Golden hour: this year’s reimagined edition was invigorated by a selection of archival Palestinian shorts and gems such as A Grasscutter’s Tale and The Soldier’s Lagoon
In a wide-ranging interview, Schrader discusses his Bressonian roots, the transcendental style, the Taxi Driver template and his gripes about Sight and Sound’s Greatest Films of All Time poll.
HAVING RESURFACED late in life due to a revival of her sex films, an eighty-nine-year-old Doris Wishman, clad in leopard print and wedge sandals, appeared on Late Night with Conan O’Brien in 2002. Conan is flummoxed by Wishman’s spiky retorts and willfully evasive manner. Affecting sheepishness when asked for the name of her latest (penultimate) film, she finally discloses the title: Dildo Heaven. Sensing discomfort, Wishman asks, “Conan, are you afraid of me?” The other guest, Roger Ebert, enters the fray to discuss Wishman’s work, announcing his familiarity with Deadly Weapons (1973) and Double