Another man, another room, another vile past deed in need of expiation. On the one hand you could accuse writer-director Paul Schrader of retreading old ground with his latest unadorned exploration of ...

Paul Schrader looked visibly moved as his new film “The Basics of Philosophy,” about a professor confronted with his past sexual abuse, premiered out-of-competition at Venice to a moderate 4.5-minute ...

Everything I try to write about Paul Schrader's "The Basics of Philosophy" comes out all wrong. Here is a movie where pedophilia and homosexuality are put in such intimate proximity that I can only ...

In The Basics of Philosophy, Paul Schrader tells the story of a professor facing guilt over past transgressions after the ...

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When Paul Schrader's new moral drama The Basics of Philosophy begins, we are on a fictional college campus where John (Jack Huston), a professor of philosophy, gives an introductory lecture about the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There is slightly less newsy topicality to The Basics of Philosophy. Instead, it turns even more inward, staging a struggle for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. ‘The Basics of Philosophy’ Review: Paul Schrader Wrestles with Sin and Spinoza in His Latest Tortured-Man Drama Another man, ...