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Go see a movie. (Not officially affiliated with or endorsed by the Trylon Cinema or Take-Up Productions, but they seem to like us well enough.) https://twitter.com/trylovepodcast

  1. 6D AGO

    Episode 327: PASSENGER 57 (1992)

    Wesley Snipes got his big action break in Kevin Hooks’ PASSENGER 57, an airplane heist movie about a security specialist and recent widower pulled back into the job to thwart an international terrorist’s airborne escape plan. Snipes seems really comfortable as not-Bruce Willis, punching and kicking his way through bad guys in the clouds and on the ground alike. In this episode, we chat about Snipes’s performance, the blackness of his unwilling hero John Cutter, the cast (including Michael Horse, Elizabeth Hurley, and Bruce Payne) and how nice it is when a movie clearly knows its lane. References: “Snipes gets his Wings: PASSENGER 57” by Jake Rudegair for Perisphere, the Trylon blog “Terrorists in Tight Spots” by Hannah Baxter for Perisphere, the Trylon blog Wesley Snipes @ Making Of Passenger 57 ONBLAST DVD "Bruce Payne(Passenger 57)" Interview BET AWARDS @ Ludacris After Party Wesley Snipes didn't get "always bet on black" 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 #DontMessWithWesleySnipes #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. Timestamps 0:00 - Episode 327: PASSENGER 57 (1992) 2:40 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary (under exclusive license from AG Enterprises, Ltd.) 5:49 - The virtues of being a DIE HARD (1988)-lite 13:52 - Wesley Snipes’s performance and the “blackness” of John Cutter 33:57 - The pacing 46:05 - The Junk Drawer 54:38 - To All the Loves We’ve Tried Before: 1992 56:12 - Cody's Noteys: The Trylove Movie Draft: 1992

    1h 10m

  2. APR 15

    Episode 326: TO WONG FOO, THANKS FOR EVERYTHING! JULIE NEWMAR (1995) with Matt Yost

    TO WONG FOO, THANKS FOR EVERYTHING! JULIE NEWMAR is remembered as the first depiction of drag queens as non-gag main characters in a major Hollywood production. Vida Boheme (Patrick Swayze), Noxeema Jackson (Wesley Snipes), and Chi Chi Rodriguez (John Leguizamo) are California-bound New York drag queens who find themselves sidetracked in a rural Midwestern(?) town. They find some of the locals intolerant, some just ignorant, and some in desperate need of a makeover. It’s not really what movies from the 2000s, 2010s, and 2020s have led you to expect: While there’s some friction, it’s not a movie about the knock-down drag-out social struggles of drag queens. In fact, it’s a bit of a refutation of that archetype: A narrative near-weightlessness gives the leads the freedom to heighten the reality around the subject matter and, put simply, camp it the hell up. In this episode, we welcome longtime friend of the pod Matt Yost to explore how TO WONG FOO exists inside and outside the queer struggle of its time, reflect on its provenance today, discuss its metatextual layers, and call out some of our favorite lines in this astonishingly funny script. Plus, Cody reverse-engineers a super solid trivia segment from one of his strongest puns yet. Find Matt… On Bluesky at @mattyost.bsky.social On Letterboxd at @mattyost_ On Trylove episodes about BLACK CHRISTMAS (1974), a table read of A GOOFY MOVIE (1995), and CABARET (1972) References: “The Shift from Straight to Queer – To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar” by Nicole Rojas-Oltmanns for Perisphere, the Trylon blog John Leguizamo "To Wong Foo" 6/19/95 - Bobbie Wygant Archive Patrick Swayze "To Wong Foo" 1995 - Bobbie Wygant Archive Patrick Swayze, Wesley Snipes And John Leguizamo Talk 'To Wong Foo' In 1995 | TODAY Originals “The Amazing Story Behind To Wong Foo” by Mitch Kohn for Advocate 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 #DontMessWithWesleySnipes #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. Timestamps 0:00 - Episode 326: TO WONG FOO, THANKS FOR EVERYTHING! JULIE NEWMAR (1995) 3:47 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary (under exclusive license from AG Enterprises, Ltd.) 6:18 - A “camp fantasy” 17:29 - The dynamics between the leads and how the actors approached their roles 29:26 - How the structure of the movie responds to the fantastic lifestyles of its main characters 37:54 - Julie Newmar herself and the flawed pursuit of “perfect femininity” 51:15 - The ending 1:01:21 - Our favorite bits 1:08:29 - The Junk Drawer 1:14:37 - To All the Loves We’ve Tried Before: 1995 1:20:53 - Cody’s Noteys: Nestlé Snipes (Nestlé food product name trivia)

