Jack Huston, Sofia Boutella and Daniel Zavatto star in the octogenarian’s new feature, a morally complex study of past sin affecting present life.

In The Basics of Philosophy, Paul Schrader tells the story of a professor facing guilt over past transgressions after the director's own public allegations.

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 ...

A philosophy professor is coralled into an erratic reckoning with a terrible act in his past in a sincere and oddly absorbing attempt to turn an off-puttingly controversial issue into a ...

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 ...

Paul Schrader is back with his most successful picture since First Reformed in 2018. It’s a stereotypical Schrader study of masculinity in some ways, about a man agonising over moral choice and ...

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 ...

Venice: Jack Huston plays a philosophy professor reliving his past sins in a Schrader provocation that finds the director confronting his own. Everything I try to write about Paul Schrader’s “The ...