In 1972, the seminal volume “Transcendental Style in Film” positioned filmmakers Yasujirô Ozu, Robert Bresson and Carl Theodor Dreyer as religious artists who delayed the easy gratifications ...

Exclusive: Schrader wrote a new 35-page introduction to his 1971 “Transcendental Style in Film” and found a unique way to chart the progression of arthouse cinema. In 1972, future screenwriter ...

And in terms of the larger cultural conversation, Paul Schrader is back. In “Transcendental Style in Film,” the critic turned filmmaker regarded the phenomenon of so-called slow cinema and its ...

However, faith-based films should not be confused with transcendental style, noted Schrader. “Inserting Jesus into a film is not the same as making a spiritual film.” Schrader said that films today ...

Before he wrote and directed movies, Paul Schrader was a film critic, best known for his book “Transcendental Style in Film: Ozu, Bresson, Dreyer.” Director Robert Bresson’s “Diary of a ...

In 1972, four years before his debut screenplay “Taxi Driver” hit the screen, Paul Schrader published his Master’s thesis, “Transcendental Style in Film,” on a very different kind of ...

PAUL SCHRADER ON REVISITING TRANSCENDENTAL STYLE IN FILM on Monday (April 3) at TIFF Bell Lightbox. 7 pm. $10-$14.tiff.net.. Paul Schrader has directed more than 20 films, but is still best known ...

For almost a half-century, acclaimed filmmaker Paul Schrader had an idea that kept haunting his subconscious. He thought about it ever since the 1970s, when his first book, Transcendental Style in ...

Before he wrote and directed movies, Paul Schrader was a film critic, best known for his book “Transcendental Style in Film: Ozu, Bresson, Dreyer.” Director Robert Bresson’s “Diary of a ...