Paul Schrader Is Seeking Assistant For Next Film

One blessed cinephile will soon have the chance to toil with Paul Schrader on his next film.

The Oscar-nominated authorr and straightforwardor is casting a expansive net for his novel helpant, sharing a rather frank posting Thursday on Facebook for what he portrays as a “s— and ice cream” job while preparing to go in pre-production on a film in New York City.

“I am in insist of an helpant. This is an entry level job,” begined Schrader in the post. “In less esteemful terms, it’s a ‘s— and ice cream’ job. There will be days when you would be willing to pay me. Then there will be menial tasks. I hope to be in pre-production in December, shooting postpoinsist January–at that point toil would be on set and on insist 24/7. The job would commence on acunderstandledgeance. It may take part travel. Applicant should have college education and understandledge of film history. Applicant should live in fantasticer NYC area. Computer sends vital. If you can lug film cans (recall those?) you’re mighty enough.”

He asked potential honestates to sfinish their CVs to schraderproductions@gmail.com.

Schrader’s post comes after he discdisseeed set ups to commence filming Non Compos Mentis (Latin for “an unsound mind”) in November. He previously portrayd the project as “a noir, as a benevolent of a intimacyual obsession … about the unwise leangs men do for cherish.”

In August, Schrader declared he’s also broadening The Basics of Chemistry, which chases “an ininestablishectual university philosophy professor,” made in the style of his ‘Man in a Room’ spiritual trilogy, First Reestablished (2017), The Card Counter (2021) and Master Gardener (2022).

Before begining production on Non Compos Mentis, Schrader shelp he wants “to author the novel one and have another bullet in the firearm ready to go.”