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At the Trylon
The Cult Film Collective is dedicated to projecting and preserving 35mm and 16mm film prints. Their regular screenings at the Trylon Cinema are always on film and often sourced from private collections or archives.
(1977, 35mm, 89m, Mandarin w/ English subtitles) dir Joseph Kuo w/Jack Long, Yi-Min Li, Yu Chang. When a kung fu master is awarded a plaque from the emperor, he sets out to prove himself by defeating the seven grandmasters. Do not miss the rare opportunity to catch this seminal martial arts film on 35mm. At Perisphere, […]
Showings: Feb. 3 7:00, Feb. 4 7:00, Feb. 5 3:00
(1970s and 1980s, 35mm, 70m) Film collector Dan Halsted presents a 35mm showcase of the strange, low-budget world of weird voiceovers, bizarre one-liners, and oddball gimmicks that promoters used to sell movies in the oversaturated markets of the 1970s and 1980s. These trailers include some of the weirdest two-minute roller-coaster rides of Italian horror, blaxploitation, […]
Showings: Feb. 3 9:00, Feb. 4 9:00, Feb. 5 5:00
(16mm, 110m) Throughout the last century, numerous films have been lost (whether due to negligence and/or intended destruction), never to be seen again. Other films, like the one in this show, were dubiously funded, never got picked up by a major distributor and have since been mostly forgotten. Now completely out of print in every […]
(1969, 35mm, 145m) dir Sam Peckinpah w/William Holden, Robert Ryan, Warren Oates. As the sun sets on the Old West, a group of aging outlaws escape to Mexico, on the run from bounty hunters and soldiers alike. Peckinpah’s elegiac and hyper-violent western is a 1960s masterpiece. These screenings are presented in partnership with the Cult […]
Showings: Apr. 9 7:15, Apr. 10 7:00, 9:30, Apr. 11 7:00, 9:30
(16mm, 100m) This rarely screened, mostly misunderstood, existential science fiction film is a forerunner of what sci-fi action films nowadays try to emulate. It appears there are about a dozen 16mm prints of this film squirreled away by collectors across the country – but when the Trylon attempted to rent these prints, we were told […]
(1972, 35mm, 91m) dir Gordon Parks w/Ron O’Neal, Sheila Frazier, Julius Harris. Immortalized by Curtis Mayfield’s sizzling score, Super Fly tells the story of Priest (O’Neal), a cocaine pusher-man who hopes to pull off one last major deal before retiring. The mob has different plans. Rare 35mm print! These screenings are presented in partnership with […]
Showings: Jul. 14 7:00, 9:00, Jul. 15 7:00, 9:00, Jul. 16 5:15, 7:15