Paul Schrader
Watching Sátántangó at the End of the World
Filmmaker Jesse Noah Klein on the very particular, resonant experience of seeing Béla Tarr's seven-hour-plus masterpiece during a global pandemic.
Revisited: How First Reformed’s Success Actually Points to a Dark Future for Independent Film
Her Smell’s writer-director breaks down the stark reality that film distribution today is an inequitable system that excludes almost everyone.
How First Reformed’s Success Actually Points to a Dark Future for Independent Film
Her Smell’s writer-director breaks down the stark reality that film distribution today is an inequitable system that excludes almost everyone.
Best of 2018: Karyn Kusama (Destroyer) Talks Paul Schrader’s First Reformed and Debra Granik’s Leave No Trace
The director of Destroyer singles out two films that made a particularly profound impression on her over the past year.
Bruce LaBruce’s Academy of the Underrated: Moment by Moment
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.
Why Paul Schrader Is Wrong and Hardcore Is, in Fact, a Major Movie
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.
