A few economical lines of dialogue establish the depth of field in Auto Focus, Paul Schrader’s artful, rigorous, and damned depressing morality tale fashioned out of one murdered man’s real-life ...

If Bob Crane had not existed, director Paul Schrader would have invented him. Schrader’s recent film, “Auto Focus,” explores the life and murder of “Hogan’s Heroes” star and amateur pornographer Crane ...

A type of camera system that can automatically adjust its lenses to focus on subjects at different distances from the camera. Auto-focus generally provides better photo quality than fixed-focus, since ...

At various points throughout Auto Focus, Bob Crane utters, "A day without sex is a day wasted." It's a cheery aphorism that masks a sad, compulsive life, and it is precisely this mixture of comedy and ...

Amateur Night: Willem Dafoe, as John Carpenter, and Greg Kinnear, as Bob Crane. Crane says at one point in the film that he "dreams of finding someone who gets me as I am." But who is he? The movie ...

The point where the sins of the flesh intersect with the entitlement and delusions provided by celebrity is provocatively explored in “Auto Focus.” An astute account the downward life spiral of “Hogan ...