Adam Resurrected 2008  R, 107 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Paul Schrader
Cast: Jeff Goldblum, Willem Dafoe, Derek Jacobi, Ayelet Zurer, Hana Laszlo, Joachim Krol, Jenya Dodina, Tudor Rapiteanu, Veronica Ferres, Idan Alterman, Juliane Kohler, Dror Keren, Shmuel Edelman, Yoram Toledano, Mickey Leon
World War II Holocaust survivor Adam Stein (Jeff Goldblum) is a patient in an Israeli mental hospital where he confounds the medical staff, including head doctor Nathan Gross (Derek Jacobi) with the question, "Who brought the dog in here?" Before the war, Stein was a circus performer, but when his family was captured, he became concentration camp Commandant Klein's (Willem Dafoe) personal "dog" and was allowed to survive. Now, Adam finds a young boy, David (Tudor Rapiteanu), locked in the basement of the asylum, and David acts like a dog. Adam and David become kindred spirits and begin a special journey together.
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Affliction 1997  R, 114 min.
Genre: Drama / Mystery / Thriller
Director: Paul Schrader
Cast: Nick Nolte, Sissy Spacek, James Coburn, Willem Dafoe, Mary Beth Hurt, Jim True-Frost, Marian Seldes, Holmes Osborne, Brigid Tierney, Sean McCann, Tim Post, Christopher Heyerdahl, Janine Theriault, Wayne Robson, Sheena Larkin
Based on Russell Banks' novel, this film adaptation features Nick Nolte as Wade Whitehouse, a small-town sheriff in New England who delves into an "accidental" hunting accident to redeem his bleak life–both professionally and personally. He reexamines his life and the relationship he has with his abusive father Glen (James Coburn). Meanwhile, his ex-wife (Mary Beth Hurt) hates him, and his relationship with his daughter Jill (Brigid Tierney) is badly in need of repair. Wade is dating Margie (Sissy Spacek) who is the only one he seems capable of relating to. After his mother dies, Wade's brother Rolfe (Willem Dafoe) comes home to pay his respects, and now Wade suspects Rolfe of being involved in the criminal world. James Coburn won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor, and Nick Nolte was nominated for Best Actor.
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 American Gigolo 1980 R, 117 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance / Thriller
Director: Paul Schrader
Cast: Richard Gere, Lauren Hutton, Hector Elizondo, Nina Van Pallandt, K Callan, Macdonald Carey, Bill Duke, Brian Davies, Carole Cook, David Cryer, Tom Stewart, Patricia Carr, Carol Bruce, Frances Bergen, William Dozier
Male hooker Julian Kay (Richard Gere) provides his services among the Beverly Hills matrons. When an ex-client is murdered, Julian is in big trouble. He is framed for the murder and becomes the prime suspect. The one person who can help is Michelle (Lauren Hutton) with whom he is enjoying an intense relationship, but she is married to Senator Charles Stratton (Brian Davies). Will Michelle's love for Julian be the answer to his problems?
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 Auto Focus 2002 R, 105 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Paul Schrader
Cast: Greg Kinnear, Willem Dafoe, Maria Bello, Rita Wilson, Ron Leibman, Bruce Solomon, Michael E. Rodgers, Kurt Fuller, Christopher Neiman, Lyle Kanouse, Ed Begley Jr., Michael McKean, Donnamarie Recco, Cheryl Lynn Bowers, Don McManus
This story involves the rise and fall of radio/TV star Bob Crane (Greg Kinnear) who gained fame only to take a down-hill journey, which began when he met sleazy, video technician John Carpenter (Willem Dafoe), continues through an addiction to sex, and ends, eventually, with Crane's murder. Carpenter was tried, and acquitted, for the still-unsolved murder.
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Blue Collar 1978  R, 114 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Paul Schrader
Cast: Richard Pryor, Harvey Keitel, Yaphet Kotto, Ed Begley Jr., Harry Bellaver, George Memmoli, Lane Smith, Cliff De Young, Lucy Saroyan, Harry Northrup, Borah Silver, Chip Fields, Leonard Gaines, Milton Selzer, Sammy Warren
Three workers at a Ford plant–Zeke (Richard Pryor), Jerry (Harvey Keitel), and Smokey (Yaphet Kotto)–hatch plans to make big money by robbing the local union. They rob the safe and only get $600, but the union claims that $10,000 has been stolen. Now, their plans change, and they decide to blackmail the union.
