Trylon Cinema
@trylon.org
The Twin Cities' only year-round full-time revival cinema.
Pace Winkels designed this poster for our upcoming weekend of 90s era Christopher McQuarrie crime films. Tickets at Trylon.org
November 25, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Pace Winkels designed this poster for our upcoming weekend of 90s era Christopher McQuarrie crime films. Tickets at Trylon.org
Laura Orestano designed this poster for our upcoming series SHARON STONE DOESN’T CARE WHAT YOU THINK, starting in December. Tickets available now at www.trylon.org/film-series/...
November 24, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Laura Orestano designed this poster for our upcoming series SHARON STONE DOESN’T CARE WHAT YOU THINK, starting in December. Tickets available now at www.trylon.org/film-series/...
Our Nobohiku Obayashi series continues with SCHOOL IN THE CROSSHAIRS, still playing tonight and tomorrow. Chris Polley writes about the whimsy and wonder of School in the Crosshairs.
www.perisphere.org/2025/11/16/a...
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Anti-Fascist, All Fun: Disobedient Whimsy in Nobuhiko Ôbayashi’s School in the Crosshairs – Perisphere
|Chris Polley| Sometimes this place feels like a prison” is a sentiment I hear at least once every few years as a public school teacher—from students, yes, but also at least twice from fellow teachers...
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November 24, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Our Nobohiku Obayashi series continues with SCHOOL IN THE CROSSHAIRS, still playing tonight and tomorrow. Chris Polley writes about the whimsy and wonder of School in the Crosshairs.
www.perisphere.org/2025/11/16/a...
www.perisphere.org/2025/11/16/a...
For our blog, Ben Jarman subjects his mom to a kung-fu film filled with fists and fury (and she likes it!). @cultfilmcollective.bsky.social presents a 35mm Kung Fu double this weekend with film collector Dan Halsted in person.
www.perisphere.org/2025/11/14/i...
www.perisphere.org/2025/11/14/i...
Interview: A Grandmother on Shaolin vs Lama – Perisphere
|Ben Jarman| Here is a new take from my mom on the film Shaolin vs Lama. The goal here again is to introduce her to genres she is not interested in and gather her thoughts. She is a movie “buff”, but ...
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November 21, 2025 at 5:43 PM
For our blog, Ben Jarman subjects his mom to a kung-fu film filled with fists and fury (and she likes it!). @cultfilmcollective.bsky.social presents a 35mm Kung Fu double this weekend with film collector Dan Halsted in person.
www.perisphere.org/2025/11/14/i...
www.perisphere.org/2025/11/14/i...
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Starting TONIGHT! Grab your tickets now here: www.trylon.org/film-series/...
November 21, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Starting TONIGHT! Grab your tickets now here: www.trylon.org/film-series/...
Our 11x17 online poster store is back, and with many recent (and upcoming) designs now included! Maybe you could buy a poster or two to help us test the new system? Ten bucks each, plus a flat five dollars to ship any quantity. ko-fi.com/tryloncinema...
November 20, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Our 11x17 online poster store is back, and with many recent (and upcoming) designs now included! Maybe you could buy a poster or two to help us test the new system? Ten bucks each, plus a flat five dollars to ship any quantity. ko-fi.com/tryloncinema...
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Andrew Madetzke designed these incredible silk screened posters our upcoming 35mm Kung Fu Double Feature at the @trylon.org - we will have a very limited number for sale in the lobby in between shows.
November 19, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Andrew Madetzke designed these incredible silk screened posters our upcoming 35mm Kung Fu Double Feature at the @trylon.org - we will have a very limited number for sale in the lobby in between shows.
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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...
Chess Moves, Rice Bowls, and Full Throttle Vengeance – Perisphere
|Matt Clark| During the 1970s peak of kung fu film popularity, films from the Shaw Brothers’ legendary studio were known for lavish sets, period detail, and often outrageous kung fu styles. Rival stud...
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November 16, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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...
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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.
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.
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
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
November 17, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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.
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.
