Hardcore (Schrader, 1979): Picturehouse Central, 6.30pm
This film is being screened across Picturehouse cinemas in London. Details here.
New Yorker review:
Paul Schrader’s second feature, “Hardcore,” from 1979, is his version of
John Ford’s “The Searchers.” Both movies are dramas of an isolated,
stoic, rigidly principled man who takes it upon himself to rescue a
young female family member from a way of life—captivity, or something
like it—that he deems unfit for her. But Ford’s film, from 1956, is a
Western, a philosophical drama set just after the Civil War, in a place
and a time far removed from the director’s birth in Maine, in 1894,
whereas Schrader’s
is contemporary—set in his home town of Grand Rapids, Michigan (where
he was born in 1946), and in the religious community of rigorous
Calvinists in which he was raised. Built on the very bedrock of
Schrader’s being, “Hardcore” is one of the key works of his career, a
cinematic declaration of identity and principle that echoes throughout
his body of work.
Richard Brody
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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