Paul Schrader

Paul Schrader

Paul Joseph Schrader (born July 22, 1946) is an American screenwriter, film director, and film critic. He first became widely known for writing the screenplay of Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver (1976). He later continued his collaboration with Scorsese, writing or co-writing Raging Bull (1980), The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), and Bringing Out the Dead (1999). Schrader has also directed 24 films, including Blue Collar (1978), Hardcore (1979), American Gigolo (1980), Cat People (1982), Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985), Light Sleeper (1992), Affliction (1997), and First Reformed (2017); the latter earned him his first Academy Award nomination. Schrader's work frequently depicts troubled men struggling through an existential crisis that is then punctuated by a violent, cathartic event. Raised in a strict Calvinist family, Schrader attended Calvin College before electing to pursue film studies at UCLA on the encouragement of film critic Pauline Kael. He then worked as a film scholar and critic, publishing the book Transcendental Style in Film: Ozu, Bresson, Dreyer (1972) before making the transition to screenwriting in 1974. The success of Taxi Driver in 1976 brought greater attention to his work, and Schrader began directing his own films beginning with Blue Collar (co-written with his brother, Leonard Schrader). His three most recent films have been described by Schrader as a loose trilogy: First Reformed (2017), The Card Counter (2021), and Master Gardener (2022). Description above from the Wikipedia article Paul Schrader, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
    Known for
    Writing
    Place of birth
    Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA
    Birthday
    7/22/1946
Schrader's Exorcism
8
Untitled: New Blue
Untitled: New Blue
4
Paul Schrader: Man in a Room
Paul Schrader: Man in a Room
6
The Beauty of Horror: Paul Schrader on The Comfort of Strangers
The Beauty of Horror: Paul Schrader on The Comfort of Strangers
0
Ken San
Ken San
2
Eames: The Architect and the Painter
Eames: The Architect and the Painter
6.9
The Book of Harth
0
Picture of Europe
Picture of Europe
0
Making 'Taxi Driver'
Making 'Taxi Driver'
6.9
Talking with Ozu
Talking with Ozu
6.5
A Decade Under the Influence
A Decade Under the Influence
8
Preston Sturges: The Rise and Fall of an American Dreamer
Preston Sturges: The Rise and Fall of an American Dreamer
6
The Road to Bresson
The Road to Bresson
6.8
Clapboard Jungle
Clapboard Jungle
3
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex, Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex, Drugs and Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
7.1
What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael
What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael
6.6
Raging Bull: Before the Fight
Raging Bull: Before the Fight
10
Raging Bull: Fight Night
0
The Rules of Film Noir
The Rules of Film Noir
6
Hollywood Mavericks
Hollywood Mavericks
6
Hitchcock/Truffaut
Hitchcock/Truffaut
7.339
We Blew It
We Blew It
5.8
Godard Made in USA
Godard Made in USA
0
Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That
Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That
7
Sex at 24 Frames Per Second
Sex at 24 Frames Per Second
5.9
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
7.333
Murnau, Borzage and Fox
7
Milius
Milius
7.1
Dog Eat Dog
Dog Eat Dog
5.119
Männer im Trenchcoat, Frauen im Pelz
0
Film Noir: Bringing Darkness to Light
Film Noir: Bringing Darkness to Light
7.1
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
7.123
Tales from the Script
Tales from the Script
6.724
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