Peter Fonda’s Idaho Transfer is a strange and inventive little film that has gained something of a cult following over the years, though it remains stubbornly elusive. The Trylon, working with the Minnesota Historical Society, has gotten hold of the only known print of the film, making this something of… Continue reading
Review by Elizabeth Kingsley, from the film blog And You Call Yourself a Scientist! Reprinted by permission. I love Westworld. I want to state that quite plainly at the outset because, while I do love it, I also have a lot of very serious reservations about it. This was the first film directed… Continue reading
“The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.” — L.P. Hartley The 1985 depicted in Robert Zemeckis’ Back to the Future is as distant to us now as 1955 was to Marty McFly, the protagonist of this now-classic time-travel comedy. Looking back, the juxtaposed Eisenhower and Reagan eras of 1955 and 1985 seem to… Continue reading
Review by Trylon lightcycle racer Aaron Vehling The original Tron, released in 1982, and starring Jeff Bridges and David Warner, is wholly of that era and yet it feels timeless. Some of that is the perpetual 80s nostalgia we’ve been living in for a good eight years (and codified in… Continue reading
Much is made of the fact that Ralph Bakshi’s first two animated features — Fritz the Cat and Heavy Traffic — received the “X” rating from the Motion Picture Association of America. What’s really remarkable, though, is that the “X” rating existed at all. Before the early 1970s, not only… Continue reading
Review by the Trylon’s grizzled war veteran Ben Schmidt Over the course of the Trylon’s “Jeff Bridges Abides” series, the Bridges I’ve grown to know and love is not the Jeff Bridges that showed up for work on the set of Cutter’s Way. Here, playing low-rent playboy Richard Bone, Bridges… Continue reading
Cool World is Ralph Bakshi’s attempt to reverse-engineer Who Framed Roger Rabbit into something that fits the seedy urban environments that were on display in Heavy Traffic and Fritz the Cat. At the same time he takes the opportunity to indulge in his own pet obsessions. It won’t surprise anyone… Continue reading
Review by Trylon safecracker Ben Schmidt A preacher (Clint Eastwood) runs through a vast Montana wheat field. Behind him another man in dark glasses gives chase, trying to kill the preacher with a pistol. This goes on for a while until the preacher reaches a road and tries to flag… Continue reading
Review by Trylon rotoscopist Maria Gomez Ralph Bakshi’s 1981 cult classic film American Pop a timeless story of one Russian family and their history of American music told through four generations. The story begins with Zalmie coming to America with his mother in the late 19th century as Russian immigrants…. Continue reading
Review by Trylon southpaw Ben Schmidt It’s late after fight night. The crowds and most of the staff of this VFW (or dilapidated theater or wherever we’re at) have all gone home. Four young boxers sit around a table, mere feet from the ring where hours before they each took… Continue reading
