The Card Counter (Paul Schrader, 2020)

[domino harvey]

Oscar Isaac will star in Paul Schrader’s casino-set revenge and redemption film

[Murdoch]

After First Reformed, I'm excited for anything from Schrader, especially with Isaac as the lead.

[DarkImbecile]

The film, written and directed by Schrader, follows William Tell (Isaac), a gambler and former serviceman who sets out to reform a young man seeking revenge on a mutual enemy from their past.

That's a name ripe for interpretation!

[mfunk9786]

Hey, hook this project to my veins, thanks

[domino harvey]

Cast now also includes Willem Dafoe, Tye Sheridan, and Tiffany Haddish

[Slaphappy]

The film, written and directed by Schrader, follows William Tell (Isaac), a gambler and former serviceman who sets out to reform a young man seeking revenge on a mutual enemy from their past.

That's a name ripe for interpretation!

First Reformed had lots of character name references too btw.

[Persona]

Cast now also includes Willem Dafoe, Tye Sheridan, and Tiffany Haddish

Sheridan must be playing the "angry young man" that Tell takes under wing.

Throw in Haddish and Dafoe and this is one fascinating cast.

[DarkImbecile]

From the Metrograph interview also linked in the Filmmaker thread for Schrader:

In my films, I’ll sort of combine two worlds that seem to have nothing to do with each other. In the new one, it’s the world series of poker and Abu Ghraib.

[domino harvey]

Scorsese will executive produce

[Never Cursed]

I'm fairly certain this would have been at Cannes had Covid not happened; either way, it is being screened in an unfinished form (five days' worth of scenes had yet to shoot when production ceased) for buyers at the Marche Du Film

[Never Cursed]

Shooting has wrapped. Focus has acquired domestic rights and Hanway has worldwide rights. Schrader says on his Facebook that Focus is expecting a 2021 release date for this.

[Persona]

Somehow missed this Vulture interview from back in April. Very informative (Geoff Barrow is doing the score?!) and--as is typical for Schrader--entertaining, wry, and bleak.

https://www.vulture.com/2020/04/paul-sc ... ovies.html

I love how you have a movie like a TENET where Nolan won't even let the actors have full scripts and then you got this interview where Schrader is telling some journalist the entire story of THE CARD COUNTER in great detail, lol. Thankfully the interview stops relaying Schrader's plot recounting after the first act.

[Never Cursed]

[Persona]

Wondering if we're getting Academy ratio again? Kind of looks like it from that.

I am probably too excited for this one. But First Reformed was my favorite movie of the past 5 years. Maybe ten years, really.

I think this one sounds good but unlikely to come close to FR. Still, I can't help myself. I refresh the IMDB page like every other day just to find out who is playing Casino Patron #4 or who the set dresser is.