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 ...

AUTO FOCUS: Biopic. Starring Greg Kinnear and Willem Dafoe. Directed by Paul Schrader. Written by Michael Gerbosi. (R. 107 minutes. At Bay Area theaters.) Sitcom actor and frustrated movie star Bob ...

In 1965, Bob Crane, who had achieved some earlier success as a television supporting actor, was working as a successful morning radio DJ at KNX Los Angeles. Despite enjoying his work, photography ...

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 ...

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At various points throughout Auto Focus, Bob Crane utters, "A day without sex is a day wasted." It's a cheery aphorism that masks a sad, compulsive life, and it is precisely this mixture of comedy and ...

Although written by first-time scenarist Michael Gerbosi and co-produced by those experts in the biographical marginalia of pop culture, Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski, “Auto Focus” fits snugly ...

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 ...