The Card Counter (Paul Schrader, 2021)

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#1 Post by **domino harvey** » Tue Oct 29, 2019 4:52 pm

Oscar Isaac will star in Paul Schrader’s casino-set revenge and redemption film

Murdoch · #2 Post by **Murdoch** » Tue Oct 29, 2019 5:19 pm

After First Reformed, I'm excited for anything from Schrader, especially with Isaac as the lead.

#3 Post by **DarkImbecile** » Tue Oct 29, 2019 5:21 pm

The film, written and directed by Schrader, follows William Tell (Isaac), a gambler and former serviceman who sets out to reform a young man seeking revenge on a mutual enemy from their past.

That's a name ripe for interpretation!

#4 Post by **mfunk9786** » Tue Oct 29, 2019 7:13 pm

Hey, hook this project to my veins, thanks

#5 Post by **domino harvey** » Fri Jan 10, 2020 12:24 pm

Cast now also includes Willem Dafoe, Tye Sheridan, and Tiffany Haddish

Slaphappy · #6 Post by **Slaphappy** » Sat Jan 11, 2020 2:11 pm

DarkImbecile wrote: Tue Oct 29, 2019 5:21 pm
The film, written and directed by Schrader, follows William Tell (Isaac), a gambler and former serviceman who sets out to reform a young man seeking revenge on a mutual enemy from their past.
That's a name ripe for interpretation!

First Reformed had lots of character name references too btw.

Persona · #7 Post by **Persona** » Mon Jan 13, 2020 12:39 am

domino harvey wrote: Fri Jan 10, 2020 12:24 pm Cast now also includes Willem Dafoe, Tye Sheridan, and Tiffany Haddish

Sheridan must be playing the "angry young man" that Tell takes under wing.

Throw in Haddish and Dafoe and this is one fascinating cast.

#8 Post by **DarkImbecile** » Thu Jan 30, 2020 10:12 pm

From the Metrograph interview also linked in the Filmmaker thread for Schrader:

In my films, I’ll sort of combine two worlds that seem to have nothing to do with each other. In the new one, it’s the world series of poker and Abu Ghraib.

#9 Post by **domino harvey** » Wed Feb 19, 2020 2:42 pm

Scorsese will executive produce

Never Cursed · #10 Post by **Never Cursed** » Tue Jun 23, 2020 2:19 am

I'm fairly certain this would have been at Cannes had Covid not happened; either way, it is being screened in an unfinished form (five days' worth of scenes had yet to shoot when production ceased) for buyers at the Marche Du Film

Never Cursed · #11 Post by **Never Cursed** » Tue Jul 14, 2020 2:16 am

Shooting has wrapped. Focus has acquired domestic rights and Hanway has worldwide rights. Schrader says on his Facebook that Focus is expecting a 2021 release date for this.

Persona · #12 Post by **Persona** » Tue Jul 21, 2020 12:58 pm

Somehow missed this Vulture interview from back in April. Very informative (Geoff Barrow is doing the score?!) and--as is typical for Schrader--entertaining, wry, and bleak.

https://www.vulture.com/2020/04/paul-sc ... ovies.html

I love how you have a movie like a TENET where Nolan won't even let the actors have full scripts and then you got this interview where Schrader is telling some journalist the entire story of THE CARD COUNTER in great detail, lol. Thankfully the interview stops relaying Schrader's plot recounting after the first act.

Never Cursed · #13 Post by **Never Cursed** » Thu Mar 04, 2021 1:03 am

Persona · #14 Post by **Persona** » Fri Mar 05, 2021 3:16 am

Wondering if we're getting Academy ratio again? Kind of looks like it from that.

I am probably too excited for this one. But First Reformed was my favorite movie of the past 5 years. Maybe ten years, really.

I think this one sounds good but unlikely to come close to FR. Still, I can't help myself. I refresh the IMDB page like every other day just to find out who is playing Casino Patron #4 or who the set dresser is.

Persona · #15 Post by **Persona** » Fri May 14, 2021 2:29 am

Releasing theatrically on September 10th this year.

Persona · #16 Post by **Persona** » Wed Jul 14, 2021 3:14 am

So in the one article Schrader mentioned that Barrow & Salisbury were doing the score but currently IMDB lists the composers as Giancarlo Vulcano (who has mostly done comedic TV like Kimmy Schmidt) and Robert Levon Been (of the band Black Rebel Motorcycle Club). Levon Been is also credited with "songs and lyrics."

So that's interesting!

The Narrator Returns · Wed Jul 14, 2021 3:18 am

Schrader spilled the beans (seemingly against normal protocol) at a recent Blue Collar screening that this will be screening at Telluride and Venice.

#18 Post by **DarkImbecile** » Wed Jul 14, 2021 3:25 am

The Narrator Returns wrote: Wed Jul 14, 2021 3:18 am this will be screening at Telluride

Persona · #19 Post by **Persona** » Wed Jul 14, 2021 10:30 am

Both of which festivals are right before the supposed theatrical release date of Sept. 10th.

Roger Ryan · #20 Post by **Roger Ryan** » Thu Jul 15, 2021 12:19 pm

Persona wrote: Wed Jul 14, 2021 3:14 am So in the one article Schrader mentioned that Barrow & Salisbury were doing the score but currently IMDB lists the composers as Giancarlo Vulcano (who has mostly done comedic TV like Kimmy Schmidt) and Robert Levon Been (of the band Black Rebel Motorcycle Club). Levon Been is also credited with "songs and lyrics."

So that's interesting!

And, of course, Robert Been is the son of the late great Michael Been who wrote the songs for Schrader's Light Sleeper.

Persona · #21 Post by **Persona** » Sun Jul 18, 2021 2:41 pm

Hadn't thought of that! Wonderful point.

diamonds · #22 Post by **diamonds** » Tue Jul 27, 2021 3:17 pm

Trailer.

Never Cursed · #23 Post by **Never Cursed** » Tue Jul 27, 2021 5:16 pm

Would it even be a late-period Schrader movie if it didn't rip off the ending to Pickpocket?

therewillbeblus · #24 Post by **therewillbeblus** » Tue Jul 27, 2021 5:17 pm

Haha, yeah I noticed that too - that's a pretty heavy spoiler inserted in there! Though my initial thought was

Spoiler

that the fingers moving towards the prison glass would be an ambiguous 'dream' ending

though, now that I'm thinking about it, that also fits squarely within his recent wheelhouse

Never Cursed · #25 Post by **Never Cursed** » Tue Jul 27, 2021 5:23 pm

To the point where I can't help but wonder if it's a deliberate misdirect - I think it's a bit funny that the trailer is generally edited to make the film resemble something like The Canyons when everything Schrader has said about the movie has run in the other, artier, more apocalyptic direction

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