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A young couple on holiday in Venice meet an older couple with a sinister agenda in #PaulSchrader’s provocative and masterful adaptation of #IanMcEwan’s THE COMFORT OF STRANGERS. @criterion.bsky.social consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/01/31/c...
Look, Darling, This Is All for You: The Comfort of Strangers (1990)
Colin (Rupert Everett) and Mary (Natasha Richardson) have left the UK for a holiday in Venice. Ostensibly they’ve come to share time together, but in fact the two are having problems and are trying…
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February 13, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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Father Merrin must confront his own doubts when he discovers evil in a buried church in the #PaulSchrader’s compromised and incomplete but nevertheless intriguing DOMINION: PREQUEL TO THE EXORCIST. consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/01/24/d...
Guilt, Doubt, Temptation, Despair, Redemption: Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist (2005)
While a simple priest in a small German occupied Netherlands town, Father Merrin (Stellan Starsgård) found his faith tested by evil. A German officer (Antoine Kamerling) tasked him with identifying…
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February 4, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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A priest grapples with hope and despair in #PaulSchrader’s psychological thriller FIRST REFORMED. consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/01/17/f...
Hope and Despair: First Reformed (2017)
Reverend Ernst Toller (Ethan Hawke) is carrying quite a heavy load. His small, Albany County church is approaching its 250th anniversary, and is due for a reconsecration. His church may be modest (…
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January 19, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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A man discovers his livelihood ruined when he’s implicated in a client’s murder in #PaulSchrader’s glitzy crime story, AMERICAN GIGOLO. @arrowvideo.bsky.social consideringstories.wordpress.com/2025/01/10/a...
It Don’t Make No Difference How Much, Julie. The Other Side Will Always Pay More: American Gigolo (1980)
Julian Kay (Richard Gere) speaks half a dozen languages, knows the ins and outs of Los Angeles, and can woo pretty much anyone he chooses to. He makes a living as a chauffeur, as a guide, as an esc…
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January 13, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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Bob Crane’s unusual life and strange passions takes center stage in another of #PaulSchrader’s true crime-inspired AUTO-FOCUS. Less interested in the crime, the film is far more intrigued by the course of Crane’s life & the steady slide into the dark. consideringstories.wordpress.com/2024/12/06/a...
Lead Me Not into Temptation (I Can Find It Myself): Auto Focus (2002)
When he was just a jock working jazz radio, Robert Crane (Greg Kinnear) enjoyed treating his audience to silly gags, busting the chops of his coworkers, BSing with his occasional guests, and drummi…
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December 11, 2024 at 12:05 AM
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A drug dealer faces a terrifying future of change in #PaulSchrader’s provocative 1990s crime flick, LIGHT SLEEPER. consideringstories.wordpress.com/2024/12/02/l...
In the Day, Nothing Matters; It’s the Nighttime That Flatters: Light Sleeper (1992)
Drug dealing John LaTour (Willem Dafoe) is experiencing terrifying visions of the future. Right now, he has a quasi-stable life but the New Year is going to put an end to all that. His supplier Ann…
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December 10, 2024 at 11:59 PM
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A guy with a gift presents opportunities aplenty to shysters and church con men in #PaulSchrader’s clever but stylized adaptation of #ElmoreLeonard’s TOUCH. consideringstories.wordpress.com/2024/11/29/t...
A Hands-on Savior: Touch (1997)
Bill Hill (Christopher Walken) was not expecting to find himself in the presence of a miracle when he pays a visit to his blind, former organist, Virginia Worrel (Conchata Ferrell). But while her h…
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December 10, 2024 at 11:56 PM
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Violence begets violence in #PaulSchrader’s wintry adaptation of Russell Banks’ novel of small-town hopes and hurts: AFFLICTION (1997). consideringstories.wordpress.com/2024/08/26/a...
A Violent Inheritance: Affliction (1997)
Life really sucks for Wade Whitehouse (Nick Nolte). Although he’s put together a Halloween party welcome for his daughter Jill (Brigid Tierney), she almost immediately wants to go home (her mother’s h...
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August 28, 2024 at 12:02 PM