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  1. 3D AGO

    Episode 356: THE GIRL WHO LEAPT THROUGH TIME (1983)

    In Nobuhiko Ôbayashi’s time-traveling teen movie, there’s nothing to be fixed about the past. After staying late at school one day to help clean up, Yoshiyama (Tomoyo Harada) sniffs the wrong lavender potion in the chem lab and gets caught in a time loop. (Whom among us?) As she gains awareness of her new ‘ability’(?), she sometimes helps her friend Goro (Toshinori Omi) stay out of danger; but most of the time, she spends the extra time growing increasingly conflicted about her growing feelings about her childhood friend Fukamachi (Ryōichi Takayanagi). Its lack of focus on science fiction is just one of the ways THE GIRL WHO LEAPT THROUGH TIME is unlike other time travel movies. It’s got the characteristic Ôbayashi touch, veering between overwhelming sincerity and knowing absurdity, depending on how he wanted his audience to feel. In this episode, we discuss how Ôbayashi put his own spin on Yasutaka Tsutsui’s original novel, how to make young people nostalgic for things they’ve never experienced for themselves, and try to remember Cody’s trivia questions from previous episodes. References: 'Trylove in the Time of Corona' Episode 4: HIS MOTORBIKE, HER ISLAND (1986) Trylove Episode 303: BEIJING WATERMELON (1989) “Of Teens and Time Travel: The Girl Who Leapt Through Time” Give to the Trylon’s Film Forever Fund so they never have to increase ticket prices! Check the calendar, preview upcoming series, and buy tickets Contribute to Perisphere, the Trylon blog #TheUntetheredVisionsOfNobuhikoÔbayashi #DCP Follow us on Twitter at @trylovepodcast, Bluesky at @trylovepodca.st, and email us at trylovepodcast@gmail.com to get in touch! Show art by Emily Csuy. Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro music: “Toki wo Kakeru Shojo” composed by Yumi Matsutoya and performed by Tomoyo Harada from the THE GIRL WHO LEAPT THROUGH TIME end credits. Timestamps 0:00 - Episode 356: THE GIRL WHO LEAPT THROUGH TIME (1983) 7:43 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary 10:22 - Seeing this as an Ōbayashi fan 19:36 - Ōbayashi’s unique interest in the mechanics of time travel 25:45 - The timey wimey stuff matters, but not in the way you think 29:31 - The stylistic development of the movie 38:13 - Emotional idealism vs. realist cynicism 49:35 - The ending and the grandparents 1:08:01 - The Junk Drawer 1:15:53 - Cody's Noteys: The Love that Leapt Through Tryme (trivia from previous Trylove episodes)

    1h 43m

  2. NOV 4

    Episode 355: NIGHT OF THE JUGGLER (1980)

    Robert Butler’s NIGHT OF THE JUGGLER is not what the title makes it sound like. It sounds like some kind of bizarro New York neo-noir fairytale, like STREETS OF FIRE (1984) or AFTER HOURS (1985), but it’s far more grounded than that: An ex-cop (James Brolin)’s daughter (Abby Bluestone) is kidnapped by a troubled New Yorker with a grudge against the developers who razed the Bronx neighborhood where he grew up. Problem is, that guy? The Juggler (Cliff Gorman)? He went and grabbed the wrong guy’s little girl! Anyway, absolutely zero juggling takes place in its 100-odd minutes. Instead, it’s a fascinating display of the Big Apple at the end of the ‘70s — an odyssey from Central Park to the South Bronx — replete with mouthy cabbies (Mandy Patinkin), roving gangs in flamboyant fits, Dan Hedaya with a shotgun, porno peep shows, harried lieutenants, violent gentrification, and virulent racism. Join us on our journey across DA GREATEST CITY ON OITH as we discuss the simple joys of a simple protagonist, how much sympathy we can really have for someone like The Juggler, and then end up talking about juggalos (of course). References: Join Finn’s big queer movie night at the Trylon on November 13, 2025 “A Juggler, an Apple Farmer, and a Psychotic Slumlord walk into a bar in a Bankrupt City…” by Lucas Hardwick for Perisphere, the Trylon blog Give to the Trylon’s Film Forever Fund so they never have to increase ticket prices! Check the calendar, preview upcoming series, and buy tickets Contribute to Perisphere, the Trylon blog #OtherProgramming #DCP Follow us on Twitter at @trylovepodcast, Bluesky at @trylovepodca.st, and email us at trylovepodcast@gmail.com to get in touch! Show art by Emily Csuy. Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro music by Seawind from the NIGHT OF THE JUGGLER end credits. Timestamps 0:00 - Episode 355: NIGHT OF THE JUGGLER (1980) 4:22 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary 11:38 - James Brolin as Sean Boyd 16:57 - Mostly a movie about New York 35:11 - The NYC on display in the frenetic chase scene 43:23 - Sympathy for the Juggler 1:08:15 - The Junk Drawer 1:16:00 - To All the Loves We’ve Tried Before: 1980 1:22:34 - Cody’s Noteys: Night of the Juggalo (juggalo-adjacent trivia)