HIS MOTORBIKE, HER ISLAND plays again tonight and tomorrow as part of our series THE UNTETHERED VISIONS OF NOBUHIKO ÔBAYASHI. Jake Rudegeair returns with a wealth of knowledge about motorcycles.
www.perisphere.org/2025/11/09/b...
www.perisphere.org/2025/11/09/b...
Be the Wind: Movie Motorbikes and the Power of Bōsōzoku – Perisphere
|Jake Rudegeair| Yeah guys, this film has motorcycles. And lots of other stuff too. Nobuhiko Ôbayashi's His Motorbike, Her Island (1986) is a treasure from the annals of motorcycle cinema, bent with n...
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November 17, 2025 at 4:07 PM
HIS MOTORBIKE, HER ISLAND plays again tonight and tomorrow as part of our series THE UNTETHERED VISIONS OF NOBUHIKO ÔBAYASHI. Jake Rudegeair returns with a wealth of knowledge about motorcycles.
www.perisphere.org/2025/11/09/b...
www.perisphere.org/2025/11/09/b...
Harry Mackin discusses memories of color (and summer) in Nobuhiko Ôbayashi's His Motorbike, Her Island. HIS MOTORBIKE starts Sunday as it continues our series THE UNTETHERED VISIONS OF NOBUHIKO ÔBAYASHI
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Memories of Summer – Perisphere
|Harry Mackin| Spoilers for His Motorbike, Her Island—watch the movie before you read this! We meet several different versions of His Motorbike, Her Island's protagonist, Koh. First, we meet Koh the n...
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November 15, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Harry Mackin discusses memories of color (and summer) in Nobuhiko Ôbayashi's His Motorbike, Her Island. HIS MOTORBIKE starts Sunday as it continues our series THE UNTETHERED VISIONS OF NOBUHIKO ÔBAYASHI
www.perisphere.org/2025/11/09/m...
www.perisphere.org/2025/11/09/m...
This weekend, we’re playing BIG TIME on 35mm. John Costello documents the history of Big Time's print and the wacky Waits characters within the film, while Chris Ryba-Tures discusses just how long they Waits-ed to see Tom Waits in the Twin Cities again.
www.perisphere.org/2025/11/07/t...
www.perisphere.org/2025/11/07/t...
The Only 35mm Print of Tom Waits’s Big Time – Perisphere
|John Costello| When a character, on stage or on screen, breaks the fourth wall and another character notices and comments, something special happens. A skilled performer involves the audience as perf...
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November 14, 2025 at 3:16 PM
This weekend, we’re playing BIG TIME on 35mm. John Costello documents the history of Big Time's print and the wacky Waits characters within the film, while Chris Ryba-Tures discusses just how long they Waits-ed to see Tom Waits in the Twin Cities again.
www.perisphere.org/2025/11/07/t...
www.perisphere.org/2025/11/07/t...
Head to our blog, Perisphere, for some insightful meditations on Jim Jarmusch’s DOWN BY LAW, playing this weekend. For Perisphere, Jackson Stern considers the lyrical loneliness and Ryan Sanderson writes about the breathless loitering of Down by Law.
www.perisphere.org/2025/11/07/t...
www.perisphere.org/2025/11/07/t...
The Lyrical Loneliness of Down By Law – Perisphere
|Jackson Stern| Some of the best songs you can listen to when you’re at your lowest are the loneliest ones. When I was near the end of high school, I got my heart broken in a few different ways, like ...
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November 13, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Head to our blog, Perisphere, for some insightful meditations on Jim Jarmusch’s DOWN BY LAW, playing this weekend. For Perisphere, Jackson Stern considers the lyrical loneliness and Ryan Sanderson writes about the breathless loitering of Down by Law.
www.perisphere.org/2025/11/07/t...
www.perisphere.org/2025/11/07/t...
James Lehmann and Amelia Foster designed this fabulous poster for our upcoming weekend dedicated to Tom Waits. Promotional support provided by Sound Unseen. Tickets at www.trylon.org/film-series/...
November 12, 2025 at 4:38 PM
James Lehmann and Amelia Foster designed this fabulous poster for our upcoming weekend dedicated to Tom Waits. Promotional support provided by Sound Unseen. Tickets at www.trylon.org/film-series/...
