Paul Schrader

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In 1982—a full decade before the release of Reservoir Dogs—Quentin Tarantino was a young cinephile eager to…

When you’re embarking on a major life event, it’s always nice to have a good pal around to gas you up, and Martin…

Your imaginary boyfriend is teaming up with your eccentric uncle whose Facebook posts are almost always entertaining…

Acclaimed writer-director and notorious grump (in a good way) Paul Schrader has received the first Academy Award…

More than four decades into his career, iconoclastic writer and director Paul Schrader made what many say is his…

Paul Schrader made one of the year’s best films in First Reformed, a searing, contemplative exploration of religious…

Paul Schrader’s role in crafting the transformative cinema of the 1970s and perpetuating its influence can’t be…

The title of First Reformed, Paul Schrader’s best film in a very long time, refers to an old abolitionist church in…

“Did Jesus worry about being liked?” The unexpected surprise of this year’s TIFF turned out to be Paul Schrader’s Fir…

An exercise in gratuitousness that’s fitful by design, Paul Schrader’s Dog Eat Dog avoids any relationship between…

Raised in a strict Calvinist household, Paul Schrader didn’t see his first film until he was 17 years old, a late…

Almost 30 years after initially skyrocketing to indie cred fame by breaking into the home of furniture magnate…

For most of the ’70s, there was something fundamentally conservative about American action movies—or, anyway, about…

Columbia Pictures didn’t exactly have a great deal of faith in Martin Scorsese’s violent urban nightmare Taxi Driver

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Every day, Watch This offers staff recommendations inspired by the week’s new releases or premieres. This week: Midni…

Bringing together the unstoppable force and the immovable object of, let’s say, aggressive acting choices, Willem…

Director Paul Schrader and Nicolas Cage are re-teaming to adapt Dog Eat Dog, a renowned crime novel from writer…

Fox 2000 has acquired the film rights to Jeffery Toobin’s unreleased and as-yet-untitled book about Patty Hearst,…