    1h 48m

  3. OCT 28

    Episode 354: THE EXORCIST (1973)

    It’s the big kahuna of demonic possession movies, and honestly, a big fish in the pond of horror cinema in general: THE EXORCIST remains an absolute stone-cold classic more than 50 years after its release. Harry even wrote a Perisphere blog about seeing it as a lapsed Catholic! But how does it stay dreadful when nothing scary is happening? Why is it important that Chris MacNeil is an actress by trade? If Lankester Merrin is Batman, does that make Pazuzu the Joker? All that and more, plus a ghostly appearance from THE EXORCIST superfan Blake Hester (@metallicaisrad)! References: “Fear in a Handful of Dust: Hell, Faith, and Will in The Exorcist” by Harry Mackin for Perisphere, the Trylon blog “The Mesmerizing Horror of Essentially a Single Room Set in The Exorcist” by Allison Vincent for Perisphere, the Trylon blog Give to the Trylon’s Film Forever Fund so they never have to increase ticket prices! Check the calendar, preview upcoming series, and buy tickets Contribute to Perisphere, the Trylon blog #NixonlandHorrorInTheVietnamEra #DCP Follow us on Twitter at @trylovepodcast, Bluesky at @trylovepodca.st, and email us at trylovepodcast@gmail.com to get in touch! Show art by Emily Csuy. Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro music: “Tubular Bells” by Mike Oldfield from the THE EXORCIST soundtrack. 0:00 - Episode 354: THE EXORCIST (1973) 4:51 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary 7:35 - A word from Trylove guest and THE EXORCIST megafan Blake Hester 15:56 - Harry’s Perisphere piece and the reputation of this movie 25:03 - What makes THE EXORCIST so lean and mean today 30:32 - The Version You’ve Never Seen 36:50 - Why it’s important that Chris MacNeil is an actress 47:20 - What the demon reveals about our protagonists 54:22 - The surprising, emotionally confounding ending 1:12:14 - How much the behind-the-scenes stuff actually matters for our opinions of the movie 1:23:47 - The Junk Drawer 1:30:39 - To All the Loves We've Tried Before: 1973 1:37:58 - Cody’s Noteys: The Exercist (military fitness regimen trivia)

    1h 56m

  4. OCT 21

    Episode 353: THE WICKER MAN (1973) with Dan Nagan

    Wicker Dan the Birthday Man is back to specifically NOT talk about the bees! THE WICKER MAN isn’t the folk horror you’d assume based on the movies it inspired (including the 2006 remake). It’s more about a square who just can’t hang, the free-loving society he invades, and the reveal that maybe that society isn’t so free, after all. Find Dan… On Twitter at @aDapperDanMan On Bluesky at @adapperdanman.bsky.social On Letterboxd at @aDapperDanMan On his podcast about movies, Everything We Learned On Trylove episodes about RONIN (1981), FACE/OFF (1997), MANDY (2018), EDGE OF TOMORROW (2013), GOODFELLAS (1994), BARBARIAN (2022), DEMOLITION MAN (1993), HEAVENLY BODIES (1984) On Stoop Kidz! A Hey Arnold! Podcast References: “The Wicker Man: The Sources for an Insular Folk Horror” by Sophie Durbin for Perisphere, the Trylon blog “Totally Folked Up: Sex, Song, and Sacrifice in The Wicker Man” by Jay Ditzer for Perisphere, the Trylon blog Give to the Trylon’s Film Forever Fund so they never have to increase ticket prices! Check the calendar, preview upcoming series, and buy tickets Contribute to Perisphere, the Trylon blog #NixonlandHorrorInTheVietnamEra #DCP Follow us on Twitter at @trylovepodcast, Bluesky at @trylovepodca.st, and email us at trylovepodcast@gmail.com to get in touch! Show art by Emily Csuy. Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro music: “Corn Rigs” composed by Paul Giovanni and performed by Magnet from the THE WICKER MAN soundtrack.

