Archive for the '‘First Reformed’' Category

Eight days of programming begin May 3. Mr. Rogers, Alexander McQueen, Sammy Davis, Jr., and Korn get the documentary treatment. Narrative-wise, there’s an early thread of isolated male protagonists. Paul Schrader’s First Reformed follows Reverend Ernst Toller (Ethan Hawke), a lonely, middle-aged parish pastor at a small 250-year-old Dutch Reform church in upstate New York. […]

A24’s “First Reformed” is the first collaboration between two titans of the film industry, actor Ethan Hawke (“Training Day”, “Boyhood”) and Paul Schrader (“Taxi Driver”, “Raging Bull”), so naturally, there was a large sense of excitement in the room as I prepared to interview them. The film follows Reverend Ernst Toller (Ethan Hawke), a lonely […]

We have a wide ranging apologetics with Ethan Hawke and Taxi Driver’s Paul Schrader about the spirituality of doubt found in First Reformed. Read More here

The festival, marking its 35th edition, will bestow its Icon Award on French actress and recent Oscar nominee Isabelle Huppert (‘Elle’). Oscar-winning filmmaker Michel Hazanavicius (The Artist) and renowned American screenwriter and director Paul Schrader (Taxi Driver, Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters, Affliction) will attend the festival for Marquee presentations of their newest films. […]