News Summary

• Kane Parsons’ “Backrooms” is now a major theatrical release from A24.
• Schrader is arguably best known for 1976’s “Taxi Driver,” an essential touchstone of 20th-century cinema that earned four Oscar nominations.
• There seems to be a meaningful difference between using technical innovation to expand creativity and allowing that convenience to flatten the fundamentally human perspective that first made moviemaking matter.
• But surprising cross-platform updates to the modern Hollywood playbook don’t strip film history, or the people who actually lived it, of their cultural and educational value.