
Illustration by Tag Hartman-Simkins / Futurism. Source: Rodin Eckenroth / Getty Images for AFI; Shutterstock Across his wide-ranging career, the filmmaker Paul Schrader is probably best known for his “man in a room” style stories. They follow lonely, and usually stoic, men in the throes of some sort of existential crisis, alienated from the world around them. Often, they are shown as literally alone in a room. In “First Reformed” (2017), it was an ascetic