Let’s step into the Wayback machine and see what The New York Times‘ Nina Darnton had to say when Labyrinth premiered on June 27, 1986: ”LABYRINTH,” which opens today at the UA Gemini Twin and other theaters, is the product of an impressive collaboration between its executive producer,… Continue reading
Here in America it’s always been fashionable to make fun of the French and their zeal for the finer things in life, but everyone knows we secretly envy them. Who wouldn’t want to be a young sexy Parisian, smoking cigarettes, reading Baudelaire and picking up beautiful strangers in picturesque… Continue reading
Thomas Jerome Newton carries an English passport, but he’s not from England. He’s from another planet. He’s just arrived in New Mexico with a few thousand dollars’ worth of gold rings and a plan: he needs to become a wealthy industrialist, develop space technology centuries ahead of what’s currently available… Continue reading
Review by Andrea Matthews The world’s cinemas have long been haunted by vampires. The brilliant and truly frightening 1922 German film Nosferatu introduced the angular Count Orlock, a vampire with knife-sharp nails who slinks around in the shadows searching for victims. It was and still is an amazing creation. There… Continue reading
An American businessman (Josh Charles) is in Paris, trying to set up a big deal in the Middle East for his bosses back home. His negotiations appear to be successful, and he is instructed to fly immediately from Paris to Dubai. But as he sits in his hotel room, overlooking… Continue reading
Wondering if you should go to see Harold Lloyd’s The Freshman, which starts Friday at the Trylon? Let’s see what the New York Times said about the film when it premiered back in September 1925: If laughter really is a panacea or some ills, one might hazard… Continue reading
Our series “The Play’s the Thing: Vaclav Havel, Art and Politics” continues with Jan Němec’s A Report On Party and Guests. A pleasant afternoon outing is cut short when a few pushy intruders force a group of friends to play a round of ridiculous party games. Jan Němec’s absurdist parable… Continue reading
by Trylon volunteer Caty Rent Written in 1925 by Anita Loos, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes took the world by storm. There was already a stage adaptation in 1926 and a silent movie in 1928, which unfortunately is currently classified as a lost film. Then there was a musical on… Continue reading
Pavel Juráček’s two-part absurdist drama examines the life of a soldier under socialism, and features Vaclav Havel in a role as a patient seeking treatment. Preceded by The Uninvited Guest (Nezvaný host) (1969, 22m): When a boorish official enters and makes himself at home in a young couple’s flat,… Continue reading
Hausu is an absurd, winking and blood-drenched high-wire act, the sort of movie you’d get if Quentin Tarantino had directed The Rocky Horror Picture Show using only the sets of Pee Wee’s Playhouse. It might be a masterpiece, but no one has ever been able to tell: the movie… Continue reading
