Affliction and Forgiveness: An Interview with Paul Schrader
book on Ozu, Bresson, and Dreyer, Paul Schrader has managed to rise above the mundane. At 22, Schrader wrote the breakthrough book of film criticism Transcendental Cinema, which went beyond the realm of auteurist critique or philosophical study by under-emphasizing the first approach, embracing the second, and leavening everything with the point of view of someone whose background was deeply religious. Brought up Calvinist, Schrader early on cleaved to the notions that his family taught him, among them predestination and the view that the Bible was the word of God. At