Shooting Down Pictures

Paul Schrader and Ed Lachmann interviewed at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, as part of the Ed Lachmann retrospective at BAM.

I’d like to thank the folks at IFC Center for allowing me to interview theater patrons both before and after one of their midnight screenings of El Topo that took place in April.

I have a preferred version of this video that I cannot make readily available due to rights and permissions issues. If you’d like to see it drop me a line.

Many thanks to Matt Zoller Seitz for lending his insights on the film for this video essay. I and many other New Yorkers will miss Matt as he and his family embark upon the next frontier of their life, coincidentally in the same state as the pilgrims in this film. I can’t help but draw a parallel between Josey Wales and Matt – as individualistic as they both are, they can’t help but draw a crowd of supporters around them.