Paul Schrader: Last News

K.J. Yossman Quintessa Swindell and Esai Morales have been tapped to star in Paul Schrader’s “Master Gardener.”They will join Sigourney Weaver and Joel Edgerton in the film, which Schrader writes and directs.Schrader, who is known for “Taxi Driver” and “First Reformed,” recently wrote and directed “The Card Counter,” starring Oscar Isaac.“Master Gardener” revolves around Narvel Roth (played by Edgerton), a horticulturist who tends to a beautiful and historic estate owned by wealthy dowager Mrs Haverhill (played by Weaver).

Oscar Isaac (“Dune,” “Moon Knight”) and Jared Leto (“House of Gucci,” “Morbius”) sat down for a virtual chat for Variety’s Actors on Actors, presented by Amazon Studios. For more, click here.In “House of Gucci,” Jared Leto vanishes into a larger-than-life performance as fashion world ne’er-do-well Paolo Gucci. By contrast, Oscar Isaac’s turns in Paul Schrader’s “The Card Counter” (as William Tell, a poker player with a dark past in the Iraq War) and Denis Villeneuve’s “Dune” (as Duke Leto, the head of a powerful interstellar dynasty) are tightly contained.But the two actors still find many similarities to discuss, including their future as Marvel superheroes — Leto’s Morbius and Isaac’s Moon Knight — and their alternate careers as musicians starting in the 1990s.

Stuart Miller Even by lone wolf standards, William Tell stands apart. Or so he tells himself.

Peter Debruge Chief Film Critic“Catch the Fair One” is activist filmmaking at its most compelling. Before you run away from the notion, consider this: It doesn’t feel like this tough, relentlessly dark thriller is trying to push some kind of political point, even if so many of its creative choices succeed in doing exactly that.Collaborating with Native boxing champ Kali “KO” Reis on the script, director Josef Kubota Wladyka has made a riveting vigilante story that can hold its own alongside Paul Schrader’s most punishing payback fantasies.

Many of us know Willem Dafoe, 66, from his slew of character-driven performances and memorable roles. The actor, who has received various accolades and award nominations, is perhaps best know for roles like the supervillain Norman Osborn/Green Goblin in the Spider-Man franchise as well as his work with various auteurs like Wes Anderson, Paul Schrader, Martin Scorsese, Julian Schnabel, and more.

Michael Schneider Variety Editor at LargeThough he’s been an acclaimed actor for five decades, earned four Oscar nominations and starred in several blockbusters, Willem Dafoe will take on a new challenge this weekend when he hosts “Saturday Night Live” for the first time Jan. 29.The announcement was met with massive enthusiasm online, with many people expressing disbelief Dafoe had never hosted before.

Good in the ‘Wood?I just got back from seeing The Card Counter, one of the many new movie releases out now in movie theaters.I took a look at theaters near me to compare movie showtimes and settled on going to the 7 p.m. movie showtime at the Showcase Cinemas theater near me.

Lily Moayeri When the late Michael Been of the Call was working on the soundtrack to the 1992 film “Light Sleeper,” his then-teenage son, Robert Levon Been, later of Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, would hide when the film’s director, Paul Schrader, came to Been’s home to check on the music’s progress.“Everything was recorded in our house, DIY style, on analog, in the living room,” recalls Been, speaking from Vienna, Austria. “I was a snob and obnoxious and would say, ‘This is shit, this is good.’ I’d play a guitar or bass part and say, ‘Try this, try that.’ Sometimes my dad would use it.

Tiffany Haddish and Oscar Issac are looking incredible at the 2021 Venice Film Festival!

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorSince 1976’s “Taxi Driver,” filmmaker Paul Schrader says he has been looking for certain problems that he could place within a metaphor. In that case, he says, “It was a young man’s sense of loneliness, and the yellow taxi car was the metaphor.

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First Reformed director teased the news in a new interview with the New Yorker, saying he was planning the new project with Scorsese.When asked whether he would ever consider making a streaming project, Schrader said he already had one in the works.“Yeah. Well, Scorsese and I are planning something,” Schrader said.

Becoming a filmmaker is tough business. Yes, if you know anything about the film industry, it’s obvious that becoming a director that gets projects greenlit is the equivalent of winning the lottery.

Tom Grater International Film ReporterThat’s a wrap on Paul Schrader’s The Card Counter, which saw Oscar Isaac and co recently return to film the last few remaining days on the movie after a virus-related delay.Deadline was the first to tell you that the pic was heading back on set this month after being forced to shutdown back in March when a cast member tested positive for the virus just five days away from the end of shooting.Director Schrader has now taken to his Facebook page to confirm that production has now been completed, posting that it wrapped last night in Biloxi, Mississippi.The pic, which stars Isaac as a former serviceman who lives a spartan existence playing cards before he moves into the world of high-stakes poker, got

As frontwoman of Blondie, Debbie Harry has been a pop-culture fixture for nearly half a century. The new wave pioneers and Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees have released 11 studio albums to date, and have sold an estimated 40 million albums worldwide, according to Sony.