18 Burst results for "Paul Schrader"
The Big Picture
"paul schrader" Discussed on The Big Picture
"It's interesting, I think that it kind of detonates this idea that you've actually put on screen of a man alone with a singular idea who's capturing it perfectly. The first time around. And you know that it's much more like fungible process of making a movie. I don't know quite what fungible means and eye contact. It can change, you know, that it is not, you know, you have to be open minded about this whole thing about waiting. It starts with tactical driver. Life goes on, day by day, each day like the last, and then there is a change. And that keeps coming up, you know, good things happen while you wait. And these people are all waiting. They're sitting in a room, filling time with a diary, wearing a mask, which is their occupation, waiting for something to happen. And then that thing happens. And in case of the last three years, a young person comes into their life. And in the case of the earlier ones, he spots two women, you know, and he's been waiting. And I think there is a line where you're saying narration. The moment I had been waiting for had come. And I liked that idea that so I looked for occupations that involved a lot of waiting. That's why I like poker. You don't do anything. You do the same thing over and over day after day. And what are you doing? You're just waiting. You're waiting for that one magic hand that happens every two or three weeks, where four players think they can win at the same time. And then that hand happens. Are you losing? And then you go back to me. I am a poker player so that resonates deeply. You know, you're at this incredible moment, you've kind of concluded this trilogy. You mean celebrated out here in LA.
The Big Picture
"paul schrader" Discussed on The Big Picture
"And so that when you connect, the individual for occupational metaphor, lightsaber, drug delivery boy, with a larger social melee, which is midlife crisis. I'm reaching the midpoint. What do I do? Everyone, everyone wonders. Well, let me ask you about that. What comes first then? If you're writing light sleeper, is it I want to reflect my own middle aged crisis, or I have an idea about a drug dealer and I want to tell that story. What's the right way to tell it? It was both ways, but in the case of light saver, I turned for it. So I wanted to do a midlife help. And I kept trying to think of a metaphor for it. And they were all cliches. They're all bad. The professor who runs off with his student, the guy who gets hard to be a race car driver, or whatever. And then I was in a dream about 5 a.m. and a man appeared to me in the dream, his name was John. Very, very close. For my face. And he was a drug dealer delivery boy. That I had known. And it was so vivid. I popped awake. Wow, I haven't thought about John in a year. Why did he come to me? So vividly, it was 5 a.m.. And I said, what in the hell are we talking about? And I remember they said, oh, you wanted me, he wanted to know what movies he should see. I realized right down there, I said, that's him. That's the guy I've been looking for. I couldn't find him so he came to me. He said 40 year old drug delivery boy who has no skills whose boss is quitting to start a cosmetics company. And he has no idea what to do. That's a bit like crisis. A unique one. This one is so interesting to me, master Gardner, because it certainly feels like the kind of idea and limits of forgiveness are on your mind. And it seems to be a big theme of this film. Yeah, where it can be will change. And there was a little line in the film that I cut out where the Janine the nurse says, you know, why can't people change? I don't just feel a little too on the Mark. But that was right. I was underneath it. Is it even possible? Can you be kind of proud boy? Become a loving husband. A young interracial girl. Can not even happen. And no, movies are not always, this is the way it is. Sometimes they're what if this was the way it is. The fable like I know this is unlikely, but let's suppose it and see what happens to our thinking when we suppose it could happen. So the movie is more a fable in that way. I mean, there are have been a few isolated cases of white nationalists who have turned and go on the other direction. But mostly they don't. What was the sort of discussion of those kinds of people in our culture in the last ten years, why that came to mind as an archetype for looking at this? Well, certainly the racism engendered by Trump and his followers came as a bit of a shocker, certainly to everyone from my generation because we thought change was incremental but it was in the works and every year it was getting better and the whole generation of racists that had motivated 15th and 60s are now dead and the generation of the late.
The Big Picture
"paul schrader" Discussed on The Big Picture
"The show. Thanks for being here, Paul. Thank you, Sean. Okay, so I saw the master gardener for the first time at the New York Film Festival. This has been acknowledged a couple of times, but when the credits ended and we see this image of Joel Edgerton's character sitting over his journal, people started laughing and warmly excitedly noting. We are inside of a Paul Schrader world. I was wondering, how much are you thinking about the audience and the followers of your work at this stage when you're writing? Because you seem to be sending a message to us with that opening moment. And that particular one, because this has become a de facto or post facto trilogy. It wasn't designed that way, and I did first reform as a kind of spiritual film and then I don't know about torture. And then I had this idea of the gardener being and I told somebody about it and somebody said to me, oh, it's a trilogy. And I said, no, it's not a trilogy. And then I thought a little more and I said, yeah, I guess it kind of is. And maybe I should acknowledge that in the writing of it. Which was not only through what you just mentioned, but also through the fantasia sequence three quarters of the way through. Yeah, I wanted to ask you about that as well. But I am curious how much you think about the arc of the kind of story that you're trying to tell versus maybe films you were writing ten, 20, 30 years ago. Do you think more specifically about how it connects to your other work now? There's always been a thread starting with tax driver. And if I had made taxi driver over and over again, it would have been too much. But about half the films do revert back to that in some way.