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Do YOU have what it takes to climb the ladder of Courage to the heights...the Heights Theater, to be exact? 7TH HEAVEN plays this coming Sunday, November 9, at the Heights Theater, with a live soundtrack performed by the fantastic The Poor Nobodys! 🎞🎼
Tickets available now at heightstheater.com.
Tickets available now at heightstheater.com.
November 5, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Do YOU have what it takes to climb the ladder of Courage to the heights...the Heights Theater, to be exact? 7TH HEAVEN plays this coming Sunday, November 9, at the Heights Theater, with a live soundtrack performed by the fantastic The Poor Nobodys! 🎞🎼
Tickets available now at heightstheater.com.
Tickets available now at heightstheater.com.
Our Nobohiku Obayashi series continues with THE GIRL WHO LEAPT THROUGH TIME, starting Sunday. Dan McCabe writes about youth and time travel in Back to the Future and The Girl Who Leapt Through Time. www.perisphere.org/2025/11/02/o...
Of Teens and Time Travel: The Girl Who Leapt Through Time – Perisphere
|Dan McCabe| Time travel is a fantasy. While time travel stories often get lumped in with science fiction, there’s not much “science” behind it. While general relativity and time dilation theories sup...
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November 6, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Our Nobohiku Obayashi series continues with THE GIRL WHO LEAPT THROUGH TIME, starting Sunday. Dan McCabe writes about youth and time travel in Back to the Future and The Girl Who Leapt Through Time. www.perisphere.org/2025/11/02/o...
NIGHT OF THE JUGGLER plays this weekend. Lucas Hardwick discusses the exciting and delicious history of apple research at UMN.
www.perisphere.org/2025/10/31/a...
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A Juggler, an Apple Farmer, and a Psychotic Slumlord walk into a bar in a Bankrupt City… – Perisphere
|Lucas Hardwick| In the hierarchy of entertainment juggling is somewhere between miming and magic outranking puppet shows but only slightly less compelling than street buskers (depending on what the b...
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November 4, 2025 at 2:51 PM
NIGHT OF THE JUGGLER plays this weekend. Lucas Hardwick discusses the exciting and delicious history of apple research at UMN.
www.perisphere.org/2025/10/31/a...
www.perisphere.org/2025/10/31/a...
NIGHT OF THE JUGGLER begins Friday. This grimy exploitation rarity was last released in a censored version on VHS and has only been shown on poor 35mm prints since. Night Of The Juggler has now been rescued from obscurity and gloriously restored in 4K! www.trylon.org/film/night-o...
November 3, 2025 at 10:43 PM
NIGHT OF THE JUGGLER begins Friday. This grimy exploitation rarity was last released in a censored version on VHS and has only been shown on poor 35mm prints since. Night Of The Juggler has now been rescued from obscurity and gloriously restored in 4K! www.trylon.org/film/night-o...
October 28, 2025 at 2:42 PM
And that’s a wrap on another great Horrorthon. See you creeps next year!
October 26, 2025 at 4:49 PM
And that’s a wrap on another great Horrorthon. See you creeps next year!
Daytime Horrorthon survivors!
October 25, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Daytime Horrorthon survivors!
Our series, NIXONLAND: HORROR IN THE VIETNAM ERA comes to a close with THE EXORCIST, starting Sunday. For our blog, Perisphere, Harry Mackin writes how the film invites us to consider spirituality as call to transformative action.
www.perisphere.org/2025/10/17/f...
www.perisphere.org/2025/10/17/f...
Fear in a Handful of Dust: Hell, Faith, and Will in The Exorcist – Perisphere
|Harry Mackin| The Exorcist knows you're afraid of it from the moment it begins. Well before its disturbing supernatural plot starts in earnest, you can feel the malice Friedkin imbues into every shot...
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October 22, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Our series, NIXONLAND: HORROR IN THE VIETNAM ERA comes to a close with THE EXORCIST, starting Sunday. For our blog, Perisphere, Harry Mackin writes how the film invites us to consider spirituality as call to transformative action.
www.perisphere.org/2025/10/17/f...
www.perisphere.org/2025/10/17/f...