This weekend, as part of our “Underrated Stanley Kubrick” series, the Trylon presents the first two films from the master himself: Killer’s Kiss, an early noir, and Fear and Desire, his first feature film, thought lost until the early 90s, and newly restored by the George Eastman House. Review of… Continue reading
Often lumped in with l’enfant terrible filmmakers like Catherine Breillat and Gaspar Noé, Bruno Dumont has softened his approach since Twentynine Palms (2003) made you want to through your Milk Duds at the screen. A more even temperament has added an interesting dimension to his work, but it is also… Continue reading
Review by Trylon volunteer David Berglund. When exploring film history, you run into a large assortment of anti-war films, yet none are more devastating and masterfully argued than Stanley Kubrick’s Paths of Glory. On reflection, it is odd that Kubrick, cinema’s greatest tactical ideologue, could make such a movingly humanistic film as… Continue reading
Review by Joseph Larsen Legendary Japanese film director Takeshi Kitano unexpectedly comes to mind throughout Touch of Sin, the new film from Zhangke Jia who has long been considered China’s (and possibly the world’s) most important living filmmaker. The connection is not simply due to the opening credit appearance of Kitano’s… Continue reading
“Actually, what will be shown from here to eternity will be Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr cavorting on the beach.” Manny Farber, The Nation. Is there a better way to wallow in the post-gluttony induced guilt of a Turkey-day binge then to admire two superbly fit and breathtakingly beautiful… Continue reading
Lancastic rolls on this weekend and Burt finds himself trapped in two very different situations. In Birdman of Alcatraz, he’s trapped by prison walls. In The Train, he’s trapped between the French resistance and a Nazi train laden with stolen art. Both are directed by John Frankenheimer, whose career was given a… Continue reading
It was early in my days with the Trylon when I feel in love with Lancaster when we showed The Sweet Smell of Success, a movie so dark, so mean, so grim that it’s hard to believe it was ever made. Shortly thereafter I went on a noir bender and… Continue reading
Review by Trylon regular John Bloomfield. A pickup baseball game played by soldiers on the barren ochre land outside Fort Lowell is interrupted when a rider appears yelling, “Ulzana’s on a raid”. Ulzana (Joaquin Martinez) and a small group of Apaches have broken out of the San Carlos Reservation. When… Continue reading
THE HOLIDAYS! Oh, man, you either love ’em or hate ’em. Love the shopping, trimming the tree, celebrating with family and friends… or not. One thing we can all agree on, the holidays see some dynamite movies coming. Our brother and sister screens here in town have sleigh full of… Continue reading
“Elmer Gantry is an all American boy! He’s interested in money, sex…and religion.” Burt Lancaster was nominated four times for a Leading Actor Oscar (From Here to Eternity, Elmer Gantry, Birdman of Alcatraz and Atlantic City), but only pulled down a win once for Elmer Gantry, screening tonight and tomorrow… Continue reading