The Big Picture
"paul schrader" Discussed on The Big Picture
"And they internally reflect in a way that honestly, while I'm watching it, I'm like, should I be thinking this much about my own life and my existence in the world? And I think that that's a fascinating sitting experience while watching his movies. I have never felt the way that I felt when I finished first reformed. From watching a movie. Me too, first or formed is very different from these other two films for a very specific reason that I think is notable. Ethan Hawke's character in the first reformed is sort of like fundamentally a good person. He's flawed and he's made mistakes and we see that say in the relationship that he has with one of the women who works at the church. But he is not a demonic figure in any means. And he is not a person who has caused great harm in pain throughout the world. In the card counter, Oscar Isaac's character was an Abu Ghraib torturer. In this movie, Joel Edgerton's character is a proud boy, and a hitman. And has done some terrible things. And the movie genuinely asks you to confront the question, can someone like this be forgiven? Not just by God, but in our own society, in our world. Can a person like this have loved as a person like this deserve love? I don't have the answer to that. I think it's at least useful that someone's trying to ask a question like that as opposed to platitude muttering about family while looking at read and Moreno as Vin Diesel does in fast X. And so for that, I appreciate Paul Schrader. I appreciate you watching the films of call Schrader Amanda. Through clenched hands and confused emotional register. Not that confused. I think I'm very clear on what I think. And I'm very clear on what I think Paul Schrader's answer to that question is in the phone master gardener, but that's okay. What is your masculine ideal? I feel like we talk about it on literally every podcast.
The Big Picture
"paul schrader" Discussed on The Big Picture
"And we have learned the same amount about gardening, which is some pretty surface level stuff about deadheading roses because you don't want to, you know, that can be used metaphorically in a voice-over while journaling. So I responded to that and I think that there is something like almost a little sweet about this being like the late stage Paul Schrader project of moving towards hope in a very fucked up way. So. I could only watch it knowing that you had seen it twice already and were like Paul Schrader, but I enjoyed it. I think I've seen it four times now. That's normal. I think that this one is quite different actually in some respects from the other two. And from all of the films. And for one very specific reason, it is hopeful that it kind of what feels like the end of his life at the end of his career, you know, not the immediate end, but you know, certainly in the back quarter, this movie and I hope I'm not spoiling anything by saying that is hopeful. It's kind of sweet. Yeah. And his stories do not end that way. Almost ever. And, you know, you can read a bit about his personal life and he shared a lot. He was profiled in The New Yorker recently and talked a lot about his marriage and his life in the last 30, 40 years. And perhaps what informed the decision to end the story this way? I thought it was a fascinating choice. He's done something in the last couple of films, these kinds of colorful visual fantasia sequences that are also a change and they're not just imitating shots from bresson movies. You know, they are, they are an elevation there, like a new style. They're a new late style for him, that I think are interesting and effective. He does keep casting the same kind of actor to play what I think is maybe the most elevated version of Paul Schrader himself, you know, Joel Edgerton and Oscar Isaac and Ethan Hawke, all are sort of like somewhere between the ages of 45 and 55 and they're quite handsome, but they're such a storm inside them. They have the same character over and over and over again. And that's obviously appealing. To somebody like me too, the way that we idealize our experience while also making it simultaneously quite tragic, please see my reaction to fast X. And so I don't think that that accusation of the same movie over and over again. This movie kind of defies that in some way. And he now claims that the next thing he does will be quite different from this. But as a capstone on that trilogy, I think it's really interesting. I'm kind of amazed that he's even making movies. You know, like, the palm of it doesn't make movies anymore. It was really hard for Coppola to make another movie.
The Big Picture
"paul schrader" Discussed on The Big Picture
"No, I've never been to South America. I have been to Brazil, but I didn't go to Rio and I'm really regretting it. It looks quite beautiful. You're asking me and I was like, wow, that looks really nice. You liked one thing, which was the performance of the very large man. I enjoyed Alan Ritchie. Yeah, can you, like, 30 minutes after I asked you about him? You were like, wait, that's the guy from reacher. He is the new Jack reacher in reacher. Okay. And he is an extremely large man. He's one of the few actors in Hollywood who can actually say dialog that could hold the screen with someone like The Rock or Johnson. He looks like a professional wrestler. And I couldn't really clock who he was at first because it was so out of context. And then it hit me about 45 minutes in. Of course, this is richer. I watched all of richer season one. I don't know how I didn't realize it was him. I don't know if he was good. Has he, but he's a pretty good actor. Or is he that size and retractable? He's that big, but he's not wearing like tactical gear all the time. Bobby, it's like a real, it's a full triangle that he's achieving, you know? You've seen him before. For the last 5 minutes, I saw this on the outline. I've just been reading his men's health article about how he got this body doing 5 bodyweight exercises as many reps as possible. And I'm like, um. Interesting. Well, so how many reps were possible? Did he share? He, well, he didn't say. He didn't commit to that. What do you think? Probably because that's not how he got that body. Right. I think he's huge. And I think what's going on with this. How many reps are possible? Like 300? Well, he's got some pull ups, some dips, some press ups, some setups.