    1h 41m

  3. APR 8

    Episode 325: BEAU TRAVAIL (1999)

    Claire Denis’s moving, poetic portrait of repression in the armed forces might be one of the best movies of all time. In the French Foreign Legion, there are beautiful, elegant young men; there’s their goblinish commander; and there’s nowhere else to go for any of them. The group’s leader, Galoup (Denis Lavant), is hopelessly in thrall to his own superior, Forestier (Michel Subor) — so when young newcomer Sentain (Grégoire Colin) starts to court attention from Forestier, Galoup resorts to subterfuge and abuse of authority to keep Sentain in line with the rest of his section. A masterpiece of visual storytelling and queer cinema, BEAU TRAVAIL is a sordid story of jealousy, externalized repression, and the struggle to find oneself beneath layers of oneself. References: “All Our Trashcans Within: Tears and Other Feelings in Claire Denis’s Beau Travail” by Ben Tuthill for Perisphere, the Trylon blog “Solar Citalopram: Beau Travail, Ken, and Burning Isolation” by Finn Odum for Perisphere, the Trylon blog Claire Denis and Barry Jenkins on Beau Travail “Desire is violence”: Claire Denis on Beau Travail | Sight and Sound Denis Lavant on BEAU TRAVAIL - The Criterion Channel Reebok or Nike : r/funny 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 #LaSauvagerieetBeautédeClaireDenis #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. Timestamps 0:00 - Episode 325: BEAU TRAVAIL (1999) 2:29 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary 4:02 - People who are what (or are in places where) they shouldn’t be 18:47 - Counterpoint of image and story, visual and narrative 27:54 - Beautiful boys, colonialism, homoeroticism, and heteronormativity 35:07 - Galoup’s attempt to externalize his hatred of expression 47:48 - The all-timer ending scene 56:20 - The Junk Drawer 1:01:33 - To All the Loves We’ve Tried Before: 1999 1:03:29 - Cody’s Noteys: The House of Champions: 1999 (deciding the best movie from 1999)

    1h 22m

  4. APR 1

    Episode 324: THERE WILL BE BLOOD (2007) with Natalie Marlin

    With Natalie Marlin! Just like the earth he exploits, there’s something roiling under the surface of the wheel-and-dealing Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day-Lewis): A devilish, almost cartoonishly villainous veneer conceals a deep self-hatred. And like all good capitalists, he uses it to fuel the next great pain he can inflict on the people and world around him, from the local preacher of a podunk town to his specious, long-lost brother to his own adopted son. THERE WILL BE BLOOD kicked off a hell of a run for Paul Thomas Anderson, so for our last episode on his films, we’re happily welcoming Natalie back to the mic for a bit of show-and-tell on when this movie entered our lives, the impact of seeing it as a teen film lover in the mid-aughts, and the crusty layers it reveals more than a decade later. Plus, why THERE WILL BE BLOOD would be a great 4DX movie, the inevitable porn parody jokes, and say doesn’t Jason’s moustache look a little familiar now? Find Natalie… On Twitter and Bluesky at @NataliesNotInIt On Letterboxd at @framingthepic In the byline for Noise Music, a forthcoming entry in Genre: A 33 ⅓ Series book about the noise genre and its influences on and intersections with culture On Trylove Episode 162: THE THIRD MAN (1949), Episode 182: CHESS OF THE WIND (1979), Episode 197: RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD (1985), Episode 210: MAD MAX: FURY ROAD (2015), Episode 239: MILLENNIUM MAMBO (2001), Episode 249: THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT (1999), LONG DAY’S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT (2018), ZARDOZ (1974), NOSTALGHIA (1987), SECONDS (1966) References: “Death Grips’ ‘The Powers That B’ Turns 10” by Natalie Marlin for Stereogum “Unsex Me Here” by Aurora Mattia at Night Boat Books, for which Trylove guest Abbie Phelps did design and layout work 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 #TheMasterworksofPaulThomasAnderson #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: "Proven Lands" by Jonny Greenwood from the THERE WILL BE BLOOD soundtrack. Timestamps 0:00 - Episode 324: THERE WILL BE BLOOD (2007) 3:47 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary 5:39 - Our histories with this movie (or lack thereof) 21:51 - Daniel Plainview, the cartoon villain afraid of his own insides 28:30 - Daniel Plainview, the cartoon villain afraid of his own insides 43:02 - How Daniel reflects the fragile human systems of the era 49:23 - The performative relationships Daniel has with H.W. (and everyone) 54:52 - Eli Sunday and the fraught relationship between organized faith and capital 1:03:30 - “Pathetic” depictions of violence 1:14:13 - The language of Jonny Greenwood’s score 1:20:36 - The Junk Drawer 1:27:04 - To All the Loves We’ve Tried Before: 2007 1:33:15 - Cody’s Noteys: When Will There Be Blood? (trivia about when blood first appears in the runtime of various films)

