Paul Schrader

Exclaim!'s Top 12 Films of 2018

Best of 2018

PUBLISHED Dec 17, 2018

In a year full of high highs and low lows, it only makes sense that our year-end list would be packed with films full of twee bears, sing-a...

​Paul Schrader Talks the Spiritual Cinema of 'First Reformed'

PUBLISHED May 30, 2018

Paul Schrader is hard to pin down. He wrote the screenplays for Taxi Driver and Raging Bull and directed films as diverse as Hardcore, Mish...

First Reformed

Directed by Paul Schrader

PUBLISHED May 28, 2018

With 1972's Transcendental Style in Film, Paul Schrader quite literally wrote the book on spirituality and filmmaking. Despite that text an...

Cat People [Blu-Ray]

Paul Schrader

PUBLISHED Jan 21, 2014

There's no earthly reason why Cat People should work at all considering how strange and ludicrous its premise sounds on paper, but the way...

The Canyons

Paul Schrader

PUBLISHED Aug 6, 2013

During the opening credit sequence and peppered throughout The Canyons are lingering flashes of closed movie theatres, either long boarded...

The Walker

Paul Schrader

PUBLISHED Jun 18, 2008

This latest film by writer/director/critic Paul Schrader is also apparently the last in a series of portraits of marginal loners that have...

Touch

Paul Schrader

PUBLISHED Feb 6, 2008

The combination of a cool novel by Elmore Leonard and uncool screenwriter/director Paul Schrader seems like a good idea on paper. Who bette...

Auto Focus

Paul Schrader

PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

Auto Focus is director Paul Schrader's brilliant tale of the extra-curricular (I wouldn't say inner) life of actor Bob Crane (Greg Kinnear)...