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Tag: Paul Schrader

Watching Sátántangó at the End of the World

Film
By Jesse Noah Klein | September 14, 2020
By Jesse Noah Klein | September 14, 2020

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

Film
By Alex Ross Perry | December 27, 2019
By Alex Ross Perry | December 27, 2019

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

Film
By Alex Ross Perry | April 10, 2019
By Alex Ross Perry | April 10, 2019

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

Film
By Karyn Kusama | December 18, 2018
By Karyn Kusama | December 18, 2018

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

Film
By Bruce LaBruce | October 25, 2016
By Bruce LaBruce | October 25, 2016

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

Film
By Jim Hemphill | September 15, 2016
By Jim Hemphill | September 15, 2016

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.

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