First Reformed

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Called an ecstatic, arc-bright wonder and terror byThe New Yorker, this major work of art now receives a first printing, featuring a brilliant introductory essay by Masha Tupitsyn.

Called an ecstatic, arc-bright wonder and terror by The New Yorker, this major work of art now receives a first printing, featuring a brilliant introductory essay by Masha Tupitsyn.

This Academy Award-nominated screenplay is one of the greatest and most urgent in Paul Schraders long and decorated career. Called a portrait of a soul in torment, all the more powerful for being so rigorously conceived and meticulously executed in the New York Times, First Reformed follows the Rev. Ernst Toller as his crisis of faith coincides with a recognition of looming environmental catastrophe. It is an uncompromising work that seamlessly synthesizes a tribute to Bresson with a profound, existential meditation on the everexpanding devastation that humanity is spreading over the natural world. The crowning late period achievement for an undisputed legend of screenwriting, this is both a master class in concision, depth and emotional range, and a continually relevant work of activist import.

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Paul Schraderis one of Americas most acclaimed filmmakers and screenwriters. His screenplays includeTaxi Driver,Raging Bull,The Last Temptation of Christ, andBringing Out the Dead. Films he has written and directed includeHardcore,Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters,Affliction, andLight Sleeper. His seminal textTranscendental Style in Film: Ozu,Bresson,Dreyerwas recently reissued by University of California Press.

MashaTupitsynis a writer, critic, and multi-media artist. She is the author of several booksand films, such asLove Dog,LACONIA: 1,200 Tweets on Film,Beauty Talk & Monsters,Picture Cycle,and co-editor of the anthologyLife As We Show It: Writing on Film.In 2015, she made the 24-hour film,Love Sounds, an audio-essay and history of love in English-speaking cinema, which concluded an immaterial trilogy thathas been exhibited and screened in the United States, Canada, Europe, and Australia.Her writing on film, culture, feminism, and art has appeared in numerous anthologies and journals such asBookforum, Artforum, The Los AngelesReview of Books, The Believer, BOMB, LitHub, Fence, Frieze, The New Inquiry, The White Review, andThe Rumpus. She has taught film and gender studies at various universities.