We've wondered about the Paul Schrader and Bret Easton Ellis film The Canyons for months, after watching the casting, the spectacle of the production dealing with Lindsay Lohan, the festival rejection, and all those slapdash early trailers. The film is out now, and reviews, well, aren't great. But the folks at IFC have come up…
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The Canyons, that ultra-low-budget film cooked up by Bret Easton Ellis (screenwriter) and Paul Schrader (director) has been the subject of much talk for a solid year. The two cast Lindsay Lohan when no one else would, and profiles have detailed her difficult behavior even as Schrader praises his leading lady as a Marilyn Monroe…
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I feel like the team behind The Canyons is just playing with us at this point -- can the movie really be as lifeless as the teasers indicate? Is the listless acting part of the point, and meant to be some comment about the lives of the rich and idle in southern California? Written by…
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Paul Schrader and Bret Easton Ellis' The Canyons was never going for subtlety or elegance, and the marketing seems to be having some fun playing up that fact. The first trailer was cut to mimic grindhouse and exploitation movies of the '70s, whereas the latest one has been done up like black-and-white '50s pulp. No…
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Has Paul Schrader created a film that might have played at a theater his defining character Travis Bickle might have visited in Taxi Driver? Schrader directs The Canyons, written by Bret Eason Ellis and starring Lindsay Lohan and porn star James Deen. The first real trailer for the film is cut in a style meant…
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We're still waiting to find out what comes of Bret Easton Ellis' campaign to adapt E.L. James' Fifty Shades of Grey, but in the meantime another of his projects is coming together with some attention-grabbing casting. Lindsay Lohan has just joined porn star James Deen in The Canyons, a sexual thriller that Taxi Driver writer Paul Schrader …
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As the Paul Schrader-directed, Bret Easton Ellis-penned "L.A. noir micro budget" film approaches its summer start date, fresh details have been revealed about the story, cast of characters, and release plan. Titled The Canyons, the "psycho-sexual thriller" will center around a circle of young and glamorous but deeply messed-up Angelenos. In other words, exactly what…
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