By Trylon volunteer Collette Ricci Scream is not only a good horror movie (or a very well executed meta-horror for that matter) it’s a movie that epically snubbed a terrible trope that had dominated the horror genre for too long. Early 80s slasher movies set the tone for modern… Continue reading
Jerry Webster (Rock Hudson) is a rising star in his ad agency. Thanks to his hard work? Hardly. He’s a master of the wine-and-dine, schmoozing clients to the profound consternation of his rival, Carol Templeton (Doris Day). Tony Randall plays the Tony Randall part. Screens at the Heights… Continue reading
A film is being made, but it’s missing the director and script. The cast and crew decide to make the best of a difficult situation and enjoy the production without them. Beware of a Holy Whore sees Fassbinder crafting an autobiographical self-parody, revealing the absurdity of the theater community… Continue reading
Review by Trylon volunteer Ben Schmidt If I grabbed an Italian dictionary, with time and effort I could piece together a sentence or two. And were you to indulge me, I could talk my Italian to you. But I certainly wouldn’t be speaking it. Absent would be the nuance that… Continue reading
Our Rainer Werner Fassbinder series continues at the Trylon! When Fox (Fassbinder) wins the lottery, he finds himself with some new friends that have very expensive tastes. Fassbinder begins his tale with a cliched premise and turns it into a fascinating and devastating expose of betrayal, greed and friendship…. Continue reading
The Blob was all set to run amok in the Pioneers and Soldier Memorial Cemetery last week, but its appearance was cancelled due to rain. Hey, you didn’t think it was gone for good, did you? The Blob is back on Wednesday, September 17! It creeps, it oozes, it’s… Continue reading
Set in San Francisco in 1985, Test is a portrait of Frankie, a shy young dancer caught in the anxiety and fear of the AIDS crisis. A sensitive study that captures the tense atmosphere in which the HIV test became available and men were faced with knowing, but not… Continue reading
Review by Fernando F. Croce The satirical thrust is The Blue Angel, also perhaps Nabokov’s “Ode to a Model,” whipped up by Rainer Werner Fassbinder into something like the greatest women-in-prison movie. Cats on a darkened staircase comprise the opening tableau, the camera pulls back to contemplate the studio-boudoir-dungeon where… Continue reading
UPDATE: Due to inclement weather, this event has been rescheduled for Wednesday, September 17. Review by Trylon volunteer Ben Schmidt At some point in our country’s history, some people were paid to sit in a room and work out what to do if we encounter an… Continue reading
Mohammed Rasoulof’s Manuscripts Don’t Burn (2013), filmed secretly inside Iran and smuggled out of the country for its premiere at Cannes, is an angry and at times despairing meditation on censorship, betrayal and state-sponsored violence. Its sense of outrage at a repressive government recalls Costa-Gavras’ 1969 thriller Z but the… Continue reading
