A dying man attempts to confess a lifetime of transgressions in writer/director Paul Schrader’s meditative "Oh, Canada" (2024). “Attempts” is the operative word here. Richard Gere plays Leonard Fife, an aging documentary filmmaker whose health and ...

Their ages vary. But a conspicuous handful of filmmaking lions in winter, or let’s say late autumn, have given us new reasons to be grateful for their work over the decades — even for the work that didn’t quite work. Which, yes, sounds like ingratitude.

It is often said that memories make a person who they are. The collected experience of life informs an individual, culminating in a person's uniqueness. Yet what happens when those memories begin to fade? What happens when our formative moments in life ...

Almost 50 years after giving us the screenplay for Martin Scorsese’s “Taxi Driver” (1976), Paul Schrader has delivered another masterpiece, this time as writer (based on the 2021 novel “Foregone” by Russell Banks) and director. It would be easy ...

Trump has been talking “Canada, Join Us Now” because he wants smarter trade deals, stronger economic union, better national security policy, plus the removal of the Chinese Communist Party, whom Liberal leader and former prime minister Justin Trudeau ...

Reflecting on the White House visit by newly elected Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada, I was struck by what President Trump had posted on Truth Social just prior to Carney’s arrival. Trump posted, in part, “Why is America subsidizing Canada by $200 ...