The Big Picture
"paul schrader" Discussed on The Big Picture
"I think along with Furious 7, the sort of two best of the recent films in part because that closed the loop on the Paul Walker story in a very emotional way and fast 5 is thought to have the best action of the franchise. Now there are obviously your mileage may vary on this series. Fast 5 is the apotheosis of the and was one of my favorite movies of the decade because it's when the franchise realizes what it can be and is the right level of absurdity and knowingness and spectacle and fun. But before it jumps the shark. So I would say that the last two films, quite bad. I have been poor. 8 was very badly reviewed 9 arguably as badly reviewed. They were both were successful at the box office. This is a very steady franchise. I think fast 5 is when the franchise realized that it had an opportunity to an opportunity to become a modern day James Bond kind of a franchise. Like as long as there was that kind of central figure in the central concept, DOM toretto in the center, cars, family, heists, big bads. We got something here. But it has fallen on hard times creatively in a big, big way. I don't like these movies very much in the first place, but the last we've not been very good. This feels like that choice to open with fast 5 is a signal to the audience. Like, hey, don't forget, we are special. We've done special stuff in this movie. And we're gonna go back to it to tell a new story and constantly remind you of when we were good. Exactly. That seemed right? Yes. A 1000%. I don't think that that worked. No. In fact, I think it had the exact opposite effect, which was that it reminded me how far this franchise has fallen. Because Jason Momoa is in the film, and this is his first appearance in a fast and the furious film.
The Big Picture
"paul schrader" Discussed on The Big Picture
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The Big Picture
"paul schrader" Discussed on The Big Picture
"The studios could enter a lottery of some kind and make it all participate. This show is telecast on ABC, which is of course owned by the Disney corporation, The Little Mermaid, this a Disney movie, it was a truly synergistic sponsored content moment. We watched the trailer of the movie, which I did not think looked very good. I thought it looked absolutely terrible. And we were like, okay, that's pretty lame. They put a trailer in the middle of the show that came directly from the company that put on the show. I wasn't like appalled by that because it's like, that's biz. That's Hollywood, you know? Like they're gonna sell their stuff. But when you and I, do an ad read, or I don't know. When you do an ad read for ozempic. Are you fully behind it? All right, we're not gonna play the ozempic game on this podcast, okay? Jimmy Kimmel was willing to. I know, that's the Patreon. But in our line of work, when you do sponsored content, you have to label it as sponsored content. And they came out and they started giving a very serious speech to the camera about the power of storytelling and worlds beyond and what community can bring you and blah blah blah blah blah. And then there's like this creeping realization that they're introducing a trailer. But they never say this is a trailer for our movie, The Little Mermaid, which is made by Disney, which owns ABC, which is the network that you are watching, this Oscar is on. Like they didn't do any of it. Where is the FTC? You have to label the shit on Instagram. This is how Andrea riseborough got in trouble and now the academy is like no problem. Here you go, whatever. I'm just saying I would be mad. There's probably some backroom politicking that is behind all this and I'm sure we'll see some reporting, but you know the ABC's contract with the Oscars runs through 2028. There's been some speculation over the last year that they would try to find their way out of that deal. Also, linear television is going the way of the dodo. Sure. We've been told over and over again, ratings don't even matter anymore. Everybody's streaming everything. There was no way to stream the Academy Awards, is that right? So, you know, I wonder if this was like a please stick around. Please pay us out for the remaining four years on our contract and this lucrative deal that we signed 5 years ago. Sean, when you post your Blu-ray player, little spahn cons on your Instagram, you have to post ad on it. Do you know that? And if you're a subject to those rules, then so are the president. I don't post any spawn. I'm only spawned by Paul Schrader's movies, all right? There's no spawn going on here. That'd be incredible if you became influencer and started doing spin confidence. The lonely men about films from the 1970s. Yeah, that's beautiful. I take your point. Anyway, I'm just saying. I was hoping that that moment
Awards Chatter
"paul schrader" Discussed on Awards Chatter
"Finale where you're playing guy goes in leeds the mission to get eichmann and start in that That year also while coming on twenty eighteen so this must have been probably twenty seventeen gone in. The first at attorneys gate was all that happening at the around the same time. I mean it was kinda crazy. 'cause it's like i a in a mom pass got married. Jim was born. I did life itself. I did hamlet. When did operation finale. I flew to do gauguin. That was all the same year you know elmich and so it was just. It was just too much the end of that. I really got burnt out now. Yeah yeah well. I hope that this was not the result of another period of burn up. Twenty twenty one. Let's just know as we come to the president. The card counter dune and scenes from a marriage where you go back and do another. You were talking about the challenges of limited series. I mean jesus. Five hours right for that As well as as you know these parts with these others just to quickly hit on them and great work in each mazing especially the card counter. let's talk about. It's paul schrader who i think had expressed an interest in working with you since you got out of. Juilliard finally happens. How was this character. Who's fairly eccentric. Explain to you. In just that enigmatic paul schrader kind of way man alone in his room to one of his in a series of portraits that. He's he's done. And i was thrilled to be able to add to that series of portraits. It's in the script to be honest. He serves up everything that i want as an actor to experience. Which is you know the subconscious at work and it just ignites my curiosity and such a such a spectacular way. You know. I went back to mask work and went back to juilliard to work on that because i felt similarly. This is a guy you know. Paul talks about how this is a man wearing a mask and his mask his occupation..
