Watching the old film noir Laura and this guy literally does all his writing in a specially designed hot tub desk, a power move the likes of which I've never seen.

THE ISLAND CLOSEST TO HEAVEN (1984) dir. Nobuhiko Ōbayashi

We got to record this ep in person, and I really think you can tell the difference. Special shout outs to @codynarveson.bsky.social for spending literal hours on Noteys prep this week. What a pro

𝐈 𝐝𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐦𝐲 𝐥𝐢𝐟𝐞. Like all good crime dramas, CASINO (1995) is about watching people fool themselves long enough to think they can come out on top. It's so solid, only part of this episode is about GOODFELLAS (1990)! (links in 🧵)

excuse me both for having to get into the weeds and taking some playful digs @trylovepodca.st (second upload bc i messed it up)

The Trylon's Q1 2026 is so stacked, we need two calendars to fit it all on the pod. 🎞️= 35mm 8½ (1963) 🎞️ I VITELLONI (1953) 🎞️ EXTREME PRIVATE EROS: LOVE SONG 1974 (1974) LA DOLCE VITA (1960) 🎞️ NAUSICAÄ OF THE VALLEY OF THE WIND(1984) 🎞️ THE TIME MASTERS (1982) (cont'd)

Film can be a weird world to make pals - you spend a lot of time in dark rooms not talking to anyone - but I ran into folks going into and coming out of a screening last night and we were all seeing different stuff. Nice little scene we've got going here.

𝕐𝕠𝕦 𝕗𝕖𝕖𝕝 𝕒𝕝𝕚𝕧𝕖. Sharon Stone is still taking over the @trylon.org with THE QUICK AND THE DEAD (1995)! This zany Western is as divisive for us as it was for audiences 30 years ago, when its reception killed Lance Henriksen's dreams for a sequel. 🔫🃏♠️ (links in 🧵) #filmsky #90smovies #SamRaimi

The criminally underrated THE QUICK AND THE DEAD continues tonight and tomorrow. For Perisphere, Courtney Kowalke uncovers Sharon Stone's role in developing the film. www.perisphere.org/2025/12/07/t...

What separates BASIC INSTINCT (1992) from other erotic thrillers? How is it so good at both drawing you in... and kinda terrifying you? @kransekage.bsky.social, @nintenduf.us, @aarbypls.bsky.social, @codynarveson.bsky.social & @punishedtake.bsky.social investigate 🐜🐜🐜 #filmsky #thriller #90s

I assure you, we’re open

Just a few fave erotic thrillers, going from more conventional and/or related to Basic Instinct -> bonkers & wtf Jade The Last Seduction Body Double Unfaithful Dead Calm Tightrope Bad Influence Masquerade The 4th Man Crimes of Passion Color of Night Boxing Helena Doppelganger

I couldn't let the Trylove pod do an episode on THE erotic thriller BASIC INSTINCT without me (even if I was kinda sick when we recorded)! Listen in for all my odes to mean women and bi baddies now on Apple podcasts, Spotify or here: bit.ly/47ShXqf @trylovepodca.st

𝔜𝔬𝔲 𝔰𝔱𝔦𝔩𝔩 𝔤𝔢𝔱 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔭𝔩𝔢𝔞𝔰𝔲𝔯𝔢. @kransekage.bsky.social is here to help us celebrate BASIC INSTINCT (1992) (maybe the best erotic thriller ever?), including its origins, its spin on the femme fatale, and what the murderer REALLY wants after you unpack the mind games. (links in 🧵) #movie #filmsky

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𝙄𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙚𝙣𝙙, 𝙡𝙤𝙫𝙚 𝙞𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙮 𝙤𝙛 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙬𝙝𝙤𝙡𝙚 𝙡𝙞𝙛𝙚. Our short series on the films of Nobuhiko Ōbayashi closes with THE ISLAND CLOSEST TO HEAVEN (1984), which was literally the friends we made along the way. (links in 🧵) #movie #podcast #filmsky #japanesefilm #80s

I used to say "I hate 1970s film, I think it's overrated." I was wrong on many counts, especially this one

Still got Black Friday deals going over at www.snipershirts.com! Thank you so much to everyone who already bought something — been a good drop! 🥹🥹🥹😍😍😍

Pod-approved take

finding myself thinking a lot about this kind of movie poster

𝕀 𝕕𝕠𝕟'𝕥 𝕥𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕜 𝕀 𝕔𝕒𝕟 𝕖𝕧𝕖𝕟 𝕚𝕞𝕒𝕘𝕚𝕟𝕖 𝕤𝕠𝕞𝕖𝕥𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕤𝕠 𝕗𝕒𝕣 𝕚𝕟 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕗𝕦𝕥𝕦𝕣𝕖. @krismontello.bsky.social is back on Trylove to discuss Nobuhiko Ōbayashi’s almost cloyingly sweet, absolutely bonkers SCHOOL IN THE CROSSHAIRS (1981)! (links in 🧵) #movie #podcast #filmsky #japanesefilm #80s

𝚃𝚑𝚎𝚛𝚎’𝚜 𝚗𝚘𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗’ 𝚠𝚛𝚘𝚗𝚐 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚊𝚜𝚔𝚒𝚗’ 𝚜𝚘𝚖𝚎𝚋𝚘𝚍𝚢 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚜𝚘𝚖𝚎𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗’. Jim Jarmusch's DOWN BY LAW (1986) is a breezy character study wrapped in a prison break. We discuss Tom Waits, Roberto Benigni, self-imposed isolation, and its deceptive simplicity on today's episode! (links in 🧵) #movie #podcast #filmsky

HIS MOTORBIKE, HER ISLAND (1986) was a big one for @trylovepodca.st years ago, despite not actually playing at the @trylon.org then. Now it is! This ep’s from the first couple months of the pandemic, and you can hear in our voices that it was weird times. But at least it was a nice distraction.

