Writer-Director Paul Schrader has been involved with a number of classic films we love including Taxi Driver, Rolling Thunder, Blue Collar, Hardcore and Raging Bull among others. The last one we covered by him The Canyons didn’t receive such a positive reaction from our own Sebastian (he hated it). Regardless, […]
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“Turn it off! Turn if off! TURN IT OFF!” Paul Schrader followed up his intense directorial debut Blue Collar with this story about a businessman from Grand Rapids, Michigan named Jake Van Dorn (George C Scott) whose teenage daughter Kristen goes missing while on a religious themed trip to California. […]
Hey Furious Freaks! Get your claws sharpened and ready to grab another hi-def digital treasure! Shout Factory will be releasing Director Paul Schrader’s 1982 remake of the Jacques Tourneur gothic noir classic on January 21, 2014. Fans of cult cinema will surely want to add this newly restored collector’s edition […]
Paul Schrader is one of the great scribes of the New Hollywood. With The Canyons he blew it (I will get to that). I have seen that man in person last year introducing a restored print of Taxi Driver at the Berlin International Film Festival (it was a blast). He […]
Zeke Brown (Richard Pryor) Jerry Bartoski (Harvey Keitel) and Smokey James (Yaphet Kotto) work at a Detroit auto factory where their boss is constantly on their backs. Their only real way of letting off steam is hanging out at the union bar nearby, where they drink, tell stories and crack […]
40 years after Jacques Tourneur‘s classic 1942 thriller was released, Director Paul Schrader (Blue Collar, Hardcore) crafted a mesmerizing modern retelling and injected it with a mix of tantalizing eroticism and shocking graphic horror. A young beautiful woman named Irena Gallier (Nastassja Kinski) travels to New Orleans to visit her […]
FILM REVIEW When we first see Travis Bickle (Robert DeNiro) he walks into a taxi cab stand as a ghostly cloud of steam evaporates around him. It’s an entrance of some kind of angel from hell. Travis suffers from insomnia, so he rides around on buses and subways at night. […]
I was recently told that when telling others about how many films you have seen at a film festival, you are not supposed to count movies you saw in the market (i.e. the films shown to potential distributors) or retrospectives, but only films in competition. Since the three films I […]