Trylon Cinema

06/03/2026

bleak week continues with Lynne Littman’s devastating TESTAMENT. One show only at 9pm. Trylon.org

06/02/2026

bleak week continues with THE TRIBE tonight at 7pm and 9:30pm. Sergei (Fesenko) joins a boarding school for the deaf in Kiev and attempts to conform but experiences unbounded levels of cruelty. Director Slaboshpytskyi uses no audible words, subtitles, or score, creating a truly unique experience. Unsettling and deeply disturbing, The Tribe is an unflinching portrait of humanity’s worst impulses. https://www.trylon.org/film/the-tribe/

05/31/2026

That’s a wrap on another great Action Extravaganza. Till next year! The Cult Film Collective

05/31/2026

Dan Howard contemplates the similarities of Mizoguchi’s tragic female characters across his filmography, and asks why Kinuyo Tanaka was particularly suited to embody them.

The Life of Oharu plays in glorious 35mm at the Trylon Cinema on Thursday, June 4!

|Dan Howard| Just two years before her death, Kinuyo Tanaka gave an interview for the 1975 documentary Kenji Mizoguchi: The Life of a Film Director. It was during this interview that Kaneto Shindō, the director, inquired about the rumor that Mizoguchi was secretly in love with her and never confess...

05/30/2026

Apparently, domestic labor for mothers doesn’t stop even after the nuclear holocaust. Penny Folger makes a case for why Testament’s address of this speculative fact serves as an important point of consideration for bleak times.

Testament plays at the Trylon Cinema on Wednesday, June 3.

|Penny Folger| Bleak Week, which began at the American Cinematheque in 2022, partially as an ironic response to the pandemic, has now spread globally and is making its triumphant return to Trylon Cinema. This time with Testament, the story of a family in a small town on the outskirts of San Francisc...

05/29/2026

Olga Tchepikova-Treon weighs The Tribe as a relatively recent addition to the Eastern European Bleak Cinema repertoire.

The Tribe plays at the Trylon Cinema as part of BLEAK WEEK on Tuesday, June 2.

|Olga Tchepikova-Treon| As far as I’m concerned, every week at the cinema should be Bleak Week. Well, not every week, but let’s say maybe 40 out of 52 weeks of the year could easily be Bleak Week, and it would be wonderful, cathartic, exhilarating, moving, and maybe even sublime. I like Bleak We...

05/29/2026

next week is bleak week. trylon.org

05/28/2026

Allison Vincent examines the various traits of obsession in David Fincher’s seminal re-telling of the Bay Area serial murders of the late 1960s.

Zodiac plays as part of BLEAK WEEK MINNEAPOLIS on Monday, June 1, and Saturday, June 6!

|Allison Vincent| I love both David Fincher movies and movies about tracking and apprehending serial killers. I also love a good true crime doc. My Netflix recently watched is filled to the brim with multi-episode rundowns of both the most well-known offenders as well as the bizarre...

05/27/2026

Matthew Tchepikova-Treon returns to perform a detailed dissection of the Action Movie Soundtrack in preparation for the Cult Film Collective’s third installment of the 80s Action Extravaganza.

|Matthew Tchepikova-Treon| For the inaugural 1980s Action Extravaganza, three years ago now, I wrote an ode to a few particular moments from action movie soundtracks that, by sheer musical force, can compel moviegoers to exclaim aloud, “F**kin A!” This year, inspired by...

05/26/2026

Lucille Hanson programs her dream 80s Action Extravaganza.

|Lucille Hanson| Around February or March 2019, I was at an interview for a local filming company and in their lobby, I spotted the Spring program for the Trylon. I flipped through it and was blown away. It was the first time I had ever seen a movie theater run nothing but older movies.