Within the sixth installment of the Criterion Channel's Meet the Filmmakers collection, director Alex Ross Perry (Her Scent, Hear Up Philip) visits the ever-iconoclastic auteur Paul Schrader in the course of the making of his 2017 masterpiece First Reformed. On set and at home- the place, for his personal pleasure, he continues to work and rework his earlier films- Schrader displays on the highs and lows of his legendary profession, the challenges and rewards of gradual cinema, and the influences and experiences that proceed to form his strategy to filmmaking. With this insightful portrait of considered one of his filmmaking heroes, Perry captures an artist who's regularly at play, deliberately provocative, and by no means lower than important.
