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3 days ago · Taxi Driver Reformed. By Brett Carollo & Thomas Millary — 1 day ago. Paul Schrader’s Religion of the Goddess: A Review of “First Reformed”. Near the beginning of Paul Schrader’s 2019 drama First Reformed, the troubled protagonist Reverend Ernst Toller (Ethan Hawke), finds himself engaged in a life-altering debate with a climate activist.
Sep 21, 2024 · First Reformed is another powerful examination of faith from the brilliant screenwriter Paul Schrader, who touched on themes of redemption and resurrection in such classics as Hardcore, Light...
Sep 19, 2024 · It’s heavy stuff, and likely not the ideal way to kick off a first date, but try double-featuring it with “First Reformed” by Paul Schrader (another one of cinema’s great contributors to the feel-bad movie canon) if you feel like falling into a super-cynical slump. 2. Woman in the Dunes (1964)
Sep 20, 2024 · The idea of a professional truth-monger lost in the labyrinth of his own rationalisations and half-truths is compelling, but the tension between authenticity, objectivity and fantasy goes slack when the representation of all three feels mired in cliché, and Schrader’s direction, so clear-eyed and alert in First Reformed (2017) just seven years ago, is more miasmatic than the material requires.
Sep 9, 2024 · Unfortunately, it wasn’t what I expected. I had high hopes for this film and was very curious to enter some kind of philosophical moment, but, in fact, I entered something very predictable and superficial. Still, the film's atmosphere is very immersive, marked by a palette of cold colors and a cinematography that captures well the oppression of physical and emotional space. The shadows that ...
Sep 3, 2024 · First Reformed is an astounding modern neo-noir classic that manages to ask existential questions about whether faith in God can be justified when the world is struggling with serious ...
Sep 1, 2024 · That movie was First Reformed, the 2018 title produced by A24 and starring Ethan Hawke and Amanda Seyfried. While Silence tackles the old gods, probing the binaries of Christianity and Buddhism, coloniser and resistance, it refuses to provide comfort in picking a side.
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