Wrote a quick piece on Joseph Kuo/The Mysteries of Chess Boxing because Dan Halsted is coming back to town for another 35mm Kung Fu Double Feature! Courtesy of @trylon.org @cultfilmcollective.bsky.social www.perisphere.org/2025/11/15/c...

𝐿𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑛𝑑 𝑎𝑔𝑎𝑖𝑛? We covered HIS MOTORBIKE, HER ISLAND (1986) five years ago, when it seemed like nobody in the US had seen it. Now that it’s playing at @trylon.org, we’ve republished our old episode. As a treat. Pinecast: bit.ly/47ShXqf Apple: apple.co/3ePGKBl Spot: spoti.fi/32tGNOo

𝕀𝕥'𝕤 𝕒𝕓𝕠𝕦𝕥 𝕝𝕖𝕒𝕣𝕟𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕒𝕟𝕕 𝕥𝕚𝕞𝕖. 🍐 THE GIRL WHO LEAPT THROUGH TIME (1983) is a different kind of time travel tale, rife with teen drama and melancholy, told in a way only HAUSU (1977) auteur Nobuhiko Ōbayashi could. Here's our look at it! (links in 🧵) #japanesefilm #scifi #80s

Tatsuya Nakadai was a true legend and one of the last of his kind. Obviously a standout among Kurosawa and Kobayashi's casts, but he also really tore up the screen as the lead, the villain, and occasionally both — like in Kihachi Okamoto's SWORD OF DOOM (1966). Rest easy, king

I got to write about one of my favorite movies of all time for Perisphere! www.perisphere.org/2025/11/09/m...

Working on the best thing I’ve ever been a part of rn tbh ngl

Let’s go baby it’s #JugglerNight you know what this is

Aspen getting deep into Trylove lore

𝑁𝑜𝑤 𝐼'𝑚 𝑔𝑜𝑛𝑛𝑎 𝑏𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑗𝑢𝑔𝑔𝑙𝑒𝑟. In NIGHT OF THE JUGGLER (1980), an ex-cop chases a maniac with a grudge through a grimy Big Apple. Part odyssey, part cultural document, all the late-'70s NYC you could ever want. Check out our episode on it! (links in 🧵) #70s #nyc #cinema #filmsky

Final report of the commercial starship Nostromo, 3rd officer reporting. The other members of the crew are dead. Cargo, ship destroyed. I should reach the frontier in about 6 weeks. With a little luck the network will pick me up. This is Cody, last survivor of the Nostromo, signing off. Come on, cat

Harry and I got to see some cool Exorcist props and art when we went to the Museum of the Moving Image!

It’s Halloweentime and Halloween means DONNIE DARKO (2001). We covered it earlier this year with @finnematic.bsky.social — check out our discussion on this moody, broody, “2000s emo kid” formative text!

Not the point but Claudio Simonetti was literally wearing a One Piece graphic tee

I could tell this episode was really cooking when we got talking about Chris MacNeil as an actress, and how the demon’s whole thing is piercing the veil on people’s social and spiritual roles

Very happy with this ep, talking about what I'm increasingly convinced is one of the best movies ever made

HAUSU returns. Starting Wednesday. www.trylon.org/film/hausu-i...

Had to pop onto Trylove really quick to try and explain how and why this movie means so much to me that I’d name my daughter (read: chihuahua) after Regan.

𝔼𝕘𝕠 𝕥𝕖 𝕒𝕓𝕤𝕠𝕝𝕧𝕠. Timelessly spooky, hopelessly terrifying, and maybe truly evil — no Halloween is complete without THE EXORCIST (1973). We dug deep on Friedkin's classic in episode 354 (with a special appearance by @metallicaisrad.bsky.social)! (links in 🧵) #70s #movieween #horror #theexorcist

Plex before Tubi, you’re touchin some boobies Tubi before Plex: There will be no sex

I'm really proud of this ep, and it has some of the best Dan's Detour and Cody's Noteys segments of the year. Ch-ch-ch-ch-check it out!

Based on some of the discussion I have to recommend Penda's Fen! It gets lumped in with folk horror which is kind of a stretch but it is a bit phantasmagoric and mystical. It's a coming-of-age story about sexuality and the tension between Christianity and the pagan roots of England.

for reference: Wick Man 1, 2, 3, 4

𝕳𝖊𝖗𝖊, 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖔𝖑𝖉 𝖌𝖔𝖉𝖘 𝖆𝖗𝖊𝖓'𝖙 𝖉𝖊𝖆𝖉. “Wicker Dan" Nagan (@adapperdanman.bsky.social) is back for some wicky, witchy fun with THE WICKER MAN (1973)! Yes, the original! Fewer bees, but more self-imposed chastity and insidious power imbalances. Check it out! (links in 🧵) #filmsky #Halloween2025 #horror

What a line-up we're blessed with this spooky season! This is another movie I could talk about forever (I JUST noticed how much the captain's gesture in this clip looks like a Nazi salute), so it was a real treat to talk about with Louis and co. Oh, and Polanski should be extradited and imprisoned

𝕋𝕙𝕚𝕤 𝕚𝕤 𝕟𝕠 𝕕𝕣𝕖𝕒𝕞. Trylon volunteer and regular Louis Gagnon makes his Trylove debut with ROSEMARY’S BABY (1968)! An absolutely seminal work of domestic horror and a haunted movie in its own right, it's hard to deny its impact today. Tune in! (links in 🧵) #filmsky #halloween #spookyseason #horror

Do you feel like Rosemary's Baby sold out way too fast? Don't worry, we've added an 8:45 show this Wednesday. www.trylon.org/film/rosemar...