The Canyons
The Canyons is a cold, explicit drama about screenwriters and filmmakers destroying themselves in the LA hills—the kind of thing Schrader would make, all erotic dread and surfaces. He brought Lindsay Lohan back to lead it, which made the film instantly complicated: was it a comeback, a comeback fantasy, or a provocation? The answer depends on what you think the film is actually about, and Schrader made sure it wouldn’t be easy to answer. It’s fascinating as an artifact of a specific moment, a wound-up art film that refused to be respectable.