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Cat People 1982 R, 118 min.
Genre: Drama / Fantasy / Horror / Thriller / Romance
Director: Paul Schrader
Cast: Nastassja Kinski, Malcolm McDowell, Annette O'Toole, John Heard, Ruby Dee, Ed Begley Jr., Scott Paulin, John Larroquette, Frankie Faison, Ray Wise, Ron Diamond, Lynn Lowry, Tessa Richarde, Patricia Perkins, Berry Barajas
Nastassja Kinski stars as beautiful dress designer Irena Gallier with a bizarre family trait: when she makes love, she turns into a savage black panther and ravages her mate. The only one she can safely make love to is her brother Paul (Malcolm McDowell)–another cat person. But she loves Oliver Yates (John Heard), the head of a zoo, whom she would kill if aroused. A good–and scary–film. Remake of the 1942 movie starring Simone Simon.
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Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist 2005  R, 116 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Paul Schrader
Cast: Stellan Skarsgard, Gabriel Mann, Clara Bellar, Billy Crawford, Ralph Brown, Israel Aduramo, Julian Wadham, Andrew French, Antonie Kamerling, Eddie Osei
Many years before Father Lankester Merrin saved Regan in "The Exorcist," he had doubted his faith. This story takes place when Father Merrin (Stellan Skarsgard) takes a sabbatical and works on an archaeological dig where he confronts a demon, which turns out to be the same one who will try to take Regan's soul years later.
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Hardcore 1979 R, 108 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Paul Schrader
Cast: George C. Scott, Peter Boyle, Season Hubley, Dick Sargent, Leonard Gaines, Dave Nichols, Ed Begley Jr., Bibi Besch, Tracey Walter, Reb Brown
When his teenage daughter is missing in the Los Angeles area, Calvinist fundamentalist Jake Van Dorn (George C. Scott) leaves his Midwestern home to find her after his private detective uncovers clues that lead to the seedy pornographic film industry. Van Dorn enlists the aid of prostitute Niki (Season Hubley) and, in the process of his quest, learns more about the alien world of sex and drugs.
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Hollywood Mavericks 1990 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Documentary
Director: Don McGlynn
Cast: Martin Scorsese, Paul Schrader, Peter Bogdanovich, King Vidor, Dennis Hopper, Francis Ford Coppola, David Lynch, Robert De Niro, Orson Welles, Gina Rowlands, Alan Rudolph, Samuel Fuller, Peter Bogdanovich, Robert Altman, Sam Peckinpah
This documentary uses film clips and interviews to focus on artistic creations of some of Hollywood's motivated directors. Orson Welles, who coined the phrase "Hollywood Mavericks," is one of the directors featured in this documentary.
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Light of Day 1987  PG-13, 107 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Paul Schrader
Cast: Michael J. Fox, Joan Jett, Gena Rowlands, Jason Miller, Michael McKean, Thomas G. Waites, Cherry Jones, Del Close, Michael Rooker
A brother and sister are struggling band members who take different views on the purity of their art as their family is being torn apart. Rocker Joan Jett can act, too.
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Light Sleeper 1992 R, 103 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Paul Schrader
Cast: Willem Dafoe, Susan Sarandon, Dana Delany, David Clennon, Mary Beth Hurt, Victor Garber, Jane Adams, David Spade, Paul Jabara, Sam Rockwell, Robert Cicchini, Rene Rivera, Christopher Northup, Steven Posen, Ken Ladd
Drug dealing and living outside the law is how John LeTour (Willem Dafoe), who suffers from insomnia, exists. When John's boss Ann (Susan Sarandon) decides to get out of the drug business, John must make decisions about his future. In the midst of John's dilemma, he runs into his ex-girlfriend Marianne (Dana Delany) and looks to her as the answer to his problems. But, Marianne is a recovering drug addict and doesn't want to become involved with John. John's problems grow even larger when the police investigate the murder of a woman involved in a drug transaction, and John worries that the clues are leading to him. Touches of humor offset the "heavy" subject.
