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Posts Tagged "Paul Schrader"
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The Yakuza ***** (1974, Robert Mitchum, Takakura Ken, Brian Keith) – Classic Movie Review 2,716
Sydney Pollack’s startling 1974 neo-noir gangster thriller film The Yakuza is the stomach-churning tale of Japanese crime syndicate members who abduct a wealthy American businessman’s daughter. Robert Mitchum stars as the ex-GI assigned to trace […]
Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist *** (2005, Stellan Skarsgård, Gabriel Mann) – Classic Movie Review 2525
Director Paul Schrader’s alternative and original prequel to The Exorcist (1973), written by William Wisher and Caleb Carr, forms the satisfactory fifth entry in The Exorcist series. It is the reasonably happy ending to an extraordinary, unhappy story. […]
Obsession *** (1976, Cliff Robertson, Geneviève Bujold, John Lithgow) – Classic Movie Review 2188
For director Brian De Palma’s teasing and intriguing 1976 mystery thriller, writer Paul Schrader bases his screenplay on the movie buff’s story he concocted with De Palma. Schrader and De Palma no doubt intend an homage […]
American Gigolo **** (1980, Richard Gere, Lauren Hutton, Hector Elizondo) – Classic Movie Review 1994
Writer-director Paul Schrader’s stylish, unsettling 1980 erotic thriller offers Richard Gere to find the perfect outlet for an intense display of persuasive performing and sexy narcissism. Gere’s in his element as a male escort called Julian who […]
Taxi Driver ***** (1976, Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster) – Classic Movie Review 1387
Director Martin Scorsese’s 1976 ultra-realistic crime/vigilante thriller is both incredibly bleak and searing. It’s dazzlingly made by a hot and hungry Scorsese and spectacularly acted by its star Robert De Niro in one of his most […]
Touch **** (1997, Christopher Walken, Bridget Fonda, Skeet Ulrich, Tom Arnold) – Classic Movie Review 1324
Paul Schrader’s 1997 extraordinary black comedy drama film Touch stars Christopher Walken as a conman who sees a new way of making money when he hears of a young former Franciscan monk (Skeet Ulrich), whose […]
Affliction **** (1997, Nick Nolte, Sissy Spacek, James Coburn) – Classic Movie Review 825
Ah, again, the sins of the father! Nick Nolte gives a great barnstorming performance as Wade Whitehouse, a haunted middle-aged New Hampshire small-town sheriff. He is a heavy drinker who has achieved little or nothing in […]