KUGN 590 AM
"paul schrader" Discussed on KUGN 590 AM
"Network, which is trying to make it to the next. Big thing. I don't know what will cost to stream it, it'll it'll cost an additional fee. But I got to tell you. That is somewhat of a surprise that Universal has now gone the route of Disney. And one of brothers the goal of the day to day to be learning their lesson. The public the public is now telling you they want to go back to the movies. So why are these guys flying in the face of that? Look at the results of last weekend? The box office you were even surprised. Yeah. What did the other is? Listen, we said we we've talked about this for the last year. Universal Pictures is an old studio. They've done business with theaters for over 100 years, and they have all used this horrible scenario. Of the pandemic and post pandemic to just take chances on their business model and turn it completely blind eye on the multiplies isn't theater owners and it really is. Uh, pretty sad situation of just caring about one side of the fence when they're really equal partners, uh, for the last 100 years and going down the road because they need movie theaters to really have a strong, sustainable Business model for $200 million movies. It's just not going to work. Uh, data days. It's not the model that they really want to do it because they're trying to grab every last dollar. During this during this period. It's sort of it's perplexing and said very perplexing. I'll tell you the time. There's a movie out this week that you're going to talk about this weekend called a card counter. With Oscar Girl Isaac rising, good actor, very solid actor probably most recognizable from the Star Wars movies. He plays a very strange worked character in a movie that is so distracting and distressing. There were two movies in this One good movie that you could do about a card counter and then some other guy who's deranged and why they trying to tell that story together. I was so confusing so awful that I get up and left. So really, you know, it's interesting because it was. I believe it was directed and written by a guy named Paul Schrader, who wrote Mark Scorsese's taxi driver. This guy goes back a long time. You also directly producer Scorsese, right producer This Paul Schrader also did a movie in the seventies with George Scott called Hard for Uh, they don't make movies like that. Definitely and in theaters anymore, But he hasn't. He's been around this guy Paul Schrader for very, very long, long time. Hard shakes out. Alright, chucker. Thank you Have a good weekend 59 past the hour..
KQED Radio
"paul schrader" Discussed on KQED Radio
"Is fresh air. The new independent drama the Card counter stars Oscar Isaac as a professional poker player and former military man who was convicted of war crimes at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison. It's the latest movie from Paul Schrader, known for directing films such as First Reformed and Affliction and for Writing the script for Martin Scorsese's 1976 Classic taxi Driver. Our film critic Justin Chang has this review of the card counter, which opens today in theaters. The signature Paul Schrader image is of a lonely, middle aged man nursing a glass of booze and writing in his diary, pouring out all his dark thoughts and guilty secrets. In the 1992 film Light sleeper. It was a drug dealer having a midlife crisis. In the more recent first reformed it was a minister radicalized by the threat of climate change. Trader likes to burrow deep inside these men and their tortured souls. But there's an amusing randomness to the way he assigns his characters their respective issues. Is absorbing new picture. The card counter is no exception. It stars Oscar Isaac as a professional gambler who used to be a military man stationed at Abu Ghraib. We don't know All this right at the start. Isaac's character goes by William tell a silly gamblers pseudonym. When we first meet William. He explains that he spent years in prison for some unspecified crime. It was behind bars that William learned how to count cards. Now he spends his days hopping from casino to casino playing blackjack and poker and doing just well enough to beat the house without cleaning it out. At night, He returns to his motel room, writes in his diary and tries to keep his demons at bay. Early on, William meets a gambling agent named Belinda played by a delightful Tiffany had ish who wants him to join the big leagues? Had ish and Isaac have a sly chemistry that goes from flirtatious to sizzling in no time, even though William initially rebuffs Belinda's professional overtures What's your name again? William, tell.
KCRW
"paul schrader" Discussed on KCRW
"It's while the defining moments from the 19 nineties O. J. Simpson is believed to be in the white Bronco that you see in the center of your picture, followed by as many as nine. Orange County sheriff's deputy. So what we have here, people across the country were glued to their TVs for the slow speed chase along Southern California freeways involving a white Ford Bronco that football star and murder suspect O. J. Simpson was riding in when he finally got out. Simpson was arrested in connection with the killings of his former wife, Nicole Brown and her friend Ron Goldman. That voice you heard is helicopter reporter Bob Tour. He and his now ex wife, reporter Marika Gerard, where saw the first to cover local news stories from the air. The chopper made it possible for them to bypass Southern California traffic. And get quickly to breaking news like wildfires and police pursuits. Turns out it was also part of a bigger shift in how local news is covered. That's the focus of a new documentary called Worley. Bird. Producer Matt Yoka says he decided to tell the story through the lens of Bob and maracas relationship. They met each other as basically kids and and Their first date involved going to a crime scene to take Photos, so their relationship was really completely intertwined with Covering the news, and it's sort of the foundation of who they were together. And as they fell in love and raised a family, um, the work that they did. The scale that they operated at just grew and grew and grew along their journey. They really kind of pushed helicopter reporting into sort of the next level of breaking news coverage. Maybe the entertainment