Episode 301: BARBARIAN (2022) with Dan Nagan
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With returning guest Dan Nagan! A double-booked Airbnb in a rundown Detroit neighborhood is much, much more than it seems. It’s better as a surprise, so we won’t spoil anything with this description, but you should know BARBARIAN is ultimately a story about control: Over narratives, land, culture, and personhood itself. **References: ** “Trailers from Heaven: How Barbarian’s Advance Publicity Made a Good Film Better” by Jay Ditzer for Perisphere, the Trylon blog “Gender Bias and the Horror Film That Was Eaten by Disney: Zach Cregger’s Barbarian” by Penny Folger for Perisphere, the Trylon blog Check the calendar, preview upcoming series, and buy tickets at https://www.trylon.org/ Contribute to Perisphere, the Trylon blog: https://www.perisphere.org/perisphere-blog-post-guidelines/ Donate to the Trylon’s Film Forever Fund to help them show more film Find Dan… On Twitter at @aDapperDanMan On Letterboxd at @aDapperDanMan On his podcast about movies, Everything We Learned, on Apple Podcasts As “Hulk Smashworth” in Final Fantasy XIV on the Diablo server On Trylove episodes about RONIN (1981), FACE/OFF (1997), MANDY (2018), EDGE OF TOMORROW (2013), GOODFELLAS (1994) On Stoop Kidz! A Hey Arnold! Podcast Follow us on Twitter at @trylovepodcast and email us at [email protected] to get in touch! Podcast art by Emily Csuy. Intro theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro music: "Riki Tiki Tavi" by Donovan from the BARBARIAN soundtrack. Timestamps coming soonish! Jason’s on vacation. Sue me. (Don’t sue me.)
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