Paul Schrader's The Canyons, 2013

I couldn't find it free on streaming video, so I ordered a DVD of The Canyons. A sex movie like a lot of what Paul Schrader is known for. A porn star called James Deen is in it. 

It was very low budget, mostly dialogue, but Schrader said in an interview that, to make it more cinematic, he put in "transportation scenes":

...Talk is cheap. So a microbudget film is mostly people sitting around talking. And if you have good dialogue and a good kind of story and interesting people, that can work. But it can start to feel like a stage play because you’re not spending money on action sequences. So in order to keep it from feeling like a stage play, you have to walk and talk, although not at the same time. So this film, it’s walk, walk, walk, talk, talk, talk, walk, walk, walk. 

It was more like, walk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk, walk, talk, talk, talk, talk, talk. They'd have a shot of a car parking, a guy getting out and walking to the front door. Eric Rohmer went much heavier on the transportation. 

So, in conclusion, I expected more walking.

They kept parking illegally, by the way. The cars would pull into the driveway and stop so they blocked the sidewalk. 

I realized I had no idea what Lindsay Lohan looked like. I had to do an image search to find out which one was her. 

Bret Easton Ellis wrote the script and I think he was the real auteur.