    2 hr

  5. MAR 25

    Episode 323: PHANTOM THREAD (2017) with Abbie Phelps

    Reynolds Woodcock (Daniel Day-Lewis) and Alma Elson (Vicky Krieps) are caught in a cycle: Reynolds’s obsession with his dressmaking craft and his deceased mother send him dithering between immense sweetness and crass irritability, with Alma often on the receiving end of both his affection and his aloofness. But while Alma’s not the first to suffer Reynolds’s mercurial temperament, she’s the first who seems ready to do something about it. We’ve welcomed returning guest Abbie Phelps to pull at the stitches of PHANTOM THREAD! It got its flowers when it was released to critical acclaim, dozens of nominations, and plenty of industry awards, but we’re taking advantage of nearly a decade of discussion around it to see if we can’t provide some more depth to the discussion around Paul Thomas Anderson’s period drama. In this episode, we discover how the power dynamic of PHANTOM THREAD’s central relationship isn’t as one-sided as you might first assume; prod at the psychological forces that have taken root in the aging craftsman Woodcock; and consider just how seriously we should take that ending! Find Abbie… On Bluesky On Letterboxd On Trylove episodes about DRIVE ANGRY (2011), WAR OF THE WORLDS (2005), THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT (1999), TOUCH OF EVIL (1958), THE TRAIN (1964), MOULIN ROUGE! (2001) References: “Psychoanalyze Me, Mommy: Making Sense of the Mother Role in Phantom Thread” 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 #TheMasterworksofPaulThomasAnderson #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: "House of Woodcock" by Jonny Greenwood from the PHANTOM THREAD soundtrack. Timestamps 0:00 - Episode 323: PHANTOM THREAD (with Abbie Phelps) 2:51 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary 4:02 - Our collective mileage with PHANTOM THREAD and Paul Thomas Anderson 14:19 - Constructing Reynolds and Alma, two ridiculous people 20:25 - Mapping PHANTOM THREAD against PTA's history of bonkers characters 27:53 - Are we on board with Reynolds's and Alma's quests for self-actualization? 37:06 - Influences from Gothic literature (among other places) (or guy who’s recently into the Bronte sisters: “Getting a lot of Bronte vibes from this”) 47:11 - How Cyril fits into the film's power structures 57:20 - "Jonny Greenwood is that bitch": how PHANTOM THREAD sounds and looks 1:04:53 - The Junk Drawer 1:14:23 - To All the Loves We've Tried Before: 2017 1:17:39 - Cody's Noteys: PTA ETA (guessing the runtime of various Paul Thomas Anderson films)

    1h 36m

  6. MAR 18

    Episode 322: THE MASTER (2012)

