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The following articles and reviews are listed chronologically and without any updating or commentary. Some are youthful, some are wrongheaded, some are pretty good. - Paul S.


Plays

1987
Berlinale

2004
The Cleopatra Club

Articles

1965
Los Olvidados – Calvin College Chimes – Oct. 29, 1965
Ordet – Calvin College Chimes – Dec. 3, 1965


1966
Life at the Top – Calvin College Chimes – Mar. 25, 1966
The Sound of Movies – Calvin College Chimes – Sept. 9, 1966
Night of Ashes – Calvin College Chimes – Oct. 7, 1966
Stories of the King – Calvin College Chimes – Dec. 16, 1966


1967
Appaloosa – Calvin College Chimes – Jan. 27, 1967
A Surfing Safari – Calvin College Chimes – Feb. 3, 1967
Closing-time in the Novel – Calvin College Chimes – Mar. 3, 1967
Cinematic Effects in the Contemporary Arts – Calvin College Chimes – April 28, 1967
J Edgar Hoover – Calvin College Chimes – April 28, 1967
A Dangling Conversation – Calvin College Chimes – May 12, 1967
Why Are We in Vietnam? – Calvin College Chimes – Nov. 3, 1967


1968
Donoso – Calvin College Chimes – January 19, 1968
Pauline Kael's Culture - Spectacle - May 10, 1968
Catcher in the Milky-Way – Spectacle – Sept. 13, 1968
Shell Games (Belle de Jour) – Spectacle – Oct. 18, 1968
War and Peace Chronological Impossibility – Spectacle – Dec. 13, 1968
Faces - Los Angeles Free Press – December 20-27, 1968


1969
Belle De Jour – Los Angeles Free Press – January 24 – 31, 1969
The Sergeant, Les Biches, Killing of Sister George - Los Angeles Free Press – Jan 31- Feb 7, 1969
The Magus - Los Angeles Free Press – February 7 – February 13, 1969
Hell in the Pacific, Joanna – Los Angeles Free Press – Feb. 21-27, 1969
Tell Me Lies, Shame - Los Angeles Free Press – February 14 – February 20, 1969
“They’re Young…They’re in Love…They Kill People” – Cinema Magazine – Vol. 5 No. 2
Stolen Kisses - Los Angeles Free Press – February 28 – March 6, 1969
Isadora - Los Angeles Free Press – March 7-14, 1969
War and Peace - Los Angeles Free Press – March 14-21, 1969
Boudo Saved From Drowning - Los Angeles Free Press – March 21-27.1969
Model Shop, The prime of Miss Jean Brodie, To Ingrid My Love Lisa, Baby Love, Support your Local Sherrif, Daisies - Los Angeles Free Press – March 28 – April 4, 1969
La Prisonniere - Los Angeles Free Press – April 4-10, 1969
Goodbye Columbus - Los Angeles Free Press – April 11-17, 1969 // Cinema Magazine - Vol. 5 No. 2
Firemans Ball Review – Los Angeles Free Press - April 18-24, 1969 // Cinema Magazine - Vol. 5 No. 2
Pickpocket Part 1 - Los Angeles Free Press – April 25-May 1, 1969
Pickpocket Part 2 - Los Angeles Free Press – May 2-9, 1969
Sam Peckinpah going to Mexico – Cinema Magazine – Vol. 5 No. 3
Grazia Zia, Monterey Pop – Los Angeles Free Press - May 16-22, 1969
Interview with Pennebaker – Los Angeles Free Press - May 16-22, 1969
Black on White - Los Angeles Free Press – May 23-30, 1969
Greetings Review – Los Angeles Free Press – May 30-June 5, 1969 // Cinema Magazine - Vol. 5 No. 2
Teorema - Los Angeles Free Press – June 6-12, 1969
If Review – Cinema Magazine – Vol.5 No. 3 // Los Angeles Free Press – June 13-20, 1969
The Wild Bunch - Los Angeles Free Press – June 20-27, 1969
Midnight Cowboy Review – Los Angeles Free Press – June 27-July 4, 1969 // Cinema Magazine – Vol. 5 No. 3
Naked Angels - Los Angeles Free Press – July 18-25, 1969
Easy Rider - Los Angeles Free Press – July 25-August 1, 1969
The Learning Tree - Los Angeles Free Press – August 22-29, 1969
Alice’s Restaurant – The Image – October 3-16, 1969 // Cinema Magazine – Vol. 5 No. 3
An Interview with Henri-Georges Clouzot – Cinema Magazine – Vol. 5 No. 4
Bob & Carol and Ted & Alice, Lion’s Love – Coast FM & Fine Arts – December 1969
Women in Love Review – Cinema Magazine – Vol. 6 No. 1
Tell Them Willie Boy is Here – Cinema Magazine – Vol. 6 No. 1


