Thursday, February 10 2011
Thank You MGM For Finally Releasing ‘Rolling Thunder’
You should order a copy of Rolling Thunder for yourself. Mine is in the mail.
Tuesday, October 14 2008
Paul Schrader by George Kouvaros
Taxi Driver is pioneering especially in relation to its unflinchingly contradictory anti-hero Travis Bickle, the character Schrader conceived who can perform noble deeds as well as insane violence.
Friday, August 22 2008
Yukio Mishima, of Love and Death
Death and sex were verboten, and Mishima took it upon himself to be a virtuosic provocateur; part passionate expressive modernist, part fervent traditionalist.
Monday, December 10 2007
The Walker
Like the heroes of several of Paul Schrader's other films -- American Gigolo, Light Sleeper, and, to an extent, Auto Focus -- Carter moves among women as if visiting an alien planet.
Tuesday, March 18 2003
Auto Focus (2002)
'Auto Focus' is, as its title suggests, about self-interest and -obsession.
Thursday, October 24 2002
Auto Focus (2002)
Paul Schrader's 'Auto Focus' is, as its title suggests, about self-interest and -obsession.
Sunday, January 1 1995
Affliction (1999)
Snow. Wind. Emptiness. The first images in Affliction are white and desolate. They show late October in small town New Hampshire, and Halloween is descending on frigid, early evening streets.
