Example sentences for: schrader

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  • It's not just that slow-motion scenes of the ambulance gliding past people beating one another up feel like déjà vu . It's that Schrader hasn't rethought Connelly's trumped-up story line.

  • It's probable that Connelly thought of Taxi Driver and Mean Streets (1973) when he wrote his novel, so having it adapted by Schrader and Scorsese was like closing the circle.

  • Having written Taxi Driver (1976) and Hardcore (1979) and other vigilante pictures in which the underlying motives of the avenger are called into question, Schrader embraced the story of a vigilante who turns out to be dead wrong, driven mad by an increasing sense of his own impotence in a world that has left him behind.

  • Years ago, when he was still a film critic, Paul Schrader wrote an evocative study of the directors Ozu, Bresson, and Dreyer that he called Transcendental Style in Cinema . How odd that the style of Schrader's new movie, Affliction , is as torturously untranscendent as a work of cinema can get.

  • It's true that Pierce's "altruistic" impulse is not on par with Travis Bickle's impulse to shave his head and assassinate a presidential candidate, but Schrader and Scorsese don't view his actions with any irony.


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