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A TASTE OF TASTE WITH...

PAUL SCHRADER

🎸Country Alt, 🎶 Late night iTunes carooming, 📚 Collecting Modern Firsts, and more.

December 12, 2024

PAUL SCHRADER
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Paul Schrader is a New York-based screenwriter/director and one of the most significant figures in contemporary filmmaking. From his decades-long career, he’s behind iconic screenplays like Raging Bull and Taxi Driver, and he’s both written/directed some of my all-time favorites, from Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters to First Reformed. Earlier this year, his newest film Oh, Canada premiered at Cannes Festival, and it’s currently showing in theaters. He’s also known for his unbridled personality— from shooting from the hip on Facebook (and making some of the best posts of all time) to an appearance on the Adam Friedland show, you never know exactly what Paul will say. Lucky for us, he’s here to tell us what he’s been into.

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I've always had collections--cigar bands, stamps, lead pennies--what kid doesn't? I collected basketball cards when that was my son's interest. I collected photography and art but quickly ran out of wall space. Then I realized I could collect something I really treasured and which occupied only bookshelf space: Modern Firsts, which are defined as first edition books starting with the desk jacket era (aprox 1920). The jackets, because of their fragility, are in fact more valuable than the books themselves. So I sit in my nook surrounded by treasured old friends. These are not reading copies--God forbid--these are objects d'art.
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