Called "an ecstatic, arc-bright wonder and terror" by The New Yorker,
this major work of art now receives a first printing, featuring a
brilliant introductory essay by Masha Tupitsyn.
Called "an ecstatic, arc-bright wonder and terror" by The New Yorker,
this major work of art now receives a first printing, featuring a
brilliant introductory essay by Masha Tupitsyn.
This Academy Award-nominated screenplay is one of the greatest and most
urgent in Paul Schrader's long and decorated career. Called a "portrait
of a soul in torment, all the more powerful for being so rigorously
conceived and meticulously executed" in the New York Times, First
Reformed follows the Rev. Ernst Toller as his crisis of faith coincides
with a recognition of looming environmental catastrophe. It is an
uncompromising work that seamlessly synthesizes a tribute to Bresson
with a profound, existential meditation on the everexpanding devastation
that humanity is spreading over the natural world. The crowning late
period achievement for an undisputed legend of screenwriting, this is
both a master class in concision, depth and emotional range, and a
continually relevant work of activist import.
