One of many films caught up in the fallout from the global pandemic was Paul Schrader’s latest offering The Card Counter, which saw its production halted for months as the industry adjusted to new working practices. Now that Hollywood is starting to come-to-life Focus Features has set an Autumn date for the revenge thriller and […]
Arrow Video FrightFest 2020 Review – Clapboard Jungle: Surviving the Independent Film Business
Clapboard Jungle: Surviving the Independent Film Business, 2020. Directed by Justin McConnell. Featuring George A. Romero, Guillermo del Toro, Richard Stanley, Barbara Crampton, Paul Schrader, and Michael Biehn. SYNOPSIS: Following five years in the life and career of an independent filmmaker, supported by dozens of interviews, posing one question: how does an indie filmmaker survive […]
Oscar Isaac set for revenge thriller The Card Counter
Deadline is reporting that Oscar Isaac is set to star in The Card Counter, a revenge feature from Oscar-nominated writer-director Paul Schrader (First Reformed). The feature will see Isaac as William Tell, “a gambler and former serviceman who sets out to reform a young man seeking revenge on a mutual enemy from their past.” “Schrader […]
Chicago Critics Film Festival 2018 Review – First Reformed
First Reformed, 2018. Written and Directed by Paul Schrader. Starring Ethan Hawke, Amanda Seyfried, Cedric the Entertainer, Philip Ettinger, Michael Gaston, Victoria Hill, and Van Hansis. SYNOPSIS: A former military chaplain is wracked by grief over the death of his son. Mary is a member of his church whose husband, a radical environmentalist, commits suicide, […]
Paul Schrader’s First Reformed gets a poster and trailer
A24 has debuted a trailer and poster for writer-director Paul Schrader’s upcoming thriller First Reformed. The film stars Ethan Hawke as a parish pastor struggling from a crisis of faith following a series of tragic events, and also features Amanda Seyfried and Cedric Kyles. Reverend Ernst Toller (Ethan Hawke) is a solitary, middle-aged parish pastor at a […]
Movie Review – Hitchcock/Truffaut (2016)
Hitchcock/Truffaut, 2016. Directed by Kent Jones. Starring Mathieu Amalric, Wes Anderson, Olivier Assayas, Peter Bogdanovich, Arnaud Desplechin, David Fincher, James Gray, Alfred Hitchcock, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Richard Linklater, Paul Schrader, Martin Scorsese, Francois Truffaut. SYNOPSIS: Filmmakers look at the impact Francois Truffaut’s 1966 book ‘Cinema According to Hitchcock’ had on Hitchcock’s reputation, and their own films. […]
Nicolas Cage and Paul Schrader re-teaming for Dog Eat Dog
Deadline is reporting that director Paul Schrader and his Dying of the Light star Nicolas Cage are re-teaming for gritty crime thriller Dog Eat Dog. Based on the acclaimed book by Eddie Bunker, Schrader will co-write and direct the film with Cage starring. The synopsis for the novel reads: “Dog Eat Dog follows Troy Cameron, […]
DVD Review – Dying of the Light (2014)
Dying of the Light, 2014. Written and Directed by Paul Schrader. Starring Nicolas Cage, Anton Yelchin, Irene Jacob, Victor Webster and Alexander Karim. SYNOPSIS: Burned out CIA operative Evan Lake (Nicolas Cage) is forced into early retirement due to a degenerative medical diagnosis. Aided by an up and coming field agent Milton Schultz (Anton Yelchin) […]
Movie Review – Dying of the Light (2014)
Dying of the Light, 2014. Written and Directed by Paul Schrader. Starring Nicolas Cage, Anton Yelchin, Irene Jacob, Victor Webster and Alexander Karim. SYNOPSIS: Burned out CIA operative Evan Lake (Nicolas Cage) is forced into early retirement due to a degenerative medical diagnosis. Aided by an up and coming field agent Milton Schultz (Anton Yelchin) […]
