That is no accident: An earlier version of the script written by Paul Schrader was a “metaphysical, updated version of the life of St. Paul,” as he told Cinefantastique magazine in 1978.

St. Paul police were investigating a shooting death on Wednesday, the first homicide by gunfire in the city in six months. Officers responded to Regions Hospital about 2:30 p.m. when a man with a ...