Paul Schrader
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Paul Schrader’s Favorite Works of Fiction December 13, 2024
Paul Schrader, whose latest film, “Oh, Canada,” is based on Russell Banks’s semi-autobiographical novel “Foregone,” is no stranger to literary adaptations....
Paul Schrader’s American Carnage November 01, 2023
A young man with his face pressed between the bars, holding a young woman’s hand to his lips: this is how Robert Bresson ends Pickpocket, his 1959 film modeled on Crime & Punishment. For the preceding seventy-five minutes, Martin LaSalle’s Michel has...
Paul Schrader’s Unlikely Optimism June 16, 2023
The premise of Paul Schrader’s Master Gardener is, on paper, a provocation: A reformed white supremacist, living a secluded life in witness protection after flipping on his crew, falls in love with a young biracial woman during a period of shared cri...
A Conversation With Paul Schrader May 22, 2023
One of the greatest living filmmakers now lives in an assisted living facility in midtown Manhattan. He squints at me from across our table in the building’s 13th-floor restaurant and asks, “Do you use AI?” When I say no, Paul Schrader begins urgentl...
Paul Schrader Wants to Make Another Movie May 02, 2023
Paul Schrader is seventy-six years old, compact, pugnacious. When production on his film “The Card Counter” was interrupted by the arrival of the pandemic, he took to Facebook and railed against the movie’s producers. “I would have shot through hellf...
