The theologian of cinema, obsessed with guilt, redemption, and the violent machinery of male desire. His films are confessions — austere, unflinching examinations of sin and the body as battleground between spirit and flesh.
b. Paul Joseph Schrader, 22 July 1946, Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA
The true transcendental film is one that takes the narrative from melodrama, from violence, from sex, from all the normal hooks that pull you into a movie, and gradually transcends them and goes to a higher place.