Paul Schrader Archives

Watching Sátántangó at the End of the World

By Jesse Noah Klein | September 14, 2020

Filmmaker Jesse Noah Klein on the very particular, resonant experience of seeing Béla Tarr's seven-hour-plus masterpiece during a global pandemic.

By Alex Ross Perry | December 27, 2019

Her Smell’s writer-director breaks down the stark reality that film distribution today is an inequitable system that excludes almost everyone.

By Alex Ross Perry | April 10, 2019

Her Smell’s writer-director breaks down the stark reality that film distribution today is an inequitable system that excludes almost everyone.

By Karyn Kusama | December 18, 2018

The director of Destroyer singles out two films that made a particularly profound impression on her over the past year.

By Bruce LaBruce | October 25, 2016

A bomb on its release, this John Travolta-Lily Tomlin camp feminist melodrama can be mined deeply for covert clues about its two stars' sexuality.

By Jim Hemphill | September 15, 2016

Jim Hemphill makes the case that, despite what Schrader himself may say, one of the director's most personal films is also one of his best.