    After making a movie that actually got a Best Picture nomination, Paul Thomas Anderson wrote and directed another that famously didn’t: THE MASTER, a psychological examination of postwar trauma and peacetime opportunism. In this episode, we try to go past the easy read of THE MASTER as simple corollary for cult dynamics, heap an appropriate amount of praise on Philip Seymour Hoffman and Amy Adams, cast a suspicious glance in Joaquin Phoenix’s direction, and press a button that says “PIG FUCK” more than a few times. References: “The Many Singular Faces of The Master” by Ryan Sanderson for Perisphere, the Trylon blog “Schrödinger’s Cat Walks Into a Bar…” by Nazeeh Alghazawneh for Perisphere, the Trylon blog “An In-Depth Look At Paul Thomas Anderson's 'The Master' Religious Cult Screenplay” at The Playlist (February 17, 2010) 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 #TheMasterworksofPaulThomasAnderson #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: "On A Slow Boat to China" by Frank Loesser as performed by Peggy Lee and Bing Crosby. Timestamps 0:00 - Episode 322: THE MASTER (2012) 5:25 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary 8:20 - Contemporary takes on THE MASTER 20:49 - Why “it’s a movie about Scientology” feels old hat 25:10 - Freddie, Dodd, and what makes The Cause so appealing to wealthy white Americans in 1950 39:15 - Contradictions 57:21 - Peggy Dodd (or Paul Thomas Anderson’s use of gender here) 1:12:34 - The Junk Drawer 1:23:26 - To All the Loves We’ve Tried Before: 2012 1:29:05 - Cody’s Noteys: All Calm Guess Spanned Works In (shared cast & crew trivia for THE MASTER and other movies)

    1h 50m
  7. Episode 321: MAGNOLIA (1999)

    MAR 11

    Episode 321: MAGNOLIA (1999)

    Three podcasters watched a movie and recorded their conversation about it afterward… and I would like to think this was only a matter of chance. Our Paul Thomas Anderson series keeps a-rollin’ with MAGNOLIA, his “blank check” movie after the success of BOOGIE NIGHTS (1997). The intention was to make something he’d never get the chance to make again — something big and strange and audacious. Is the resulting three-hour opus a work of idiosyncratic genius? Or was this one of those times PTA just got a bit big for his britches? References: “Music as a Balm: My Appreciation for Magnolia’s Mid-Film Sing-Along” by David Potvin for Perisphere, the Trylon blog “WTF Frogs!? You know what? Sure. Why not? Why Magnolia So Fully Captures the Ennui of the End of the 20th Century” 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 #TheMasterworksofPaulThomasAnderson #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: “Wise Up” by Aimee Mann as performed in MAGNOLIA.

    1h 28m

  8. MAR 4

    Episode 320: BOOGIE NIGHTS (1997) with Blake Hester

    With Blake Hester! Paul Thomas Anderson’s retrospective dramatization of the ‘70s porn industry isn’t exactly rosy, but it’s certainly not dour, either. It’s kind of situated between those poles, balancing hangout vibes and deeply depressing shit to keep it right where you want a movie to be — tragic, fun, and eminently watchable. Find Blake… At https://blakehester.rocks/ On Bluesky at @metallicaisrad.bsky.social In the pages of “The Oral History of Guitar Hero, Rock Band and the Music Game Boom”, the crowdfunded tome he’s writing about the peripheral-based music video game genre On Something Rotten, the podcast he co-hosts about nihilism On Trylove episodes about POSSESSION (1981), PULSE (2001), BURST CITY (1982), SAMURAI REINCARNATION (1981), SAILOR SUIT AND MACHINE GUN (1981) On Letterboxd at @blakedtfp References: “Livin’ Thing: An Oral History of ‘Boogie Nights’” by Alex French and Howie Kahn for Grantland 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 #TheMasterworksofPaulThomasAnderson #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 from BOOGIE NIGHTS. Timestamps 0:00 - Episode 320: BOOGIE NIGHTS (1997) 6:03 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary 7:55 - Where we’re coming at this movie from 15:55 - Precision 22:36 - Dread for the ‘80s 27:08 - Flexible people who have the space to become their “true” selves 34:41 - The 1980s and the artifice of the pornography industry 37:44 - Long tracking shots and a pivot to a bittersweet ending 1:01:40 - To All the Loves We’ve Tried Before: 1997 1:05:38 - The Junk Drawer 1:17:10 - Cody's Noteys: Trylove Nose Best ("boogie" trivia)

    1h 43m
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