1970
The Arrangement – Coast FM & Fine Arts – January 1970
Z: A Modern Greek Tragedy - Coast FM & Fine Arts – February 1970
Tell Them Wille Boy Was Here – Coast FM & Fine Arts – March 1970
Poetry of Ideas: The Films of Charles Eames - Film Quarterly – Spring 1970
Budd Boetticher: A Case Study- Cinema Magazine – Vol. 6 No. 2 Fall 1970
The Rise of Louis XIV - Los Angeles Free Press – December 4, 1970


1971
The Rise of Louis XIV – Cinema Magazine – Vol. 6 No. 3 Spring 1971
Brandy in the Wilderness – Cinema Magazine – Vol. 7 No. 1 Fall 1971
Joseph H. Lewis: Three Articles – Cinema Magazine – Vol. 7 No. 1 Fall 1971
Gimme Shelter Review – Cinema Magazine - Vol. 7 No. 1 Fall 1971
The Film Noir – Filmex - 1971


1972
Transcendental Style in Film: Ozu, Bresson, Dreyer - Program Notes – Book Released 1972
Sisters – LA – No. 19 November 11, 1972
Herostratus – LA – No. 20 November 18, 1972
Unholy Rollers Review – Film Quarterly – Winter 1972-73
Outtakes: Are All Hollywood Films About Hollywood – The Real Paper – December 6, 1972
Unholy Rollers – LA - No. 24 December 16, 1972


1973
John Milius: Master of Flash – The Weekly News Los Angeles – August 17-24, 1973

1974
Yakuza-Eiga: A Primer – Film Comment – January/February 1974


1976
Screenwriter: Taxi Driver’s Paul Schrader – Film Comment – March/April 1976


1977
Robert Bresson, Possibly – Film Comment – September/October 1997


1993
Don't Cry for Me When I'm Gone: Motion Pictures in the 1990s - DGA News - Feb/March 1993

1995
A Man of Excess: Paul Schrader on Jean Renoir – Sight and Sound – January 1995
Babes in the Hood - Interview with Larry Clark - ArtForum - May 1995 (link)
Powerhouse Premiere: Comedy/Pathos combine in Schrader’s ‘Cleopatra Club’ – Poughkeepsie Journal – Friday June 30, 1995


1997
Aleksandr Sokurov Interview – Film Comment – November/December 1997


2000
Lost and Found – Film Comment – September/October 2000


2001
A Hundred Years of Japanese Film: Forward by Paul Schrader – Copyright 2001
Pauline Kael 1919 – 2001: My Family Drama – Film Comment – November/December 2001


2002
Fruitful Pursuits – ArtForum International – March 2002

2006
The Film Canon – Film Comment – Sept/ Oct. 2006


2007
Performance - Film Comment - March/April 2007
The Dark Page - Book by Kevin Johnson, Foreward by Paul Schrader 2007
Opening a Door - Thin Ice - Book ed. by Van Til and Olson 2007


2009
Beyond the Silver Screen - The Guardian June 2009
Masculin-féminin - National Film and Television School 2009


2010
Review of Paul Verhoeven's "Jesus of Nazareth" - Film Comment July-August 2010


2014
Game Changers: The Birth of Narrative - Film Comment, July-Aug 2014 (link)
Game Changers: The Close-Up - Film Comment, Sep-Oct 2014 (link)
Game Changers: Editing - Film Comment, Nov-Dec 2014 (link)


2015
Game Changers: Camera Movement - Film Comment, Mar-Apr 2015 (link)


2016
Game Changers: Production Design - Film Comment, Mar-Apr 2016 (link)


2018
"Rethinking Transcendental Style" - New introduction to the 2018 edition of the book "Transcendental Style in Film" (University of California Press, 2018)