, same drive to relate to (or against) one another 1:01:36 - Why the hip urban couple moves away 1:08:11 - To All the Loves We’ve Tried Before: 1959 1:11:13 - The Junk Drawer…

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Episode 307: AMERICAN PSYCHO (2000) 1:34:46

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