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Shrader says some very lovely things about De Palma and then takes them down ..... updated from the De Palma post

And this...

Next up for Schrader is the Western “Nine Men From Now,” which he told IndieWire will be like a remake of Budd Boetticher’s “7 Men from Now” if “Terrence Malick and David Lynch took a shit on the script.”

This is almost as amusing as the time a few months ago he publicly inquired why he was getting ads with women in bikinis and someone informed him that ads were based on your browsing history. After this revelation Schrader admitted that he had been busted and had indeed been looking at women in swimsuits.

It was hysterical.

This is a great thread. Big Ben that was so funny to read.

Also since I'm in here I recently watched Dog Eat Dog on netflix and this is a very broad question but:


What in the world compelled Schrader to make that movie? And make it the way he did?

black&huge wrote: Sun Jun 30, 2019 4:20 am Also since I'm in here I recently watched Dog Eat Dog on netflix and this is a very broad question but:

What in the world compelled Schrader to make that movie? And make it the way he did?

In Bret Easton Ellis podcast he said they had agreed with Nicholas Cage that because Dying of the Light was taken away from them, they’d someday make a totally outrageous movie on their own terms. Schrader got final cut rights for Dog Eat Dog, but knew they didn’t have enough money to make an actually good movie, so he told everyone in the crew to throw in the most deranged ideas they had hoping to get a critical mass for a cult movie going on.

https://m.mixcloud.com/breteastonellisp ... er-101716/

Schrader's work will be featured on the Criterion Channel starting January 26, including a "Meet the Filmmakers" doc by Alex Ross Perry:



Excited for the opportunity to see Light Sleeper for the first time....

as seen on Schrader's FB : "Dans la tête de Paul Schrader" retrospective + Carte Blanche at Forum des Images (Paris) from January 8 to Feb 2nd. Projection of his films + his recommendations (Dreyer, Bresson, Bergman, Antonioni, Godard, Ford, Renoir, Ozu...) , conferences (Schrader's masterclasses & scholars lectures, soon to be online)

Trailer

They also showed a new version of Dying of the Light.

Here is the filmed introduction to Light Sleeper by Schrader and Dafoe (YT, 18min)

Screenwriting masterclass with Paul Schrader at Le Forum des Images (11 jan 2020; 1h33') English

Schrader's a fascinating subject, thanks for posting that link. Someone should do a documentary about him the way Baumbach did about DiPalma.

Every time I think of Schrader, I think of Nastassja Kinski telling Peter Biskind, "I fuck all my directors, but with Paul it was hard"

are you suggesting that not everybody appreciates the raw sex appeal of Paul Schrader?

He was never an Adonis, but he wasn't terrible looking then.

domino harvey wrote:Every time I think of Schrader, I think of Nastassja Kinski telling Peter Biskind, "I fuck all my directors, but with Paul it was hard"

And she worked with James Toback! Ouch!

barryconvex wrote: Tue Jan 21, 2020 5:58 am Schrader's a fascinating subject, thanks for posting that link. Someone should do a documentary about him the way Baumbach did about DiPalma.

I read that Alex Ross Perry has been working on one.

PfR73 wrote: Wed Jan 22, 2020 8:58 pm

barryconvex wrote: Tue Jan 21, 2020 5:58 am Schrader's a fascinating subject, thanks for posting that link. Someone should do a documentary about him the way Baumbach did about DiPalma.

I read that Alex Ross Perry has been working on one.

It'll play on the Criterion Channel this very month :
https://theplaylist.net/man-room-criter ... -20200113/

I love everyone who posts here, and this happens often enough that this isn’t directed at these specific posters, but people have got to try reading the thread they’re posting in — or at least the page they’re posting on — before hitting ‘Submit’.

Damn, I'm usually pretty conscientious about doing that too. Mea culpa..

My bad. I've read that post upthread... last year (2019), but I didn't remember it at the time of posting. I saw this link in Schrader's FB, I thought it was hot news...

Jack Kubrick wrote: Thu Jan 30, 2020 8:54 pm Metrograph interview with Paul Schrader. Pretty bleak shit with regards to humanity fate.

Not all that surprising given the personal nature of First Reformed, but hot damn. Part of me wants to read Sapiens now, while a much larger part of me wants to smile more and throw on a Bogdanovich film.

Sapiens isn't nearly as grim as Harari's follow-up Homo Deus, which I actually think is the one Schrader meant to reference

Holy cow, I was at the same screening of The Irishman at NYFF as Schrader! Ed Lachman was there too. Glad to hear he stuck around for the Kent Jones talk afterwards.

The Wild Bunch is the last real Western

Anyone willing to explore this further? That's quite a claim.

Never Cursed wrote: Thu Jan 30, 2020 10:25 pm Holy cow, I was at the same screening of The Irishman at NYFF as Schrader! Ed Lachman was there too. Glad to hear he stuck around for the Kent Jones talk afterwards.

That's one of the fun things about the NYFF, spotting familiar faces at certain screenings. I mentioned Danny Huston at The Other Side of the Wind before (he actually dubbed his father's voice for the film in a few spots), but off the top of my head, Ralph Fiennes at Mr. Turner (wonder if he ever tried doing a film for Mike Leigh?), Isaach De Bankolé, Forest Whitaker and Steve Buscemi at Only Lovers Left Alive, Noah Baumbach and George Drakoulias at Cold War...not at the NYFF, but I remember seeing Paul Dano at The Deep Blue Sea and being pleasantly surprised that he was an enormous fan of Davies's work. I think he even volunteered to moderate a Q&A for him some years later, and I'm certain he was an influence when Dano directed his debut a few years ago.