Directed by Paul Schrader • 2002 • United States
Starring Greg Kinnear, Willem Dafoe, Rita Wilson
Paul Schrader delves into the seedy underbelly of fame in this darkly compelling look at the life and times of actor Bob Crane (Greg Kinnear), who found fame as the clean-cut star of the sitcom “Hogan’s Heroes” but whose shocking, unsolved murder revealed a sordid secret life. Focusing on Crane’s association with home-video expert John Henry Carpenter (Willem Dafoe)—with whom he secretly recorded his sexual liaisons with numerous women—Schrader crafts a haunting all-American tragedy.
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Directed by Paul Schrader • 1997 • United States
Starring Bridget Fonda, Christopher Walken, Skeet UlrichPaul Schrader’s recurring search for the divine in contemporary America gets an offbeat, darkly comic spin in this adaptation of a (non-crime) novel by Elmore Leonard. After he witnesses a y...
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Paul Schrader in Conversation
A legendary screenwriter, director, critic, and cinephile whose work searches for spiritual salvation in the modern world, Paul Schrader did not in fact see a movie until he was a teenager—a result of his being raised in a strict Calvinist household that forbade filmgoing. In this edition of Adve...
