Master Gardener Review: Paul Schrader Plants a Nazi in a Garden

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Before he was the celebrated writer of four Martin Scorsese films and director of classics like American Gigolo, Cat People, and Affliction, Paul Schrader was a young critic and film theorist (like many budding filmmakers). At the age of 24, he wrote a brief, wonderful tome titled Transcendental Style in Film, a meditation on filmmakers whose work embodies, as Schrader writes, "[an] ability to transcend culture and personality [...] a spiritual truth that can be achieved by objectively setting objects and pictures side by side that cannot be obtained through a subjective personal or cultural approach to those objects."

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