An Evening with Paul Schrader: Revisiting First Reformed

2018. 112 m. Paul Schrader. A24. US. English. Rated R.

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Following its spring release, Paul Schrader’s First Reformed has been generating tremendous year-end attention as one of the most important films of the year, having received four Gotham Award nominations (including wins for Best Screenplay and Best Actor), four Independent Spirit Award nominations, and New York Film Critics Circle Awards for Best Screenplay and Best Actor. It’s one of the year’s boldest and most daring films, and we’re thrilled to have iconic writer-director Paul Schrader back for a conversation reflecting on the film with JBFC Programming Director Brian Ackerman.

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Filmmaker Paul Schrader in Conversation with JBFC Programming Director Brian Ackerman

Wednesday, Jan. 9 2019, 7:00

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Paul Schrader is a screenwriter, director, and film critic whose past credits include Mishima (1985), Raging Bull (1980), American Gigolo (1980), Taxi Driver (1976), and more recently, Dog Eat Dog (2016) and Dying of the Light (2014). An expanded edition of his book Transcendental Style in Film: Ozu, Bresson, Dreyer (1972) was released in 2018 with new writing on Andrei Tarkovsky and Béla Tarr, among others.