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Paul Schrader has a busy few months ahead as he shares an update on two upcoming films.

The Oscar-nominated director revealed that he’s currently developing the new feature The Basics of Philosophy as he prepares to begin filming Non Compos Mentis (Latin for “an unsound mind”) in November.

He told Screen Daily that he’s completed an outline and plans to finish a draft in the next three months for The Basics of Philosophy, which is about “an intellectual university philosophy professor,” made in the style of his ‘Man in a Room’ spiritual trilogy, First Reformed (2017), The Card Counter (2021) and Master Gardener (2022).

“I’ve got to do a very quick rewrite on [Compos],” said Schrader. “I’m hoping before November to write the new one and have another bullet in the gun ready to go.”

Schrader previously announced Non Compos Mentis at Cannes Film Festival in May. “I’ve written a noir,...

Straying from the hotheaded “Taxi Driver” style that has dominated much of his career, Paul Schrader pays ruminative and respectful tribute to his late friend, novelist Russell Banks, who gave the writer-director the raw material for one of his best films, “Affliction” — and now, for one of his best films in years. Adapted from Banks’ “Foregone” (and given the title the author told Schrader he wanted for the book), “Oh, Canada” presents a dying artist’s final testimony as a multifaceted film-within-a-film, honoring Banks while also revealing so many of Schrader’s own thoughts on mortality.

Fighting a long, painful bout with cancer, documentary filmmaker Leonard Fife has scores of admirers and a shelf full of awards. As the movie opens, two former students, Malcolm (Michael Imperioli) and Diana (Victoria Hill), arrive at their mentor’s Montreal home and proceed to set up a unique camera rig. It’s a...

Hard to believe it has been 44 years since Paul Schrader and star Richard Gere last worked together on 1980’s seminal American Gigolo, a film that became not just a keystone in Gere’s celebrated career but also one for one Schrader’s as one of his earliest directorial credits. Of course he has written some of the great screenplays, particularly in his collaborations with Martin Scorsese on Raging Bull, The Last Temptation of Christ and Taxi Driver. But it is what interests him now a half century later as a writer-director that continues to fascinate.

In recent years that has included insular works like The Card Counter, Master Gardener and the critically acclaimed First Reformed. Now he has returned to more of what he labels a “mosaic,” in this case a movie made up of pieces of a life put under a cinematic microscope at different periods, all moving in...

The Guthrie Theater presents the first production on the Wurtele Thrust Stage in the 2014-2015 season, Wendy Wasserstein's Pulitzer Prize-winning play The Heidi Chronicles. Under the direction of 2014 Tony Award nominee Leigh Silverman Broadway's Violet, Chinglish, Well, The Heidi Chronicles will feature the talents of Kate Wetherhead, Ben Graney, Tracey Maloney and Zach Shaffer, as well as Sam Bardwell, Eleonore Dendy, Mo Perry and Stacia Rice.

The Guthrie Theater today announced casting for the first production on the Wurtele Thrust Stage in the 2014-2015 season, Wendy Wasserstein's Pulitzer Prize-winning play The Heidi Chronicles. Under the direction of 2014 Tony Award nominee Leigh Silverman Broadway's Violet, Chinglish, Well, The Heidi Chronicles will feature the talents of Kate Wetherhead, Ben Graney, Tracey Maloney and Zach Shaffer, as well as Sam Bardwell, Eleonore Dendy, Mo Perry and Stacia Rice.

Manhattan Theatre Club's American premiere of Taking Care of Baby by Tony Award winner Dennis Kelly opened last night, Tuesday, November 19. Directed by Erica Schmidt Humor Abuse, the cast features Francois Battiste Magic Bird, Reed Birney Blasted, Our Leading Lady, Kristen Bush Kin, The Common Pursuit, Tony nominee Amelia Campbell A Streetcar Named Desire, Our Country's Good, Margaret Colin The Columnist, 'Gossip Girl', Michael Crane Bloody Bloody Andrew Jacksonoff-Broadway, Ethan Phillips Golden Age and Zach Shaffer 'Smash'.This five week limited engagement of Taking Care of Baby is presented as part of The Studio at Stage II - Harold and Mimi Steinberg New Play Series at New York City Center - Stage II 131 West 55th Street. Previews began Tuesday, November 5. BroadwayWorld brings you highlights below...

Manhattan Theatre Club's American premiere of Taking Care Of Baby by Tony Award winner Dennis Kelly opened last night, Tuesday, November 19. Directed by Erica Schmidt Humor Abuse, the cast features Francois Battiste Magic Bird, Reed Birney Blasted, Our Leading Lady, Kristen Bush Kin, The Common Pursuit, Tony nominee Amelia Campbell A Streetcar Named Desire, Our Country's Good, Margaret Colin The Columnist, 'Gossip Girl', Michael Crane Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson off-Broadway, Ethan Phillips Golden Age and Zach Shaffer 'Smash'.This five week limited engagement of Taking Care Of Baby is presented as part of The Studio at Stage II - Harold and Mimi Steinberg New Play Series at New York City Center - Stage II 131 West 55th Street. Previews began Tuesday, November 5. BroadwayWorld was there for opening night and you can check out photos below...

Manhattan Theatre Club's American premiere of Taking Care Of Baby by Tony Award winner Dennis Kelly will begin performances tomorrow, Tuesday, November 5. Directed by Erica Schmidt Humor Abuse, the cast features Francois BattisteMagic Bird, Reed Birney Blasted, Our Leading Lady, Kristen Bush Kin, The Common Pursuit, Tony nominee Amelia Campbell A Streetcar Named Desire, Our Country's Good, Margaret Colin The Columnist, Gossip Girl, Michael CraneBloody Bloody Andrew Jackson off-Broadway, Ethan Phillips Golden Age and Zach Shaffer Smash.