Directed by Paul Schrader • 1992 • United States
Starring Willem Dafoe, Susan Sarandon, Dana Delany
Willem Dafoe stars in this moody character study as John LeTour, a drug dealer who faces a midlife crisis now that his supplier (Susan Sarandon) wants a change of career. LeTour reencounters an old flame (Dana Delany) and glimpses the prospect of salvation, but soon he’s involved in a murder investigation that threatens to smother his future. Building on the themes of TAXI DRIVER and AMERICAN GIGOLO, LIGHT SLEEPER confirms Paul Schrader’s reputation as American cinema’s poet laureate of urban isolation.
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Directed by Paul Schrader • 2002 • United States
Starring Greg Kinnear, Willem Dafoe, Rita WilsonPaul 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 “Hog...
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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...
