Schrader Ep. 7: Hardcore (1979) with Manuela Lazić

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"Oh my Pod, cast's my daughter!" - something Jake Van Dorn might say if he were alive today...to hear our episode on Paul Schrader's sophomore feature as director, the 1979 Calvinist-dad-goes-to-Pornville film HARDCORE! Joining us on our journey into smut-hell is writer, actress, and filmmaker Manuela Lazić! We get into Dad Stuff, Schrader's aesthetic style as a director, the political economy of sex work, HARDCORE as remake of THE SEARCHERS, and try very, very hard to understand Christian Reformed Calvinism.

Do we succeed? To find out, you'll simply have to listen to the episode. Another thing Jake Van Dorn might say if he were alive right now? "Turn it...on!! The episode, I mean!!!"

Further Reading:

"'Hard-core' grows fashionable - and very profitable" by Ralph Blumenthal

Schrader on Schrader, ed. Kevin Jackson

Further Viewing:

THE SEARCHERS (1956)

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