This blog has been quiet lately, and not because I didn’t have anything to say, but because I didn’t have the time to write it. I was very occupied with the Galway Film Fleadh, and those who keep up with babblogue will know that I blogged extensively about the Fleadh and the films and events I attended. I didn’t discuss the Paul Schrader masterclass on babblogue as I figured that was a subject for this journal. In the morning of the masterclass there was a screening of Taxi Driver (1976), which Schrader introduced. As we subsequently discovered in the afternoon, Schrader has a phobia about watching his work, so he…