Mario Bava! MARIO BAVA! Yes, the Italian master of horror, who really brought some real gore to the genre, gets his due at the Trylon this month. We’re launching our new series Mario Bava: Pioneer of Italian Horror tonight (and yesterday), with Black Sunday, one of the creepiest vampire… Continue reading
Yes, gore lovers, Trash Film Debauchery’s all of ten years old, and to show how much we appreciate their celebration of all that is, well, trash in the cinema, this weekend the Trylon presents a double feature of head-exploding fun. David Cronenberg’s Scanners on 35mm, paired with William Lustig’s Maniac… Continue reading
Tonight at the Heights Theater, we continue our celebration of Universal Horror classics, with a wonderful double feature, the likes of which you won’t soon see again. James Whale’s classic Frankenstein paired with Rowland V. Lee’s unheralded Son of Frankenstein–and you get two-for-the-price-of-one! Trylon volunteer Michael Popham weighs in on… Continue reading
Ah, October–the month of ghouls and goblins and sexy this-and-that costumes from Savers. While you might enjoy horror movies all year, October is the month to celebrate cinematic Grand Guignol. Ask yourself: what better place to see a scary movie than in a cemetery? Tonight, Take-Up Productions and All Star… Continue reading
“there’s never been a motor-mouthed monologuist quite like Jason Holliday, the drinking, drugging, jiving black gay hustler whomClarke filmed in her Chelsea Hotel apartment for the doc Portrait of Jason—which says more about race, class, and sexuality than just about any movie before or since.” -Melissa Anderson, The Village Voice… Continue reading
The following post is by Trylon volunteer and programer John Moret who is a regular contributor to All-Star Video. The 1970s was a golden age for American Cinema. John Cassavetes should stand up next to Robert Altman as one of the reasons that is so. Unfortunately, he is too often… Continue reading
Review by Trylon volunteer Michael Popham. Count Dracula, Bram Stoker’s human vampire, who has chilled the spines of book readers and playgoers, is now to be seen at the Roxy in a talking film directed by Tod Browning, who delights in such bloodcurdling stories. It is a production that evidently… Continue reading
The following post is by Trylon volunteer and programer John Moret who is a regular contributor to All-Star Video. The title of this film is so illuminating. It is completely innocuous and completely definitive. Men of a certain age, feeling a certain weight of responsibility. Harry (Ben Gazzara), Archie (Peter… Continue reading
Let me introduce you to Viola, Argentine filmmaker Matías Piñeiro’s most recent film. Viola is also one of the six female characters that Piñeiro’s fictional film eavesdrops on as they discuss intricacies of acting and love. And Viola is also a lead role in the Shakespeare comedy Twelfth Night, a… Continue reading
Last week we brought you what might be Cassavettes’ masterpiece, A Woman on Under the Influence, and this weekend we give you the master’s earliest work: Shadows and Faces, two of the very first great independent American features, from 1959 and 1968, respectively. In the nine years between these… Continue reading
