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Paul Schrader: The Man In the Room
This year, Paul Schrader already knows he is a winner at the 79th edition of the Venice Film Festival. Not that he is clairvoyant and has foreseen the jury’s decision about his latest directorial effort (Master Gardener is actually premiering out of competition), but rather, he has just received the Golden Lion Lifetime Achievement Award from the world’s oldest film festival.