Pull up a chair, folks - it's time for our episode on Paul Schrader's "first post-mortem film," the Russell Banks adaptation OH, CANADA, fresh from the cinema. Joining us to unpack it is Final Boss of the podcast and real-life Canadian person Will Sloan! We talk about what we expect of the personal morality of political artists, Canada's relationship to her neighbor to the south, and the film's place in Schrader's filmography. We also got Will's thoughts on JUROR #2 while we had him on mic, because of course we did. Great conversation, great movie, great ep!

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Further Reading:

Foregone by Russell Banks

"Paul Schrader Thought He Was Dying. So He Made a Movie About It." by Bilge Ebiri

"A Remembered World: On Russell Banks’s 'Foregone'" by Rob Latham

"Russell Banks, The Art of Fiction No. 152" by Robert Faggen

Harry Knowles's review of HOLLYWOOD ENDING

Further Viewing:

AMERICAN GIGOLO (Schrader, 1980)

AFFLICTION (Schrader, 1997)

24 HOURS OR MORE (Groulx, 1973)

KANEHSATAKE: 270 YEARS OF RESISTANCE (Obomsawin, 1993)

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It's finally here: our episode on Clint Eastwood's latest film, JUROR #2.

Further Reading:

"An Abolitionist Summoned to Jury Duty for a Murder Trial" by Luna Nicole

"Nullification: Jurors’ Secret Weapon Against Harsh Sentencing" by Molly Knefel

Jonathan Abrams interview with Indiewire

Jonathan Abrams interview with GQ

"Why Policing and Prisons Can't End Gender Violence"

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12 ANGRY MEN (Lumet, 1957)

TRUE CRIME (Eastwood, 1999)

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We did it, folks.

We sat down with filmmaker Paul Schrader for a discussion of his new film OH, CANADA (spoiler-free), political readings of his films, never-made projects, and even a few thoughts on Clint Eastwood. Afterward, the Pod Casty boys talk about the experience.

Join us in a few weeks for a full episode on OH, CANADA, which opens December 6th in New York and expands to LA and nationwide on December 13th. Paul Schrader will be doing Q&As in New York and LA.

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Well, we've reached the end of our Paul Schrader retrospective - for a couple weeks until OH, CANADA comes out - and it's time to discuss our findings. What did we learn about Schrader? About film? About podcasting? About ourselves? Can we remember all the different ways we got sick and hurt since March? Where are we going next, and when?

Thank you to everyone who has followed along on our lonely journey toward transcendence. A very special thanks to all the guests who joined us and made the show listenable whenever we let them get a word in: Aaron and Carlee from Hit Factory, Manuela Lazić, Marya E. Gates, Brandon Streussnig, Bilge Ebiri, Esmé Holden, Comrade Yui, Ryan and Este from Altmania, Robert Rubsam, Jordan Fish, Ray Tintori, Jake Tropila, Jack Sinclair, Jane Altoids, Glenn Heath, Jr., Soraya Sebghati, Nick Wiger, Chadd Harbold, Charles Lyons-Burt, Darryl and Petros from Getting Dafoe You, Roxana Hadadi, Matthew Germenis, and Bob Martin. Another extra special thanks to our Patreon supporters who help us make this whole thing make at least some sense to our families. We still can't believe any of you listen to the show. Can't and don't!

We'll see you all in 2025 with a brand new subject - and episodes on OH, CANADA and JUROR #2 before the end of the year. Plus some cool surprises, maybe. Who can know the mind of God?

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As a little bonus, we talked some more MASTER GARDENER with Jake's old friend and professional New Orleans gardener Bob Martin! Lots of technical gardening chat, native NOLA plants, gardening movies, and some commiseration between friends of Jake that he very quickly shuts down.

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It's the end of our Schrader project - for a few weeks, at least - as we tackle the final film of his "Man In A Room" trilogy, 2022's MASTER GARDENER. Joining us is New Orleans-based writer Matthew Germenis! We're talking horticulture as both a restorative and reactionary practice, the film's ultimately tangential relationship to far-right movements, reformed Neo-Nazis, the legacy of plantation architecture, and more! Great ep!

Don't forget to check out our technical chat with IRL New Orleans gardener Bob Martin, also in this feed!

See you next week for a wrap-up of Schrader so far.

