Description

With Blake Hester!

Paul Thomas Anderson’s retrospective dramatization of the ‘70s porn industry isn’t exactly rosy, but it’s certainly not dour, either. It’s kind of situated between those poles, balancing hangout vibes and deeply depressing shit to keep it right where you want a movie to be — tragic, fun, and eminently watchable.

Find Blake…

• At https://blakehester.rocks/
• On Bluesky at @metallicaisrad.bsky.social
• In the pages of “The Oral History of Guitar Hero, Rock Band and the Music Game Boom”, the crowdfunded tome he’s writing about the peripheral-based music video game genre
• On Something Rotten, the podcast he co-hosts about nihilism
• On Trylove episodes about POSSESSION (1981), PULSE (2001), BURST CITY (1982), SAMURAI REINCARNATION (1981), SAILOR SUIT AND MACHINE GUN (1981)
• On Letterboxd at @blakedtfp

References:

• “Livin’ Thing: An Oral History of ‘Boogie Nights’” by Alex French and Howie Kahn for Grantland
• Give to the Trylon’s Film Forever Fund so they never have to increase ticket prices!
• Check the calendar, preview upcoming series, and buy tickets
• Contribute to Perisphere, the Trylon blog

#TheMasterworksofPaulThomasAnderson #35mm

Follow us on Twitter at @trylovepodcast, Bluesky at @trylovepodca.st, and email us at trylovepodcast@gmail.com to get in touch!

Show art by Emily Csuy. Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters. Outro from BOOGIE NIGHTS.

Timestamps

0:00 - Episode 320: BOOGIE NIGHTS (1997)

6:03 - The Patented Aaron Grossman Summary

7:55 - Where we’re coming at this movie from

15:55 - Precision

22:36 - Dread for the ‘80s

27:08 - Flexible people who have the space to become their “true” selves

34:41 - The 1980s and the artifice of the pornography industry

37:44 - Long tracking shots and a pivot to a bittersweet ending

1:01:40 - To All the Loves We’ve Tried Before: 1997

1:05:38 - The Junk Drawer

1:17:10 - Cody's Noteys: Trylove Nose Best ("boogie" trivia)