Sometimes, one gets the feeling a filmmaker has crafted a movie with their audience in mind. Sometimes, though, it feels more like they are making a movie for an audience of one: themselves. The ...
It’s a sunny afternoon in Los Angeles, and Paul Schrader is asking for forgiveness as an American flag flaps outside his window. If he appears distant, the 71-year-old filmmaker explains, he had a ...
It’s never ideal when a film has an agenda and then proceeds to beat viewers over the head with it. Recent message-heavy movies include the highly overrated, 2004 Oscar-winning drama Crash and its ham ...
Travis Bickle and Ernst Toller are cinematically simpatico. Toller (Ethan Hawke) is the pastor of a small church in rural New York, and Bickle (Robert De Niro) is the titular taxi driver in urban New ...
“First Reformed,” the latest film from pugnacious director/writer Paul Schrader, is as austere and revelatory as a church confessional. Blessed with a sense of rigor and emotional suffocation rare in ...
A REFORMED teen tearaway is preparing to face TV’s Simon Cowell on Britain’s Got Talent. Vadane Robson, from Kensington, made it through the first round of auditions in Manchester, where he performed ...
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