The Irishman unites Robert De Niro and Al Pacino for only the fourth time onscreen. But given their similar ages and backgrounds—and long record of...
Joker is still going strong six weeks after its release. Todd Phillips’ drama borrows unapologetically from other movies, especially Martin Scorsese’s Taxi Driver and King...
From Star Wars to Marvel, from prestige TV (Hannibal) to high-profile Oscar contenders (At Eternity’s Gate), Mads Mikkelsen can be seen stretching his dramatic skills across the board...
In 1972, film student and aspiring critic Paul Schrader published his landmark study on spirituality in cinema, Transcendental Style in Film. Four years later, he...
As one of the founding fathers of the French New Wave, Francois Truffaut used cinema to capture “truth 24 times per second,” and his desire...
So, I had been attempting to develop a feature, with a view to directing. But development was slow and torturous: three years plus. A long...
Many of Martin Scorsese’s characters fancy themselves masters of their own universe. But what makes them so sure? As we’ve learned from their dizzying, often...
Paul Schrader is learning a lot these days. Simultaneously excited about the future of moviemaking and pessimistic about its finances, he recognizes that while it...
The Tribeca Film Festival nearly stopped all traffic for the 40th anniversary of Taxi Driver at the Beacon Theater on April 21, 2016. A...
If you’ve seen Ben Mendelsohn onscreen, chances are you’ve been afraid of him. The Australian actor has played some of the most magnetically menacing characters...