    1h 47m

  5. OCT 14

    Episode 352: ROSEMARY'S BABY (1968) with Louis Gagnon

    Content warning: This episode contains discussions of sexual violence, including as depicted in ROSEMARY’S BABY and as perpetrated by director Roman Polanski. We’re jazzed to welcome Louis Gagnon, a Trylon volunteer and fellow film fella, to continue our coverage of NixonLand at the Trylon! ROSEMARY’S BABY is rightly considered one of the greatest horror movies ever made, weaving the story of a woman envisioning herself as a mother with the unctuous interlopers who would usurp her uterus for unseemly uses. Find Louis on Letterboxd at https://letterboxd.com/PikedDogfish/ References: “Rosemary’s Baby: The Anatomy of a Satanic Impregnation Scene” by Sophie Durbin for Perisphere, the Trylon blog “‘This is no dream! This is really happening!’: Rosemary’s Baby’s Horrific Reflections of Female Subjectivity in 1968 and Present-Day America” by Jillian Nelson for Perisphere, the Trylon blog Give to the Trylon’s Film Forever Fund so they never have to increase ticket prices! Check the calendar, preview upcoming series, and buy tickets Contribute to Perisphere, the Trylon blog #NixonlandHorrorInTheVietnamEra #35mm Follow us on Twitter at @trylovepodcast, Bluesky at @trylovepodca.st, and email us at trylovepodcast@gmail.com to get in touch! Show art by Emily Csuy. Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro music: "Lullaby" by Krzysztof Komeda from the ROSEMARY'S BABY soundtrack.

    2h 7m

  6. OCT 7

    Episode 351: THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE (1974)

    THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE is one of the most important American movies ever made. There, we said it! It’s hot, it’s gross, it’s tense, and it’ll test your patience — Tobe Hooper’s cult classic set the table for literally every slasher movie ever made, but it still holds its own among the horror heavy hitters in any generation since. On this episode, the Boys (each with varying degrees of familiarity with the series) discuss the main themes of THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE, the morbid beauty of American decline, Nixon, and dinosaur parts. References: “Texas Chainsaw Massacre: Hippie Road Trip Masterpiece (Film as a Self-Care Text About How It’s Totally Fine to Go No Contact With Your Family)” by Phil Kolas for Perisphere, the Trylon blog “Massacre for Sale: Houses on the Market Right Now That Look Like the House from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre” by Ben Jarman for Perisphere, the Trylon blog Give to the Trylon’s Film Forever Fund so they never have to increase ticket prices! Check the calendar, preview upcoming series, and buy tickets Contribute to Perisphere, the Trylon blog #NixonlandHorrorInTheVietnamEra #DCP Follow us on Twitter at @trylovepodcast, Bluesky at @trylovepodca.st, and email us at trylovepodcast@gmail.com to get in touch! Show art by Emily Csuy. Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro music by Tobe Hooper and Wayne Bell from THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE. Timestamps 0:00 - Episode 351: THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE (1974) 2:38 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary 5:04 - Why THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE still feels “important” 8:54 - THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE as a franchise 19:26 - Preying on a primal fear of the Other 29:36 - The movie’s three main themes 37:12 - The hitchhiker and how we get sucked into this world 52:20 - Tropes, screaming, bodies, meat, and the ending 1:10:19 - The Junk Drawer 1:16:20 - To All the Loves We’ve Tried Before: 1974 1:21:40 - Cody’s Noteys: T-Rex’s Brain, Claw, Ass, and Fur (T-rex biology trivia)