ification of news it was there. Their work. That really is now when we think back of the eighties and nineties. Often, the images that come to mind are the images that Zoe Marika captured. Some of the most memorable moments in 19 eighties and nineties. L. A are captured in your documentary like you say the O. J. Simpson Bronco Chase the play uprising. What do you think drove that obsession for breaking news in LA I think that the city was undergoing a truly Tumultuous time. I mean, the social upheaval that was coming in response to, uh is the treatment of the African American community and many different people of color. I think, in one sense, the work that Zoe America was doing was simply trying to bring that into the homes of the people of Los Angeles. Watching the nightly news, Um What I think happened was over a period of time is the audience became accustomed to watching that and wanting to see sort of, you know the next tumultuous or the next catastrophic moment, and and I think that that's when you sort of see being ushered in the era of high speed pursuit, So I think In some ways it was an organic evolution from truly important. Breaking news events into a sort of desire to see the next you know the next car chase. During the uprising. Video footage from news choppers was played over and over on TV and the beating of a truck driver named Reginald Denny was also broadcast live at one point Then bobbed her can be heard saying live on air quote. These are not people. Is there any sense of that coverage almost becoming part of the story. Heightening racial divide and fear. I think that the Experience for Zoe and Marika covering that story created Lot of trauma that you can hear playing out. From the audio after they covered that there's no other way to describe it, then that that was a racist comment. My goal was to kind of take you into that moment. As it unfolded. As you've mentioned Bob Turner now goes by Zoey tour after transitioning in 2014, and she says herself that before the transition Testosterone in her system may have driven some of his aggressive behavior and reporting style. Did you get the sense that there were some regrets, perhaps about the drive for seeking those big TV moments to get the most gripping footage? I mean, so much of of Worley Bird is Zoe. Exploring who she is and who she was, and it's an honest Often difficult. Process of reflection. And, yes, I think that she is. She was struggling and her efforts to try to reconcile the things that she did in the past. The goal of the film was not to cast judgment or to be prosecutorial. In any sense, it was just to kind of take a very human raw. Look at what it's like for these two people to live their life. Both Zoe and Marika, for that matter. I think Marika was undergoing the same sort of self reflection. And I think at the core of the film is really Trying to tell a personal story. A relationship story. It's in. In many ways, it's a marriage stories set in Los Angeles. So the backdrop of that Are these big historical events and that the work that they did. Is completely inseparable from their relationship. Matt Yoka is the producer of the new documentary Worley Bird. It's now streaming on Apple TV and on Amazon. You're listening to K C R W KCRW. Sponsors include focus features presenting the new thriller The Card Counter. Martin Scorsese Presents a film by Paul Schrader. Oscar Isaac stars as a gambler playing for redemption, but counting on revenge the card counter only in theaters September 10th. Support comes from mocha presenting people Adi Rest Big heartedness be my neighbor. The first West Coast survey of the Swiss media artist risked installations explore relationships of video and the body exterior environments and interior, psychological landscapes and reason and instinct. The exhibition surveys work encompassing single channel videos, large scale installations and sculptures.
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"paul schrader" Discussed on KCRW
"This has been a perfect summer to have our first year with flash pad really hot Has we said at 90 quite a few days this year, Nikki Sweeter, organizes community engagement for startle. She says those once rare 90 degree days are more common now than she remembers. In an odd twist. It's actually been so hot and dry this summer that the new splash pad has had to close for the past couple weeks have been called completely just because of the drought Sweeter says adjusting to climate change was not the top reason for building the water feature. But climate resiliency is a bonus. Cooper. Martin is the director of sustainability at the National League of Cities and says those of every size need to be thinking about the health effects of climate change. He is The most dangerous sort of climate change. Attribute it kills the most people. It puts people in hospitals, Martin says, since small cities don't likely have the funds for huge adjustments to their infrastructure. They have to adapt to climate change on a budget. We're always talking about important things that they can do in their communities for not a terribly large sum of money that reduces the heat risk things like planting more trees for shade or using lighter colored pavements to reflect heat. Or the splash pads to help residents cool down. Martin says. While the federal government takes on big marquee projects like massive solar farms and smart electrical grids, it's important for cities, however small to protect their residents from the dangers of a warming world. And part of that effort will be to build places where they can get huge buckets of water dumped on their heads for NPR news. I'm Brecht, Albert. Okay. I think this is NPR news. KCRW. Sponsors include focus features presenting the new thriller The Card Counter. Martin Scorsese Presents a film by Paul Schrader. Oscar Isaac stars as a gambler playing for redemption, but counting on revenge the card counter only in theaters September 10th. 5 48 here at KCRW on this Labor Day Maculan keeping the company for all things considered glad you're here, head for us as we sort of closed down unofficially, Summer 2021. We are continuing NPR's summer travel series. Going to go for a hike in Lebanon, and that country has all sorts of history in it. We're going to hear how hiking there is becoming.
