Schrader: cinema content can’t stabilize

 ideas, videos
Oct 012013
 
Schrader: cinema content can't stabilize

— In this video writer/Director Paul Schrader wears a silly multi-camera outfit and muses that constant technological change of cinema’s form may prevent good films full of content. If the form is changing, content can’t stabilize You can’t make a revolutionary film in the middle of a revolution My concern is that this period of [...]

THE CANYONS by Paul Schrader — new paradigm?

 business, features
Jul 312013
 
THE CANYONS by Paul Schrader -- new paradigm?

Despite the bad reviews, I had looked forward to seeing Paul Schrader’s The Canyons. I feel that Lindsay Lohan is under-rated, and that she is an easy target for the Hollywood press because of her off-screen drug problems. For example, Lohan’s much-derided performance as Liz Taylor in Liz & Dick was pretty good, and the [...]