Bret Easton Ellis first saw the Paul Schrader film American Gigolo in February 1980, the month it opened, when he was fifteen years old. He has since seen it more than thirty-five times. “Looking back,” he wrote in the essay collection White (2019), “the impact American Gigolo had on me is impossible to tally.” Many […]

Original source: https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2023/04/06/the-exorcist-the-shards-bret-easton-ellis/