KLIF 570 AM
"paul schrader" Discussed on KLIF 570 AM
"It's about it down on his luck, social worker who finds himself over 70 tried to protect the client from her parole husband who's his major drug dealer trying to reclaim his status on the street. Olivia Munn, Frank Grillo. Shane Wing, Um, who is like? One of my favorite actors met him from Boardwalk Empire. He was a sheriff. This is just a fantastic thriller. Great action in it. But Shane Windham is like one of our greatest unsung actors right now, And this is all my favorite movies of the year. It really is called the Gateway, and that's playing it vocally in theaters. What are you looking forward to seeing in the next week or so, our next next month or so, I mean, we're getting into the fall now. This used to be the time when all the big movies would be released. It's true. It's true. I think I mentioned earlier in the show. I love Dune. You know, I I read the Frank Herbert's sci fi novel back when I was in college. I saw the movie even though it was very confusing. You know. David Lynch came out and said the studio wrecked his cut of it. But now, Dennis the menace the knell of you, his new one is coming out in October, and they've already started showing critics And they're all calling it one of the greatest masterpieces instead of we'll see about that. But I'm looking forward to doom because I'm a huge sci fi fan. And that is just the cast. And that is just amazing from Day Batista. Oscar Isaac There's also a movie next week. We're going to talk about called the card counter with Oscar Isaac. Um, it's about a guy goes around. There's always poker tournament, but he's also ex military and he's got a lot of baggage. You know that he's carrying around in one of his old buddy showed up, and they have to finish a mission and I won't go into the spoilers. But that's a big one. And that's from Paul Schrader. You know, the the writer of Taxi Driver and Right? Yeah, just a phenomenal film is getting a lot of buzz opening the Venice Film festival, too. So we have a lot of good movies coming up so hopefully will make the release date so the public can go see them and the studios will be scared and people aren't going so I don't know. Like I said, Labor Day weekend is going to be a big test for the movie theaters. All right, this is Jeff Howard Vegas film critic dot com. Check out his YouTube channel as well. He interviews It almost everybody out there who's willing to sit down behind the camera. Jeff as always, it's great talking with you have a fine Labor Day weekend and we'll talk to you next Friday. Sounds great, Ernie take care and have a great weekend. Alright, you as well and listen, you have a safe and happy Labor day. And here we go into the Labor.
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"paul schrader" Discussed on KCRW
"Mm mm. This is NPR news. Four years old. I think I was still trying to master Little Red riding hood. Good morning. This is KCRW. I'm Cherry Glazer. With this news update. It has been a busy weekend. So far at L. A tax officials say there were almost 3300 flights scheduled for this Labor Day holiday. That's double the number of planes that traveled in and out of lax for last year's Labor Day weekend. As travelers wait for their flights. They can take advantage of a new way to get a snack or a drink. A robot named Nom nom will deliver your food, sort of a term of affection that we've given it. Picture oversized cooler with a robot brain. And basically, the thing can carry about £40 of cargo and in this case, food and actually walks behind the person making the food deliveries to the gate. That's L A X spokesperson Heath Montgomery, he says. While it's still plenty toasty here in Southern California, a lot of folks have been jetting off to equally hot destinations. Any of the warm destinations, especially in Mexico, have proven to be extremely popular over the summer. Cancun stands out among a lot of them. So a lot of people trying to squeeze him his last minute vacations to a lot of those warmer destinations for the most part. If you're flying out of lax today, Montgomerie recommends arriving at the airport at least two hours ahead of time for domestic Flight three for an international one masks are required everywhere in the airport. You're listening to K C. R W KCRW. Sponsors include focus features presenting the new thriller The Card Counter. Martin Scorsese Presents a film by Paul Schrader. Oscar Isaac stars as a gambler playing for redemption, but counting on revenge the card counter only in theaters September 10th. Schools into Oakland regularly report lower reading performance levels for black and Latino students, a parent advocacy group has been pushing the school district to do better, and it's getting results. As you'll hear coming up. KCRW sponsors include Picasso, a real estate co ownership model that allows clients to buy and own a second home, not a resort. Timeshare. Picasso manages the home while clients own it. Current listings at p a cso dot com As we mentioned earlier has been plenty warm across much of Southern California, and it's going to stay that way today looking for her sunshine Highs in the seventies along the coast eighties in the L A basin nineties, low hundreds in the valleys. Right now. In Westwood. It is 69 degrees 67 in Calabasas, 66 in Montecito 87 in Palm Springs. Support for NPR comes from the age and Ida Cooper Foundation Commemorating Fred Cooper by supporting programs, which highlight the current issues of racism, equality, diversity, sexism and anti Semitism. And.
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"paul schrader" Discussed on Reel Chronicles
"I watched it for the first time around. Two thousand seven. I think i watched it for my Mike mike class music in film. While i was home at rooker i took montclair state and we. We reviewed music and film scores right. Antelope dave you must have loved that class as much as i did my favorite. It's actually my favorite class. I ever took in college but we went over of. Who a little bit of a spoiler but we go over mike. Six men bernard hermann And his music in this film. And i honestly as well focusing on the music more than the actual premise of the movie. I still love the movie. If i was a really fantastic film but yeah. That was my first time ever watching taxi driver and i was like. Wow that's funny. Yes ah so for me. It was i was i had. I seen goodfellas and that was the first marty film. Add seen and that kind. Of just i was. I think two thousand. Oh man i remember I think it was a freshman in high school and then it just kind of took off from there and then i saw taxi driver. And i'm like oh this is good really good. I really is really a twelve year old. Like i had so many questions but We're gonna we're gonna get into it now in terms of the production of the film. Start off from there as usual. So the martin shot this on a budget of one point nine million dollars. According to marty with brian depalma who introduced it. To paul schrader a screenwriter. The film in score says he says he scores says he says a taxi driver. Alrosa feeling that movies are like dreams are drug induced reveries. He attempted to incubate within the viewer. The feeling of being in limbo Between sleeping and waking he calls travis and avenging angel floating through the streets of new york city intended to represent all cities everywhere score says he calls attention to emperor vision. Improvisation in the films such as in the c- between two narrow suitable shepherd in the coffee shop he also cites alfred. Hitchcock's wrong man and jack in a bigger splashes perations for his camera work in the movie. I definitely see a with Hitchcock's the raw the raw man..
