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The Twin Cities' only year-round full-time revival cinema.
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.
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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
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.
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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
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
November 7, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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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.
November 5, 2025 at 5:49 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...
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
NIGHT OF THE JUGGLER plays this weekend. Lucas Hardwick discusses the exciting and delicious history of apple research at UMN.
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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 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
October 31, 2025 at 1:46 PM
This again.
October 29, 2025 at 9:36 PM
HAUSU returns. Starting Wednesday.

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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
Daytime Horrorthon survivors!
October 25, 2025 at 11:51 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.

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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
Grab your tickets to The Wicker Man while you can! www.trylon.org/film/the-wic...
October 20, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Now we've lost Drew Struzan. You better come to the Trylon poster sale tomorrow and stock up on posters. www.lucasfilm.com/news/remembe...
Remembering Drew Struzan
The prolific movie poster illustrator leaves behind a legacy of iconic film visuals from Star Wars to Indiana Jones and beyond.
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October 17, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Hard at work preparing for our poster sale, this Saturday from noon to 3pm.
October 17, 2025 at 12:46 AM
Courtney Kowalke exaplines the connection between undisclosed psychological trauma and haunting as a narrative device via Let’s Scare Jessica to Death.
Our NIXONLAND series continues this weekend with LETS SCARE JESSICA, BLACK CHRISTMAS and WICKER MAN.

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Echoes of the Past: Let’s Scare Jessica to Death and the Haunted Heroine Archetype – Perisphere
|Courtney Kowalke| Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again. Or did I? Do you believe everything I write in these reviews? Do you take me at my word when I mention details from my life, or is the...
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October 17, 2025 at 12:38 AM
October 14, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Has the passing of Renato Casaro got you thinking about buying some movie posters? TRYLON CINEMA. SATURDAY OCTOBER 18. NOON. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/m...
Renato Casaro, ‘Michelangelo of Movie Posters,’ Dies at 89
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October 13, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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...
Rosemary’s Baby in 35mm
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October 12, 2025 at 4:14 PM
October 10, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Matthew Tchepikova-Treon contests the dynamics of prestige inherent in the idea of “elevated horror” by making a case for Blacula’s subtle, yet equally incisive and continued cultural relevance. www.perisphere.org/2025/10/05/l...
Low-Down Horror :: Keep Screaming, Blacula – Perisphere
|Matthew Tchepikova-Treon| The following assertion is perhaps already an old saw by now, but still I think it bears repeating from time to time: The notion of “elevated horror” is pretentious AF. It’s...
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October 9, 2025 at 2:37 PM
This weekend, SCREAM BLACULA SCREAM plays alongside KURONEKO on a pair of rarely shown 35mm prints. Grab your tickets now at Trylon.org
October 8, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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It would be ludicrous for you to miss the dizzyingly beautiful SHADOWS OF FORGOTTEN ANCESTORS, playing for one night only at the @trylon.org on Thursday, Oct. 16!
SHADOWS OF FORGOTTEN ANCESTORS Trailer | PÖFF 2018
YouTube video by PÖFF | Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival
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October 8, 2025 at 3:10 PM