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Adams: Jayme J. Herschkopf, Chang Liu, Srihari Mahadev, Yonina R. Murciano-Goroff, Kim T. Nguyen, Jared Roitstein-Vega, Ruchira Saha, Karin S. Schrader, Henry J. Seton...
...more traditional films too, winning an Oscar nomination for his nervy performance as Piano Man in the Billie Holiday biography Lady Sings the Blues, pairing with Gene Wilder in buddy comedies like Silver Streak and Stir Crazy, and showing his dramatic range as a doomed autoworker in Paul Schrader's Blue Collar...
Artist Eiko Ishioka's stylized, otherworldly scenery for Paul Schrader's film Mishima was remarkable, a sort of reductivist baroque that seemed peculiarly Japanese. Despite the dazzling sets, critics generally found the movie a failure. Design, it turns out, cannot do everything. --By Kurt Andersen
Spider Woman was filmed in Brazil (in English), directed by the Argentine-born Hector Babenco from a script by the American Leonard Schrader and a novel by the Argentine Manuel Puig. This time the artistic melting pot bubbled to perfection. The film's gaudily stylized performances (notably Hurt's, which has grandeur about it), all its tonalities, both visual and verbal, are pitched one notch above the naturalistic. Thus Babenco may subtly explore issues, both political and psychological, that are usually dulled by moviemakers' earnestness and self-importance. Full of sudden startlements and twists, the film is delighted...
...best editing. The black and white film is notoriously hard-hitting for its portrayal of LaMotta’s abusive relationships with his wife, played by Cathy Moriarty, and his brother, played by Joe Pesci. Raging Bull also marked the return of star, director, and screenwriter Paul Schrader from Taxi Driver, and shares much of that film’s deep exploration of the coincidences of power, sex, violence, and of one man’s tragic self-destruction. Raging Bull is one of the great films of the ’80s, but it follows...