Paul Schrader
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Hollywood’s old guard have been finding a new audience through frank opinions, unlikely videos and fan interaction
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He was the explosively talented film-maker who changed cinema for all time. But what did other directing giants make of this movie legend – and did they find his latter films unwatchable?
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A mood of theatricality prevailed at this year’s edition – a bleak but furiously cinematic Marilyn Monroe biopic and a forbiddingly austere French courtroom drama being the most distinctive offerings
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2 out of 5 stars.Sigourney Weaver and Joel Edgerton can’t save this stilted, eccentric crime story
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3 out of 5 stars.Abel Ferrara’s latest film is a strange and frustratingly ambiguous tale of sin, sadness and spirituality
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Competition slots for jailed Iranian director Jafar Panahi, Martin McDonagh and Darren Aronofsky, while actors on show range from past winner Blanchett to Bill Nighy and Harry Styles
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1 out of 5 stars.An attempt to resuscitate a Mexico-set Paul Schrader crime movie – complete with a dodgy Tim Roth cameo – fails miserably
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3 out of 5 stars.Oscar Isaac’s fine performance as an enigmatic gambler is wasted in Paul Schrader’s somewhat sloppy drama
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4 out of 5 stars.Isaac is an army veteran turned professional gambler when a chance for a grim rebalancing appears in Paul Schrader’s vehement drama
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Big name directors at their best feature alongside daring visionaries from the farther realms of art cinema – but to whom will Bong Joon-ho’s jury award the Golden Lion?
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4 out of 5 stars.
The Card Counter review – Paul Schrader’s slow-burn revenge noir ticks all his boxes
4 out of 5 stars.Oscar Isaac is a blank-eyed poker player with a past in Schrader’s latest gathering of lost, tormented souls
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Spielberg revamps Bernstein, young Tony is lured by the mob, Phyllida Lloyd tackles spousal abuse, Top Gun returns – and Daniel Craig calls time on 007 with bangs galore
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Spencer, telling the story of Diana and Charles’s bitter divorce, will battle for the Golden Lion alongside the latest by Pedro Almodóvar
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Director criticises producers of The Card Counter who halted shoot in Mississippi after a cast member was diagnosed with the virus
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Actors and directors, from Richard Gere to Spike Lee, condemn violence that targeted Cinema America
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In an edited version of his 2001 Film Comment essay, the director and screenwriter recalls his heartbreaking relationship – and reconciliation – with the critic who kickstarted his career
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It has premiered some sensationally good films and is being lauded as a challenge to white male privilege, but the streaming giant is no panacea
Even the French are giving up on arthouse films. Is this the end of a cinematic era?