Paul Schrader felt death closing in, so he made 'Oh, Canada'
Time:2024-06-04 00:48:30 Source:opinionsViews(143)
CANNES, France (AP) — After a string of hospitalizations for long COVID, Paul Schrader had a realization.
“If I’m going to make a film about death,” Schrader told himself, “I’d better hurry up.”
The health of the 77-year-old filmmaker, whose films and scripts have covered half a century of American movies, from “Taxi Driver” to “First Reformed,” has since improved. But that sense of urgency only increased when Russell Banks, a friend of Schrader’s since he adapted Banks’ “Affliction” into the 1997 film, began ailing. Banks died in 2023.
Schrader resolved to turn Banks’ 2021 novel “Foregone” into a film. At the time, he imagined it would be his last. But Schrader, who’s been as prolific as ever in the past decade, has said that before.
In 2017, he surmised that “First Reformed” was his final cinematic statement. Then he made 2021’s “The Card Counter.” And, after that came 2022’s “Master Gardener.”
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