Berlinale review: Taxi Driver premiere (restoration)
I was recently told that when telling others about how many films you have seen at a film festival, you are not supposed to count movies you saw in the market (i.e. the films shown to potential...
View ArticleBLU FURY: Taxi Driver
FILM REVIEW When we first see Travis Bickle (Robert DeNiro) he walks into a taxi cab stand as a ghostly cloud of steam evaporates around him. It’s an entrance of some kind of angel from hell. Travis...
View ArticleFURIOUS FLIX: Cat People
40 years after Jacques Tourneur‘s classic 1942 thriller was released, Director Paul Schrader (Blue Collar, Hardcore) crafted a mesmerizing modern retelling and injected it with a mix of tantalizing...
View ArticleCRIMEWATCH: Blue Collar
Zeke Brown (Richard Pryor) Jerry Bartoski (Harvey Keitel) and Smokey James (Yaphet Kotto) work at a Detroit auto factory where their boss is constantly on their backs. Their only real way of letting...
View ArticleThe Canyons: Paul Schrader blows it
Paul Schrader is one of the great scribes of the New Hollywood. With The Canyons he blew it (I will get to that). I have seen that man in person last year introducing a restored print of Taxi Driver at...
View ArticleBLU RELEASES: CAT PEOPLE
Hey Furious Freaks! Get your claws sharpened and ready to grab another hi-def digital treasure! Shout Factory will be releasing Director Paul Schrader’s 1982 remake of the Jacques Tourneur gothic noir...
View ArticleREEL FURY: George C. Scott is furious in HARDCORE
REEL FURY is an ongoing series of brief commentaries on new and old trailers for films and TV. “Turn it off! Turn if off!... The post REEL FURY: George C. Scott is furious in HARDCORE appeared first on...
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Nicolas Cage and Willem Dafoe plan one last score in Paul Schrader’s DOG EAT DOG
Writer-Director Paul Schrader has been involved with a number of classic films we love including Taxi Driver, Rolling Thunder, Blue Collar, Hardcore and Raging... The post Nicolas Cage and Willem Dafoe...
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