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The Monster Movie Hall of Fame and 'The Invisible Man'
"Later in the show. I'll have an interview with Lebron L. The writer director of the new updated edition of the invisible man. A movie that shifts the perspective of the classic horror movie to the victim in this case played by the Amazing Elizabeth Moss when Elsa Clever Jonah craftsman and we had a fun chat about how he's reinventing the work of the historic universal monster movies and some of his aides filmaker. Heroes like James Cameron and Paul Hogan and John Carpenter but I I am joined by ringer contributor and one of the best film minds around Adam Neiman. Thanks for joining me Adam. Thanks for having me Adam. We're here to build another wing in the movie hall of fame. Today we said post and beam on the monster movie hall of fame. Now you know monster. Movies are tricky because there are two distinctions between them. One is your classical scare movie that enrapture audiences but maybe doesn't really mean very much and then. The other is the load-bearing bearing metaphorical monster that communicate something to the world about maybe it's ills or human psychology or things of that nature I assume that you are more fan of the latter. But May maybe that's not the case. I think I'm a fan of the ladder when it's less calculated You know the the joke I liked to tell his one day. Someone's GonNa make really good specific movie about a social problem like documentary and then at a press conference the director. She's going to be like this movie's a metaphor for zombies and just waiting for someone to do but I mean I think that in the last couple years because you have some like Jordan. Peele who has spoken not in terms of monster movies but in terms of horror movies. He's talked about you. Know his office for those social thrillers or Social Horror Movies and the metaphorical dimension to them. And so you know because monsters are a subset of horror movies as you say a delivery device for for scares those streams often do cross but yeah. I think some of the best monster movies of all time are definitely ones where monsters represent something whether it's something inside or outside society or something inside or outside people but I'm also just a a big fan of movies. Where like spooky things jump out at people in eat them? So it's a IT'S A. It's a fine balance before we get started on constructing this this list that we've put together here. Do you remember your first monster movie experience at the movie. That felt like a monster movie to me and I mean it it is a monster is when Pinocchio gets swallowed by the whale. Oh yeah which is. Obviously you know I mean there's a biblical reference there to to Joan in the whale and it's You know like for for for kids. Who Who who see Pinocchio? That whale is just nightmarish and terrifying and and gigantic. I mean my dad. I think that's the first movie he ever told you to. Took me to it. Just absolutely scared the hell out of me that and the giant squid in Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea. Same thing oh great both Some Disney spun con there. Well done by in and and you. Well I'm thinking about Pinocchio as you say it and the thing that scared me more than the whale is the sequence in which the boys turn into donkeys boys which is just absolutely disturbing and also kind of metaphorical in its way Not to put too fine a parasite point on it I'm trying to think of my first true scary movie experience. I feel like what I got two young Frankenstein before I got to Frankenstein in. It's funny. How when something like that happens how it can obscure your relationship to movies and I think it actually made me Not so much scared movie theaters but just just sort of happy and smiling and laughing. I tend to laugh at horror movies and monster movies because I get kind of perverse thrill out of them and I so I if young Frankenstein. Ken Count that would be. That would be my number one. I mean obviously. I saw a bunch movies that we'll talk about here on this list that a very young age. And maybe that's an opportunity to just go right into it. So here's what we're going to do. We'RE GOING TO GO CHRONOLOGICALLY. So there's a long history. I would say monster. Movies are essentially as old as movies themselves. So we're going to try to walk through. Essentially I don't know eighty ninety years of movie history and try to capture. What are the absolute most representative interesting compelling fascinating monster movies ever made and the monsters? I think the conversation should really be about the monsters inside of the movies and why they're so effective as devices for either sending those messages or just scaring the shit out of us. So you chosen five. I've chosen five. We're GONNA WE'RE GONNA Ariffin vamp little bit. Why don't you give me your first pick going all the way back to the nineteen thirties? Sure and you know it's interesting because now when we've got it arranged chronologically we've got this this interesting blindspot which. Kinda be filled in as we go along. Which is we've both bypassed. The true initial cohort of Universal Monster. Movies right the very late twenties very early thirties because the first movie on my list is King Kong. So I have bypassed Dracula Frankenstein you know bride of Frankenstein Which are all these enduring literary properties that have been made and remade for a long time and I think the thing about King Kong. It just feels like the primal scene for me of monster as spectacle because he's not human sized right. He's not an actor costume he's not You know someone doing an accent or wearing makeup. He's a special effects creation and the thing about the original King Kong. Every time I watch it is. It is just so spectacular visually. In an analog era. You know the the integration of those stop motion special effects into old sets and the exaggerated camera angles on the actors and just the the surrealism of it. I've read that. The actual surrealists the the practicing artists within that within that movement re huge fans of King Kong for one thing. 