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Re: Paul Schrader

#101 Post by FrauBlucher » Sat Jun 29, 2019 6:52 pm

Shrader says some very lovely things about De Palma and then takes them down :o :shock: :? ..... 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.”
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#102 Post by Big Ben » Sat Jun 29, 2019 8:25 pm

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.

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#103 Post by black&huge » Sun Jun 30, 2019 12:20 am

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?

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#104 Post by Slaphappy » Sun Jun 30, 2019 5:24 am

black&huge wrote:
Sun Jun 30, 2019 12:20 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/

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#105 Post by DarkImbecile » Tue Dec 31, 2019 1:59 pm

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

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

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#106 Post by BenoitRouilly » Sun Jan 12, 2020 4:37 pm

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)

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#107 Post by tenia » Mon Jan 13, 2020 8:13 am

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

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#108 Post by BenoitRouilly » Tue Jan 14, 2020 2:22 pm

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

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#109 Post by BenoitRouilly » Fri Jan 17, 2020 4:50 pm

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

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#110 Post by barryconvex » Tue Jan 21, 2020 1:58 am

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

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#111 Post by domino harvey » Tue Jan 21, 2020 2:02 am

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"

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#112 Post by whaleallright » Tue Jan 21, 2020 6:30 pm

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

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#113 Post by hearthesilence » Tue Jan 21, 2020 6:36 pm

He was never an Adonis, but he wasn't terrible looking then.
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#114 Post by reaky » Wed Jan 22, 2020 3:05 pm

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!

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#115 Post by PfR73 » Wed Jan 22, 2020 4:58 pm

barryconvex wrote:
Tue Jan 21, 2020 1:58 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.

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#116 Post by BenoitRouilly » Fri Jan 24, 2020 3:34 pm

PfR73 wrote:
Wed Jan 22, 2020 4:58 pm
barryconvex wrote:
Tue Jan 21, 2020 1:58 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/

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#117 Post by DarkImbecile » Fri Jan 24, 2020 6:43 pm

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’.

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#118 Post by barryconvex » Sat Jan 25, 2020 4:33 am

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

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#119 Post by BenoitRouilly » Sat Jan 25, 2020 7:20 am

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...


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#121 Post by therewillbeblus » Thu Jan 30, 2020 6:02 pm

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.

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Re: Paul Schrader

#122 Post by DarkImbecile » Thu Jan 30, 2020 6:22 pm

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

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#123 Post by Never Cursed » Thu Jan 30, 2020 6:25 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.

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#124 Post by aox » Thu Jan 30, 2020 6:53 pm

The Wild Bunch is the last real Western
Anyone willing to explore this further? That's quite a claim.

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#125 Post by hearthesilence » Thu Jan 30, 2020 7:01 pm

Never Cursed wrote:
Thu Jan 30, 2020 6:25 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.

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