Paul Schrader Attempts Pas De Deux With Romanov-Loving Ballerina

As a screenwriter, Paul Schrader may have created two of the greatest working-class heroes of post-war America cinema in “Taxi Driver”’s Travis Bickle and “Raging Bull”’s Jake LaMotta, but as he showed with his 1985 Yukio Mishima biopic, he has a taste for exotica, too. Anne Thompson reports on ToH! that, among other projects Schrader has in the works, he is writing an English-language Russian film about the prima ballerina Mathilde Kschessinska (1872-1971), known after marriage as Her Serene Highness Princess Romonova-Krasinskaya. Read the full article on Spotlight, the culture blog.