Paul Schrader

[yoloswegmaster]

Is the shirt encoded by David M.?

[beamish14]

Get your own

I probably shouldn’t admit that I already own two of those shirts

[hearthesilence]

It's so popular, they sold out and had to restock.

[therewillbeblus]

Not sure if anyone follows Paul Schrader's LB account (which I think is new?), but it's even more absurd than his FB posts. Highly recommended viewing

[yoloswegmaster]

Are you talking about this account? If so, then it's not actually him but rather someone who is posting Schrader's posts from Facebook.

[therewillbeblus]

Okay, yeah, I guess they're posting old ones because they don't seem current/corresponding to the dates logged. Nevertheless, it's amusing how some extraneous thoughts are linked to seemingly random movie picks

[Mr Sausage]

That's an pretty big collection of dumb opinions. I peaced out after reading this from his Longlegs review:

[Horror films are] beneath "seriousness." Westerns, gangster films, spy thrillers and other generes can be remolded and exploited to convey serious issues and conundrums. Horror films seem to me the most resistent to this upgrade. For the most part their raison d'etre is horror itself.

It'd be dumb enough at any time, but doubly so in an era where every other horror film is an allegory for trauma and mental illness.

[yoloswegmaster]

I'm not gonna lie, that Cloud Atlas review got a chuckle out of me:

Okay, I know it's not proper for directors to single out actors, but really, Hugo Weaving must be the single worst actor now working.

Cloud Atlas was interesting until wWeaving walked on screen. He ruined every single scene he appeared in.

Wish more people in the film industry were as open about hating things like Mr. Schrader, but it makes complete sense that they don't since I doubt they would want to alienate themselves amongst their peers.

[therewillbeblus]

The Weaving dig is what I was referring to - I just think it's funny. But I agree with Mr Sausage that I don't actually like his 'review'-reviews so much. There are some where a totally random thought snowball is linked to an unrelated film, and to me there's something humorous about that, probably thanks to whoever's running the account having fun with imbuing further randomness into a madman's rants

But yeah, it's often a collection of dumb opinions. I just find some dumb things funny

[domino harvey]

That's an pretty big collection of dumb opinions. I peaced out after reading this from his Longlegs review:

[Horror films are] beneath "seriousness." Westerns, gangster films, spy thrillers and other generes can be remolded and exploited to convey serious issues and conundrums. Horror films seem to me the most resistent to this upgrade. For the most part their raison d'etre is horror itself.

It'd be dumb enough at any time, but doubly so in an era where every other horror film is an allegory for trauma and mental illness.

It’s funnier when you remember he made the Cat People remake (which also resulted in Nastassja Kinski’s quote that I think of literally every time Schrader comes up, “I always fuck my directors, but with Paul it was hard”)

[knives]

And the Exorcist prequel as well.

[Walter Kurtz]

Nastassja Kinski’s ... “I always fuck my directors, but with Paul it was hard”)

The others should have tried some Viagra.

[TechnicolorAcid]

I think the problem was the others weren’t aware of the Cat People curse whereas Paul most definitely knew.

[jegharfangetmigenmyg]

Get your own

I probably shouldn’t admit that I already own two of those shirts

Has anyone else had problems with this guy? I placed an order in late June when the shirts were supposed to be back in stock. Still haven’t received anything.

Wrote to him in early August to ask what was happening, and then he replied ”production on the shirts took a little longer than expected but I started shipping them out a couple of days ago so your package will make its way out before the end of the month. you'll receive a tracking number when it ships”.

A month later, I still haven’t received anything, and now he’s not replying to mails. The shirt was already extremely expensive.

[Guido]

I emailed him last week when I noticed it had been more than 2 months since I’d placed my order. Luckily, he wrote back the next day with news that my order had just shipped (I received the shirt a few days later). Too bad communication with him has been subpar for you, but I wouldn’t worry.

[beamish14]

Step inside his apartment and see his movie poster collection. He shows off the famed Apocalypse Now Japanese poster co-designed by Eiko Ishioka, whose work on Mishima is spectacular

Posteritati does great work. They located a very rare one sheet of Masahiro Shinoda’s Himiko for me

[domino harvey]

Schrader has been hospitalized and intubated for pneumonia (with the doc telling him he would have died if he hadn’t come in), if anyone thought his voice sounded worse than usual in the poster video

[Never Cursed]

Per Facebook, Schrader has somehow found investors to back another film through principal photography. It's called The Basics of Philosophy and concerns a professor-student relationship (uhh...), with Jack Huston as the professor and Sofia Boutella as the student.

[beamish14]

with Jack Huston as the professor

](*,)

[Maltic]

(uhh...)

[pistolwink]

It's appropriate that Schrader all but endorsed AI authoring (or co-authoring) of screenplays because his of late (and frankly more than "of late") have been nearly as formulaic and uninspired as you'd expect from ChatGPT etc.

[diamonds]

His AI comments were embarrassing, but I thought Oh, Canada was a very good film that broke with the formula of the preceding trilogy. Nor does it really resemble Affliction, the previous Banks adaptation. It's one of his best, I reckon.

From this interview on the occasion of Athina Rachel Tsangari's Harvest, it sounds like Sean Price Williams shot The Basics of Philosophy. Depending on how Schrader uses him, that could also make for something of a creative shake-up, at least in terms of Schrader's compositional habits. Time will tell. I have higher hopes for this than After the Hunt, as far as upcoming films in the Oleanna genre go. (Assuming, of course, it hasn't been written with AI…)

[Beloved Aunt]

Jack Huston has finally broken through with a juicy role in a major film!!!!.......... :-&

[domino harvey]

What am I missing on Huston’s involvement?

[Beloved Aunt]

Haha what do you mean exactly? I'm not at all sure you're missing anything. I think I/+beamish perhaps just think its unfortunate he's finally getting a big starring role but in a Schrader film/as a Schrader surrogate character (I guess).