'cause monster just keeps changing size. You know it's inconsistent it's inconsistent but it's also just stunning because from scene to scene you know when he's just represented by giant hander giants foot or the close ups on the is and then you can also still cut backing these establishing shots and seeing him in these different environments and. I think it's the way also that it goes from this primal island to this urban city. The monster in his home context. And then sort of you know thrashing around in the middle of maternity causing chaos. It's just like the deepest the deepest core horror fantasy. You know that that that I can think of I. I just think it's absolutely astonishing and I never tire of watching it. It's funny I think a lot of the monsters on our list Get repeated and reused and re contextualize over and over again the thing with King Kong is is the actual character of King Kong comes up over and over and over and over again. We're getting another King Kong movie this year. And for whatever reason I would say between King Kong and Godzilla. Those are really the only two significant monsters that we never tire of somehow. That don't don't expire. You know I think that the idea behind what King Kong represents and there's obviously been an extraordinary amount of both academic critical just fun writing about What happens when colonialists enter a less developed world and attempt to steal things from it But in addition to that it is this grand spectacle and we talk a lot on the show about is. It doesn't move. You have a reason to be seen in a movie theater. Then I feel like the original King. Kong is is one of the landmark achievements and you have to see this on a giant screen. There's nowhere else for to be seen. We'll for sure. I maybe just in terms of bridging King Kong with those other brand name monsters of the period he in genders the same kind of complex sympathy. That you have with Boris. Karloff Frankenstein. Right I mean you even have a rhyme in those two movies wherein Frankenstein. He picks the little girl up by the river without doing what he's doing. And you know drowns her accidentally and certainly king kongs intentions towards Aren't violent. They're they're in his sort of chivalrous or desirous or somewhere in between there. I think the reason he endures an even the point that God's Zilla as a character eventually got bent in King kongs direction because the original godzillas dot anthropomorphized sympathetic at all. And then over the years. And they made Godzilla more like King Kong. I think being inside that sort of like destructive force but you're also misunderstood and you're more a victim of circumstance than anything else that's a really appealing escapist fantasy for filmgoers even thinking the original King Kong as terrifying as it is and as brutal as the violences like a people have never seen it. He smush is people into Goo on screen. You know You're still with him and I think that that's a really great monster. Movie needs on some kinds of great monster movies that you need that possible level of identification or sympathy. So it's not just purely a nightmare. I think the original King Kong does that just just amazingly well. So you're next pick actually doesn't do the former thing that you were just describing which is there's no crushing there's no Gu. There's no absolute violence of a kind in your next week. What's your next movie? The next movie I have is is cap. People which is part of a cycle of really low key atmospheric horror movies produced in the mostly in the nineteen forties. Bhai guy named Val Luton and I would say that if you get a chance to see Ken. Jones documentary thou loot man in the shadows. I think it's the best documentary I've ever seen about a filmmaker at particularly about how Luton changed horror movies by using the lack of a budget. And the lack of franchise -able characters. You Know He. He didn't have the roster that universal was working with all these all star. You know horror icons so he made it less more. It's the it's the the the the cinema of of of suggestion and scary around the edges. But it's also movie about people transforming into cats I. It's a booby that plays the the ambiguity of is this or isn't this real up. You know for for a long time but it really does give over to the idea that the main character the heroin does when stimulated or afraid you know actually transform into A cat due to this this this Eastern European mysticism and it's also a movie. I'm sure they'll come later. That gets remade in the eighties and completely liberalised because instead of just talking with someone turning into a cat or remembering someone turning into a cat you actually see it on screen with with special effects and it's It's less effective to me. Do you do you like the Paul schrader version that you're describing the eighties version. I like the Paul schrader version. Because it's wild acid trippy. Paul schrader horror movie. And it's it's glory and it's actually not as full-on like latex hydraulic special effects. His other movies from the period. But I I love the original are you are you. Are you fond of the delude films directed by Jacques Turner? Who did a bunch of the other ones is it a? Is it a a a source of Phantom for you it is? I saw cat people and the Leopard men in a couple of them many many years ago and then actually over Halloween this year my wife and I were looking and you know as I get older Halloween. Getting more and more difficult to program. If we're not gonNA rewatch something. But we watched a couple movies. We watched The criterion collection had the ghost ship which I had never seen which I thought had. It has a very similar approach to kind of What's happening in the shadows? Which is most of his films are using that strategy of not showing the thing and then I watched by myself. The body snatcher and both of them. I thought were pretty great. I mean I this is also a case where I I. I probably saw Kent Jones's documentary before seeing any of the films and while that was a great thing for my film education it also kind of warped perception of the movie because I was seeing it as a kind of intellectual exercise in a way where I understood technique as opposed to some of these other movies that we're GonNa talk about here where I just happened to be nine years old when I saw it in a completely reorganized my brain chemistry in a way but I do like his movies. And especially this one that you've chosen well and then also just the last thing to say but it may be that because it's not special effects and spectacle it anticipates where horror movies would go in the sixties with the idea of the monster within right. I mean here. It's not a an invading apor vampire. It's the idea of a woman who's subconscious and her inner life motivates this transformations client about the link between monstrous and desire and monstrous and repression. Which is why it tends to be. You Know Pretty Beloved Academically but I mean by the sixties. Neither US talk about these movies. But you start having the idea of the human monster in movies like psycho or whatever else and you can kind of trace aligned from the way cat. People stages horror towards that stuff. I think I think that's right. And I think it's probably a capitals nifty double feature with the peg for this film the invisible man because that movie is also as much about.