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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