    1h 41m

  7. SEP 30

    Episode 350: THE KEEP (1983) with Tony Wagner

    Mann boy Tony Wagner returns to discuss another “compromised” movie! Eerie, violent, and hacked to bits by the studio, the supernatural horror mystery THE KEEP would be an oddity in any director’s career. In a remote Romanian village during World War II, Nazis (Jürgen Prochnow, Gabriel Byrne) occupy a foreboding stone citadel feared and revered by the locals (Robert Prosky, W. Morgan Sheppard). Tempted and terrorized by an unknowable presence inside, they relocate a Jewish historian (Ian McKellen) and his daughter (Alberta Watson) from a concentration camp to uncover its secrets. Also, an altogether average and unremarkable Greek gentleman (Scott Glenn) arrives to make sure things don’t get too out of hand (he is measurably less than successful). Originally planned as a 3.5-hour epic, Paramount Pictures demanded cut after cut until audiences were left with a kind of incomprehensible 98 minutes of… something. As a result, Michael Mann has all but disowned THE KEEP, leaving behind a weird, complex monolith to his unrealized vision. Kind of like a certain The Keep I know! In this brisk discussion, Tony helps us figure out what there is to THE KEEP, despite there being so little of its creator’s original vision in the end product. Is it a dreamy admonition of the all-consuming power of wrath that keeps the viewer at a tantalizing arm’s length? Or is it a goofy, cheesy stage play with only glimpses of the greatness that could’ve been? Is THE KEEP actually the movie it’s supposed to be out of the box, or is the actual thing obscured behind the sticky slime trail of studio interference? You’ll hear arguments for both sides on this lively episode! Find Tony… On Twitter at @tonydwagner On Letterboxd at @tonydwagner On the Trylove episode about ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY (2016) References: “Making Romania on Film: The Case of The Keep” by Sophie Durbin for Perisphere, the Trylon blog Give to the Trylon’s Film Forever Fund so they never have to increase ticket prices! Check the calendar, preview upcoming series, and buy tickets Contribute to Perisphere, the Trylon blog #NazisWeHateTheseGuys #DCP Follow us on Twitter at @trylovepodcast, Bluesky at @trylovepodca.st, and email us at trylovepodcast@gmail.com to get in touch! Show art by Emily Csuy. Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro music: “It Ends” (an arrangement of “Walking in the Air” composed by Howard Blake) arranged and performed by Tangerine Dream from the THE KEEP soundtrack. Timestamps 0:00 - Episode 350: THE KEEP (1983) 3:19 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary 5:28 - A broken, odd, “compromised” movie that runs on vibes 19:29 - The fumbled unfolding of the mystery 27:55 - A movie where Mann reckons with his Jewish identity 31:53 - What this movie meant for Mann’s career 53:55 - The Nazi kills 57:07 - The Junk Drawer 1:03:37 - To All the Loves We’ve Tried Before: 1983 1:07:18 - Cody’s Noteys: Try Your Own Advent-Love (a choose-your-own-adventure through the titular Keep)

    1h 24m

  8. SEP 23

    Episode 349: THE DIRTY DOZEN (1967)

    Robert Aldrich’s iconic ensemble action movie is brimming with testosterone, redemption arcs, and more little gags than you would probably guess. Lee Marvin uses 12 no-hope inmates’ basic distrust of authority as glue to bind them, wind them up, and whips them into Nazi-slaughtering shape on a suicide mission. For some, freedom and redemption hang in the balance; for others, nothing much at all. Let’s take it apart: Its struggle to balance so many Guys, cynicism about who really wins wars, why the hell Maggott is even here, the crappy TV sequels, and more. References: Actor Jack Palance Won’t Play Racist for $141,000 (Jet, March 10, 1966) “What are We, Some Kind of Dirty Dozen?” by Finn Odum for Perisphere, the Trylon blog “The Dirty Dozen: Your Dad’s Favorite Movie Before FOX NEWS Got To Him” by Phil Kolas for Perisphere, the Trylon blog Give to the Trylon’s Film Forever Fund so they never have to increase ticket prices! Check the calendar, preview upcoming series, and buy tickets Contribute to Perisphere, the Trylon blog #NazisWeHateTheseGuys #DCP Follow us on Twitter at @trylovepodcast, Bluesky at @trylovepodca.st, and email us at trylovepodcast@gmail.com to get in touch! Show art by Emily Csuy. Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro music: “The Bramble Bush” by Trini Lopez from the THE DIRTY DOZEN soundtrack. Timestamps 0:00 - Episode 349: THE DIRTY DOZEN (1967) 3:08 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary 7:29 - It's a lot of guys 12:28 - A movie with less action than training 25:47 - The Dozen’s total commitment to the mission 33:22 - The length, the pacing, the training segment with Breed’s team 41:47 - The complicated Major Reisman (Lee Marvin) 51:31 - Maggott… 1:02:06 - The Junk Drawer 1:09:25 - To All the Loves We’ve Tried Before: 1967 1:13:57 - Cody’s Noteys: The Bird-y Dozen (ornithological terminology trivia)

    1h 34m
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    Trylove
  • Years Active
    2019 - 2025
  • Episodes
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