Paul Schrader
Writing
Born July 22, 1946 in Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA
Paul Joseph Schrader (/ˈʃreɪdər/; born July 22, 1946) is an American screenwriter, film director, and film critic. He first became 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 worked extensively as a director: his 23 films include Blue Collar (1978), Hardcore (1979), American Gigolo (1980), Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985), Light Sleeper (1992), Affliction (1997), and First Reformed (2017), with the last of these earning him his first Academy Award nomination. Schrader's work frequently depicts "man in a room" stories which feature isolated, troubled men confronting an existential crisis. Raised in a strict Calvinist family, Schrader attended Calvin College before pursuing 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 transitioning 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). Schrader has described three of his recent films as a loose trilogy: First Reformed (2017), The Card Counter (2021), and Master Gardener (2022).
Filmography
Ritratti di cinema
Self
Mr. Scorsese
Self
Vulcanizadora
Oh, Canada
Master Gardener
American Gigolo
The Book of Harth
Self
The Last Movie Stars
Self
There Are No Saints
The Card Counter
The Beauty of Horror: Paul Schrader on The Comfort of Strangers
Self
Clapboard Jungle: Surviving the Independent Film Business
Self
Paul Schrader: Man in a Room
Self
What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael
Self
First Reformed
We Blew It
Self
Taxi Driver: 40th Anniversary Cast Q&A
Self
Dog Eat Dog
El Greco
Ken San
Self
American Johns
Hitchcock/Truffaut
Self
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
Self
Dying of the Light
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Self - Guest
Venice 70: Future Reloaded
Self (segment Paul Schrader)
The Canyons
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
Self
Milius
Self
Walk of Fame
Eames: The Architect and the Painter
Self
The Story of Film: An Odyssey
Self
Godard Made in USA
Self
The Rules of Film Noir
Self
Tales from the Script
Self
Murnau, Borzage and Fox
Self
Schrader's Exorcism
Self
Adam Resurrected
God's Lonely Man
Self
Influence And Appreciation: A Martin Scorsese Tribute
Self
Producing 'Taxi Driver'
Himself
The Walker
Film Noir: Bringing Darkness to Light
Self
Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That
Self
Dominion: Prequel to The Exorcist
Raging Bull: Before the Fight
Self
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
Self
Sex at 24 Frames Per Second
Self
A Decade Under the Influence
Self
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
Self
Auto Focus
Bringing Out the Dead
Forever Mine
Making 'Taxi Driver'
Self
Affliction
Scene by Scene
Self
Touch
City Hall
Untitled: New Blue
Himself (uncredited)
Witch Hunt
Talking with Ozu
Self
Light Sleeper
The Comfort of Strangers
Hollywood Mavericks
Self
Preston Sturges: The Rise and Fall of an American Dreamer
Self
Pictures of Europe
Self
Patty Hearst
The Last Temptation of Christ
Light of Day
The Mosquito Coast
Inside Mishima
Self
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
The Road to Bresson
Self
Cat People
Raging Bull
American Gigolo
Old Boyfriends
Hardcore
Blue Collar
Rolling Thunder
Obsession
Taxi Driver
The Yakuza