Paul Schrader

The Canyons, Starring Lindsay Lohan and Porn Star James Deen

The Canyons Is Vital, Messy, and Alive With Regret

A Lindsey Lohan Project

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Tilda, Tsvian and Don Johnson

10 Movie Womanizers, From Shame to Shampoo

The movies are full of bed-hopping men -- think of Humphrey Bogart's serial flirtations in The Big Sleep (1946), and Richard Roundtree laying his way uptown and down in Shaft (1971). But in Steve McQueen's Shame, womanizing is not just an outgrowth of the plot -- it is the plot. And it's just the la ... More >>

Godard, American-Style

Richard Gere as hunk-pinup in Jim McBride's '80s remake of Breathless

Philip Glass, Interviewed

The composer talks soundtracks, composition and Gandhi.

Uneasy Riders: Christian Petzold’s Postindustrialist Road Movies

Jerichow, the German director's latest, opens in L.A. this weekend

Paul Schrader Remembers Natasha Richardson: "I was quite simply dazzled by her"

Director and writer Paul Schrader sent the following e-mail to L.A. Weekly's Scott Foundas in regards to actress Natasha Richardson, who passed away today in New York after suffering a head injury during a ski accident. She was 45 years old. When I first met Natasha, while casting Patty Hearst, I ... More >>

Should We Listen to Stuart Klawans' Call for a Moratorium on Holocaust Movies?

From Reverence to Rape: Plundering Meaning From the Holocaust

Adam Resurrected Peers into the Soul of a Condemned Man

Son of Dog

Jeff Goldblum and Paul Schrader on Their Strange Holocaust Fable

Resurrecting Adam

Movie Reviews: The Midnight Meat Train, Mirrors, Star Wars: The Clone Wars

Also, Henry Poole Is Here, Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer and more

Screeching to the Choir

Mormon filmmaker Richard Dutcher paints a searing portrait of the wages of sin in the big city

Pellicano Sequel

Stanton Kaye: Father of Reinvention

Could tracking technology save the Hollywood dreams of a former golden boy?

The Walker: Mr. Schrader Goes to Washington

Cast against type, Woody Harrelson delivers as a gay escort caught in a D.C. scandal

Movie Reviews: Secret Sunshine, Awake, The Amateurs

Also Paul Schrader’s The Walker, Timber Falls, Oswald's Ghost and more

Ian McEwan’s Atonement, Recast as Bodice-Ripper

Who's sorry now?

So Close, and Yet So Far

The intimate pleasures and necessary detachments of Toronto 2007

Film Reviews: The Reaping, Are We Done Yet? and More

Alsoo reviews of Firehouse Dog, Sacco and Vanzetti and Operation Homecoming

The Exorcist: The Complete Anthology

Man and Superman

An American hero shows his dark side in Hollywoodland

Speak, Memory

35 years later, The Conformist continues to haunt

Not Showing at a Theater Near You

A cinephile goes looking for the films that got away

Seems Like Old Times

Lucas’ Star Wars III, Schrader’s Exorcist prequel

Top 10, er, 12 Movies of the Year

Air Sickness

Fear, loathing and Ian McEwan’s Enduring Love

Hell Hath No Fury

Exorcist: The Beginning, a story of Hollywood possession

Bullshit Detected

Stephen Glass, Chuck Lane and the big dustup at TNR

Curiouser and Curiouser

Wrong turns on the road to Wonderland

Aargh!

Pirates of the Caribbean is big, loud, empty

Oh Dad, Poor Dad

Surrogate fathers in The Good Thief and The Son

Give Him an Inch . . .

John Cameron Mitchell's meta-porn booty call

The True Believer

Righteous inquisitor Paul Schrader casts a baleful eye on celebrity and the perils of absolute selfishness

Sex Lives and Videotape

Auto Focus and the unbearable lightness of Bob Crane

The Man Who Isn’t There

Laurent Cantet’s eerie, enthralling Time Out

Eat, Like, a Pig

The End of Propaganda

From ad fab to d.o.a.

Praying for Modern Man

Eureka plumbs the tortured soul of Japan

The Last Picture Shows

Film’s heroic age at the American Cinematheque

Resurrection

Scorsese updates Travis Bickle; Kimberly Peirce revives Brandon Teena

Our Other Top 10's

Manohla Dargis' Hit List

Ella Taylor's Blessings

The Storyteller

Paul Schrader and his (r)aging voices

A Sad Man, A Bad Man, and Two Brawling Moms

Paul Schrader’s Affliction, John Boorman’s The General, Chris Columbus’ Stepmom

Oy!

Yakin’s mishegoss, Linklater’s mild bunch

Days for Night

Sundance ’98

Notes From Half a Film Festival