A few economical lines of dialogue establish the depth of field in Auto Focus, Paul Schrader’s artful, rigorous, and damned depressing morality tale fashioned out of one murdered man’s real-life ...

A type of camera system that can automatically adjust its lenses to focus on subjects at different distances from the camera. Auto-focus generally provides better photo quality than fixed-focus, since ...

Amateur Night: Willem Dafoe, as John Carpenter, and Greg Kinnear, as Bob Crane. Crane says at one point in the film that he "dreams of finding someone who gets me as I am." But who is he? The movie ...

One reason Paul Schrader’s Calvinist obsessions have become tiresome—even when someone else is partially responsible for the writing, as is the case here—is that he seems more invested in their ...