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Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters 1985 R, 120 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Paul Schrader
Cast: Ken Ogata, Masayuki Shionoya, Hiroshi Mikami, Junya Fukuda, Shigeto Tachihara, Junkichi Orimoto, Naoko Otani, Go Riju, Kyuzo Kobayashi, Haruko Kato, Masato Aizawa, Yuki Nagahara, Yuki Kitazume
This is the fictionalized account of the flamboyant Japanese author Yukio Mishima who not only had his own private army but had a ceremonial suicide in 1970 on a schedule he had previously developed. The story is told in four "acts," or episodes, depicting his writings, his private and public life, and his death. Excellent photography in both color and black & white, and the musical score is outstanding.
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Touch 1997 R, 97 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romance
Director: Paul Schrader
Cast: Christopher Walken, Skeet Ulrich, Bridget Fonda, Tom Arnold, Gina Gershon, Janeane Garofalo, Lolita Davidovich, Paul Mazursky, John Doe, Conchata Ferrell, LL Cool J, Maria Celedonio, Anthony Zerbe, Breckin Meyer, Tom Arnold
Juvenal (Skeet Ulrich) is a healer who can perform miracles through his touch. He is a confused young man who Bill Hill (Christopher Walken) hopes to exploit–with help from Lynn (Bridget Fonda)–as a member of his evangelism business. Hill plots to have Lynn tell Juvenal that she is an alcoholic in need of help, but when Lynn meets Juvenal, she is attracted to him and has second thoughts about carrying out Hill's plan. Meanwhile, Reverend August Murray (Tom Arnold) believes that Lynn is not a good influence on Juvenal and wants her out of Juvenal's life.
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The Walker 2007 R, 108 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Paul Schrader
Cast: Woody Harrelson, Kristin Scott Thomas, Lauren Bacall, Ned Beatty, Lily Tomlin, Moritz Bleibtreu, Mary Beth Hurt, Willem Dafoe, William Hope, Geff Francis, Steven Hartley, Garrick Hagon, Michael J. Reynolds
Carter Page III (Woody Harrelson) is gay and serves as an escort to middle-aged wives–Natalie (Lauren Bacall), Abigail (Lily Tomlin), and Lynn (Kristin Scott Thomas)–of powerful men in Washington, D.C. When he escorts Lynn to a tryst with lobbyist Robbie Kononsberg (Steven Hartley), she discovers Robbie's murdered body. Now Carter tries to protect Lynn and her husband Larry (Willem Dafoe) from the media and, with his photographer lover Ernek (Moritz Bleibtreu), begins an investigation of the murder.
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Witch Hunt 1994  R, 100 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Paul Schrader
Cast: Dennis Hopper, Penelope Ann Miller, Eric Bogosian, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Julian Sands, Valerie Mahaffey, John Epperson, Debi Mazar, Alan Rosenberg, Christopher John Fields
Set in 1953, this made-for-cable-TV film is another takeoff on the McCarthy era. Witchcraft and magic are commonplace and Senator Larson Crockett (Eric Bogosian) is holding hearings on this threat to the American way of life. Meanwhile, private investigator Lovecraft (Dennis Hopper) is hired to investigate an infidelity case. When the subject is a victim of a magic spell, Lovecraft, who is one of the few who refuse to use magic, must get to the bottom of the conspiracy before his employer (the victim's wife) is burned at the stake.
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| 1. Adam Resurrected (2008)
2. Affliction (1997)
3. American Gigolo (1980)
4. Auto Focus (2002)
5. Blue Collar (1978)
6. Cat People (1982)
7. Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist (2005)
8. Hardcore (1979)
9. Hollywood Mavericks (1990)
10. Light of Day (1987)
11. Light Sleeper (1992)
12. Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985)
13. Patty Hearst (1988)
14. Touch (1997)
15. The Walker (2007)
16. Witch Hunt (1994)
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