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Trailer: ‘The Card Counter’ deals its hand this Fall

Focus Features today released the trailer for Paul Schrader’s The Card Counter, starring Oscar Isaac. The film is set to world premiere at the Venice Film Festival before hitting U.S. theaters on September 10.

Told with Schrader’s trademark cinematic intensity, the revenge thriller tells the story of an ex-military interrogator (Isaac) turned gambler haunted by the ghosts of his past decisions and who helps a young gambler revenge against a military colonel. The film also stars Tiffany Haddish, Tye Sheridan and Willem Dafoe. It is written and directed by Schrader, produced by Braxton Pope, Lauren Mann and David Wulf and executive produced by Martin Scorsese, William Olsson, Lee Broda, Ruben Islas and Stanley Preschutti.

Photos courtesy of Focus Features

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Erik Anderson is the founder/owner and Editor-in-Chief of AwardsWatch and has always loved all things Oscar, having watched the Academy Awards since he was in single digits; making lists, rankings and predictions throughout the show. This led him down the path to obsessing about awards. Much later, he found himself in film school and the film forums of GoldDerby, and then migrated over to the former Oscarwatch (now AwardsDaily), before breaking off to create AwardsWatch in 2013.

He is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, accredited by the Cannes Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and more, is a member of the International Cinephile Society (ICS), The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA), Critics Choice Association (CCA), San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle (SFBAFCC) and the International Press Academy. Among his many achieved goals with AwardsWatch, he has given a platform to underrepresented writers and critics and supplied them with access to film festivals and the industry and calls the Bay Area his home where he lives with his husband and son.