Further Reading:

"Three Bullets in the Gun: Paul Schrader on Master Gardener" by Erik Luers

"Paul Schrader: ‘My movies are more on the witty clever side than the drop-your-pants funny side’" by Mark Asch

Paul Schrader Interview by Isaac Feldberg

"Christian Picciolini: The neo-Nazi who became an anti-Nazi" by Natasha Lipman

"I was a neo-Nazi. Then I fell in love with a black woman" by Claire Bates

"The Rehabilitation of ‘Pitbull,’ a Former Wrestler and Neo-Nazi" by Joseph Goldstein

"Land-Grant Eugenics: Spreading an Idea in Rural America" by Joshua Earle

Further Viewing:

FIRST REFORMED (Schrader, 2017)

THE CARD COUNTER (Schrader, 2021)

ERASING HATE (Brummell, 2011)

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It's the one you've all been waiting for - our episode on Alfonso Pineda Ulloa's 2014 film THERE ARE NO SAINTS, adapted from an unmade Schrader script, which sat on a shelf for 8 years before getting dumped on VOD after his FIRST REFORMED/CARD COUNTER comeback. What's that? You don't know what this movie is and you don't really want to hear us talk about it? Great news - this episode was recorded live (to tape) at Ian's home in Oaxaca, is mostly about Jake's visit there, and contains shocking revelations that turn much of PCFM's Ian Lore upside down. Plus some talk about neo-exploitation cinema, John Wick riffs, narcocultura, and eating bugs. Fun ep, check it out!

Further Reading:

Nightmare USA: The Untold Story of the Exploitation Independents by Stephen Thrower

"After 'The Canyons,' Strange Tale of 'The Jesuit'" by Paul Schrader

Review by Nick Mangigian

Further Viewing:

ROLLING THUNDER (Flynn, 1977)

HARDCORE (Schrader, 1979)

JOHN WICK (Stahelski, 2014)

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Ante up, listeners - we're dealing out another big one this week. Paul Schrader's 2021 follow-up to FIRST REFORMED, the (ostensible) poker drama THE CARD COUNTER, was another "Man in a Room" film, this time exploring the moral weight of past actions. Joining us to talk about Abu Ghraib, Iraq War films, and how much a filmmaker's stated politics really matter compared to what's on screen is writer and critic Roxana Hadadi! Don't worry, there's plenty of Star Wars prequel digression on this one, too.

Further Reading:

Roxana's review of THE CARD COUNTER

Homeland: The War on Terror in American Life by Richard Beck

Lynndie England interview in Stern

Paul Schrader interview in GQ

Paul Schrader interview with The Playlist

Further Viewing:

STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURE (Morris, 2008)

CAMP X-RAY (Sattler, 2014)

FIRST REFORMED (Schrader, 2017)

THE REPORT (Burns, 2019)

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We're taking a detour this week to talk about some Paul Schrader projects that never made it to the screen - the Montreal-set gangster film QUÉBECOIS!, the Elio Petri remake INVESTIGATION, psychedelic murder mystery THE DOORS OF PERCEPTION, film festival-set stage plays Berlinale and The Cleopatra Club, biopics EIGHT SCENES FROM THE LIFE OF HANK WILLIAMS and GERSHWIN, and the Bret Easton Ellis-scripted shark thriller BAIT.

We read PDFs so you don't have to! Unless you want to, in which case they're linked below.

Ian also makes a medium-exciting discovery about one of the screenplays he read...listen to find out what the h--- we're talking about.

Further Reading:

QUÉBECOIS! by Paul Schrader

INVESTIGATION by Paul Schrader

THE DOORS OF PERCEPTION by Paul Schrader

Berlinale by Paul Schrader

The Cleopatra Club by Paul Schrader

EIGHT SCENES FROM THE LIFE OF HANK WILLIAMS by Paul Schrader

GERSHWIN by Paul Schrader

BAIT by Bret Easton Ellis

Further Viewing:

24 HOURS OR MORE (Groulx, 1973)

INVESTIGATION OF A CITIZEN ABOVE SUSPICION (Petri, 1970)

ODYSSEY INTO THE MIND'S EYE (Boydstun, 1996)

MISHIMA: A LIFE IN FOUR CHAPTERS (Schrader, 1985)

THE CANYONS (Schrader, 2013)

INTO THE BLUE (Stockwell, 2005)

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