We maybe waste time getting to the point, but Paul Schrader sure didn't! This week on Intrinsically Profane, Jarrod and Jordan discuss Schrader's second screenwriting credit and first collaboration with director Martin Scorsese, the 1976 masterpiece Taxi Driver. Topics include loneliness, social isolation, the disintegration of personality, and fascism. A heavy film full of heavy topics from our two favorite New Hollywood goofballs.

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Jarrod and Jordan discuss another of Paul Schrader's foundational film influences, Yasujiro Ozu's 1953 film Tokyo Story, a beautifully melancholy film about a family's generational dissonance in a post-War Japan.

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Jarrod and Jordan begin their watch of Paul Schrader's written and directed works with 1974's The Yakuza, Schrader's first writing credit. They discuss the conflicting visions of director (Sydney Pollack) and writer that form the final version of a movie about two men's path to understanding through the world of Japanese organized crime.

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